Posts By Zachary Leeman

If “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” wasn’t headlined by Tom Cruise and didn’t have a $60 million budget, it would be your average VOD action flick.

The first “Reacher” had …
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Love him or hate him, Oliver Stone unquestionably marches to the beat of his own drum.

He’s had positive words for politicians as varied as Ron Paul and Fidel Castro. …
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Paul Schrader is arguably one of our greatest screenwriters.

As a wordsmith, he typed out “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” and countless other influential titles. As a director, Schrader is just …
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Many may not know it, but country music star Trace Adkins has been making a name for himself in the direct-to-video western market.

Yes, there is such a thing.

With …
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There seems to be only one reason to remake the Charlton Heston classic, “Ben-Hur”- the chariot race.

While the original’s epic scene still holds up, there’s no doubt directors, …
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Screenwriter Adam G. Simon won’t let nasty reviews ruin the satisfaction of seeing his story on the big screen.

His new movie, “Man Down,” stars top talent like Shia LaBeouf, …
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Those youthful proclamations are enough to make a parent’s stomach drop. The life of an artist is one littered with hardship, ambiguous success and uncertainty.

Movies rarely capture the internal …
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You take a high-paying studio gig as one of five or six hatchet writers on a franchise movie. Or, you follow up with a piece of original work that’s not …
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Take the 2016 summer as a perfect example. Is anybody clamoring for another viewing of “Independence Day: Resurgence,” “Jason Bourne” or that “Tarzan” movie?

While a VOD release was once, …
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Though Eszterhas has a notorious reputation for dealing in darker material (“Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls”), “Sacred Cows” is his darkest, most controversial script to date.

To many who have read it, …
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