Tag: The Wild Bunch
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This Kurt Russell Film Is One of the Most Brutal Westerns Ever Made
Right around the same time he was playing living planets and high-tech secret agents, Kurt Russell did his part for the indie filmmaking scene with one of the most brutal Westerns ever made. While 1969’s The Wild Bunch held the title of the bloodiest Western for decades, mostly for its depiction of protagonist outlaws willing…
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From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies
As Brad Pitt’s new thriller Bullet Train arrives in cinemas, Guardian writers have picked their most exciting action films of all timeWhen John Woo’s 1989 breakthrough The Killer started slipping into repertory houses and cult video stores, it was the beginning of a revolution, like an adrenalized marriage between the cool of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le…
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Paul Verhoeven Sunk A Film That Could Have Changed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Career
It would’ve been massive. It would’ve been bloody. It could’ve been glorious. Instead, it remains unproduced.Paul Verhoeven’s “Crusade” is one of the most tantalizingly unmade films of the 1990s. If everything had gone according to plan, the 100 million-budgeted epic would’ve been the filmmaker’s follow-up to “Basic Instinct.” Written by Walon Green (“The Wild Bunch“),…
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Shooting The Wild Bunch’s The Battle Of Bloody Porch Scene Was Exhausting
From the striking open credits, where we see a group of giggling children torturing a pair of scorpions with a swarm of angry ants, it’s clear that “The Wild Bunch” is a movie on a mission. There is no innocence left in this bug-eat-bug world, it says right off the bat, and the gleeful nastiness…
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The Wild Bunch Star L.Q. Jones Has Died At 94
Following an eclectic career in Hollywood that spanned seven decades, L.Q. Jones passed away on July 9, 2022. His grandson Erté deGarces informed The Hollywood Reporter that the veteran character actor died of natural causes at the age of 94 in his Hollywood Hills home.Jones was born Justus Ellis McQueen Jr. in Beaumont, Texas on…
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The Wild Bunch & American Graffiti Actor Bo Hopkins Has Passed Away At 80
Actor William “Bo” Hopkins, who has appeared in over 100 roles in films including “The Wild Bunch” and “American Graffiti,” has passed away. Variety confirms the news, which came from the actor’s official website. The actor was 80 years old.A statement on the Bo Hopkins website thanks fans for their years of support, saying:”It is…
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Bo Hopkins, Actor in ‘American Graffiti’ and Sam Peckinpah Classics, Dies at 80
Bo Hopkins, the actor who has appeared in classics like “American Graffiti,” “The Wild Bunch,” “Midnight Express” and “The Getaway,” died Friday. He was 80 years old.Hopkins’ death was confirmed on the actor’s official website.“It is with great sadness that we announce that Bo has passed away,” reads a statement on the website. “Bo loved…
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True Grit at 50: the throwback western that gave John Wayne his only Oscar
Released in the same year as The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Henry Hathaway’s western was defiantly old-fashioned in comparisonThe year 1969 was a true inflection point for the American western, a once-dominant genre that had become a casualty of the culture, particularly when Vietnam had rendered the moral clarity of…
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Daily Podcast: Guardians 3, Michael Moore, Making a Murderer, Harry Potter, Wild Bunch, Girl in the Spider’s Web, Apple & Bumblebee
On the September 25, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk what the latest film and tv news, including Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Michael Moore, Making a Murderer Part 2, Fantastic Beasts 2, The Wild Bunch, The Girl in the…
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Movie Talk: ‘Fantastic Beasts 2′ Trailer Teases a Major ‘Harry Potter’ Connection
On today’s episode of Collider Movie Talk, Mark Ellis, Jeff Sneider, and John Rocha discuss the following: Warner Bros. released a final Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer that teases a major connection to the Harry Potter franchise. Deadline is reporting that Mel Gibson will co-write and direct a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s bloody…