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Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished years earlier. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance, Croft embarks on a perilous journey to his last-known destination -- a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. The stakes couldn't be higher as Lara must rely on her sharp mind, blind faith and stubborn spirit to venture into the unknown.

Tomb Raider (2018)

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Mar 16, 2018

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118 minutes

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PG-13

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Matt Rodriguez — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:06:33 +0000

Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as the "Flare".

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

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Wes Ball,

Dylan O'Brien,

Kaya Scodelario,

Thomas Brodie-Sangster,

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Jan 26, 2018

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Dylan O'Brien,

Kaya Scodelario,

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142 minutes

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PG-13

Walton Goggins on Quentin Tarantino and 'The Hateful Eight'

Matt Rodriguez — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:01:38 +0000

The Hateful Eight

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We sat down with The Hateful Eight's Walton Goggins who plays Chis "The Sheriff" Mannix. The Django Unchained and Justified actor discusses with us the joys of working with Quentin Tarantio and how hopefuly The Hateful Eight will be a resurgence for 70mm film.

Shakefire (SF): Did you have any idea what you were getting into when you did the live reading in front of an audience? At the time that was supposed to be it. Then all of a sudden you’re doing this entire roadshow film in 70mm.
Walton Goggins (WG): Yeah, we didn’t really know. We knew that this was a one time deal; that this may be the only time people hear these words. I don’t think any of us fully understood that it was going to be in a room at a theater, at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. You think a theater, okay well there will be 200 people there or so. And there were 1,600 people there! It wasn’t until we were introduced and we walked out onto that stage that the magnitude of this experience really set in.

At the end of it, we were all so jazzed, man. We were all so excited with queues around the block. It was so euphoric, I supposed, that we thought, “Wow, that’s it. Unbelieveable, but at least we had this experience.” We had no idea that Quentin was, based on that experience, was ready to make this movie. Then we got the call and now here we are a year and a half later. It was in April of last year when we did that reading. We have all gone through this together. We are all very, very close and sitting on the other side of this grand life experience going, “What the fuck happened! Where are we!?” We’re really having a good time and are proud of it and proud of Quentin and what he’s doing. He’s an artist in full and is just in such command of his talent right now. It’s just exciting being a part of it.

SF: And this is your second time with Quentin, too. What it’s like to be a part of his “inner circle” of actors now and reuniting with him?
WG: At least for me, there’s such a fear and anxiety of the great unknown when it comes to a personality and talent like Quentin Tarantino. At least before I met him and before I was able to work with him the first time. I had all of this self-doubt and self-loathing and insecurities. It’s like, “Oh my god, don’t fuck this up, man.” Then you meet him and work with him, and he just opens the door for you and allows you into the environment that he creates. What was so gratifying for me in this second go around was to not have that angst with the man but to really fully enjoy every single day and to be present every single day.

Quentin creates this analog experience that allows for a person to be present. It’s not lost on you. You don’t look up on the other side of it and go, “Aww man I wish I would have had a conversation with that person” or “I wish this would have impacted me more.” We’re all in it. We’re all experiencing it and feeling it. I think every actor who has worked with Quentin would say that.

SF: You mention how you all became so close. The film is really a true ensemble picture. There are not many scenes where all eight of you aren’t together. It must have been a pretty exhausting shoot because every scene has everyone in it.
WG: Every scene we were there together. You know that when you show up for work on for Quentin Tarantino something magical is going to happen that day. If you don’t work the next day, you can bet something magical is going to happen, even in your absence. What we got the opportunity to do on this movie was to all be there every single day. There were scenes where we were all talking, and then there were scenes where the rest of us would just recede into the background and somebody would take center stage and the spotlight would be on them. It was such a privilege to get to watch this troupe of actors move through this Tarantino experience. It’s very special to be given access to that experience but also to be really in the movie where the actors get to have that in a daily basis.

SF: I’ve seen the film twice now and what’s going on in the background is oftentimes just as interesting as what’s in front of the camera.
WG: Well it’s a performance within a performance within a performance. The story is really being told out of focus. Everything that is happening out of focus, once you understand what the story is, informs exactly where the story is going. Yeah, it is a movie within a movie within a movie.

It’s amazing how he used that camera. How he was able to in a room full of people, put eight people in a frame as often as he did and then move away to just putting on person in a frame and you forget that the other eight people are there. Or two people in a conversation over in the corner and you feel like they are alone in Minnie's Haberdashery. It was so surprising to me, watching it the first time, how he was able to make that.

SF: Does that put extra pressure on you because of how much detail is captured by shooting in 70mm? The background scenes becomes just as important as the foreground so you have to always be at the top of your game.

WG: Absolutely, but I think any of these actors if you’re filming something traditionally and you’re off camera for your other actor, to me that’s just a real for me off camera sitting over there and having three cameras in front of me and I’m looking at the other guy; that’s just as real for me as if I’m in front of it. I don’t think we all fully realized how deep the story was being told and everything that was happening in a frame, even when we were in it and out of focus. That’s just how these actors roll. That’s what you do. Once the man says action, we’re playing pretend.

SF: One scene that stood out to me was when Chris and O.B. were making that pathway to the outhouse. How cold was it on set, because it looks absolutely freezing?
WG: It was miserable. It was so cold. We were in it together; James Parks is such a big part of this movie. O.B. is the great innocent. That’s the reason why it’s called The Hateful Eight and not The Hateful Nine because there’s nothing hateful about O.B.

That day in particular, it was hard. It was hard to walk back and forth. And you’re at 10,000ft and they got a bottle of oxygen for ya and carrying all that stuff. What was so rewarding is that Quentin not only photographed it but gave it the amount of time he gives it in the movie in order for the audience to feel how arduous this is. It wasn’t easy just staking out a rope to the outhouse. It’s a big deal, and it took a lot of effort. And he just stays with it and the score that accompanies that scene really captures how difficult that is and how fucking cold it was.

SF: The film is all about lies and how everyone is hiding something, yet it doesn’t appear that Chris Mannix is lying about being the sheriff. There are plenty of statements that are revealed to be lies, but Mannix is steadfast to the end about being the sheriff. So, is Mannix really the sheriff of Red Rock?
WG: You know, after I read it the first time Quentin came outside and he said, “What do you think?” I said, “I have one question for you. Am I or am I not the sheriff of Red Rock?” He said, “I need for you to answer that question, and I don’t want to know your answer to that question.” So he gave me the power to make that decision, and no one will ever know that answer. It’s like what’s in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. That’s for me.

SF: This is the first 70mm film released in decades. Do you expect to see a resurgence of 70mm in the coming years?
WG: God I hope so. If we lose film I think we lose a small piece of all of us. The power of the moving picture is so important. Quentin and a few others that are in a position of power have been such big advocates for that. As he has said on the road, 70mm may be the way to save film. And the response to the movie has been very good. People have really come to see it. Given the opportunity to turn their cell phones off for three hours and to just turn themselves over to a story is actually a little vacation from your life in a way.

So I do. I think hopefully this will be another piece of the puzzle in saving film and reminding people of the power of cinema. It’s an event. You can watch it on your cell phone, yeah. But why? Why miss out on the experience. That’s really what the cinema has always been about and the impact of stories and the storytellers. So yeah, I sure do hope so.

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Justified: The Complete Fourth Season

Lee Roberts — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:54:12 +0000

On January 31, 1983 a man falls from the sky carrying a bag full of drugs dying instantly on impact. After 30 years the death of Waldo Truth has remained a mystery in Kentucky but it's a mystery that all the wrong people don't want uncovered. When U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens (played by Timothy Olyphant) goes to investigate a break in of his parents house he finds the I.D. Card of Waldo Truth in a bag inside a wall of the house. How and why it got there is just the start of the mystery of Waldo Truth that will bring in the U.S. Marshall service as well as the mafia to see who can find out who Waldo Truth is and where he is.

Justified: The Complete Fourth Season

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Tuesdays @ 10PM ET

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On Blu-Ray:

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

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FX Network

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Drama

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558 minutes

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Justified: The Complete Third Season

Cody Endres — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:57:17 +0000

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TV on DVD

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Getting Recognition

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3.75

Jeremy Davies recently won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Dickie Bennett.

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Since the premiere of the series in 2010, Justified has remained one of the most underrated gems on television today due to an unbelievably talented cast and intelligent writing. The second season still stands as the current highlight of the series thanks to Margo Martindale's amazing portrayal of Mags Bennett, but the third season adds several dynamic new characters to the fold resulting in the excellent program fans have come to expect.

Season three begins three weeks after the showdown with the Bennett clan. Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant, The Crazies) is back on the job yet still recovering from his gunshot wound leaving his sharpshooting skills ineffective. The lone survivor of the Bennett clan, Dickie Bennett (Jeremy Davies, Lost), finds himself stuck in prison unable to recover the inheritance left by his mother. Longtime criminal and Raylan's main rival Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins, The Shield) gets himself thrown in jail as an attempt to get to Dickie. Unbeknownst to practically everyone, Mags kept the majority of her money under the watchful eye of the leader of Noble's Holler - Ellstin Limehouse (Mykelti Williamson, best remembered as Bubba from Forrest Gump). As if Raylan wasn't busy enough, the main foe this season is Robert Quarles (Neal McDonough, Band of Brothers), a crony from the Detroit mafia sent to muscle in on the criminal landscape of Kentucky.

Unless Justified falls into some sort of creative tailspin for the remainder of its existence, Raylan Givens will be the definitive role of Timothy Olyphant's career. Olyphant manages to perfectly blend the auro of an old Western hero and present-day lawman with witty banter and snappy comebacks. Memorable quotes reign supreme on this show where the storylines are so intricately plotted that missing a single episode seems unimagineable. My favorite episode of the season happens to be the very first entitled "The Gunfighter" where a villian appropriately nicknamed Ice Pick is introduced. Instead of prolonging the eventual meeting between Ice Pick and Givens for the entire season, the build-up and conclusion of the storyline is one of the most satisfying things I've ever seen in a single episode on television.

Fans of the series should be satisfied with the special features on this set including a whopping nine commentary tracks from the possible 13 episodes. An outtake reel, several short deleted scenes, and a trio of featurettes round out this release. The "Anatomy of a Stunt" featurette provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of stuntman specifically Walton Goggin's stunt double who has worked with him since his time on The Shield. For viewers new to the series, I highly suggest a marathon viewing of the first three seasons before the new season kicks off this January.

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Justified Season 3

Cody Endres — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:57:17 +0000

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Monday, December 31, 2012

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Django Unchained

Peter Oberth — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:20:09 +0000

Django (Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx) a former slave-turned-hired gun heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from a tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie (Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio),with the help of a German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz).

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Dec 25, 2012

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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The Weinstein Company

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Quentin Tarantino

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Action/Adventure,

Drama

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2 Hours, 45 Minutes

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Strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity.

Walton Goggins Joins G.I. Joe 2

Peter Oberth — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:18:31 +0000

G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation

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Walton Goggins

Since appearing in superb US cop show The Shield and doing solid work on current drama Justified, Walton Goggins has been scoring some well-deserved film work. He’s already shown up in Cowboys & Aliens, been picked by Steven Spielberg to play Wells Hutchins in Lincoln and has just landed a role in G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation.

There’s not a lot of info about Goggins’ character, reported by Variety as Warden Nigel James, who doesn’t appear in the original ‘toon series or toy line-up. But we’re guessing he’ll be slimy, as Goggins does that so very well.

Channing Tatum is returning to head up the cast, with fellow veterans Ray Park and Byung-hun Lee. They’ll be joined by an almost completely new group of actors including Dwayne “Team Bring It” Johnson (who, judging by his Twitter feed, is building himself to monstrous proportions for the part), Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Joseph Mazzello, Arnold Vosloo, DJ Cotrona, Jonathan Pryce, Elodie Yung and RZA. Bruce Willis is also in talks to play the founder of the Joe team.

And while the script, penned by Zombieland’s Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, is being kept secret, we’re going to make a wild guess and say that Cobra comes back to cause more trouble.

Jon M Chu is kicking off the shoot later this month in New Orleans, with the movie aimed at a June 2012 release date.

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Walton Goggins

That Evening Sun (BLU-RAY)

Matt Rodriguez — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:28:08 +0000

That Evening Sun

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1.92

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That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun is based on a short story by William Gay. It tells the story of the elderly Abner Meecham and his stubbornness to not let go of his farm property to the drunk Lonzo Choat who leases the property from his son, Paul. Both men want the other out and both are as hard headed as they come. It looks like things are going to get pretty ugly before a resolution can be reached.

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The picture quality is somewhat sharp and looks good. People come out looking crystal clear and well defined. The landscapes could have used a little touch-up but you do get some good views of the Tennessee countryside. The audio lacks any real depth. The quality is good it just that there isn't much to pick up. The majority of the film consists of tepid conversations and pockets of silence so the audio quality doesn't necessarily need to be all that good in the first place.

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Commentary, "That Tennessee Sun..." The Making of That Evening Sun, The Art and Craft of That Evening Sun, Cast and Crew Interviews, and Trailers.

That Evening Sun includes your typical bonus features of most films. While the film has been critically acclaimed, it's definitely not for everyone and doesn't utilize the Blu-ray format. It's pretty average in all aspects and I'm okay with that because it doesn't need to be visually stunning with bright colors and special effects. Let's face it, the people who plan to purchase the film will have already seen it and are fans. I believe the DVD will suit them just fine.

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