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Elvis & Nixon (DVD Review)

October 30, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Evan Peters, Colin Hanks
Director: Liza Johnson
Running Time: 84 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: October 31st 2016 (UK)

Elvis & Nixon is a movie spun out from a single moment – a meeting between Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon in December 1970, which resulted in a picture of the two of them, which is apparently the most requested image from the US National Archive. Here we get Michael Shannon as a surprisingly good Elvis, and Kevin Spacey as a slightly more human Nixon that we might be used to.

The movie picks up a while before the meeting, with Elvis fed up with the direction the country is heading – he doesn’t like hippies, the anti-Vietnam protests or The Beatles – so he decides he wants to become a Federal Agent and go undercover to help sort things out. While Elvis is used to having people around who organise his life for him, he decides he’s got to sort this out himself, reaching out to his long-time friend, Jerry (Alex Pettyfer), to help him. [Read more…]

Elvis & Nixon Trailer – Michael Shannon’s King meets Kevin Spacey’s Tricky Dicky

January 9, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Over the years plenty of people have played Elvis Presley – Kurt Russell, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Campbell – and many others have taken on Richard Nixon – Anthony Hopkins, Frank Langella, John Cusack. Now it’s the turn of Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey to play Presley and the President in Elvis & Nixon.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘On the morning of December 21st 1970 the world’s biggest star, Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) arrived on the White House lawn to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey). Elvis & Nixon tells the astounding true story of this meeting between two men at the height of their powers. Also starring Colin Hanks, Johnny Knoxville and Alex Pettyfer.’

The movie will be in UK cinemas on April 29th, 2016. Take a look at the trailer below.

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ACTORS: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Colin Hanks, Johnny Knoxville, Alex Pettyfer

Parkland Trailer – Zac Efron works on a shot JFK

August 21, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

With the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination coming up in November, it’s little surprise a movie like Parkland is due out soon, which focusses on the hospital the President was taken to after he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald (and where Oswald went when he was killed). Now the first trailer for the movie is here.

Billy Bob Thornton plays the head of Dallas’ Secret Service in the film, with Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder, the man who took some infamous footage of the assassination (which many will remember from JFK). Marcia Gay Harden is the head nurse at the hospital, with Zac Efron as a rookie doctor who has to work on the President. Jeremy Strong plays Lee Harvey Oswald.

The movie’s US release has just been moved to early October, with a November 8th UK release currently set. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Paul Giamatti, Colin Hanks, Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Marcia Gay Harden FILMS: Parkland

Alison Brie, Colin Hanks & Justin Chatwin Are No Stranger Than Love

June 19, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Justin Chatwin may have announced he’s leaving the US version of Shameless behind, but he’s not having a break, as Variety reports that Chatwin, Alison Brie and Colin Hanks have all signed up for the indie romantic comedy, No Stranger Than Love.

Brie is set to play ‘a high school art teacher in the small town. She is about to begin an affair with the married high school football coach, played by Hanks, who disappears down an inter-dimensional hole that opens up in her living room floor.’ There’s no info on exactly how Chatwin fits into this.

Nick Wernham is directing from a script by Steve Adams, with the film currently shooting in Toronto.

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ACTORS: Alison Brie, Colin Hanks, Justin Chatwin

Jackie Earle Haley, James Badge Dale & Colin Hanks Join Parkland

January 26, 2013 By Tim Isaac 2 Comments

An impressive cast is lining up for the ensemble drama Parkland, likely attracted to being part of something that will help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK this November. Shooting on the movie has just started, and it’s been announced that the likes of James Badge Dale, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour, and Ron Livingston have all joined the cast.

They’ll star alongside the previously announced Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Marcia Gay Harden, Zac Efron, and Jeremy Strong.

The film is about the chaotic events that occurred at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, November 22nd 1963. Part thriller, part real-time drama, Parkland the story of unexceptional people fighting for survival and reaching for heroism in an exceptional time.

Parkland certainly has a place in American history, as it’s also where both JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, died.

Award-winning journalist and novelist Peter Landesman makes his directorial debut with the movie, working from his own screenplay, which is based on the book, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, by Vincent Bugliosi. The hope is to release the movie in time for the 50th anniversary.

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ACTORS: Jackie Earle Haley, James Badge Dale, Colin Hanks, Zac Efron DIRECTORS: Peter Landesman FILMS: Parkland