Jan Michael Vincent
MGM Limited Edition Collection’s The Gun Runners, The Happy Thieves, and The Destructors review
The Destructors (1974) The Destructors – originally titled The Marseille Contract – stars Anthony Quinn as a tough U.S. intelligence agent in Paris who’s assigned to break a narcotics ring, but after several of his agents are killed during an operation, he hires a contract killer played by Michael Caine, for help in bringing down …
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Director Michael Winner to appear for discussion and screenings of his cult classics The Mechanic and Scorpio
Michael Winner will appear in person for a double feature of two of his 1970’s action classics, The Mechanic and Scorpio, two of my favorite action films of all time. The event will take place on Saturday, March 12th, beginning at 7:30pm. The Egyptian Theatre will play host, which is located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, …
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The Mechanic remake gets guns… lots of guns
Simon West is directing Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland in the long-in-development remake of The Mechanic, and a gun-filled poster for the project was released today on Cinematical. The film, based on one of the best cult action films of the 1970’s, centers on Arthur Bishop (Statham), a ‘mechanic’ – an elite assassin …
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This trailer has been out there a while, but I never posted anything about it, and The Mechanic is one of my favorite action films from the 1970s. While the remake of The Mechanic was for years called a remake virtually in name only of the 1972 Charles Bronson crime thriller totally reimagined as a …
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Trailer for The Mechanic remake
Jason Statham gets Charles Bronson’s role in The Mechanic remake
I’ve been watching this project for years. As regular readers of the site know, I’m a huge fan of 1970’s action films, so projects like Taking of Pelham 123 and The Mechanic have been on my radar since studios decided to capitalize on them years ago. IMDB has had The Mechanic remake listed as being …
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The Seven Samurai take on Armageddon
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has picked up a spec script by Shane Salerno (AVPR: Aliens vs Predator: Requiem) titled the Doomsday Protocol. Plot details are secret, but it is said to be an epic sci-fi adventure, in the vein of The Seven Samurai, involving a group of aliens and humans with various abilities, …
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