Month: October 2024

10 Oct

Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult star in the tense trailer for The Order

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Vertical Entertainment has just sent over the trailer to their official Venice and TIFF selection — the tense thriller The Order. Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The History of the Kelly Gang, Assassin’s Creed) is in the director’s chair. Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s novel The Silent Brotherhood, The Order stars Jude Law (Closer, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), Nicholas Hoult (Superman, Renfield, Mad Max: Fury Road), and Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One, X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud).

The official synopsis reads,
“For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and the public panicked throughout the Pacific Northwest. As the attacks become increasingly violent, FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) becomes convinced that the robberies are the work of a domestic terrorist gang that plan to use the loot to finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government. 

Based on a true story, The Order follows Husk and his team into the tangled world of white supremacists to try to head off a violent uprising that could shatter the nation. As the militia builds a war chest of over $4 million, Husk pursues the malevolent racist Bob Mathews to a final bloody standoff that will go down in U.S. history.”

Law plays “a lone FBI agent stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, who believes the crimes were not the work of traditional criminals. He thinks the disturbance is the work of domestic terrorists with a charismatic leader (Hoult).” Alison Oliver, Odessa Young, Sebastian Pigott, George Tchortov, Victor Slezak, and Marc Maron also star as primary cast members.

“I am looking forward to working with Vertical on the release of The Order,” Kurzel told Deadline. “It was a privilege getting to work with such an extraordinary cast and crew on such a thrilling script by Zach Baylin, a story from the past speaking so directly with the present.”

Our EIC, Chris Bumbray, got to view the movie at TIFF and glowed about it in his review, “Kurzel made a pretty slick thriller that would play well in theatres. It’s lean and mean enough that, in another era, it would have been a big-budget studio film. Thrillers like this used to be a lot more common, so it’s refreshing to see a throwback like this, which reminds me (in the best ways) of the kinds of studio-made thrillers I loved watching growing up in the nineties.”

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10 Oct

Forrest Gump: Celebrating its 30th anniversary by revisiting its most memorable scene

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Forrest Gump gets a bad rap. In hindsight, it’s easy to dismiss Robert Zemeckis’s film, which starred Tom Hanks as the simple (but sweet) title character as cheesy. This is especially true if you compare it to the movies it beat at the Academy Awards that year – Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption – both of which have gone on to become unchallengeable classics. But the fact remains that Forrest Gump was a monster hit in 1994, with it the second highest-grossing movie of the year (behind The Lion King) and a signature role (for a while) for star Tom Hanks.

In this adaptation of the Winston Groom novel, Forrest Gump bears witness to most of the defining events of the second half of the twentieth century, including the Vietnam War, Watergate, and, eventually, the AIDS Crisis. The film was a landmark in VFX, as Tom Hanks was able to be inserted into old news footage to make it look like he met JFK, Lyndon Johnson, John Lennon, and Richard Nixon, all of which seems quaint nowadays—but in ’94, it was mind-blowing.

Yet, when many of us look back at the movie, the scene we remember most has less to do with VFX and more to do with the character’s unique impact on those around him. In this episode of Scene Breakdown, our host Kier Gomes breaks down the movie’s famous running montage, where a brokenhearted Gump goes on a cross-country run, inspiring, among other things, the famous catchphrase “sh*t happens.”

Check out the episode embedded above and let us know in the comments if you think Forrest Gump stands the test of time. 

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