Insights from the Cinematic World: revenge

The Legend of Tarzan

_DramaJune 18, 2016

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes the action adventure “The Legend of Tarzan,” starring Alexander Skarsgård as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Intense, charismatic and bound by honor, John Wick is also a ruthless hit man, skilled in dozens of ways of killing, and completely without remorse. How, the filmmakers asked themselves, could a man like that gain the sympathy of the audience?

Kate and Mark King’s posh suburban world was scripted as being in Connecticut, but was filmed in Westchester, NY, at a private house in Harrison.

The Other Woman

_DramaApril 8, 2014

THE OTHER WOMAN balances its broad comedy and emotional truth with a bit of fantasy and high glamour – or as director Nick Cassavetes dubs it, the film is “candy-dipped.”

Oldboy

_DramaNovember 21, 2013

Spike Lee’s Oldboy kicks off with the unfathomable experience of Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) a downward-spiraling advertising executive and absent father who, one drunken night, is kidnapped out of the blue and placed into a mind-numbing solitary confinement within a bizarre, hotel-like prison for the next 20 years

Broken City

_ActionJanuary 9, 2013

In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) seeks redemption – and revenge – after being double-crossed by the city’s most powerful figure, the mayor (Russell Crowe). Billy’s relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force – and the mayor’s worst nightmare.

You again

_ComedySeptember 29, 2010

You Again is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Andy Fickman and written by Moe Jelline. It stars Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Odette Yustman and Betty White. The film was released September 24, 2010