Actioncomedy

Taken director Pierre Morel gets it really, really wrong with this dumb, crude and not remotely entertaining action-comedy. The idea isn’t too bad: it’s about a former US special forces soldier who gets caught up in a South American coup after being hired as bodyguard to a journalist. You can picture Armando Iannucci running with the satirical possibilities, or a more serious-minded film-maker wading knee-deep into moral murk, John le Carré style. Instead, Morel, working with a script by Jacob Lentz, squanders the basic…

`The King of Queens` and `Pall Blart: Mall Cop` star Kevin James has been roped in for the new action comedy `Guns Up`. In the movie, James will be playing an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman. When a job goes horribly wrong and both of his worlds collide, he has one night to get his family out of the city, reported Hollywood Reporter. Millennium Media, known for the Hitman`s Bodyguard and Expendables franchise, is handling world sales on the upcoming feature and will be pitching it to international…

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.Few people are as deserving of the labels legend and icon as Harry Belafonte, who died this week at age 96. His career as a singer and his performances in films such as “Carmen Jones,” “Odds Against Tomorrow” and “Buck and the Preacher” made him a star, and his work in the more recent “Kansas City” and “BlacKKKlansman” reminded us of his many talents. But Belafonte’s contributions to the civil rights movement and…

Image via Netflix Netflix has just released new images from their upcoming vampire action-comedy movie Day Shift and if you’ve spent any time waiting to see what Snoop Dogg looks like in western wear, your time is nigh. The upcoming release features Snoop teaming up with Jamie Foxx, who will play a blue-collar dad Bud Jablonski, a pool cleaner trying to make ends meet. Bud decides to pick up some extra cash to pay for his kid’s braces by agreeing to work as an Exterminator, hired hands who kill the vampires…