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I will start this out by confessing that I am a huge Donald Glover fan. I think his sense of comedic timing is genius, and if you listen to his stuff as Childish Gambino, it is easy to see just how smart he is, and how fast he thinks. With this past week being his […]

There are some films that are simply above criticism. As is the case with RoboCop. We tried our best to find fault but the best we could come up with was the observance that RoboCop’s partner, Lewis, runs like a girl, and that’s not even a fault. Tasked with being honest, we decided instead to celebrate this classic. It’s got it all. Blood, violence, death and resurrection. It’s like Passion of the Christ on cocaine.

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"Of the 53 players on the [Seahawks] roster for Sunday’s conference championship game victory, 21 originally entered the NFL as undrafted free agents."

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"He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen – a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls – rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Formidable though they may have been, Rama’s opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at

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Before we begin, let’s take a moment to clarify that headline: The Long Kiss Goodnight is not a masterpiece. Sorry to break it to you, Renny Harlin, but your finest work falls just short of Lawrence of Arabia and all those other films about schoolteachers discovering their killer pasts. Harlin’s career is full of highs and lows, including last weekend‘s The Legend of Hercules, but everything about Harlin’s “style,” from even his lowest points, came into focus for 1996′s The Long Kiss Goodnight.

When Harlin’s name shows in the opening credits for his quasi-spy thriller, a grenade appears, appropriately (and visually) declaring this is the director’s most explosive outing yet. Harlin maintains a jovial energy through the film’s entire runtime, but much of the its success is attributed to screenwriter Shane Black. Black’s sensibility rings loud and clear underneath Harlin’s bombast: a dark sense of humor, an unlikely duo at the center, inventive set pieces, and clever setups and payoffs.

Structurally his script is exceptional. Character introductions come and go — all of which are done with wit and efficiency: Samantha Caine’s (Geena Davis) narration; Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) and Timothy (Craig Bierko) on the job; and Dr. Waldman (Brian Cox) frustrated by a dog licking its behind. Black and Harlin tell us who these characters are in an instant. It’s a set up that establishes its conflict and leads at an unstoppable pace.

Even with the brisk storytelling, these characters are given room to breathe. Some of the film’s best scenes are with Henessey and Caine talking in a car, whether about a woman’s form or Henessey’s own dark past — the two characters are connected by their past and parenting. If this odd couple simply chatted over coffee for two hours, The Long Kiss Goodnight would still be a ton of fun.

That’s the sign of a great action movie: the characters are as watchable as the gunfire. But thank God for all the shooting this film has, because each set piece is immensely gleeful.

Having seen nearly all of Harlin’s films, if Henessey put a gun on me, I’d be hard pressed to remember one of Harlan’s set pieces from start to finish. Flickers of airport shootouts from Die Hard 2 to LL Cool J running from a shark in Deep Blue Sea come to mind, but that’s about it.With that said, every shootout and explosion in The Long Kiss Goodnight makes an impression. The first fight alone has the weaponization of a lemon meringue pie and, best of all, there’s a character revival that makes little sense, but is all the better for it.

Henessey surviving all those bullet wounds was actually Harlin’s idea. Test-audiences responded so negatively to the character’s death that he revived Jackson’s character in reshoots. Some critics could accuse Harlin of pandering, but so what? It’s called “crowd-pleasing” for a reason. In this instance, Harlin gives the audience exactly what it wants, but his bowing to a negative test screening didn’t stop him from making unexpected choices along the way.

For the most part, Harlin is a journeyman director. His filmography is made up of routine choices, with the major exception of The Long Kiss Goodnight. The film has its appealing aesthetic and pleasing set pieces, but Harlin isn’t afraid to embrace the nastier side of Black’s writing. Caine’s rape joke would never sneak its way into a mainstream release today. Not only that, minutes following that joke she warns a kid smoking that she’ll “blow his fucking head off.”

Caine is by no means a commercial protagonist. That’s likely not the reason why the film wasn’t a box office hit, but in today’s climate, Caine would have been written as a vanilla clean heroine. She wouldn’t have to redeem herself, her child wouldn’t be put in danger, and we wouldn’t ever see her smoke a cigarette. Unless you’re the villain, you’re probably on the patch in today’s world.

What’s most compelling about Caine, even after her transformation back to her past life, is her vulnerability. Nowadays fear means a hero has to call it quits in the second act before making the inevitable decision of jumping back into the ring, but that wasn’t the case for The Long Kiss Goodnight. Caine expresses fear about her beautiful face being blown off, and yet that doesn’t stop her from heading into a death trap to save her daughter.

Black and Harlin consistently focus on the personal stakes at hand. A chemical bomb is thrown into the mix, but that turn of events takes a backseat to Caine, Henessey, and Caine’s daughter. This decision is somewhat surprising, as Harlin isn’t exactly a character-driven filmmaker. He stepped outside of his box, in that regard, with The Long Kiss Goodnight – which he’s been doing as of late, to varying results — and, with Black’s script, why wouldn’t he? It’s the best script Harlin’s ever worked with, and it’s a shame the two haven’t collaborated since.

This is Harlin’s defining film for many reasons: Davis and Jackson’s immediate chemistry; the inventive set pieces; and a long list of quotable one liners. The Legend of Hercules director has never managed to top himself when it comes to The Long Kiss Goodnight, but that’s no easy task. This is Harlin’s masterpiece, however we’re defining that, and it will probably remain the best work of his career.

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There's no doubt that Jonah Hill has put together an impressive resume since we first saw him in movies like I Heart Huckabees, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Grandma's Boy, and of course, his breakout role in Superbad, and his star continues to grow every day. Because of this, you would think that he would be making a decent chunk of coin with each new significant gig he scores.

His latest role is his biggest thus far, playing Donnie Azoff in Martin Scorsese's newest release, The Wolf of Wall Street, but the amount of money he made for the movie might surprise you. In a chat with Howard Stern, Hill revealed that his pay for Wolf was only $60,000. Not exactly a small amount of money to most of us, but considering what top actors are usually paid you'd expect to see a higher number.

So why did Hill take such a small paycheck for the role? Continue reading to find out, and to listen to the full interview. [...]

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As SPIN reports, one very tough, smartly selected lineup of aging rock dudes will assemble this Sunday night to end the Grammy Awards broadcast. Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dave Grohl, and Fleetwood Mac O.G. Lindsey Buckingham have intersected in various configurations over the years — Grohl playing drums on QOTSA’s Songs For The Deaf and NIN’s With Teeth, NIN and QOTSA touring together, Buckingham playing on NIN’s Hesitation Marks and appearing in Grohl’s Sound City documentary, Josh Homme and Trent Reznor contributing to the Sound City soundtrack. And now they’ll all be on the same stage at the same time. More intriguingly, it’ll be a rare TV performance for Nine Inch Nails and maybe a chance to figure out which guitar parts Buckingham played on their album. Talking about it, Grammys exec producer Ken Ehrlich says, “There’s nothing better than when the Grammys can rock out, and to have these artists all together on one stage, doing a number that, when they presented it to us, knocked us out, is going to turn out to be one of those Grammy moments that people talk about for a long time.” At the very least, it should a better show-ending clusterfuck than whatever LL Cool J was doing last year. The Grammys air Sunday night at 8PM eastern on CBS.

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Fleming won’t be the first time that the romantic espionage-tinted life of Bond author Ian Fleming has been used for entertainment outside of 007′s exploits, but it definitely looks like the slickest version of events yet — effectively casting the writer as “the man who would be Bond.” It’s part of BBC America’s programing, meaning that a writer whose spy novels became a movie franchise will be the centerpiece of a TV show.

And yet it still lacks Spymaker‘s ingenious stuntcasting of  Sean Connery’s son playing Fleming.

Fortunately, it features Dominic Cooper — an actor who seems to have perpetually walked out of an oil slick. He’s joined at the hip by Lara Pulver who was a shock to the system as Irene Adler in Sherlock. Check out the trailer for yourself.

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