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Summer Disaster Movie: SAN ANDREAS (Podcast with The Black Tribbles)
This summer's catastrophe flick SAN ANDREAS uses this "common knowledge" to create a West Coast earthquake and tsunami disaster we hopefully will never have to actually witness. Dwayne Johnson (aka "The Rock"), plays a rescue helicopter pilot named Ray...
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HAYWIRE (Steven Soderbergh)
by Le Anne Lindsay I read that Steven Soderbergh was looking to make a more beautiful, stylistic action film in the vein of the classic James Bond film From Russia With Love or the Michael Caine thriller Funeral in Berlin when he set about to make Haywire. His other inspiration was professional mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano: Soderbergh was flipping between channels late one night and stumbled onto one of Carano’s fights. “I see Gina coming out. She’s got the cornrows; she’s got the warrior affect. I thought, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’ She destroyed this woman in a cage, and I just hadn’t seen anything like this before,” he said.…