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Heated Fights and Hot Heads: OUT OF THE FURNACE
Out of the Furnace Comes Heated Fights and Hot Heads Tinsel & Tine Blog Contributors with varying perspectives Flood the Drummer® and DJ Reezey® review new crime thriller For men who love bare-knuckle brawls, that leave blood from jaws and the lone justice-seeking vigilante who becomes the law, then Director Scott Cooper’s nearly two-hour new crime thriller Out of the Furnace will be the adrenaline rush that leaves you satisfied. Opening in theaters nationwide today, November 6th, this R rated film stars British actor Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Casey Affleck (Tower Heist), the seductive and vivacious Zoe Saldana, and the legendary Woody Harrelson, in one of his grittiest roles…
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Flood the Drummer’s Beat Focuses On: ESCAPE PLAN
Stallone and Schwarzenegger Breakout Bigin Escape Plan By Blog Contributor Christopher “Flood the Drummer” Norris The former Governor of California (Arnold Schwarzenegger) returns to the big screen in one of his most memorable films to date – yes, better than Kindergarten Cop and Jingle All the Way. Escape Plan deals directly with the issue of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, where two of Hollywood’s biggest action heroes are forced to ban together to take down their biggest enemy ever, the U.S. Government. Owner of a high-profile security firm that specializes in testing the reliability of maximum security prisons, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), a former prosecutor, willingly spends the…
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Flood the Drummer gives GETAWAY a Downbeat
Be sure to use the full screen icon bottom right of the PDF for easy viewing. Tinsel & Tine Ad Rate Sheet_9.1.14 by TinselandTine Contact: Le Anne Lindsay, Editor:tinseltine@gmail.com Get Strapped in “Getaway” is a FAST RIDE to Nowhere By Christopher “Flood the Drummer”® Norris In a film that can only be described as a three car pileup involving Ocean’s Eleven, The Italian Job and Eagle Eye, Director Courtney Solomon delivers a 90 minute, fast-paced forgettable thriller starring Ethan Hawke that will have you hanging off the edge off your seat waiting for the good part. Retired driver Brent Magna (Hawke) straps up for the biggest race of his…
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Chris Norris Blog Contributor: Is Almost 2 Hours of “2 Guns” 2 Much?
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg star in “2 Guns,” a NEW Action/Comedy/Thriller Directed by Baltasar Kormakur By Christopher “Flood the Drummer®” Norris When attempting to write my review of Icelandic Director Baltasar Kormakur’s new Action/Comedy “2 Guns” I drew a blank. I thought at first it was writer’s block. I soon realized I was having one of those “it’s not me it’s you” moments. Predictable at best, forgettable at worst, I wasn’t even aware that “2 Guns” was a comedy until I looked at IMDB.com. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the almost two hour film was suppose to make me laugh; I thought it was an advertorial for…
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Time to Hang Up “The Hangover” : THE HANGOVER PART III
In the third installment of the Hangover Series, Director Todd Phillips proves Hangovers gets worst with age By Christopher “Flood the Drummer”® Norris In the third and hopefully truly the final of The Hangover series, Director Todd Phillips reached deep into the basket of desperation and retrieved a series of over-the-top jokes, puns and homoerotic anecdotes that made light of the murdering and drugging of animals, elderly abuse and sodomy. The movie opens with the irresponsible and off-putting Alan (Zach Galifianakis) drinking a beer while driving a sleek, new, Mercedes convertible coupe. Traveling on a busy highway with a trailer attached transporting a large giraffe, Alan drives through an underpass…
