Tagline: He wanted it all… but he got more than he bargained for. Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is young and at the top of his game as a music promoter. He is both a workaholic and a silver-tongued expert at manipulating the press. At a company Christmas party, Ollie meets Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez), a…
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Tagline: Wrong turn in Arizona. No brakes in Colorado. Arrested in Kansas. It’s the ultimate family trip. Even the onboard navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson (Cedric The Entertainer) and his family’s cross-country trek to their annual family reunion / grudge match. Reluctantly along for the ride are Nate’s wife (Vanessa Williams), who’s…
Kill Bill Vol.1 Movie Production Notes (2004)
In Okinawa, The Bride acquires a legendary bladed weapon from the last of the world’s great samurai sword-smiths, the legendary ninjitsu master Hattori Honzo (Sonny Chiba). In Tokyo, O-Ren Ishii is surrounded by her lethal henchmen and holds court in a massive nightclub/restaurant complex, the House of Blue Leaves. The Bride’s assault upon this stronghold…
Kill Bill Vol.1 (2004)
The fourth movie by Quentin Tarantino is an epic tale of one woman’s quest for justice presented in two installments. In Kill Bill— Vol. 1 the title character, played by David Carradine, is a mostly unseen sinister figure looming over the story who has organized an elite group called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or…
Kill Bill Vol. 2 Movie Production Notes (2004)
But Bill was not about to let this situation stand. We caught a few glimpses of the result early in Kill Bill Vol. 1 with the wreckage left behind when Bill and the Vipers assaulted a tiny rural chapel and slaughtered everyone in sight. Vol. 2 gives us, for the first time, a full account…
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
Tagline: The bride is back for the final cut. The second film in the two-part “Kill Bill” series, the first being Kill Bill: Volume 1. Uma Thurman is going to “Kill Bill,” in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film about a former assassin betrayed by her boss, Bill (David Carradine). Four years after surviving a bullet in…