"There's gotta be somebody out there somewhere..." Strand Releasing is opening this new 4K restoration of the film Nowhere in select art house theaters - it's showing now, check your local listings. The film also recently screened at Fantastic Fest last month. Nowhere was filmmaker Gregg Araki's sixth feature at the time, showing at the Sitges & London Film Festivals that year after opening in the US. Strand also re-release Araki's The Doom Generation earlier in 2023. Nowhere follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead. Featuring an impressive ensemble cast from the period with Guillermo Diaz, Alan Boyce, Jeremy Jordan, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar, Christina Applegate, Scott Cain, Heather Graham, Ryan Phillippe, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, Jaason Simmons, and Jordan Ladd. This is dubbed a "4K Remixed & Remastered version" of the film that critics call "sexy,...
- 10/8/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Kirsten Howard Sep 2, 2019
Keanu Reeves, as much as any actor of his generation, has left a legacy to be proud of. We take a look back at his career.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Much like his character in the John Wick films, Keanu Reeves is a man with very little to lose.
Often maligned for his lack of range as an actor, or dismissed as merely a vaguely goofy action star, every misstep that Reeves has taken throughout his career has come from an enviable ability to consistently take risks. Despite every effort to pigeonhole him, Keanu Reeves just won’t be told what he can and can’t do.
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Keanu Reeves, as much as any actor of his generation, has left a legacy to be proud of. We take a look back at his career.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Much like his character in the John Wick films, Keanu Reeves is a man with very little to lose.
Often maligned for his lack of range as an actor, or dismissed as merely a vaguely goofy action star, every misstep that Reeves has taken throughout his career has come from an enviable ability to consistently take risks. Despite every effort to pigeonhole him, Keanu Reeves just won’t be told what he can and can’t do.
read more: The Matrix 4 in the Works with Keanu Reeves Set to Return
Born in Beirut to a showgirl and a geologist, Reeves is also a rabid fan of both The Two Ronnies and Bitcoin,...
- 2/17/2017
- Den of Geek
Kirsten Howard Feb 17, 2017
Keanu Reeves, as much as any actor of his generation, has left a legacy to be proud of. We take a look back at his career.
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Often maligned for his lack of range as an actor, or dismissed as merely a vaguely goofy action star, every misstep that Reeves has taken throughout his career has come from an enviable ability to consistently take risks. Despite every effort to pigeonhole him, Keanu Reeves just won’t be told what he can and can’t do.
Born in Beirut to a showgirl and a geologist, Reeves is also a rabid...
Keanu Reeves, as much as any actor of his generation, has left a legacy to be proud of. We take a look back at his career.
Much like his character in the John Wick films, Keanu Reeves is a man with very little to lose.
See related Grimm season 6 episode 6 review: Breakfast In Bed Grimm season 6 episode 5 review: The Seven Year Itch Grimm season 6 episode 4 review: El Cuegle Grimm season 6 episode 3 review: Captain, My Captain
Often maligned for his lack of range as an actor, or dismissed as merely a vaguely goofy action star, every misstep that Reeves has taken throughout his career has come from an enviable ability to consistently take risks. Despite every effort to pigeonhole him, Keanu Reeves just won’t be told what he can and can’t do.
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- 2/8/2017
- Den of Geek
Before she was “Pretty Woman” or an Oscar winner for “Erin Brockovich”—before her first-ever acting credit, actually—Julia Roberts auditioned for the 1985 film “Seven Minutes in Heaven.” With Alan Boyce, the young actor performs a heated fight scene. And though Roberts shows true composure for someone so new to the scene, the role ultimately went to Jennifer Connelly. (But things turned out Ok for Roberts, too.) Want to see more? Check out “9 Great Actors’ Audition Tapes!”...
- 11/6/2015
- backstage.com
Film review: 'No Easy Way'
Receiving an award at the Heartland International Film Festival this weekend in Indianapolis, the interracial romantic drama "No Easy Way" is a gutsy independent with a promising setup that comes up short in the uneasy follow-through.
In director Jeffrey Fine's feature debut, Matthew (Alan Boyce) is in deep denial about his deteriorating health. A concert pianist with no friends and a scolding doctor (Michael Tomlinson), Matthew seems determined to conquer AIDS with help from no one or perish in the attempt.
With such an obvious death wish, Matthew is not ready for the intrusion of South Central welfare mother Diana (Khandi Alexander), who pegs him as doomed-but-redeemable the first time he comes to her rescue. From the start, it's a friendly clash of the races and classes, with his loneliness and her romantic interest eventually bringing them together.
Unfortunately, there is not much chemistry between the leads, and the complications in Diana's life are predictably dire. Her youngest son (Brandon Hammond) thinks Mom's new friend is cool, but eldest punk Carl (Jermaine Montell) is openly hostile to Diana when he's in gangsta mode.
When Diana declares her desire to escape to Seattle, Matthew has a cause to get behind, but the wish-fulfillment turn of events that makes this possible severely hampers the film's final act. Meanwhile, one is supposed to get behind aggressive Diana and mopey Matthew, who starts to show more serious signs of his illness.
Alexander ("ER") and Boyce (who played the suicidal student in 1988's well-received "Permanent Record") provide their characters with some depth, but they both stumble on many of the cliched lines in Patrick Tobin's screenplay. The film as a whole grows repetitive as Matthew starts to accept his mortality and Diana is robbed and terrorized by Carl and his posse.
USC film school alumnus Fine is after one of those tearful but inspiring love stories in which the principals are kept physically apart, while one of them must make a noble sacrifice so that the other has a better life. The brief intrusion by Matthew's mother (Christina Pickles) adds to the scenario's most frustrating aspect -- Matthew's character is underdrawn. We see him suffer but wonder why he is so independent and emotionally damaged.
What clues there are don't amount to much, while Fine has to resort to violence as a means to up the already high stakes. The first USC-produced feature, "No Easy Way" tends to preach rather than teach us about alienation as it shakily constructs a racial-cultural common ground.
NO EASY WAY
PGFW Prods.
Director:Jeffrey Fine
Producers:Douglas Ludwig, Eileen M. Chambers
Screenwriter:Patrick Tobin
Director of photography:S. Douglas Smith
Production designer:Brooks Rawlins
Costume designer:Eddie Bledsoe
Editor:Pamela Raymer
Music:Mark Eitzel, Bruce Kaphan
Casting:Lynnn Stalmaster
Color/stereo
Cast:
Matthew Livingston:Alan Boyce
Diana Campbell:Khandi Alexander
Tommy Campbell:Brandon Hammond
Carl Campbell:Jermaine Montell
Mrs. Livingston:Christina Pickles
Dr. Thomas:Michael Tomlinson
Running time -- 108 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In director Jeffrey Fine's feature debut, Matthew (Alan Boyce) is in deep denial about his deteriorating health. A concert pianist with no friends and a scolding doctor (Michael Tomlinson), Matthew seems determined to conquer AIDS with help from no one or perish in the attempt.
With such an obvious death wish, Matthew is not ready for the intrusion of South Central welfare mother Diana (Khandi Alexander), who pegs him as doomed-but-redeemable the first time he comes to her rescue. From the start, it's a friendly clash of the races and classes, with his loneliness and her romantic interest eventually bringing them together.
Unfortunately, there is not much chemistry between the leads, and the complications in Diana's life are predictably dire. Her youngest son (Brandon Hammond) thinks Mom's new friend is cool, but eldest punk Carl (Jermaine Montell) is openly hostile to Diana when he's in gangsta mode.
When Diana declares her desire to escape to Seattle, Matthew has a cause to get behind, but the wish-fulfillment turn of events that makes this possible severely hampers the film's final act. Meanwhile, one is supposed to get behind aggressive Diana and mopey Matthew, who starts to show more serious signs of his illness.
Alexander ("ER") and Boyce (who played the suicidal student in 1988's well-received "Permanent Record") provide their characters with some depth, but they both stumble on many of the cliched lines in Patrick Tobin's screenplay. The film as a whole grows repetitive as Matthew starts to accept his mortality and Diana is robbed and terrorized by Carl and his posse.
USC film school alumnus Fine is after one of those tearful but inspiring love stories in which the principals are kept physically apart, while one of them must make a noble sacrifice so that the other has a better life. The brief intrusion by Matthew's mother (Christina Pickles) adds to the scenario's most frustrating aspect -- Matthew's character is underdrawn. We see him suffer but wonder why he is so independent and emotionally damaged.
What clues there are don't amount to much, while Fine has to resort to violence as a means to up the already high stakes. The first USC-produced feature, "No Easy Way" tends to preach rather than teach us about alienation as it shakily constructs a racial-cultural common ground.
NO EASY WAY
PGFW Prods.
Director:Jeffrey Fine
Producers:Douglas Ludwig, Eileen M. Chambers
Screenwriter:Patrick Tobin
Director of photography:S. Douglas Smith
Production designer:Brooks Rawlins
Costume designer:Eddie Bledsoe
Editor:Pamela Raymer
Music:Mark Eitzel, Bruce Kaphan
Casting:Lynnn Stalmaster
Color/stereo
Cast:
Matthew Livingston:Alan Boyce
Diana Campbell:Khandi Alexander
Tommy Campbell:Brandon Hammond
Carl Campbell:Jermaine Montell
Mrs. Livingston:Christina Pickles
Dr. Thomas:Michael Tomlinson
Running time -- 108 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/11/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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