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...which will end up sixth overall, was Crank: High Voltage, with B-movie Brit Brillo pad Jason Statham reprising his role from the 2006 Crank as a hit man who'll die if he slows down. Sort of like Speed, only instead of a grimy bus, it's a Limey cuss. Crank 2's haul was a demure $6.5 million...
...anyone's guess why a California lockup is housing an unreconstructed Limey like Statham; he's one of those English stars who shows up every few decades (like Cary Grant or Michael Caine) and refuses to drop his working-class, home-town accent. Anderson must have figured that the star of the Transporter series, and The Bank Job and a couple of Guy Ritchie gangland fantasies, would bring along his action-film bona fides. Which he does. Also his impressive torso. One of the movie's few moments of relative repose is a long, loving shot of Statham exercising...
...Rahimi, however, revealed a mild-mannered man more intent on discussing his research on sensor networks than his superfly cell phone. Was it a mistake? Could this really be the same guy who called a bunch of British guys manufacturing similar cell phones “a bunch of limey pansies”? In truth, Rahimi explains, the “phat pimp” persona on his website is a ruse. “I thought it would be funny if I pretended to be some sort of ‘technology pimp...
LONDON PIGEONS Limey birds hit with new no-feed rule in Trafalgar Square. Look out above, Your Majesty
Both Out of Sight, his smart, sexy 1998 George Clooney-Jennifer Lopez caper, and The Limey, a small-scale 1999 revenge thriller starring Terence Stamp, were testaments to his renewed confidence and fine-tuned techniques: the sharp cuts and occasionally free-floating dialogue that propel his stories. The onscreen heat he elicited between Clooney and Lopez proved that Soderbergh also had a talent for getting the best from his actors. Roberts' work in Erin Brockovich has scored a Golden Globe nomination and a Best Actress award from the National Board of Review...