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Assault on Precinct 13 is Jean-Fran??ois Richet's remake of the action thriller that John Carpenter made for $100,000 in 1976. The plot imperative of both films is as simple as a shark's: one night, one setting; bad guys outside, good and bad guys in; last one not to get blown up wins. It's your basic claustrophobic nightmare, which theater and cinema have astutely exploited--from Sartre's No Exit and nearly any Pinter play or Roman Polanski movie to the old cliff-hanger serials, where the four walls of a cell would close...
...Dirty War can be didactic and self-congratulatory, it also smartly balances a thriller's plotting with an astute eye for politics and bureaucratic idiocy. Whether you consider it a gripping, worthy scare or titillating scaremongering may depend on whether you think it is a fair warning or a grim preview reel of inevitable coming attractions. For the sake of all of us, if not of the movie, let's hope it's the former...
...this year’s class of free agents, would finally land. This week the entire city of New York, the largest and arguably the most sports-crazed metropolis in the world, was abuzz not because the Jets had knocked off the San Diego Chargers in a wild overtime thriller to advance to the NFL’s divisional playoff round, but because both Randy Johnson and Carlos Beltran were set to be introduced at separate press conferences as new members of the Yankees and Mets, respectively...
Abrams began his career writing for the movies (as Jeffrey Abrams), and his early work--middlingly received movies like Regarding Henry and a credit on the asteroid thriller Armageddon--didn't show much innovation. But in 1998 he premiered Felicity, a WB series about a soulful college girl that had more character depth than your typical teen soap and less self-seriousness. It also proved his eye for casting: he plucked Keri Russell from out of nowhere to play Felicity; Garner, then unknown, had a supporting role. (Lost likewise discovered Evangeline Lilly as the stunning, and stunningly tough, fugitive Kate...
...remake of the 1976 John Carpenter thriller, Assault on Precinct 13, comedian John Leguizamo plays a small-time criminal with a very big mouth...