On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the 2008 comedy The Deal, starring William H. Macy and Meg Ryan. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Based on a novel by Peter Lecourt, The Deal was directed by Steven Schachter, who also wrote the screenplay with Macy. The film has the following synopsis: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew’s film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling...
Based on a novel by Peter Lecourt, The Deal was directed by Steven Schachter, who also wrote the screenplay with Macy. The film has the following synopsis: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew’s film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling...
- 2/24/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
This Warrior review contains spoilers.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 10
After the brutal depiction of San Francisco’s Riot of 1877 in the previous episode, the Warrior Season 2 finale feels more like an epilogue. There’s lots of ruminating over drinks, a few cliffhangers to tease Season 3, and one long awaited fight. Since Cinemax abandoned its original programming, this may be the final episode of Warrior unless some other network picks it up. Hopefully, Warrior finds new life somewhere else because Season 2 leaves us hanging and wanting more.
This episode begins with the morning after the Riot. As Chinatown residents recover bodies and tend to their wounded, Mai Ling (Dianne Doan) surveys the damage and discovers that a two-story mural of Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) has appeared. Clad in a wife-beater shirt with a nunchuck tucked in his armpit, it’s a nod to Bruce Lee’s look in The Way of the Dragon.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 10
After the brutal depiction of San Francisco’s Riot of 1877 in the previous episode, the Warrior Season 2 finale feels more like an epilogue. There’s lots of ruminating over drinks, a few cliffhangers to tease Season 3, and one long awaited fight. Since Cinemax abandoned its original programming, this may be the final episode of Warrior unless some other network picks it up. Hopefully, Warrior finds new life somewhere else because Season 2 leaves us hanging and wanting more.
This episode begins with the morning after the Riot. As Chinatown residents recover bodies and tend to their wounded, Mai Ling (Dianne Doan) surveys the damage and discovers that a two-story mural of Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) has appeared. Clad in a wife-beater shirt with a nunchuck tucked in his armpit, it’s a nod to Bruce Lee’s look in The Way of the Dragon.
- 12/5/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This Warrior review contains spoilers.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 9
Enter the Dragon was Bruce Lee’s most significant film and is regarded as one of the greatest martial arts films of all time. It was the first major Hollywood and Hong Kong co-production, and it also became one of the most profitable films of all time. Tragically, Lee didn’t live to see its success. He died a month prior to the premiere of Enter the Dragon. For Warrior to evoke Lee’s masterpiece, this episode better be good.
The significance of the title isn’t lost on Warrior’s head writer Jonathan Tropper. “My favorite movie to watch is probably Enter the Dragon,” claims Tropper, “just because I feel that is when production values caught up with what [Lee] was doing. Some of the production value on the earlier movies, certainly the versions that I’ve been able to see, are...
Warrior Season 2 Episode 9
Enter the Dragon was Bruce Lee’s most significant film and is regarded as one of the greatest martial arts films of all time. It was the first major Hollywood and Hong Kong co-production, and it also became one of the most profitable films of all time. Tragically, Lee didn’t live to see its success. He died a month prior to the premiere of Enter the Dragon. For Warrior to evoke Lee’s masterpiece, this episode better be good.
The significance of the title isn’t lost on Warrior’s head writer Jonathan Tropper. “My favorite movie to watch is probably Enter the Dragon,” claims Tropper, “just because I feel that is when production values caught up with what [Lee] was doing. Some of the production value on the earlier movies, certainly the versions that I’ve been able to see, are...
- 11/28/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This Warrior review contains spoilers.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 8 Review
This episode’s cold open has Hong (Chen Tang) telling a story to Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) and Young Jun (Jason Tobin) as they are eating. It’s a tale of a killer who uses violin strings as a weapon to explain why Hong uses his signature whip chain. Ah Sahm and Young Jun tease him by constantly interrupting his story and as the camera pulls back, we discover that they are casually eating over a pile of dead Fung Hai men. With their leader Zing (Dustin Nguyen) in jail, the Fung Hai were easy pickings for the Hop Wei.
Ordinarily, skipping to after the fight scene without showing any action would be disappointing for a martial arts-based show like Warrior, but it’s such an artfully crafted interaction between the Hop Wei threesome that the absence Kung Fu is forgivable this one time.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 8 Review
This episode’s cold open has Hong (Chen Tang) telling a story to Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) and Young Jun (Jason Tobin) as they are eating. It’s a tale of a killer who uses violin strings as a weapon to explain why Hong uses his signature whip chain. Ah Sahm and Young Jun tease him by constantly interrupting his story and as the camera pulls back, we discover that they are casually eating over a pile of dead Fung Hai men. With their leader Zing (Dustin Nguyen) in jail, the Fung Hai were easy pickings for the Hop Wei.
Ordinarily, skipping to after the fight scene without showing any action would be disappointing for a martial arts-based show like Warrior, but it’s such an artfully crafted interaction between the Hop Wei threesome that the absence Kung Fu is forgivable this one time.
- 11/21/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This Warrior review contains spoilers.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 5
The episode opens with Li Yong (Joe Taslim) doing some shirtless Kung Fu but the scene is too short to determine what style he is doing. Perhaps it’s something just made up for Warrior. Taslim’s background is in in Judo, not Kung Fu, but that doesn’t matter. He looks great doing whatever he’s doing and it’s a promising opening for this episode.
The previous two episodes lacked enough Kung Fu to satisfy dedicated Bruce Lee fans. Fortunately, this episode makes up for that and then some. It’s the strongest episode in Season 2 so far, both dramatically and choreographically.
It’s a rough one for Penny (Joanna Vanderham) as her world collapses. As she inspects the devastation of Mercer Steel after Leary’s (Dean Jagger) terrorist bombing, she asks Jacob (Kenneth Fok) “What is that terrible smell?...
Warrior Season 2 Episode 5
The episode opens with Li Yong (Joe Taslim) doing some shirtless Kung Fu but the scene is too short to determine what style he is doing. Perhaps it’s something just made up for Warrior. Taslim’s background is in in Judo, not Kung Fu, but that doesn’t matter. He looks great doing whatever he’s doing and it’s a promising opening for this episode.
The previous two episodes lacked enough Kung Fu to satisfy dedicated Bruce Lee fans. Fortunately, this episode makes up for that and then some. It’s the strongest episode in Season 2 so far, both dramatically and choreographically.
It’s a rough one for Penny (Joanna Vanderham) as her world collapses. As she inspects the devastation of Mercer Steel after Leary’s (Dean Jagger) terrorist bombing, she asks Jacob (Kenneth Fok) “What is that terrible smell?...
- 10/31/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Strong, Charlotte Butler, David Butler, Rafael Sayegh, Michael Richard, Robert Hobbs, Kenneth Fok, Garion Dowds | Written and Directed by Steven Knight
The feeling and emotion a cinephile find within themselves when they witness a cinematic masterpiece unfold in front of their eyes is a magical, no scratch that, unfathomable ideal that is an exhilarating and unquestionable abstract thirst and can only be quenched with seeking out more exquisite forms of cinematic sensation. Steven Knight’s latest does not usher such ecstatic reactions. Quite the antithesis in fact. A film comparable to that of Wally Pfister’s twenty-fourteen film Transcendence that explodes on instant impact of release with a tremendous cast list utterly dissipated in what quite possibly may be one of the most diabolical ventures in film in the last two decades.
The superb writer of the sublime...
The feeling and emotion a cinephile find within themselves when they witness a cinematic masterpiece unfold in front of their eyes is a magical, no scratch that, unfathomable ideal that is an exhilarating and unquestionable abstract thirst and can only be quenched with seeking out more exquisite forms of cinematic sensation. Steven Knight’s latest does not usher such ecstatic reactions. Quite the antithesis in fact. A film comparable to that of Wally Pfister’s twenty-fourteen film Transcendence that explodes on instant impact of release with a tremendous cast list utterly dissipated in what quite possibly may be one of the most diabolical ventures in film in the last two decades.
The superb writer of the sublime...
- 2/26/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, Nik Dodani, Adam Robitel, Kenneth Fok, Yorick van Wageningen | Written by Bragi F. Schut, Maria Melnik | Directed by Adam Robitel
Adam Robitel’s 2019 film Escape Room is Sony’s attempt at crafting a cheap money making franchise in small budgets and big returns in the same vein as Lionsgate’s enormously successful but varying degree of quality Saw series. Running at just under one hundred minutes, ninety of which are engrossingly tense and aggressively atmospheric with a delightful b-movie quality that no doubt entertains but sadly falls off the wayside with an irksome sequel bait set up that jumps the shark to a stilted degree.
Not to discredit Escape Room for all it proposes in entertainment value but it is derived unconditionally from the bowels of James Wan’s Saw of 2004. Not necessarily the most damning of comparisons...
Adam Robitel’s 2019 film Escape Room is Sony’s attempt at crafting a cheap money making franchise in small budgets and big returns in the same vein as Lionsgate’s enormously successful but varying degree of quality Saw series. Running at just under one hundred minutes, ninety of which are engrossingly tense and aggressively atmospheric with a delightful b-movie quality that no doubt entertains but sadly falls off the wayside with an irksome sequel bait set up that jumps the shark to a stilted degree.
Not to discredit Escape Room for all it proposes in entertainment value but it is derived unconditionally from the bowels of James Wan’s Saw of 2004. Not necessarily the most damning of comparisons...
- 2/19/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, Nik Dodani, Adam Robitel, Kenneth Fok, Yorick van Wageningen | Written by Bragi F. Schut, Maria Melnik | Directed by Adam Robitel
Directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key), entertaining thriller Escape Room puts an inspired horror movie spin on the current trend for locked puzzle rooms. The franchise-friendly result is like a toned-down version of the Saw movies. In a good way.
After an opening teaser, we’re introduced to three apparently unrelated characters – shy brainbox student Zoey (Lost In Space‘s Taylor Russell), convenience store slacker Ben (Logan Miller) and arrogant businessman Jason (Jay Ellis) – who each receive a mysterious cube-shaped puzzle box. After solving the puzzle, they’re invited to partake in a state-of-the-art escape room in downtown Chicago, where the prize for escaping is $10,000. In the waiting room, they meet their fellow competitors: ex-soldier Amanda...
Directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key), entertaining thriller Escape Room puts an inspired horror movie spin on the current trend for locked puzzle rooms. The franchise-friendly result is like a toned-down version of the Saw movies. In a good way.
After an opening teaser, we’re introduced to three apparently unrelated characters – shy brainbox student Zoey (Lost In Space‘s Taylor Russell), convenience store slacker Ben (Logan Miller) and arrogant businessman Jason (Jay Ellis) – who each receive a mysterious cube-shaped puzzle box. After solving the puzzle, they’re invited to partake in a state-of-the-art escape room in downtown Chicago, where the prize for escaping is $10,000. In the waiting room, they meet their fellow competitors: ex-soldier Amanda...
- 2/1/2019
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
"Some weird stuff going on right now. This whole island's a part of it, but nobody knows it." Aviron has debuted a new official trailer for the mysterious thriller Serenity, along with announcing a release delay - from October this year until late January next year. Not to be confused with the sci-fi film, this Serenity is a film from British screenwriter/director Steven Knight and it's about a mysterious fishing boat captain, played by Matthew McConaughey. Described as a "daringly original, sexy, stylized thriller." The mysterious past of this fishing boat skipper living in the Caribbean comes back to haunt him, ensnaring his life in a new reality that may not be what it all seems. The full cast of Serenity includes Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Strong, Diane Lane, Kenneth Fok, Robert Hobbs, and Rafael Sayegh. This trailer really over-sells and over-shares the story this time,...
- 11/20/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Zethu Dlomo, Garth Breytenbach, Kenneth Fok, Dean Fourie, Vuyo Dabula, Warren Masemola, Kenneth Nkosi, Brendon Daniels, Jerry Mofokeng, Anthony Oseyemi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Lizwi Vilakazi, Hamilton Dhlamini, Aubrey Poolo | Written by Sean Drummond | Directed by Michael Matthews
A story about five friends who as kids decide that they are charged with the task of saving there home town of Marseilles. As protectors they become known as the Five Fingers. They will stand tall against the police force that has a strangle hold on their town. That is until there fearless and headstrong leader Tau (Vuyo Dabula) realises that catapults, sticks and stones are no use against bullets. During a confrontation Tau takes the life of two officers and feels like the only way to protect his friends is to flee the town he loves.
Cut to 20 years later and life has been a never ending struggle for Tau, after years...
A story about five friends who as kids decide that they are charged with the task of saving there home town of Marseilles. As protectors they become known as the Five Fingers. They will stand tall against the police force that has a strangle hold on their town. That is until there fearless and headstrong leader Tau (Vuyo Dabula) realises that catapults, sticks and stones are no use against bullets. During a confrontation Tau takes the life of two officers and feels like the only way to protect his friends is to flee the town he loves.
Cut to 20 years later and life has been a never ending struggle for Tau, after years...
- 10/3/2018
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
"This is a story about five fighters." Uncork'd Entertainment has debuted a bloody new red band trailer for the South African action western film Five Fingers for Marseilles, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. The story follows a young boy whose life is changed forever when he kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Decades later, he finally heads home but his return brings out his enemies who go after him and all of his friends. The film stars Vuyo Dabula as our hero Tau, along with Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Anthony Oseyemi, Jerry Mofokeng, plus Kenneth Fok. This "neo-noir" Western has been getting great reviews and looks like it's worth your time to watch if you want to see something gritty and different and entertaining. Get a final glimpse at this here before it hits theaters soon.
- 8/27/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Around here they like to say ‘everybody knows everything.’ But what if the truth was ‘nobody knows anything?’” Matthew McConaughey’s opening line instills an air of mystery over the first trailer for Serenity – the newest original crime thriller from writer/director Steve Knight.
The film centers around McConaughey’s Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives and works on the peaceful Plymouth Island. Things go awry for Dill when his ex-wife Karen (played by Anne Hathaway) resurfaces and pleads for protection from her abusive now-husband (played by Jason Clarke). As heard in the trailer, Karen wickedly wants Dill to “take him out on your boat and drop him in the ocean for the sharks.”
It’s been a big week for both McConaughey and Hathaway. Another new McConaughey film White Boy Rick just got a trailer this week, and Hathaway’s Ocean’s 8 hits theaters this weekend. Previously,...
The film centers around McConaughey’s Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives and works on the peaceful Plymouth Island. Things go awry for Dill when his ex-wife Karen (played by Anne Hathaway) resurfaces and pleads for protection from her abusive now-husband (played by Jason Clarke). As heard in the trailer, Karen wickedly wants Dill to “take him out on your boat and drop him in the ocean for the sharks.”
It’s been a big week for both McConaughey and Hathaway. Another new McConaughey film White Boy Rick just got a trailer this week, and Hathaway’s Ocean’s 8 hits theaters this weekend. Previously,...
- 6/7/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
"This is about temptation. There's right and wrong." Aviron Pictures has released the official trailer for a film titled Serenity, not to be confused with the sci-fi feature of the same name based on the "Firefly" TV series. This Serenity is the latest movie from British screenwriter/director Steven Knight and it's about a mysterious fishing boat captain, played by Matthew McConaughey. It's described as a "daringly original, sexy, stylized thriller." The mysterious past of this fishing boat skipper living in the Caribbean comes back to haunt him, ensnaring his life in a new reality that may not be what it all seems. The full cast of Serenity includes Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Strong, Diane Lane, Kenneth Fok, Robert Hobbs, and Rafael Sayegh. This looks very surreal and dream-like, with some odd bloody moments hidden within. I'm very curious, though not sure what to make of it yet.
- 6/7/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Marseilles was never free, but it will be. Change is coming." EntertainmentOne has unveiled a new full-length official trailer for the action western film Five Fingers for Marseilles, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. We posted the teaser trailer for this "neo-western" set in South Africa just before the festival last year, now we have a full theatrical trailer. The story follows a young boy whose life is changed forever when he kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Decades later, he finally heads home but his return brings out his enemies who go after him and all of his friends. The film stars Vuyo Dabula as Tau, along with Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Anthony Oseyemi, Jerry Mofokeng, plus Kenneth Fok. This looks very cool, very gritty. I'm quite curious to check it out,...
- 2/18/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director Michael Matthews and writer Sean Drummond were drawn to the landscapes of South Africa’s Eastern Cape while traveling their homeland, especially the echoes of classic cinematic western environments. Learning about how its current towns arose — from the ashes of Apartheid-era cities mimicking European capitals by name — only cemented the comparison, each a product of the locals taking control once their oppressors left after their government changed hands and the train lines shutdown. This new frontier became the pair’s setting, their story gelling after seven years of research and development to do right by the inhabitants’ history and struggles. Sprinkle in a bit of legend and lore to create an antihero hidden beneath rage and Five Fingers for Marseilles was born.
The title describes a quintet of childhood friends caught within Apartheid’s grip. Too young to feel the effects as greatly as their defeated parents, they’re...
The title describes a quintet of childhood friends caught within Apartheid’s grip. Too young to feel the effects as greatly as their defeated parents, they’re...
- 9/10/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Five Fingers for Marseilles Trailer Michael Matthews‘ Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017) movie trailer stars Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Fok, Warren Masemola, and Garth Breytenbach. Five Fingers for Marseilles‘ plot synopsis: “Apartheid South Africa: The community of Railway, attached to the remote town of Marseilles, are the victims of brutal police oppression and [...]
Continue reading: Five Fingers For Marseilles (2017) Teaser Trailer: A Gritty, Neo-western set in South Africa...
Continue reading: Five Fingers For Marseilles (2017) Teaser Trailer: A Gritty, Neo-western set in South Africa...
- 9/2/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Im Global has just added Diane Lane to the already star-studded cast of their forthcoming noir thriller Serenity. Upon coming aboard the project, Lane will join actors Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke, Uma Thurman, Djimon Hounsou, and Kenneth Fok for a film in which the mysterious past of a fishing boat captain living in the Caribbean comes back to haunt him, ensnaring his life in a... Read More...
- 7/27/2017
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Stars: Adrian Paul, Brandon Auret, Reiley McClendon, Rick Ravanello, Douglas Tait, Joe Reegan, Nic Rasenti, Andy Davoli, Matthew Holmes, Sven Ruygrok, Scott E. Miller, Kenneth Fok, Darron Meyer | Written by Jabbar Raisani, Blake Clifton | Directed by Jabbar Raisani
Jabbar Raisani, a former visual effects maestro, who here turns director – makes his feature debut with a film that mixes a myriad of stereotypes and cliches of the alien invasion genre with the modern war movie (there’s a very good reason the film is described as Independence Day meets Black Hawk Down) in a faux-documentary that sees a camera crew join an elite unit of soldiers at Outpost 37, the most hostile region of what remains of our planet, as they face one of their greatest battles against the “Heavies” alien intruders who, a decade earlier, had invaded Earth with the intention of total annihilation.
Also known as Outpost 37 and Alien Outpost,...
Jabbar Raisani, a former visual effects maestro, who here turns director – makes his feature debut with a film that mixes a myriad of stereotypes and cliches of the alien invasion genre with the modern war movie (there’s a very good reason the film is described as Independence Day meets Black Hawk Down) in a faux-documentary that sees a camera crew join an elite unit of soldiers at Outpost 37, the most hostile region of what remains of our planet, as they face one of their greatest battles against the “Heavies” alien intruders who, a decade earlier, had invaded Earth with the intention of total annihilation.
Also known as Outpost 37 and Alien Outpost,...
- 4/19/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Night Drive is a horror thriller filmed in South Africa which includes some of that regions mythos, a hyena man. And a group of tourists will be tracked down by this feral man as group of poachers also terrorize the local area. This is an indie thriller that has toured local film festivals and now Night Drive parks itself on DVD December 20th. Here is your early preview of this international film that entertains in the trailer below.
Release Date: December 20th, 2011 (DVD).
Director: Justin Head.
Writers: C. A. van Aswegen, and Justin Head.
Cast: Brandon Auret, Brian Baynes, Christopher Beasley, Corine Du Toit, Kenneth Fok, Leroy Gopal, and Susana Kennedy.
The mature trailer for Night Drive is here:
Special features on the DVD include:
•behind the scenes
•actors hit the gym
•deleted scenes
•featurettes: cinematography/make-up/stunts
•wanted campaign
Night Drive at Osiris Entertainment:
Night Drive Release Details
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Release Date: December 20th, 2011 (DVD).
Director: Justin Head.
Writers: C. A. van Aswegen, and Justin Head.
Cast: Brandon Auret, Brian Baynes, Christopher Beasley, Corine Du Toit, Kenneth Fok, Leroy Gopal, and Susana Kennedy.
The mature trailer for Night Drive is here:
Special features on the DVD include:
•behind the scenes
•actors hit the gym
•deleted scenes
•featurettes: cinematography/make-up/stunts
•wanted campaign
Night Drive at Osiris Entertainment:
Night Drive Release Details
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Advertise...
- 11/13/2011
- by [email protected] (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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