Tag Archives: Antoine Fuqua

Kicking off Electroshadow’s monthly recap of the movies we saw this past month, we take a look at “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”, “Olympus Has Fallen”, “Django Unchained”, “Oz The Great & Powerful”, “Warm Bodies”, “Cloud Atlas”, and “Jack The Giant Slayer”…

Director Antoine Fuqua is pretty hit and miss. He’s capable of some great stuff like “Training Day”, and clunkers like “King Arthur”. Let’s hope his latest, the actioner “Olympus Has Fallen” is more like the former. Today, FilmDistrict debuted a bunch of new character posters, featuring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. Frankly, they’reContinue Reading

Gerard Butler stars as a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting the US president when terrorists attack the White House…

Another day, another book adaptation. Well, I suppose it’s better than another remake. This time, Stephen Hunter’s novel “The 47th Samurai” has been optioned by New Regency, with plans to turn it into a feature film. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news today, saying that Robert Kamen (“Taken”) has been hired to write the screenplay.Continue Reading

The emperors of ancient China sure had their pick of the honeys. Whatever they wanted, they got. You’d think that with so many women at their disposal, the emperors wouldn’t be able to tell them apart. In actual fact, history tells of many stories where the concubines were greatly loved, sometimes even more so thanContinue Reading