Academy Award Best Actor Russel Crowe (Gladiator) and Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling (Half Nelsen) team up in the action comedy film set in the ‘70s, The Nice Guys, which is the third directorial outing for Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3).
Their first encounter, Holland March (Gosling) gets a beating from Jackson Healy (Crowe) right in his own home. It turns out that the latter works as a leg-breaker and claims he’s just doing his job of teaching March a lesson.
Meanwhile, March is a private detective and a single father who is down on his luck, so when Healy shows up again with a surprising good offer, he finds himself accepting it. He and Healy must work together to solve the case of the missing daughter of a chief justice and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. But what looks like a simple case might actually be the crime of a century as the duo uncovers a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Dubbed as “The Buddy Comedy of the Year”, The Nice Guys is filled with witty banters between the two characters. Shane Black, who is known for being an expert in tough guy dialogues and explosive action, co-wrote the script with Anthony Bagarozzi.
This is the first movie collaboration of 35-year-old Gosling and 52-year-old Crowe, yet the two clicked so well even from the beginning. Ryan revealed in an interview, “When I read the script, I knew that Shane was on a plane trying to convince Russell to do it, so I read it with Russell in mind. I just could completely picture him in the role and I’ve never seen him do anything like that and the movie just immediately became so funny.”
Indeed, Shane Black flew all the way to Australia to get Crowe’s nod to do the film, and he did not have a hard time getting it. Crowe said, “I really liked the script, particularly the social commentary aspect of it, and it made me laugh…”
Playing the role of Gosling’s daughter is newcomer Angourie Rice, who earned the respect of Gosling for her innate talent. He said, “She has such a strong point of view on her character and what she would and wouldn’t do, and it makes it really fun…She can get in and hit back just as well as anyone else.”
The Nice Guys also stars Oscar winner Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential), Matt Bomer (Magic Mike films), Margaret Qualley and Keith David. It is produced by Joel Silver (Non-Stop, The Matrix films, the Sherlock Holmes films).
Distributed by Viva International Pictures and MVP Entertainment, it is showing in cinemas on June 1.
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More action, mind-boggling twists in new season of ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’
AXN delivers the action with a new season of NCIS: Los Angeles.
The team once again delves into the depths of a wide variety of cases on the seventh season of NCIS: Los Angeles.
Special Agent G. Callen, Detective Marty Geeks, and the rest of the crew will travel far and wide to destinations such as Africa and Russia in their regular quest to solve crimes.
Agents doing undercover operations is one of the recurring themes of the series. This season comes with different issues such as terrorist organizations, money laundering, nuclear radiation, cyber data collection, murders, and hostage taking.
Actor Chris O’Donnell returns as Special Agent G Callen while LL Cool J plays Callen’s partner, Special Agent Sam Hanna. NCIS: Los Angeles is originally released by CBS and aired the first episode of Season 7 in September 2015.
NCIS: Los Angeles will be seen first and exclusive on AXN premiering on June 2 and will air 9 :45 every Thursday.
AXN is seen on Cable Link Channel 38, Cignal Digital TV Channel 61, Global Destiny Cable Channel 61, Dream Channel 20, Gsat Channel 12, SKYCable Channel 49.
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Second round of hilarious love story
From the surprise romantic blockbuster South Korean film My Sassy Girl, the comical and lovable Cha-tae Hyun is back in his latest romantic misadventures in My New Sassy Girl.
Following the sincere, funny and hapless Gyun-Woo (Cha-tae Hyun), he is now married to his childhood sweetheart played by Victoria Song.
In the movie, Gyun-woo is trying to mend his broken heart after being separated from his love at the end of the first film. He then finds himself reunited with his childhood sweetheart while mending his broken heart. In no time, Gyun-woo falls in love once again, marries her and goes through a honeymoon which no man would ever dream of.
My New Sassy Girl will open on June 1 from Pioneer Films.
Click here for the film’s trailer: https://youtu.be/WC_ZzqOlQ2k