tom berenger Tagged Articles at Cinematical
I've Had it with These MFin' Snakes on This MFin' ... Submarine?
Filed under: Horror », 20th Century Fox », Home Entertainment »
I actually came across this DVD cover on Amazon a few weeks ago, and it gave me a snort and a chuckle, but it wasn't until I got reminders from DVDActive and Shock that I thought "Yes. This motion picture, based only on the cast and (especially) the DVD cover, is certainly worthy of its own Cinematical article." And so here it is: Silent Venom, baby. Let's just take a second to soak up the brilliant lunacy of that DVD cover. (Really, how scary would a snake wrapped around a periscope be? Not very, if you're presently INSIDE the submarine.)But that's demanding way too much logic from a DVD cover like this. Scheduled for release on June 2, Silent Venom (is there even such a thing as vociferous venom?) stars Luke Perry, Krista Allen, and (third-billed?) Tom Berenger as, I assume, a tough guy who eats venom for breakfast. The film goes by the title Recoil (clever!) over on IMDb, and it comes from the astonishingly prolific schlock-master Fred Olen Ray. (Yes, he of Evil Toons, Devil Cop, and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.) Check out the plot synopsis after the jump, but really ... isn't that DVD cover all the synopsis you need?
News Bites: Sam Jackson and Quentin Tarantino are BFF and More!
Filed under: Drama », Casting », Deals », Scripts »
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What's missing from Quentin Tarantino's balls-to-the-wall WWII flick Inglourious Basterds (besides accurate spelling)? I'll tell you what -- Samuel L. "Motherf**king Jackson. The Playlist reports that Jackson has joined the cast as a narrator who pops up in only a few spots. Additionally, Maggie Cheung has signed on to play "Madame Mimieux, the French matron of the Cinematheque that takes in the protagonist Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) when she is homeless and being sought by the Nazis." It looks like Tatum O'Neal is back on track after her drug bust earlier this year, grabbing new work that is matching her with some old and familiar faces. The Hollywood Reporter posts that O'Neal has signed on for a new suspense drama along with Tom Berenger and James Brolin called Last Will. Directed by Brent Huff, the film stars O'Neal as a midwestern woman framed for the murder of her rich husband (Berenger). She's arrested by a detective (Brolin), and sets out to find out who really killed her spouse. It sounds like you're everyday suspence flick, but there's even more faces you might recognize on the roster -- Brigitte Nielsen, Patrick Muldoon, William Shockley, Jeffery Dean, Shawn Huff, and a Zappa of the Moon Unit variety.
Tom Berenger and Michael Biehn Will Lead 'Stiletto'
Filed under: Action », Drama », Independent », Thrillers », Casting », Scripts »
You could be forgiven for reading today's casting news and thinking it was 1987. Two of the eighties' most reliable manly men, Tom Berenger and Michael Biehn, are teaming up for the crime thriller Stiletto. The film will be directed by actor/writer/producer/director Nick Vallelonga, who you might remember as "Prison Inmate Sitting Behind Henry" in Goodfellas. No? "Courtroom guard arresting Sean Connery" in Family Business? I'll move on. Stiletto stars Stana Katic from TV's Heroes, as "an assassin whose seemingly random killings puzzle her lover, her clients and the detective following her rising body count." Berenger will play her boyfriend, "whose rise in organized crime is offset by his love for her and his Mafia co-hort," played by Biehn. I assume it's a platonic love with Biehn -- any Sopranos fan knows mobsters aren't too understanding of alternative lifestyles.
Actor Paul Sloan wrote the script -- his first -- and will also play the detective trailing Katic. Dominique Swain (remember her from that Jeremy Irons version of Lolita? Yowza!), Kelly Hu (Again...yowza!) Diane Venora (loved her as Pacino's wife in Heat), Amanda Brooks, William Forsythe, and model human Tom Sizemore round out the cast. I've been saying for years that a Berenger comeback is long overdue. Nominated for an Oscar for his stellar work in Platoon, perfect in Major League, he still does tons of films, but I wonder where he went off Hollywood's "Big Time Star" radar and into the realm of B-movies. Maybe Sliver had something to do with it. Same goes for Michael Biehn, who made something of a triumphant return as Sheriff Hague in Grindhouse. Maybe if Eli Roth's proposed expansion of Thanksgiving actually takes place, Biehn will have another plum role -- he was great in the trailer. Either way, the guy's always got work as long as James Cameron is making films.
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