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Ethan Hawke: The Essential Performances

September 29, 2020 2:36 pm

Certain movie stars go their entire careers without ever truly getting the kudos they deserve. Sure, everybody and their mother is fond of Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Meryl Streep, and Brad Pitt; they’ve gi...

David Ayer: A Career Of Violent Enforcers & Copraganda

Matthew Monagle

August 6, 2020 2:14 pm

Essays, Features, News

Even beyond the obvious reasons, this must be a tough year for David Ayer. After more than two decades of translating your adolescent experiences into a gritty brand of Los Angeles-based police thrillers, you ...

25 Essential Films About Corrupt Cops & Police Brutality

Nicholas Laskin and Max Roux

June 25, 2020 2:26 pm

Features, News

Months before the 2016 presidential election, Alternet writer Adam Johnson used the term “copraganda” to describe any media story that “that uncritically advances a police department's image or helps undermine...

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Warner Bros. Is Developing A ‘Training Day’ Prequel TV Series Set Before The Los Angeles Riots

Charles Barfield

October 11, 2019 12:57 pm

News, Television

With the success of sequels, prequels, reboots, revivals, and remakes that seem to dominate film and TV in the 2010s, studios are looking at anything popular from their library that could possibly be spun into ...

Ethan Hawke Talks Diversity With Rebecca Carroll At ‘How I Got Over’ Conversation Series

Lora Grillo

October 2, 2016 1:25 pm

News

With Tim Burton's recent disappointing comments on diversity still ringing in our ears, The Playlist attended WNYC's event at The Greene Space, where host Rebecca Carroll (author and WNYC's producer for special...

The 25 Best Buddy Cop Movies Ever

Oliver Lyttelton, Jessica Kiang, Nicholas Laskin and Drew Taylor

May 18, 2016 2:00 pm

Features

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If our review is anything to go by, this week’s “The Nice Guys,” which sees Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a P.I. and an enforcer trying to find a missing girl in 1970s L.A, is going to be one of the purest ...

Reboots Have Come To Television: Welcome To Nostalgic Revivalist TV

Oliver Lyttelton

March 15, 2016 11:03 am

Features

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Reboots Have Come To Television: Welcome To Nostalgic Revivalist TV

Ethan Hawke Approached To Reprise Role In ‘Training Day’ TV Series, Will Star In ’24 Hours To Live’

Kevin Jagernauth

February 5, 2016 1:54 pm

News

Ethan Hawke Approached To Reprise Role In 'Training Day' TV Series, Will Star In '24 Hours To Live'

‘Training Day’ Gears Up For TV Series Adaptation

Kevin Jagernauth

August 10, 2015 11:57 am

Television

'Training Day' Gears Up For TV Series Adaptation

Davis Guggenheim Says Getting Fired From ‘Training Day’ Made Him Want To Direct Movies About People He Likes

Kevin Jagernauth

October 13, 2010 3:56 pm

News

Director Davis Guggenheim is best known not for the handful for TV episodes he's directed or his feature films like "Gracie" or uh, "Gossip," but instead for the probing hot button documentaries "An Inconvenien...

‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ Bought By Senator Amidst Mixed Reviews

Rodrigo Perez

January 18, 2009 3:48 am

News

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Ironically just a few hours ago, the New York Times' CarpetBagger blog was saying this about Antoine Fuqua's crime drama, "Brooklyn's Finest."" film distributors actually hope the movies they view at Sundance w...

Spike Lee Sums Up Exactly What’s Wrong With The Oscars And Why They’ll Always Suck

Rodrigo Perez

April 8, 2008 2:34 pm

News

You've heard this reason why the Oscars suck before, but this sums it up rather well and or is an interesting reminder. People should win Oscars when they should, not years fucking later as an apology award. Ge...

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