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You might have read about Steven Soderbergh making an action thriller with MMA fighter Gina Carano and been interested, but perhaps not actually excited.

THE BIG RED ONE Sunday, SABC3, 22:00 PAYBACK Friday, SABC3, 19:30 If you love high-action thrillers filled with screen tough guys, make a date with these two macho movies.

"I've just seen myself cleaning my windscreen." Writer-director John Boorman has, over the past several decades, amassed a filmography that is as eclectic as it is variable in quality; for every Point Blank and Deliverance , there's an Exorcist II: The Heretic and Beyond Rangoon .

When summer movies' bombast leaves EW pop culture columnist Stephen King exhausted, he returns to these perennials at the video store that simply never disappoint - "Die Hard," "Titanic," "The Blair Witch Project" and more.

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Bryan Singer has now singed on to produce and develop a remake of 1981's "Excalibur" for Warner Brothers.

No two films by John Boorman, the veteran British director of 'Deliverance', are quite alike.

THE MOVIE: " I understood very quickly. This affair had to remain murky for everyone, and my life was on the line.

The gangster heist movie to which all other heist movies pay homage. This French flick also features a 32-minute burglary sequence without dialogue or music.

A slow-as-molasses crime thriller with a protagonist who makes flatline tough guy Lee Marvin in Point Blank look manic, The Limits of Control is quintessential indie Jim Jarmusch's 11th feature.

The 24th Midnight Sun Film Festival opens in Sodankyla in Finnish Lapland today.

Brian Helgeland, who came to prominence as co-screenwriter of L.A. Confidential , has chosen for his directorial debut to do a rehash of John Boorman's Point Blank , though it is not so much warmed over as served straight from the freezer, with a thin decolorizing layer of frost on it.

With his keen eye for atmosphere and understanding of the American idiom, British director John Boorman may have been the ideal choice to helm the 1972 film adaptation of James Dickey's signature novel, "Deliverance." But for all his vision and macho resolve, it was no less demanding a shoot for cast and crew, who toiled tirelessly to bring the ...

I can't say that I was ever bored by The Limits of Control, the latest film from writer-director Jim Jarmusch.

At once genial and candid, producer-turned-director Irwin Winkler brought to the big screen some of the most iconic films - " as well as a few duds - " in the history of motion pictures.

Before Jack Reacher, there was Parker. Reacher, if you don't already know, is the protagonist of an enormously successful series of excellent thrillers by Lee Child of which "Gone Tomorrow" is the 13th and latest.

'Exorcist II'? Well, maybe, but 'Point Blank'? Certainly not. Stephen Applebaum cheers up director John Boorman John Boorman used to aspire to making a film that would be universally loved.

Hand job: Jarmusch's latest - starring Isaach De Bankol and Youki Kudoh - is a masturbatory exercise in repeition.

F rom Stranger Than Paradise to Broken Flowers , Jim Jarmusch's films are cultural scrapbooks, jam-packed with references to his favorite music, movies, writers, and artists.

William Forsythe is one of the best character actors in the business, with distinguished credits dating back to Raising Arizona , the convict drama Weeds and Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst .