Daniel Eagan

2 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Daniel Eagan

Sinister conspiracies, globe-trotting locations, lone hero fighting the odds: all the makings of a solid Hollywood espionage thriller can be found in The Amateur, from Robert Littell's 1981 novel. Oscar- and Emmy-winner Rami Malek, the evil genius who killed James Bond, plays Charlie Heller, an unassuming IT nerd buried in a CIA basement in Langley. In Malek's portrayal, Charlie might be on the spectrum.

2 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Daniel Eagan

Yes, it’s a gun. But “revolver” also refers to rotation, spinning around. That motion that describes Revolver, a film that wants to rework the revenge genre.  This slow-burn thriller has antecedents in the Donald Westlake novel The Hunter, filmed as Point Blank in 1967, Payback (1999), Parker (2013), the upcoming Play Dirty, and any number of low-rent gangster knock-offs. The set-up: crook does time with the promise of a pay-off on release, only to be double-crossed by former partners.

4 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Daniel Eagan

Jason Statham's characters may change professions, but not types. Whether a farmer, shop hand, or driver, he's invariably a man with a deadly past, one that's usually tied to special forces. In A Working Man, Statham is Levon Cade, manager on a construction site for a company owned by Joe Garcia (Michael Peña). We can see his skills in the opening scenes when he takes out a dozen bad guys threatening one of his workers, using nothing more than pickaxes, nails, and bags of cement.

1 month ago | screenanarchy.com | Daniel Eagan

It's the opening night of Oklahoma!, the play that will change Broadway musicals forever. At least that's what everybody keeps telling Lorenz Hart, erstwhile lyricist for composer Richard Rodgers. The self-loathing and exceptionally articulate Hart (played by Ethan Hawke) is waiting at the bar in Sardi's, a Broadway hangout, where the after-party will take place upstairs.

1 month ago | screenanarchy.com | Daniel Eagan

Mild-mannered Nate Caine (Jack Quaid), an assistant manager at a San Diego bank, has an unusual condition, a genetic disorder that makes him incapable of feeling pain. He can still be wounded--he just can't feel the knife cutting his arm or the frying pan burning his hand. To avoid harming himself, Nate leads a rigorously sheltered life. That is until his coworker Sherry (Amber Midthunder) is abducted during a bloody bank robbery.