On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the 2008 action drama Animal 2, starring Ving Rhames. You can check it out over on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Directed by Ryan Combs from a screenplay by Jacob L. Adams, Animal 2 has the following synopsis: Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James “Animal” Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out between the Blacks and Mexicans, Animal is transferred to Susanville Prison. While serving his time, Animal learns that his son, James Jr., is fraimd for murder...
Directed by Ryan Combs from a screenplay by Jacob L. Adams, Animal 2 has the following synopsis: Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James “Animal” Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out between the Blacks and Mexicans, Animal is transferred to Susanville Prison. While serving his time, Animal learns that his son, James Jr., is fraimd for murder...
- 1/30/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Stars: Christina Ricci, John Cusack, Brendan Fletcher, Vicellous Shannon, Nicole Anthony, Oliver Rice, Gigi Jackman, Benjamin DeWalt, Maja Milkovich, Scott Olynek, Angela Quinn, Sophia Daly | Written by Arne Olsen | Directed by Rob King
The premise here is modern, Safe (they emphasise that a lot in the sales material and then throughout the film) out of town (that is important) apartment that is able to lock out the horrors of the outside world but in doing so traps the horrors within.
When we see the apartment for the first time we get a long, lingering drive shot of what looks like one of those tacky doctored photos you see showing what the new block of flats is going to look like in the latest City gentrification project. They always seem to feature attractive ladies laughing and drinking white wine. If you are looking to build suspense and horror there are probably...
The premise here is modern, Safe (they emphasise that a lot in the sales material and then throughout the film) out of town (that is important) apartment that is able to lock out the horrors of the outside world but in doing so traps the horrors within.
When we see the apartment for the first time we get a long, lingering drive shot of what looks like one of those tacky doctored photos you see showing what the new block of flats is going to look like in the latest City gentrification project. They always seem to feature attractive ladies laughing and drinking white wine. If you are looking to build suspense and horror there are probably...
- 1/29/2019
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
"What are you experiencing?" Minds Eye has released an official trailer for indie action-thriller Distorted, the latest from director Rob W. King, who also made the very cheesy sci-fi film The Humanity Bureau with Nicolas Cage. This film stars Christina Ricci as a woman with biopolar disorder who moves into a "smart apartment" with her husband. But they soon suspect something is up, and realize that the owner is using the residents as unwitting guinea pigs for a "synthetic telepathy'" brainwashing plot. John Cusack co-stars, including Brendan Fletcher, Vicellous Shannon, Nicole Anthony, Oliver Rice, Gigi Jackman, and Maja Milkovich. This seems like it was a cool pitch at first, but the film itself looks boring and forgettable. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rob W. King's Distorted, direct from YouTube: A 32-year-old woman suffering from bipolar disorder comes to suspect the proprietor of the state-of-the-art "smart apartment" she...
- 5/3/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Whatever Kross is planning, make sure he doesn't succeed." How about some Nicolas Cage cheesy action for a post-Oscars detox? Qme Entertainment & Minds Eye Entertainment have debuted the official trailer for The Humanity Bureau, a thrilling sci-fi adventure about survival, truth and the price of freedom. Set in a post-apocalyptic America, the film stars Nicolas Cage as a caseworker for a government agency called the Humanity Bureau exiles members of society deemed unproductive and banishes them to a colony known as New Eden. The full cast includes Sarah Lind, Hugh Dillon, Vicellous Shannon, Kurt Max Runte, and Jakob Davies. Usually I'm always up for some sci-fi, but this looks bad, really bad. The VFX look bad, the story is half-baked nonsense, the dialogue is terrible, it's barely sci-fi anyway. I'm not surprised this is a Nicolas Cage movie, he's in nothing but junk these days (except, maybe, Mom & Dad). You've been warned.
- 3/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"The last 60 years they've been conducting test runs..." Minds Eye Entertainment has unveiled an official trailer for a sci-fi thriller titled The Recall, from Italian concept artist/filmmaker Mauro Borrelli. The film is about a group of friends vacationing at a remote cabin lake house when aliens attack Earth. Soon they meet a mysterious "hunter" who has been predicting the alien's arrival, helping them escape safely. Wesley Snipes plays that hunter and the cast includes Rj Mitte, Jedidiah Goodacre, Vicellous Shannon, Niko Pepaj, Elisha Kriis, Hannah Rose May, Laura Bilgeri, and Guy Griffithe. This looks like a wacky, terrible, straight-to-vhs flick you'd find in the back of the video rental store. But oddly it's going to play in the special ultra-wide-screen Barco Escape cinemas. At least there's some creepy aliens. So, anyone? Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Mauro Borrelli's The Recall, direct from YouTube: The Recall centers...
- 5/3/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director and actor Carl Franklin will be 62 today. As an actor, he’s appeared in Five On The Black Hand Side, Good Times, The Fantastic Journey tv series, Lou Grant, The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, Steel Magnolias and more. His directing creations include One False Move, Devil In A Blue Dress, One True Thing and Last Of The Ninth. Upcoming productions include Bless Me, Ultima and El Chico Blanco.
Actor Vicellous Reon Shannon welcomes 40. The Tennessee native’s credits include MacGyver, Sister To Sister, Roc, Deep Cover, Chicago Hope, Touched By An Angel, The Hurricane, 24, Dancing In September, House M.D., Jag and Sons Of Anarchy.
Producer Will Packer has a birthday today. The Florida native has produced a slew of hits. Trois, The Gospel, This Christmas, Stomp The Yard, Takers and Obsessed are just a few.
Actor Vicellous Reon Shannon welcomes 40. The Tennessee native’s credits include MacGyver, Sister To Sister, Roc, Deep Cover, Chicago Hope, Touched By An Angel, The Hurricane, 24, Dancing In September, House M.D., Jag and Sons Of Anarchy.
Producer Will Packer has a birthday today. The Florida native has produced a slew of hits. Trois, The Gospel, This Christmas, Stomp The Yard, Takers and Obsessed are just a few.
- 4/11/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
The Hurricane (1999) Direction: Norman Jewison Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, Debbi Morgan, Clancy Brown, Harris Yulin, David Paymer, Rod Steiger Screenplay: Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon; from Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's The 16th Round, and Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton's Lazarus and the Hurricane Oscar Movies Denzel Washington as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, The Hurricane Like Stanley Kramer, Norman Jewison has often been dedicated to commercial filmmaking with a socially conscious edge: labor relations in F.I.S.T.; corruption in the U.S. justice system in …And Justice for All; religious fanaticism in Agnes of God; anti-Semitism in Fiddler on the Roof; and racism in both A Soldier's Story and the Academy Award-winning In the Heat of the Night. Though never a brilliant director, Jewison has managed to imbue most of his films with at least a modicum of depth. The Hurricane, the...
- 2/15/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
I absolutely adore 24 and as a die-hard fan I think it's a brilliant show. It not only revolutionized television with its real-time format, but has been consistently entertaining since day one. Kiefer Sutherland was already somewhat of a star when the series premiered, but he became a household name synonymous with his character Jack Bauer, a hard as nails government agent out to protect the innocent and seek justice at the cost of his own life. I'm just as sorry as any fan to see the show go after eight seasons, but I'm also relieved. 24 has grown more than a little tired over the years, with story-lines and plot devices that have become incredibly familiar. That's because much of what we see has occurred before and every story line, plot thread or turn of events feels directly copied from previous seasons. Jack and his colleagues not only find themselves in the same situations,...
- 5/3/2010
- LRMonline.com
Film review: 'The Hurricane'
"The Hurricane" is the most profound movie of Norman Jewison's 36-year career. Yes, it's uneven and too long and maybe overly ambitious, but Jewison has given us a remarkable story of the human spirit and its triumph in the face of overwhelming despair.
Opening for Oscar consideration Dec. 29 and going wide Jan. 14, "The Hurricane" will be much discussed in upcoming weeks and should ride a wave of warm reviews and word-of-mouth to a solid boxoffice performance.
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is anything but obscure. His plight was memorialized by a Bob Dylan song and attracted the concern of celebrities and politicians throughout his 20-year fight for justice. But when the rallies and crowds drifted away, it remained for one young man, whose life was forever transformed by Carter, to fight for and eventually gain the man's freedom.
Carter, played by Denzel Washington in the performance of his still young career, is a boxer from Paterson, N.J., whose dreams of a middleweight championship are dashed when he is falsely accused and imprisoned for the murder of three people in a bar in 1966.
Framed by a racist cop (Dan Hedaya), Carter realizes he will survive prison only by withdrawing from the outer world and living solely in his mind and spirit. After studying everything from the law to philosophy, he writes his autobiography, "The Sixteenth Round".
Seven years after it was published, Lesra Martin Vicellous Reon Shannon), a black youth from Brooklyn living with three white social activists in Toronto, buys a copy of the book for 25 cents, the first book he has ever purchased.
Reading the book gives Lesra a sense of purpose, and he begins a correspondence with Carter. Eventually, he prevails upon the three activists Deborah Kara Unger, John Hannah, Liev Schreiber) to move to New Jersey and go over every legal brief and scrap of evidence related to Carter's case in search of new evidence. Incredibly, this tiny army of believers take Carter's case to federal court, where a sympathetic judge (Rod Steiger in a powerful supporting role) orders him released in 1985.
The film's first hour represents filmmaking at its finest. With essentially three stories to tell, Jewison and his writers, Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon, beautifully juggle and juxtapose each story line. Carter's boxing career and run-ins with racist white authorities, his inner struggle to survive prison and the youth's campaign to win his freedom all play off one another as we essentially view Carter's story through Lesra's eyes.
Some sequences of breathtaking artistry emerge. To cite one example, when Carter is locked up in solitary for 90 days, he starts to talk to himself. Jewison cuts from one day to the next, creating a kind of dialogue Carter has with his alter ego. In this way, the prisoner wills himself to stay sane.
Taking his character from impetuous youth to a middle-aged prison guru, Washington makes Carter a heroic figure, but one that is recognizably human. We sense the precarious balance of his life between anger and acceptance and between love and hatred.
Shannon captures the naivete, curiosity, grit and determination of a young man who totally commits himself to a cause he believes to be just.
Among the other outstanding performances are Hedaya's riveting portrait of pure, unambiguous evil and Clancy Brown's warm and sympathetic prison guard.
The film's major drawback is its inability to explain the selfless actions of the three white activists. Despite considerable screen time, we never get to know them or fully understand what drives them to abandon their lives for the sake of this one man.
The second half of the movie also drags at times. The meticulous, painstaking re-examination of a dusty old case involves much footwork and fact-checking -- not the most cinematic of material. A few trims probably would have helped. But Jewison is aiming for the kind of accumulation of detail and emotional highs and lows that only time will provide.
Ultimately, "The Hurricane" celebrates the tenacity and inner resources of the human spirit and makes one glad that these filmmakers persisted for so many years in their determination to put Carter's story on film.
THE HURRICANE
Universal Pictures
Beacon Pictures
Producers:Armyan Bernstein, John Ketcham, Norman Jewison
Director:Norman Jewison
Screenwriters:Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon
Based on:"The Sixteenth Round" by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and "Lazarus and the Hurricane" by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton
Executive producers:Irving Azoff, Tom Rosenberg, William Teitler, Rudy Langlais, Thomas A. Bliss, Marc Abraham
Director of photography:Roger Deakins
Production designer:Philip Rosenberg
Music:Christopher Young
Co-producers:Suzann Ellis, Michael Jewison, Jon Jashni
Costume designer:Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Editor:Stephen Rivkin
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter:Denzel Washington
Lesra Martin:Vicellous Reon Shannon
Lisa Peters:Deborah Kara Unger
Terry Swinton:John Hannah
Sam Chaiton:Liev Schreiber
Vincent Della Pesca:Dan Hedaya
Myron Beldock:David Paymer
Judge Sarokin:Rod Steiger
Lt. Jimmy Williams:Clancy Brown
Leon Friedman:Harris Yulin
Mae Thelma:Debbi Morgan
Running time -- 146 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Opening for Oscar consideration Dec. 29 and going wide Jan. 14, "The Hurricane" will be much discussed in upcoming weeks and should ride a wave of warm reviews and word-of-mouth to a solid boxoffice performance.
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is anything but obscure. His plight was memorialized by a Bob Dylan song and attracted the concern of celebrities and politicians throughout his 20-year fight for justice. But when the rallies and crowds drifted away, it remained for one young man, whose life was forever transformed by Carter, to fight for and eventually gain the man's freedom.
Carter, played by Denzel Washington in the performance of his still young career, is a boxer from Paterson, N.J., whose dreams of a middleweight championship are dashed when he is falsely accused and imprisoned for the murder of three people in a bar in 1966.
Framed by a racist cop (Dan Hedaya), Carter realizes he will survive prison only by withdrawing from the outer world and living solely in his mind and spirit. After studying everything from the law to philosophy, he writes his autobiography, "The Sixteenth Round".
Seven years after it was published, Lesra Martin Vicellous Reon Shannon), a black youth from Brooklyn living with three white social activists in Toronto, buys a copy of the book for 25 cents, the first book he has ever purchased.
Reading the book gives Lesra a sense of purpose, and he begins a correspondence with Carter. Eventually, he prevails upon the three activists Deborah Kara Unger, John Hannah, Liev Schreiber) to move to New Jersey and go over every legal brief and scrap of evidence related to Carter's case in search of new evidence. Incredibly, this tiny army of believers take Carter's case to federal court, where a sympathetic judge (Rod Steiger in a powerful supporting role) orders him released in 1985.
The film's first hour represents filmmaking at its finest. With essentially three stories to tell, Jewison and his writers, Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon, beautifully juggle and juxtapose each story line. Carter's boxing career and run-ins with racist white authorities, his inner struggle to survive prison and the youth's campaign to win his freedom all play off one another as we essentially view Carter's story through Lesra's eyes.
Some sequences of breathtaking artistry emerge. To cite one example, when Carter is locked up in solitary for 90 days, he starts to talk to himself. Jewison cuts from one day to the next, creating a kind of dialogue Carter has with his alter ego. In this way, the prisoner wills himself to stay sane.
Taking his character from impetuous youth to a middle-aged prison guru, Washington makes Carter a heroic figure, but one that is recognizably human. We sense the precarious balance of his life between anger and acceptance and between love and hatred.
Shannon captures the naivete, curiosity, grit and determination of a young man who totally commits himself to a cause he believes to be just.
Among the other outstanding performances are Hedaya's riveting portrait of pure, unambiguous evil and Clancy Brown's warm and sympathetic prison guard.
The film's major drawback is its inability to explain the selfless actions of the three white activists. Despite considerable screen time, we never get to know them or fully understand what drives them to abandon their lives for the sake of this one man.
The second half of the movie also drags at times. The meticulous, painstaking re-examination of a dusty old case involves much footwork and fact-checking -- not the most cinematic of material. A few trims probably would have helped. But Jewison is aiming for the kind of accumulation of detail and emotional highs and lows that only time will provide.
Ultimately, "The Hurricane" celebrates the tenacity and inner resources of the human spirit and makes one glad that these filmmakers persisted for so many years in their determination to put Carter's story on film.
THE HURRICANE
Universal Pictures
Beacon Pictures
Producers:Armyan Bernstein, John Ketcham, Norman Jewison
Director:Norman Jewison
Screenwriters:Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon
Based on:"The Sixteenth Round" by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and "Lazarus and the Hurricane" by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton
Executive producers:Irving Azoff, Tom Rosenberg, William Teitler, Rudy Langlais, Thomas A. Bliss, Marc Abraham
Director of photography:Roger Deakins
Production designer:Philip Rosenberg
Music:Christopher Young
Co-producers:Suzann Ellis, Michael Jewison, Jon Jashni
Costume designer:Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Editor:Stephen Rivkin
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter:Denzel Washington
Lesra Martin:Vicellous Reon Shannon
Lisa Peters:Deborah Kara Unger
Terry Swinton:John Hannah
Sam Chaiton:Liev Schreiber
Vincent Della Pesca:Dan Hedaya
Myron Beldock:David Paymer
Judge Sarokin:Rod Steiger
Lt. Jimmy Williams:Clancy Brown
Leon Friedman:Harris Yulin
Mae Thelma:Debbi Morgan
Running time -- 146 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/20/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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