Russians still make the best movie villains. Since 9-11, Hollywood has been queasy about giving us fictional baddies from Arab countries — the line between cheap stereotypes and real-life religious ...
In an era of reboot and sequel-crazed Hollywood, with studios increasingly eager to stake their fortunes on just a handful of tent pole films each year, the value of name recognition to studios can't ...
“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” is a new Jack Ryan movie, but it’s a reboot. Nothing is consistent between the previous Ryans (Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin,) and new Ryan, now played by Chris Pine. Overall ...
In “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” Tom Clancy’s popular character returns to the screen for the fifth time, although he’s taken down a couple of pegs so 13-year-old viewers might be interested. The new ...
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit An operative (Chris Pine) in the CIA’s Financial Intelligence Unit (sure, it’s a thing) uncovers a Russian plot to collapse the U.S. economy and flips into action-spy mode to ...
The best moment in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” allows the director and crucial supporting player Kenneth Branagh to set cars and guns aside for a brief, unblinking glare in a two-person scene at a ...
So far, Paramount’s marketing campaign for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has made the film look like nothing more than a pointless reboot lost in a sea of reheated Hollywood leftovers. Thankfully, Yahoo ...
Branagh also stars as villainous Russian oligarch Viktor Cherevin, while Keira Knightley features in the supporting cast as Ryan's wife Cathy. The film takes the character back to his early years, ...
Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...
The reboot of the Jack Ryan Series, directed by Kenneth Branagh, features the fictional character Jack (Chris Pine), created by author Tom Clancy, who is a secret CIA operative working on Wall Street ...
In an era of reboot and sequel-crazed Hollywood, with studios increasingly eager to stake their fortunes on just a handful of tent pole films each year, the value of name recognition to studios can t ...