It’s just as well that the characters in Uppercut discuss Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Oscar-winning sports film, because there’s no way anyone who sees this German two-hander could miss the obvious parallels. Written and directed by Torsten Ruether, making his feature debut, Uppercut almost plays like a very low-budget European remake of Baby stripped down to the barest essentials: Girl meets boxing coach, girl implores coach to train her. Cue montage, eventful fight, roll credits. Those who may feel Baby‘s screenplay by Paul Haggis hasn’t aged well might say it’s an improvement that at ...
- 9/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
It’s just as well that the characters in Uppercut discuss Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Oscar-winning sports film, because there’s no way anyone who sees this German two-hander could miss the obvious parallels. Written and directed by Torsten Ruether, making his feature debut, Uppercut almost plays like a very low-budget European remake of Baby stripped down to the barest essentials: Girl meets boxing coach, girl implores coach to train her. Cue montage, eventful fight, roll credits. Those who may feel Baby‘s screenplay by Paul Haggis hasn’t aged well might say it’s an improvement that at ...
- 9/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Take the red pill!”
Echoing the rallying call of Matrix-heads everywhere, the Oldenburg International Film Festival is paying tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Wachowskis’ sci-fi classic with the trailer for the 28th Oldenburg Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday.
Germany’s leading independent film festival enlisted German actor Hardy Daniel Krueger, star of this year’s opening night film, Uppercut, to get his Morpheus on, channeling Laurence Fishburne’s iconic character in the Matrix movies. Dressed all in black and sitting in a red leather armchair in a dimly, candle-lit room, Krueger recites Morpheus’ lines from the film.
“Something has been ...
Echoing the rallying call of Matrix-heads everywhere, the Oldenburg International Film Festival is paying tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Wachowskis’ sci-fi classic with the trailer for the 28th Oldenburg Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday.
Germany’s leading independent film festival enlisted German actor Hardy Daniel Krueger, star of this year’s opening night film, Uppercut, to get his Morpheus on, channeling Laurence Fishburne’s iconic character in the Matrix movies. Dressed all in black and sitting in a red leather armchair in a dimly, candle-lit room, Krueger recites Morpheus’ lines from the film.
“Something has been ...
- 9/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Take the red pill!”
Echoing the rallying call of Matrix-heads everywhere, the Oldenburg International Film Festival is paying tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Wachowskis’ sci-fi classic with the trailer for the 28th Oldenburg Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday.
Germany’s leading independent film festival enlisted German actor Hardy Daniel Krueger, star of this year’s opening night film, Uppercut, to get his Morpheus on, channeling Laurence Fishburne’s iconic character in the Matrix movies. Dressed all in black and sitting in a red leather armchair in a dimly, candle-lit room, Krueger recites Morpheus’ lines from the film.
“Something has been ...
Echoing the rallying call of Matrix-heads everywhere, the Oldenburg International Film Festival is paying tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Wachowskis’ sci-fi classic with the trailer for the 28th Oldenburg Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday.
Germany’s leading independent film festival enlisted German actor Hardy Daniel Krueger, star of this year’s opening night film, Uppercut, to get his Morpheus on, channeling Laurence Fishburne’s iconic character in the Matrix movies. Dressed all in black and sitting in a red leather armchair in a dimly, candle-lit room, Krueger recites Morpheus’ lines from the film.
“Something has been ...
- 9/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Uppercut, a female boxing movie from Germany, will open this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading event for independent cinema.
Directed by Torsten Reuther, Uppercut stars Luise Grossmann as a middle-class German woman who dreams of being a boxing champ. She seeks out a once-promising former boxer, now washed up, to try and convince him to train her. Hardy Daniel Krueger, a well-known German TV actor (and son of Hollywood actor Hardy Krueger (Hatari, Barry Lyndon) plays the trainer.
Uppercut is Grossmann’s first lead role, though she has had some smaller parts on German television series, including popular crime procedural Soko ...
Directed by Torsten Reuther, Uppercut stars Luise Grossmann as a middle-class German woman who dreams of being a boxing champ. She seeks out a once-promising former boxer, now washed up, to try and convince him to train her. Hardy Daniel Krueger, a well-known German TV actor (and son of Hollywood actor Hardy Krueger (Hatari, Barry Lyndon) plays the trainer.
Uppercut is Grossmann’s first lead role, though she has had some smaller parts on German television series, including popular crime procedural Soko ...
- 8/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Uppercut, a female boxing movie from Germany, will open this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading event for independent cinema.
Directed by Torsten Reuther, Uppercut stars Luise Grossmann as a middle-class German woman who dreams of being a boxing champ. She seeks out a once-promising former boxer, now washed up, to try and convince him to train her. Hardy Daniel Krueger, a well-known German TV actor (and son of Hollywood actor Hardy Krueger (Hatari, Barry Lyndon) plays the trainer.
Uppercut is Grossmann’s first lead role, though she has had some smaller parts on German television series, including popular crime procedural Soko ...
Directed by Torsten Reuther, Uppercut stars Luise Grossmann as a middle-class German woman who dreams of being a boxing champ. She seeks out a once-promising former boxer, now washed up, to try and convince him to train her. Hardy Daniel Krueger, a well-known German TV actor (and son of Hollywood actor Hardy Krueger (Hatari, Barry Lyndon) plays the trainer.
Uppercut is Grossmann’s first lead role, though she has had some smaller parts on German television series, including popular crime procedural Soko ...
- 8/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Title: Death Race 2000 (1975) Bd-25 Single-Layer Disc Video: 1080p/Avc Mpeg-4 Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 (1.85:1 theatrically) Subtitles: None available Run time: 80 minutes Studio: Shout Factory Rating: R Region Coding: Region A Only Equipment used for review: Sharp Lc-46SB57UN 46" 120Hz 1080p LCD (24fps), Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1 Receiver, Onkyo Sks-HT540 7.1, & LG BH200 Super Blu Cast/Crew Info: David Carradine as Frankenstein Simone Griffeth as Annie Smith Sylvester Stallone as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo Mary Woronov as Calamity Jane Roberta Collins as Matilda the Hun...
- 10/19/2010
- by Shawn Bokros, Jackson Blu-ray Disc Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Today's Wtf video comes directly from the Foywonder archives. Released in 1978, quite obscure today, Matilda was a silly box office bomb starring Elliott Gould as a hard luck agent promoting a boxing kangaroo named 'Matilda' looking to challenge the heavyweight boxing champion. The movie might be even more notorious as the film that nearly killed the McDonald's Happy Meal.
The six-minute montage I put together from this enjoyably oddball obscurity should give you a good idea why Matilda was a big flop: an obvious guy in a kangaroo suit with crazy eyes, sexual harassment masquerading as romantic flirtation, random acts of shoe throwing, shameless McDonald's product placement, and some of the most inane dialogue ever put to film. Yes, that is the late great Robert Mitchum at the end embarrassing himself by having to give one of the dumbest denouements in film history.
"I'm fighting for a man...
The six-minute montage I put together from this enjoyably oddball obscurity should give you a good idea why Matilda was a big flop: an obvious guy in a kangaroo suit with crazy eyes, sexual harassment masquerading as romantic flirtation, random acts of shoe throwing, shameless McDonald's product placement, and some of the most inane dialogue ever put to film. Yes, that is the late great Robert Mitchum at the end embarrassing himself by having to give one of the dumbest denouements in film history.
"I'm fighting for a man...
- 10/8/2010
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.