#An Oldenburg Fairytale Tale: How ‘Uppercut’ Director Torsten Ruether Adapted His Own German Film and Got Ving Rhames to Star

#An Oldenburg Fairytale Tale: How ‘Uppercut’ Director Torsten Ruether Adapted His Own German Film and Got Ving Rhames to Star

“It really is a fairy tale, an Oldenburg fairy tale,” says Torsten Ruether, speaking about his new movie Uppercut, “how this movie came together feels magical, somehow.” Two years ago, Ruether was in Oldenburg, Germany’s leading indie film festival, presenting his debut feature, Leberhaken, a low-budget boxing movie with a distinctly Million Dollar Baby vibe:…

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#New Ving Rhames, Marion Cotillard Films Among Oldenburg 30th Anniversary Lineup

#New Ving Rhames, Marion Cotillard Films Among Oldenburg 30th Anniversary Lineup

The Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading all-indie fest, unveiled highlights for its 30th-anniversary edition, including several world premieres featuring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and Mission : Impossible star Ving Rhames. Uppercut, a boxing film featuring Mission: Impossible star Ving Rhames, will close the festival on September 17. Director Torsten Ruether remade his own, German-language, debut Leberhaken,…

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#‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise Amps Up the Electrifying Action but Story Is Strictly Secondary

#‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise Amps Up the Electrifying Action but Story Is Strictly Secondary

It says a lot about Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, the first chapter in the $3.5 billion franchise’s two-part seventh installment, that detailed footage of one of the film’s most spectacular stunts was released in full online last December. The extended clip showcased the meticulous planning and execution of a sequence in which…

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#An Operatic Failure – /Film

#An Operatic Failure – /Film

“#An Operatic Failure – /Film” (Welcome to Man on a Mission, a monthly series where we revisit the films of the Mission: Impossible franchise as we sprint toward the release of the seventh film in the franchise.) The first Mission: Impossible pulled off a critical achievement of Tom Cruise’s career: it turned him into as…

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