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Paul Kersey never set out to be a hero. Following his 1974 debut, in the successful though explosively provocative first film of the Death Wish series, and after a string of four widely-lambasted sequels and an even more derided remake, many think he never should have been. As played by Charles Bronson across the five preliminary features, and by Bruce Willis in the newest incarnation, this character, an initially middling and mild-mannered architect (surgeon in the remake), is routinely, mostly unwittingly, thrust into a world of incessant, brutal violence. His quest for revenge is at first a primal and fathomable reaction to an assault on his wife and daughter (the former dies as a result, the latter is left in a catatonic/comatose state), but growing ever more convoluted and pitiless, his subsequent forays into vigilante justice attain varying degrees of clichéd, cartoonish excess. No longer was his target an almost...

Part peerless Horror City time capsule and part urban-paranoia Op-Ed, the original 1974 Death Wish dropped its pacifist everyguy into Middle America's nightmare version of rotten-Big-Apple New York – muggers, rapists and minorities, oh my! – then asked audiences: What would you do if your loved ones were attacked by modern-day savages? The answer: Be a man, pick up a gun and become the apex predator of the concrete jungle. To say that its frontier-justice ideology was reactionary would be putting it mildly; the movie did everything but grab viewers by the lapels.

The year is 1974 a former military man whose family is taken from him turns vigilante to hunt the people responsible for taking his wife and child from him. I’m not talking about Frank Castle, The Punisher (who made his first appearance Feb of that year), but I am talking about character Paul Kersey who is the main character of the film series Death Wish. Today is 2018 and the vigilante is being rebooted for big screen once more. Let’s check out the 2nd trailer (and poster) for the movie below:

In this reimagining of the 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish. Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of his city's violence when it is rushed into his ER - until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge,...

Bruce Willis goes on a crusade for justice after his wife is murdered, in the new trailer for Death Wish.

The film takes place in Chicago, where an overloaded police department appears unable to solve violent crimes. Like so many big screen heroes before him, Willis decides to take matters into his own hands, buying a gun, tracking down the perpetrators one by one and eliminating them. The teaser is filled with shoot-outs, torture scenes and leathery one-liners from Willis. "Who are you?" one drug-dealer asks him. "Your last customer,...

Actor Bruce Willis, will star in a remake of "Death Wish", to be directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado, rebooting director Michael Winner's 1974 vigilante action feature:

The original Paramount Pictures thriller was loosely based on the novel "Death Wish" by author Brian Garfield, following former WWII and Korean war vet, 'Paul Kersey'.

Kersey, a 'liberal' thinking architect, becomes an unstoppable late-night vigilante killer, targeting muggers, after a deadly assault against his wife and daughter pushes him over the deep end.

At the time of its initial release, critics were displeased with the film, considering it an 'immoral threat to society' and an encouragement of 'antisocial behavior'.

Despite the negative reviews, producers sensed the 'primal' appeal of the premise with audiences and released five "Death Wish" films.

Titles include "Death Wish II" (1982), "Death Wish 3" (1985), "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" (1987) and "Death Wish V: The Face of Death...

There’s a moment in Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation — Tom Cruise career-saver, franchise Mvp and the summer's best non-Imperator Furiosa action blockbuster — where the CIA director refers to the film's relentless hero as "the living manifestation of destiny." As a government official talking about an unpredictable agent, the line is patently (if knowingly) ridiculous. As Alec Baldwin talking about Tom Cruise, the dialogue sounds right on the money. That phrase could be dropped into the first sentence of his biography and nobody would think twice.

When the superstar first stepped...

Another week, another Monday. So it’s time for the rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s another packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, April 30th 2012.

Pick(S) Of The Week

Suits: Season One (DVD)

The new original series Suits delves into the fast-paced, highstakes world of a top Manhattan corporate law firm where hotshot attorney Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) makes a risky move by hiring the brilliant but unmotivated, Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), as his new associate. The only problem is he doesn’t have an actual law degree. With his encyclopedic knowledge and uncanny knack of remembering things, Mike proves to be a legal prodigy despite the absence of bonafide legal credentials. Bound by their secret,...

Behind every great action movie, there’s some sort of flimsy excuse for the shooting. Here’s our list of genre’s five most common plotlines…

In screenwriting classes, they call it the inciting incident. For filmgoers, it’s perhaps quietly filed in the back of their brain as ‘the reason why the hero buys a gun and starts killing lots of bad guys.’

It’s often said that, in all forms of art, we’re really just telling the same stories over and over again – and so it is with the action genre. As chaotic and senseless as such films often appear to be, even the trashiest and ineptly made have at least a flimsy excuse for all the explosions and shoot-outs.

To this end, here are the five basic action movie plots as we understand them. The actors who play the heroes and villains may change, the settings may vary,...

Like a dormant volcano waiting to erupt in a shower of blood-soaked lava, the Death Wish franchise has slumbered, occasionally nudging the seismic news--o–meters. Now there are real rumblings, with word that Joe Carnahan has been hired to write and direct a new take on Michael Winner's 1974 original (and Brian Garfield's novel).Winner's film saw Charles Bronson assume the soon-to-be-iconic role of Paul Kersey, a liberal architect type who turns trigger-happy vigilante when his wife and daughter are brutally attacked. Swearing vengeance on criminal scum everywhere, he stalks the streets of New York taking out his victims.Highly controversial and not exactly what you might call subtle, the film nevertheless sparked a wave of cinematic copycats and nudged the current action movie genre to ever more violent ends.Four sequels were pumped out across the next 20 years, but eventually things came to a grinding halt with 1994's...

Original set up with Sylvester Stallone writing and directing and starring (back when Stallone was suddenly on everyone’s radar again after the success of new “Rambo” and “Rocky” sequels), a remake of the Charles Bronson vigilante drama “Death Wish” is now back in the news, with “The Grey” and “A-Team” director Joe Carnahan the latest name attached to the encore. The LATimes quotes unnamed sources pointing to Carnahan (or Smoking Joe to his friends) to write and direct the remake, which first shot its way into the hearts of violence-lovin’ moviegoers everywhere in the very magical year of 1974. The film would go on to spawn four sequels, with Bronson starring as former Everyman turned killing machine Paul Kersey in every one of them. The franchise culminated in 1994′s “Death Wish V: The Face of Death”. Carnahan is coming off “The Grey”, a film that is poised to take the box office crown this week.

According to reports, director Joe Carnahan ("The Grey") will script and direct a reboot of director Michael Winner's 1974 vigilante action feature "Death Wish".

The original Paramount Pictures thriller was loosely based on the novel "Death Wish" by author Brian Garfield, following former WWII and Korean war vet, 'Paul Kersey'.

Kersey, now a 'liberal' thinking architect, becomes an unstoppable late-night vigilante killer, targeting muggers, after a deadly assault against his wife and daughter pushes him over the deep end.

At the time of its initial release, critics were displeased with the film, considering it an 'immoral threat to society' and an encouragement of 'antisocial behavior'.

Despite the negative reviews, producers sensed the 'primal' appeal of the premise with audiences and released five "Death Wish" films.

Titles include "Death Wish II" (1982), "Death Wish 3" (1985), "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" (1987) and "Death Wish V: The Face of Death" (1994).

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Furious sits alone on a hill underneath a single tree that shades it. Its buddy Fast is out gallivanting around town with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, jacking Supras and drinking Corona like it holds the key to eternal youth, and Furious is sad. That’s okay, Furious, we still like you. And it’s not like Fast Five is going to open huge. It’s not as if we’re looking at another $70+-million opening for a Fast and Furious entry. Fast couldn’t do that without you. Oh, wait, the Rock is in this one, too. Yeah. It probably will. Sorry, Furious. We’ll catch you next time. Maybe. Big Hitters Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Death Wish V: The Face of Death. The Dream Child. Seed of Chucky. Wrestlemania V featuring Hulk Hogan Vs. Randy Savage. What do all of these have in common? None...

Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…

7.00pm Martial Law (Bravo)

Police drama series following the investigations of a Chinese detective and martial arts expert working in Los Angeles. The officers pursue the makers and sellers of a new drug that renders criminals fearless and ultra-strong. Season Two, episode 18.

8.00pm Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues (CBS Action)

Caine and his police officer son are reunited to fight crime together. One of Caine’s students is fighting illegally, and Peter is upset that he is using his skills for profit. Season One, episode 9.

9.00pm Warehouse 13 (Virgin 1)

This family friendly scifi drama captures the spirit of The X-Files and Friday the 13th the series. After saving the life of an international diplomat in Washington D.C., a pair of U.S...

It could be in honor of Gerard Butler hitting theaters this weekend in The Bounty Hunter. It could be in honor of Jude Law taking out your kidneys in Repo Men. It could be for Michael Shannon who looks great in eyeliner in The Runaways, but I kind of doubt it. Whatever this list is in honor of, it makes us guys here at We Are Movie Geeks proud to know that we can stand up, look at a select group of men, and say, “Yes, I have a crush on that guy.” Crack open a Pabst Blue Ribbon, put on the AC/DC, and scope out this list of the top 10 men us guys just love to love.

10. Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds is, quite simply, the man every man wants to be. With an incredible physique and a top-notch sense of humor that is often embedded in geek culture,...

Sylvester Stallone has been ruminating to Empire magazine about the possibility of starring in a remake of the 1974 movie Death Wish, which featured Charles Bronson as a vengeance-fueled vigilante. This makes a kind of sense (and, certainly, more sense than, say, Sly starring in a comedy with Estelle Getty or the plot of Tango and Cash). For one thing, there was a definite Rambo-esque propulsion to the Death Wish movies. And, for another, the now 63-year-old Stallone is probably aware that this is one franchise which suits an actor of a certain age. True, Bronson was in his early...