Tag: Pierre Morel

John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the Euro-action film from producer Luc Besson and director Pierre Morel

‘From Paris With Love’ on Netflix and Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/09/201912/09/2019 Sean Axmaker

From Paris With Love (2009), starring John Travolta as a cowboy of an American agent and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an ambitious but untrained low-level agent assigned to assist, is another of Luc Besson’s English language Euro-action films, the contemporary equivalent to the drive-in action movie of decades past. Besson has perfected the formula in […]

Cyril Raffaelli and Dany Verissimo in 'District B13,' aka 'Banlieue 13'

‘District B13’ – Stunning stunt action on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Foreign Affairs, Hulu, Streaming Movies 05/22/201705/22/2017 Sean Axmaker

District B13 (2004), Pierre Morel’s twist on Escape From New York set in a near-future Paris, is a lean, clean, adrenaline and indignation-fueled B-movie action machine. Urban athlete David Belle, one of the creators of the extreme sport known as Parkour, stars as ghetto hero Leito and he set the tone, the pace, and the […]