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The cast and crew of The Equalizer 3 filmed in Italy, utilizing locations in Rome and Campania to capture the essence of the film's setting. Cinecittà Studios in Rome served as a significant filming location, offering spacious and famous film studios for certain sequences in the movie. The picturesque Amalfi Coast and Naples in Campania provided a backdrop that made it seem like the film was set in Sicily, even though the actual Sicilian scenes were shot on the other side of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

It likely serves as Denzel Washington's last outing as Robert McCall in the franchise, and The Equalizer 3 filming locations took them to Italy for the final movie. Aside from Washington, the rest of the cast included Dakota Fanning as Emma Collins, Eugenio Mastrandrea as Gio Bonucci, David Denman as Frank Conroy, Sonia Ben Ammar as Chiara Bonucci, and Remo Girone as Enzo Arisio.

The Equalizer 3 is the final installment of the trilogy and takes place in Sicily, where Robert McCall goes on a vigilante mission to protect his friends from the Italian criminal organization, the Camorra. The movie features new characters, including Emma Collins, Gio Bonucci, Frank Conroy, Chiara Bonucci, and Vincent Quaranta, as Robert's storyline moves to Italy. Major characters from the previous movies, such as Teri, Brian Plummer, and Ralphie, do not return for The Equalizer 3, as their storylines were complete and did not fit with the new location and focus of the movie.

While The Equalizer 3 sees Denzel Washington return as Robert McCall, multiple major characters sat out the sequel. Robert McCall is once again on a vigilante mission, now in Sicily, to protect his friends from the Camorra, the Italian criminal organization. The Equalizer 3 was released in theaters and set a box office record for...

The Equalizer 3 does not have a post-credits scene, which is consistent with the franchise's previous movies. The lack of a post-credits scene is justified because the movie wraps up the trilogy's plot without any loose ends. Despite speculation about a possible fourth installment, The Equalizer series was always intended to conclude with the third film.

With The Equalizer 3 releasing on September 1, many prospective viewers will be wondering whether the movie includes a post-credits scene. The action-thriller franchise The Equalizer is a reboot of the 1980s TV series of the same name. This action movie franchise makes use of many big-name actors, including Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, Dakota Fanning as Emma Collins, and David Denman as Frank Conroy. In the franchise, Robert McCall works as a vigilante for innocent people caught up in bad situations. The Equalizer 3 picks up shortly after the events of The Equalizer 2.

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Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson are excellent in this adaptation of Arthur Miller’s award-winning Broadway play, about a family torn apart by the denial of dark secrets from the WW2 homefront. Mady Christians is the mother who refuses to accept her son’s death, and Louisa Horton and Howard Duff the brother and sister trying to understand how their father could ship defective war materiel responsible for needless combat deaths. The show is powerful, even with Miller’s social message muted — and director Irving Reis gets it all on screen.

All My Sons

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1948 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 94 min. / Street Date January 4, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton, Howard Duff, Lloyd Gough, Harry Morgan, Arlene Francis, Elisabeth Fraser.

Cinematography: Russell Metty

Art Directors: Hilyard Brown, Bernard Herzbrun

Film Editor: Ralph Dawson

Original Music: Leith Stevens

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Update: A former bookkeeper who embezzled millions of dollars from a major literary agency has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.

Darin Webb was convicted of stealing from the New York-based firm of Donadio & Olson. The firm represents authors James Hynes, Chuck Palahniuk and Rick DeMarinis, as well as the estates of Robert Stone, Mario Puzo, Frank Conroy, Nelson Algren, Peter Matthiesen and Studs Terkel.

“This chain of events leaves me close to broke,” Palahniuk said in court papers. “Since the crime was uncovered, people have offered their children’s college funds. They’ve offered to mortgage their houses to keep me afloat. They’ve come forward with legal advice and stop-gap, hands-on help.”

Palahniuk lost more than $1.4 million in royalties and advances in Webb’s theft, estimated at more than $3.4 million from the agency. Donadio & Olson was forced to file for bankruptcy last month.

“Webb’s actions...

Leave it to director William Wellman to direct the most compelling social justice movie of the 1940s. Taken from a bestselling novel, it's a wrenching examination of the workings of a natural American phenomenon, the Lynch Mob. The Ox-Bow Incident Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1942 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 75 min. / Street Date July 12, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Matt Briggs, Harry Davenport, Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence Cinematography Arthur Miller Art Direction James Basevi, Richard Day Film Editor Allen McNeil Original Music Cyril J. Mockridge Written and Produced by Lamar Trotti from a novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark Directed by William A. Wellman

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In the first scene of this grim feature, Henry Fonda stumbles out of a saloon street and throws up in the street. Apparently that was the reaction shared...

'Broadcast News' with Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter: Glib TV news watch. '31 Days of Oscar': 'Broadcast News' slick but superficial critics pleaser (See previous post: “Phony 'A Beautiful Mind,' Unfairly Neglected 'Swing Shift': '31 Days of Oscar'.”) Heralded for its wit and incisiveness, James L. Brooks' multiple Oscar-nominated Broadcast News is everything the largely forgotten Swing Shift isn't: belabored, artificial, superficial. That's very disappointing considering Brooks' highly addictive Mary Tyler Moore television series (and its enjoyable spin-offs, Phyllis and Rhoda), but totally expected considering that three of screenwriter-director Brooks' five other feature films were Terms of Endearment, As Good as It Gets, and Spanglish. (I've yet to check out I'll Do Anything and the box office cataclysm How Do You Know starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Jack Nicholson.) Having said that, Albert Brooks (no relation to James L.; or to Mel Brooks...

Greta Garbo movie 'The Kiss.' Greta Garbo movies on TCM Greta Garbo, a rarity among silent era movie stars, is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” performer today, Aug. 26, '15. Now, why would Garbo be considered a silent era rarity? Well, certainly not because she easily made the transition to sound, remaining a major star for another decade. Think Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Fay Wray, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett, etc. And so much for all the stories about actors with foreign accents being unable to maintain their Hollywood stardom following the advent of sound motion pictures. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, Garbo was no major exception to the supposed rule. Mexican Ramon Novarro, another MGM star, also made an easy transition to sound, and so did fellow Mexicans Lupe Velez and Dolores del Rio, in addition to the very British...

Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in ‘Mata Hari’: The wrath of the censors (See previous post: "Ramon Novarro in One of the Best Silent Movies.") George Fitzmaurice’s romantic spy melodrama Mata Hari (1931) was well received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by moviegoers. The Greta Garbo / Ramon Novarro combo — the first time Novarro took second billing since becoming a star — turned Mata Hari into a major worldwide blockbuster, with $2.22 million in worldwide rentals. The film became Garbo’s biggest international success to date, and Novarro’s highest-grossing picture after Ben-Hur. (Photo: Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in Mata Hari.) Among MGM’s 1932 releases — Mata Hari opened on December 31, 1931 — only W.S. Van Dyke’s Tarzan, the Ape Man, featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Edmund Goulding’s all-star Best Picture Academy Award winner Grand Hotel (also with Garbo, in addition to Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and...

Joan Fontaine movies: ‘This Above All,’ ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ (photo: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine in ‘Suspicion’ publicity image) (See previous post: “Joan Fontaine Today.”) Also tonight on Turner Classic Movies, Joan Fontaine can be seen in today’s lone TCM premiere, the flag-waving 20th Century Fox release The Above All (1942), with Fontaine as an aristocratic (but socially conscious) English Rose named Prudence Cathaway (Fontaine was born to British parents in Japan) and Fox’s top male star, Tyrone Power, as her Awol romantic interest. This Above All was directed by Anatole Litvak, who would guide Olivia de Havilland in the major box-office hit The Snake Pit (1948), which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nod. In Max Ophüls’ darkly romantic Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Fontaine delivers not only what is probably the greatest performance of her career, but also one of the greatest movie performances ever. Letter from an Unknown Woman...

Frank Conroy is one of the few novelists as famed for his administrative work as his literary output. His memoir Stop-Time remains venerated as a classic portrait of American youth, but his stewardship of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop is just as treasured by writers. From 1987 to 2005, Conroy presided over the highly regarded program; two graduates from that era included future Pulitzer prize-winner Marilynne Robinson and her peer, Tom Grimes. Grimes didn’t go on to the same success as Robinson or Conroy, which wasn’t part of the plan: Grimes was Conroy’s priority, destined for great things ...