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Filmmaker Michael Winnick made his feature directorial debut with the psychological sci-fi thriller Deuces back in 2001, and has since followed that up with the horror thriller Shadow Puppets, the crime thriller Guns, Girls and Gambling, the family drama The Better Half, the Steven Seagal vehicle Code of Honor, the horror film Malicious, the horror mystery Disquiet, and the action film Dark Asset. Now, Deadline reports that Winnick has wrapped production on his latest directorial effort, a sci-fi action film called Kill Him ‘Til He’s Dead. He managed to assemble a cool cast for this one as well, with Byron Mann (Wu Assassins), Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us), Ashley Greene (Twilight), Anson Mount (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), and Fivel Stewart (The Recruit) taking the lead roles.

Winnick wrote the screenplay for the film, which follows a broken-down hitman (Mann) who finds himself waking up in different bodies as he...

Although Jonathan Rhys Meyers was a promising rising star in the late 90s and early aughts, his screen appearance has diminished over the years, making it hard not to wonder what happened to him. Today, Meyers may only be associated with his recent recurring role in Vikings. However, long before Jonathan Rhys Meyers became Bishop Heahmund in the historical drama, he was known for starring in several popular films and series like The Tudors and Match Point. Despite building a strong portfolio for himself, Meyers somehow faced a downturn in his Hollywood career.

Some might even remember him for his earlier years in Hollywood, where he played a diverse set of roles in movies like Vanity Fair, August Rush, and Bend it Like Beckham. However, regardless of how audiences remember him, he seems to have gone relatively silent in recent years, with fewer mainstream movie and TV projects showing up in his acting resume.

Exclusive: Rachelle Goulding (Firefly Lane) and Azita Ghanizada (United States of Al) have been cast in the upcoming NBC drama series Suits LA in recurring roles.

They join the previously announced cast of Stephen Amell, Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg.

The series is centered on Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself by representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career.

Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is happening while Suits LA slowly unravels the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.

Goulding will portray Samantha,...

Stars: Leah Gibson, Anthony Bolognese, Sebastien Roberts, Anthony Konechny, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jon Voight | Written by Alex Wright | Directed by Tony Dean Smith

Die Hard came out thirty-five years ago and we’re still seeing a steady stream of knock-offs rip-offs and cash-ins arriving. Case in point, Mercy, which like last year’s Assault on Va-33 puts a hospital under siege. Can the filmmakers deliver an entertaining action film, or is this, like so many other similar films, Doa?

While serving in Afghanistan Dr. Michelle Miller had her husband turn up as a patient in her field hospital, worse he had a bomb strapped to him. This leads to an agonized, and agonizing, exchange of dialogue “Get out Michelle, somebody’s got to be there for Bobby!” “No, I’m not leaving you!” followed by Frank rolling off the table so his detonation somehow doesn’t kill her.

Now she...

Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elyse Levesque, Trezzo Mahoro, Lochlyn Munro, Garry Chalk, Rachelle Goulding | Written and Directed by Michael Winnick

Disquiet is defined as “a feeling of anxiety or worry”, and it’s something one often feels when in a hospital even if they’re just visiting. So imagine what Sam is feeling when he wakes up in a hospital with nobody answering the call button. Even worse, the patient in the next bed tries to strangle him, then chases him into the hall where Sam stabs him repeatedly with a scalpel, only for the body to vanish.

When a nurse does arrive she vanishes as soon as he looks away. And then the psycho guy returns, even ripping open the roof of the elevator trying to get at Sam. After escaping once again he has flashbacks to the accident that put him in the hospital.

That all takes place...

Movies are the product of multiple elements working in unison, and in the very best of them, everything is firing on all cylinders. Usually, if one or two aspects aren't so great, quality in other places can rescue the viewing experience. Who hasn't been drawn into a lackluster story by winning performances and a moving score, or forgiven obvious budgetary constraints because of creative directing and editing? But, as Disquiet unfortunately demonstrates, it is perhaps most difficult to come back from a truly bad script. It forces the actors to create compelling characterization where there isn't any and the filmmaking to build tension as the dialogue constantly deflates it, only for all that effort to end in an unearned, unsatisfying climax anyway. An uphill battle in the best of cases, this film manages no such redemption, leaving little reason to recommend it.

Disquiet opens with some blunt voiceover from Sam...

Diverse festival notables from Hannah Ha Ha to The Blue Caftan join a spattering of specialty horror titles led by Consecration, and the U.S. theatrical debut of Gaspar Noé’s controversial Irréversible: Straight Cut.

The last is presented by Altered Innocence, whose owner Frank Jaffe spoke with Deadline about why he wanted to give Noe’s unusual 2019 director’s cut — of the Argentinian/French director’s disturbing 2002 film Irreversible — a release Stateside. “It’s a film that needs to be seen. Or made available,” he said. StudioCanal approached him twice. “They said, ‘No one is brave enough to take on this film. Will you?’” And “there is an audience for it…Tickets are selling.”

Jaffe said he first watched Irreversible, or tried to, via Netflix mail order DVD when he was 14. “My dad made me turn it off halfway through.”

It had a big impact on him. He...

Screen Rant is thrilled to present a terrifying exclusive clip from the bone-chilling new supernatural thriller Disquiet. The movie follows Sam, who wakes after a near-fatal car accident and is trapped in an abandoned hospital. He soon discovers a mysterious and menacing force keeping him in the hospital.

As these forces plot to keep Sam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), he must find a way to escape before it is too late. This horrifying thriller will show Sam doing everything he can to escape from this hospital even as things become more and more terrifying. Disquiet is distributed by Paramount Pictures and Spmg. Disquiet will premiere in select theaters, On Demand, and on digital February 10.

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Screen Rant's exclusive clip from Disquiet features Jonathan Rhys Meyers' Sam meeting Elyse Levesque's Monica. After Sam has woken up in...