• Sneek Peek:  Gerard Butler in “Machine Gun Preacher”

    Sneek Peek: Gerard Butler in “Machine Gun Preacher”

    Source:  USA Today Author:  Susan Wloszczyna Gerard Butler has never shied away from real-life warriors, both heroic (Spartan ruler Leonidas in 300) and villainous (the heinous Hun in Attila) But as the God-fearing, firepower-toting Sam…

  • REVIEW: Coriolanus

    REVIEW: Coriolanus

    Source: Variety Author: Peter DeBruge A Weinstein Co. (in U.S.) release of a Hermetof Pictures, Kalkronkie and Icon Entertainment Intl. presentation in association with Magna Films, Atlantic Swiss Prods., Lip Sync Prods., BBC Films, Artemis…

  • Weinstein Co. Buys Ralph Fiennes ‘Coriolanus’

    Weinstein Co. Buys Ralph Fiennes ‘Coriolanus’

    Source: Variety | Author: Diane Lodderhose BERLIN — The Weinstein Co. has snapped up U.S. rights to Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, “Coriolanus,” in Berlin. Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and James Nesbitt star in the…

  • Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

    Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

    After renouncing his outlaw ways, Sam Childers embarks on a spiritual path, becoming a warrior for the desperate and helpless children in a war-torn country in Africa.
     

    Sam Childers’ Charitable Foundation: Angels of East Africa

  • 300

    300 (2006)

    In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers.

  • Shadow Company

    Shadow Company (2006 documentary)

    With over $100 Billion in annual revenues and 70,000 employees in Iraq alone, the private military industry is booming, yet few civilians know anything about it. Shadow Company, a groundbreaking feature-length documentary, takes you deep inside this secret world that is changing the face of modern warfare. What are we really risking by allowing profit-motivated corporations into the business of war?

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