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The newest episode of Inside the Bucket is online! Revel in the digital mastery! After the engineering disaster that was our previous show, Episode 54 of  Inside the   Bucket  returns with a vengeance, as Matt is joined by John, Brandon, and David, as they deliver the best movie and television news from our website  SANDWICHJOHNFILMS.COM .   This week, they break down the teaser trailer for  Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation and discuss why CW's The Flash  is perhaps the best superhero television show ever made.  Please check out these and other stories which we've included below.   Later, Matt, John, and Brandon present their Rants and Raves, where they bitch and complain about all the things they're watching, following, and have their panties in a bind about from the week.     Finally, they review  The Gunman  starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba, and Javier Bardem and wonder ...

Sean Penn shoots blanks in boring thriller. Review by Brandon Wolfe Liam Neeson probably didn’t realize it at the time, but when he made Taken in 2008 he basically created a new career pathway for dramatic actors of a certain age. Instead of being shunted off to supporting roles portraying the fathers of younger actors, Hollywood’s elder statesmen can now headline low-rent action films where they can pummel and throat-punch those younger actors and win the day. Neeson has made this route his full time job over the past several years, and we saw Pierce Brosnan jump into the fray in last year’s forgettable November Man . Now Sean Penn wants in on the action, and this is especially remarkable because Sean Penn has carved out a reputation for solely appearing in high-minded, prestigious fare. Neeson and Brosnan each had some action-flavored frivolity in their back catalogs, but Penn has turned up his nose at doing anything remotely fun ever since Spicoli. Granted it’s not that bi...

The Gunman wastes its considerable talent on cheap and uninspired action. Review by Matt Cummings In Director Pierre Morel's The Gunman , Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) lives a double life: he's a security guard working with a humanitarian effort to build a runway in the violent Congo. But at night, he's part of a contract sniper team awaiting their next mission. Unfortunately, Jim's fallen for the aid worker Annie (Jasmine Trinca), whom on the night of the assassination he must leave without warning. Fast forward 8 years and Jim has returned to Congo to drill wells in an effort to balance both his violent past and curb his growing mental blackouts. But when a team descends on his workplace with the intention of killing him, Jim must uncover who wants him dead. Is it his former teammate Cox (Mark Rylance), his buddy Stanley (Ray Winstone), the aid-worker-turned-businessman Felix (Javier Bardem), or the shadowy DuPont (Idris Elba)? As the truth emerges and Anni...

What does the March box office have in store for us? We pontificate in our On the Radar Preview. Story by Matt Cummings January 2015 was filled so many interesting titles that no one apparently wanted to see, prompting us on a recent Inside the Bucket podcast to wonder why that month landed with such a thud. When February rolled around, we weren't exactly impressed with the plate Hollywood had placed before us, hence the reason why we didn't present a Preview article. Apparently all of you felt the same. February was the lowest since in terms of box office performance since 2006 ($533.2), with 50 Shades of Grey 'leading' before literally melting away after a strong opening. And yet, the box office is up 10%, for a variety of reasons that could repeat in 2016 if distributors have learned their lesson. March has also traditionally been a weak month, as evidenced by less-than-stellar numbers during the last four years: 2014: $741.2 (-24.9% from 2013) 201...

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For THE GUNMAN  on March 16th at 7:00 PM in Sacramento. THE GUNMAN , the new action thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken, stars Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance . In theaters March 20, 2015. See how to win tickets after the Jump... Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and to be to notified about our upcoming Advance Screenings. Also make sure to subscribe and download our Podcast Go to GOFOBO and Enter: HUrgQ85989 DISCLAIMER: ARRIVE EARLY! SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED, EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. THEATRE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERBOOKING. THIS PASS DOES NOT GUARANTEE ADMISSION AND MUST BE SURRENDERED UPON DEMAND. NO ONE WILL BE ADMITTED WITHOUT A TICKET AND ONLY REVIEWING PRESS WILL BE ADMITTED AFTER THE SCREENING BEGINS. Duplica...

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For THE GUNMAN  on March 16th at 7:00 PM in San Francisco. THE GUNMAN , the new action thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken, stars Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance . In theaters March 20, 2015. See how to win tickets after the Jump... Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and to be to notified about our upcoming Advance Screenings. Also make sure to subscribe and download our Podcast Go to GOFOBO and Enter: lflPh62616 DISCLAIMER: ARRIVE EARLY! SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED, EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. THEATRE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERBOOKING. THIS PASS DOES NOT GUARANTEE ADMISSION AND MUST BE SURRENDERED UPON DEMAND. NO ONE WILL BE ADMITTED WITHOUT A TICKET AND ONLY REVIEWING PRESS WILL BE ADMITTED AFTER THE SCREENING BEGINS. Duplicate passes ...

Open Road Films has delivered the second trailer for The Gunman , the new action thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken , stars Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance . In theaters March 20, 2015. Please Leave A Comment-

Adapted from 1981 crime novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette, The Gunman will unleash the newly grenade-lobbing Penn on the shadowy figures trying to block his exit from their shady organisation. All he wants is a quiet life with his true love ( Jasmine Trinca ), and some time to recover from the PTSD he’s suffering from, but Javier Bardem’s operative and his goons stand in his path. Cue fisticuffs and some massive gun battles. Penn, for his part, rejects our lazy action star tagging. “Calling it an ‘action film’ is kind of like calling Meryl Streep a sexy blonde chick,” he told USA Today in 2013. “She is, but that really doesn't tell the story of what she is at all. I don’t separate this in my mind from anything else I have done. It’s a very human story that deals with the same things exploited in action films, like warfare.” Please Leave A Comment-

Open Road Films has delivered the first trailer for The Gunman , the new action thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken, stars Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance . In theaters March 20, 2015. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-