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Over the decades she’s landed some terrific roles in a range of films, including the likes of Nine Months (Tennis Attendant), Deck the Halls (Kelly Finch), Couples Retreat (Lucy), Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (Liz), and of course, both Sex and the City movies.Īs you’d expect, she boasts some impressive TV roles too, such as Melrose Place (Brooke Armstrong), Friends (Erin), Bad Teacher (Ginny Taylor-Clapp) she also voiced Miss Spider in Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends. Her stellar recurring performance has earned her a significant following, but there are plenty more roles where that came from…Īccording to her IMDb, she first appeared on screens in the 1988 cult horror-comedy film Doom Asylum (she played Jane). The 54-year-old American actress is best known for reprising the iconic role of Charlotte York Goldenblatt in the HBO hit Sex and the City. Conrad won’t be joining us?”Įrnie Barbarash’s (Cube Zero) latest film arrived on Netflix on Friday, November 1st 2019 and tells a touching tale of love and adventure. HECTIC HALLOWEEN! Who plays Eddie in Riverdale? If you wholeheartedly agree, then Holiday in the Wild has the potential to become a new favourite. This year, most of us will be looking to Netflix to provide us with some essential seasonal entertainment, and actually, it would appear that they’ve already started delivering the goods.Ī great Christmas film doesn’t have to be packed with snow, lights and traditional imagery – not at all. Everybody has their favourite, whether it’s Love Actually or Home Alone, but we’re always on the lookout for the next gem to become annual viewing. Between the fight choreography and Winstead’s compelling performance, Kate makes a case for itself where similar films have floundered.That means Christmas is just around the corner! There are so many things we love about this time of year, but one of the highlights is that – surely and slowly – the Christmas films begin to surface once again. Each hit bruises, as Kate’s rapidly deteriorating body keeps fighting.
The result is a series of creatively violent and thrilling fight sequences, which sets Kate apart from standard action fare. Kate also reunites Winstead with her Birds of Prey stunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio, who has previously worked on all three John Wick films. Winstead does excellent work in the action sequences, and brings gravitas and gallows humor to a thinly drawn archetype. But what it does have is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who has transformed herself into a confident an extremely watchable action star.
Kate does little to reinvent the wheel, with predictable twists and turns that will only be surprising if you’ve never seen a movie before. Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jun Kunimura, Woody Harrelson Watch all you want. More recently, studios have sought to create a female take on John Wick with forgettable dreck like Gunpowder Milkshake, The Protégé, Jolt, and a whole host of Ruby Rose-led vehicles that don’t bear mentioning. Slipped a fatal poison on her final job, a ruthless assassin working in Tokyo has less than 24 hours to find out who ordered the hit and exact revenge. Kate is one of many “elite assassin goes on a rampage” films that have sprouted up since John Wick hit theaters in 2014. up to the Jason Statham fever dream Crank.
Versions of this story have been told for decades, dating back to the 1950 film noir D.O.A.
If the premise sounds familiar, that’s because it is. With only 24 hours left to live, Kate goes on a rampage to murder Kijima (Jun Kunimura) the Yakuza big boss, and kidnaps his niece Ani in an attempt to find him. But after a one night stand with a handsome stranger (Michiel Huisman, who played another disastrous one night stand in The Flight Attendant), Kate is fatally poisoned. The act so shakes Kate that she considers quitting the game and starting fresh. Living in Tokyo, Kate is content to take orders from her handler and father figure Varrick (Woody Harrelson) until a hit goes wrong and Kate ends up shooting a member of the Yakuza in front of his own daughter, Ani (Miku Martineau).
the World, Birds of Prey) plays the titular unstoppable assassin. Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( Scott Pilgrim vs. Which brings us to Kate, Netflix’s latest entry into the elite assassin genre. Films like Die Hard, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Matrix, and John Wick have inspired a host of pretenders to the throne that, while they share DNA with their predecessors, fail to capture the magic that made those movies iconic. These movies quickly become favorites, and studios scramble to recapture that same magic in derivative efforts. Once every decade or so, an action movie comes out that resets the bar for kinetic, thrilling action sequences.