Rendition Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/rendition/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:01:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Rendition Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/rendition/ 32 32 Gavin Hood Not Asked Back For ‘Wolverine 2,’ Hopefully Considers Different Line Of Work https://staging2.theplaylist.net/gavin-hood-not-asked-back-for-wolverine-20090912/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/gavin-hood-not-asked-back-for-wolverine-20090912/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:00:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6226 You can say this for “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” one of our favorite punching bags this summer — it looks, sounds and feels like the work of a man with a singular vision, Mr. Michael Bay. The other ghastly, terrible summer blockbuster —”X-Men Origins: Wolverine” — looked and felt like it could have been made by a contest winner. Unlike Bay, that contest winner is also an Oscar winner. Gavin Hood must be smarting from a painful graduation to Hollywood.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/gavin-hood-not-asked-back-for-wolverine-20090912/feed/ 3 Reese Witherspoon vs. the CIA: “Rendition” Trailer https://staging2.theplaylist.net/reese-witherspoon-vs-cia-rendition-20071002/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/reese-witherspoon-vs-cia-rendition-20071002/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:45:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=11843 The Gist: Oscar winner Gavin Hood (director of 2005 Oscar Foreign Language Film winner “Tsotsi“) celebrates his Hollywood debut with the political thriller “Rendition,” in which he directs Reese Witherspoon as the wife of an Egyptian chemical engineer who’s being secretly held at a detention facility outside the country. Backed by a CIA analyst (Peter Sarsgaard), she heads over to the powers that be in Washington D.C. to learn more about her husband’s mysterious disappearance.

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