The Hire
BMW produced two series of short films starring Clive Owen (Croupier, Gosford Park) as “The Driver.” These films, directed by top-notch filmmakers and sometimes written by quality screenwriters, showed off BMW automobiles by creating interesting excuses and situations for stunt driving and performance excursions. This might sound sort of cheesy or commercial, but these movies were great fun. Each was released online at BMW Films.com and I kept up with them as well as I could through the faster internet connections at friends’ houses. Now these films are available on DVD for just the price of shipping. That’s about four dollars. Get the disc. You’ll be glad you did. I recommend Guy Ritchie’s Star and the late John “Best Automobile Director of All Time” Frankenheimer’s Ambush, written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven). Really, though, there isn’t a proper clunker in the lot (and I am not a fan of Tony Scott’s work, by any means).
Yeah, yeah, I’ll cover GenCon, maybe. If there’s time. Right now I’m plowing forward on new projects on all fronts. More on those later, I guess.