Claire Smithies Movies
Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this continuation of 2003's ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As The Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding, and we learn of how she was recruited to join the DiVAS, her training under unforgiving martial arts master Pai Mei (Liu Chia-hui), and her relationship with Squad leader Bill (David Carradine), which changed from love to violent hatred. Originally planned as a single film, Kill Bill grew into an epic-scale two-part project totaling more than four hours in length; as with the first film, Kill Bill Vol. 2 includes appearances by genre-film icons Sonny Chiba, Michael Parks, Larry Bishop, and Sid Haig; Wu-Tang Clan producer and turntablist RZA and filmmaker and composer Robert Rodriguez both contributed to the musical score. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Uma Thurman, David Carradine, (more)
Michael Preston, Jordan Seider, Claire Smithies, and Brad Sergi co-star in the direct-to-video natural disaster thriller Wildfire. Sisters Carol (Smithies) and Ballad (Seider), the co-owners and proprietors of a sanctuary for endangered animals, find the lives of their furry friends gravely endangered when an out-of-control forest blaze closes in on the creatures. Ballad's fire-fighter boyfriend Kennedy and his fireman friends construct a "break line" to halt the advancing flames, but a more arresting development lies afoot -- soulless corporate bigwigs have instigated the fire in a nasty attempt to wipe the land clean, acquire it for pennies, and reap a massive profit. It's the small fries versus the corporate nasties, in the tradition of Fighting Mad and The Gunfighters. Henri Charr directs this family-oriented, edge-of-your seat adventure, from a script by Jim Goddard, Steven Jones, and Sreescanda. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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