He Is Kin

I’ve not written about Jack Reynor nearly as much as I once thought I would, when I first learned that he would be starring in 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Yes, I thought, maybe, this guy would be a flash in the pan – but I’ve also done a poor job of reviewing or watching the films in which he has since appeared, like last year’s Macbeth or this past spring’s Sing Street.

So...my bad.

All this to say that I will make a concerted effort to catch Kin, the feature adaptation of Bag Man, a short film by Jonathan and Josh Baker.

A sci-fi thriller, Kin also will feature James Franco, Zoë Kravitz, and Dennis Quaid, and spin the yarn of a recently released ex-con (Reynor) and his adopted younger brother, who are forced on the run as they’re chased by a criminal (Franco) looking for revenge, the feds, and a battalion of otherworldly soldiers.

Good thing the brothers are carrying a mysterious and ancient weapon, huh.

That should come in quite handy.

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For Love of the Game

He’s helping Transformers: Age of Extinction take your money this lovely weekend, but that alone don’t mean that Jack Reynor is ready to rest on his laurels.

Not at all.

In fact, the Irish-American newcomer is already looking ahead at not becoming extinct himself. (See, Reynor legend has it that he arrived in Hollywood with nothing but 40 bucks in his pocket. Look far he’s come.) Which is why the actor is switching it up a bit.

Reynor is circling this biopic about Josh Hamilton (a former crack cocaine addict who became a baseball MVP who now plays for the Los Angeles Angels) that Casey Affleck is getting ready to direct.

Not a bad way to follow up a vapid fourthquel....

Not bad at all.

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