Django Unchained is one of my favorite movies of all time ever since I saw it back in 2012. This South-Western revenge flick comes from the legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and offers up some incredible visuals, a truckload of squibs, and some period-correct [Read More…]
“Well, you gonna pull those pistols or whistle ‘Dixie’?” Moments after delivering this line in the 1976 film “The Outlaw Josey Wales”, Clint Eastwood (playing the titular character) deftly draws a brace of Colt revolvers and opens [Read More…]
In this video Larry Vickers breaks down the alleyway gunfight in the movie Collateral (2004). It is well worth watching. The video below shows the live-fire gun training Tom Cruise did for the movie. Thanks to Jay for the link.
American Sniper, the Clint Eastwood biography of late Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, roused a lot of attention among Iraqi audiences, despite the subject matter of US-occupied Iraq. According to the New York Post, the film drew Iraqi cinema patrons in a big way: [Read More…]
Dima Levanchuk emailed me about a firm he is making called The Tramp. It is about a young woman from a small town who turns into a ruthless killer after being kidnapped by human traffickers. At one point during the film she makes a crude blackpower shotgun pistol. You [Read More…]
A reader emailed us this still from the upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. It shows the villain Bane and his henchmen. The henchmen show remarkably good trigger discipline, which as Rolf pointed out shows that there was proper supervision and training on the [Read More…]
Act Of Valor is a fictional movie, due to hit theaters next year, about a team of US Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative. Apparently some of the actors are themselves active duty US Navy Seals. The trailer looks pretty good. [ Many thanks to Jac [Read More…]
A Canadian group recreated scenes from the computer game Modern Warfare 2 using actors and special effects to create a short film/trailer called Find Makarov. It is shot in the ‘first person’ and is very impressive. I would be the first in line at the cinema [Read More…]
Larry Zanoff, of Independent Studio Services, has been the armorer for many movies. He built the iconic suppressed shotgun used in No Country For Old Men. This photo was taken by Gregory Markle at the NRA Booth at SHOT Show.
For decades gun aficionado’s have been wondering what the story was behind the strange short-barrel FAL used by actor Ian Yule (formally a member of the SAS and later a mercenary before becoming an actor) in the 1975 movie The Wild Geese. Earlier this year I [Read More…]
The BBC reports … A pistol held by Sean Connery as James Bond in a poster to promote the 1963 film From Russia With Love has sold at auction for £277,250. The Walther air pistol fetched more than 10 times its estimate of £15,000-£20,000 at Christie’s in [Read More…]
American Rifleman has selected their 10 Coolest Movie Guns. I think their selection is pretty good. I would personally have included the Desert Eagle Point Five Oh from Snatch. The Desert Eagle scene from Snatch always gives me a good laugh (Note: NSFW, may contain [Read More…]
The Last Samurai remains one of my favorite movies, although Tom Cruise’s antics in recent years make me cringe every time I see him on tv or in a firm. AIM Surplus is selling the 11mm Mauser M1871/84 rifles used in the movie. After being used on location in New [Read More…]
Guernsey’s is auctioning off the first rifle used by John Wayne in his first feature film The Big Trail (1930). This is an original Model 1863 percussion rifled musket made by the U.S. federal armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, for the Union Soldiers to use [Read More…]
Director Zhang Yimou is remaking the Coen brothers 1984 crime film Blood Simple. The trailer shows from interesting antique chinese guns including this three barrel derringer … I am looking forward to seeing the movie. It looks great. The trailer is embedded below [Read More…]
Cracked.com has a list of the top five Hollywood gun myths. The list seems to be written by someone who knows guns. Myth #3 is “Bulletproof Vests Are Magical Force Fields”. While myth annoys me, the “A Bulletproof Vest Being Hit Will Knock You Back Six [Read More…]
This snub nosed .357 Smith & Wesson Model 66 was used by Clint Eastwood in the 1984 movie Tightrope. This gun is part of the NRA National Firearms Museum’s “Hollywood guns” exhibit. This weeks Curators Corner episode discusses the history of the [Read More…]
This beautiful Remington Model 1858 revolver was used in the Clint Eastwood movie Pale Rider. This gun is part of the NRA National Firearms Museum’s “Hollywood guns” exhibit. You can watch a video about this gun at the museum’s website (under [Read More…]
The scenes in this movie are from the upcoming French film entitled “The Dodging Bullets”. Aurelien, a French military and firearm expert who frequently comments on the blog, was one of the film’s technical advisors. Good job Aurelien! Hopefully the [Read More…]
This weeks movie gun is the Colt Police Positive which was used in the 1934 detective film The Thin Man. The small frame double-action revolver was introduced by Colt in 1907. This beautiful specimen was engraved and presented to William Powell. You can learn more about [Read More…]
The upcoming Nation Firearm Museum Hollywood Guns exhibit would not be complete without guns from the 1988 classic Die Hard. The barrels are threaded so that a blank firing adapter can be inserted. The blank adapter increases the pressure inside the barrel allowing the [Read More…]
These are the actual guns were used in the movie The Departed (2006)! They are part of the upcoming Nation Firearm Museum Hollywood Guns exhibit. The latest episode of The Curator’s Corner discusses these guns and how they were modified to work with blanks (Click [Read More…]
Lars Dalseide, of the NRA, was kind enough to sent me photos of the two of the guns used in the movie Public Enemies. These guns will be on display at the upcoming Nation Firearm Museum Movie Guns exhibit. I was very surprised to learn that the bolt action used in the [Read More…]
This behind-the-scenes video shows the guns used in the movie Public Enemies. It includes footage of Johnny Depp at the range 🙂
The makers of the movie District 9 created a printable PDF “Prawn” target. It can be downloaded here. Another reader turned it into an printer friendly black-and-white image (The below image is just a thumbnail). It can be downloaded here. While on the topic [Read More…]
I did not like it. The trailer makes the film out to be about Nazi hunting but the “Bastards” seem less interested in finding Nazis than they are in mutilating any German solider they can find.
Last week I went to see the movie Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen and I really enjoyed it. It is not the type of movie that will provide intellectual stimulation, an emotional experience or give insight into human character, but it is very entertaining. For those [Read More…]
The “2019 Detective Special” prop gun from the movie Blade Runner has been auctioned off for $270,000! At first glance the gun looks to be some sort of auto-revolver. It is in fact a Steyr Mannlicher .222 Model SL rifle action and trigger group with some [Read More…]
Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) and André Baptiste Jr. (Sammi Rotibi) Charles “Chuckie” Taylor Jr, son of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, on whom the character André Baptiste Jr. in the movie “Lord of War” is based is now on trial in the US on [Read More…]
From BBC News: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the posters were not suitable to be seen by children. It added that the use of a glamorous actress, gun images and aspirational text “could glamorize violence”. Typical Hollywood trigger [Read More…]
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