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ARCHENEMY Blu-Ray Review: Superheroes, Shotgun Shells and Strangeness Abound

ARCHENEMY is hard to classify. It’s partially a superhero tale. The main character afterall, Max (played by Joe Manganiello), certainly thinks he’s one. Buy him a few drinks at the local bar and he’ll spout off tales of space cities, giant robots, and evil scientists. He’ll also tell you how he was thrown from that dimension, where he was practically a god, into ours where he is now just a powerless, broken-down wino. ARCHENEMY is also a gritty drama, at least that’s how it feels for Hamster (Skylan Brooks) and his sister, Melissa (Jessica Allain), two young adults trying to survive in a world on their own. Hamster dreams of being a journalist and Melissa- she’s only concerned with keeping food on their table, even if it means working for the local drug kingpin (Glenn Howerton). When Hamster stumbles across Max in an alley, he sees a chance at […]

ARCHENEMY: Catch Joe Manganiello In The Dark Fantasy Crime Thriller This February On DVD And Blu-Ray From RLJE

Lee B. Golden III

AMC Networks’s RLJE Films officially announced its DVD and Blu-Ray release of dark fantasy thriller, Archenemy, for February 16, 2021. The film is directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer (Daniel Isn’t Real, Some Kind of Hate), and stars Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”), Skylan Brooks (“Empire”), Zolee Griggs (“Wu-Tang: An American Saga”), Paul Scheer (“Black Monday”), Amy Seimetz (Pet Semetary) and Glenn Howerton (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). Archenemy released in select theaters late last year following its limited festival run. The film sees Manganiello in then role of Max Fist, a homeless, local drunk who espouses to anyone willing to listen, about his former life as a superhero on the planet Chromium prior to falling into wormhole through time and space, and landing on Earth only to lose his powers. The only one paying any attention at this stage is Hamster (Skylan Brooks), an hungry street reporter vying for a new […]

ARCHENEMY Review: An Abstract Superhero Drama Wrapped In Intrigue And Explosive, Gritty Crime Thrills

Lee B. Golden III

It’s an interesting time for superhero movies. Indeed you have the studio level tentpoles for Marvel, DC and the nascent Valiant label, but if you’re a genre director on the other hand, like Daniel Isn’t Real helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer, your eye is definitely on something more subversive and atypical like other films of late. Mortimer’s latest, Archenemy, marks the director’s latest stake in the nontraditional, casting Joe Manganiello as Max Fist, a superhero jettisoned to our planet after staving off a disaster that threatened his own just light years away. Powerless and rapidly aged by fifteen years due to the planet’s atmosphere, Max is fallen beyond far from grace; He’s homeless, derilect, resigned to a daily routine of public drunkenness and angry stupor when he’s not at the bar retelling the same story of how he came to be to patrons who don’t believe him, least of all the […]

ARCHENEMY Trailer And Poster: Whatever You Do, Don’t Say The Word ‘Super’ Around Joe Manganiello

Lee B. Golden III

Currently set to screen for this year’s Fuck Covid Edition of Beyond Fest, the Adam Egypt Mortimer-directed Joe Manganiello starrer, Archenemy, is slated for an on-demand, digital and select-theatrical release on December 11. Thus, RLJE Films has dropped the official trailer which you can now view above, as well as the official poster, designed by Christian Ward. In ARCHENEMY, Max Fist (Manganiello) claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager. Also starring are Skylan Brooks (“Empire”), Zolee Griggs (“W-Tang: An American Saga”), Amy Seimetz (Pet Semetary) and Glenn Howerton (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”).

ARCHENEMY: Official Trailer World Premiere This Tuesday

Lee B. Golden III

Though his DC movieverse prospects may have taken a backseat, actor Joe Manganiello will still get his superhero thrills on in one form or another in the gritty new fantasy crime thriller, Archenemy. Currently set to screen for this year’s Fuck Covid Edition of Beyond Fest, the Adam Egypt Mortimer-directed pic is slated for an on-demand, digital and select-theatrical release on December 11. Thus, RLJE Films has dropped a trailer tease to put the word out ahead of the world premiere for the official trailer on Tuesday, October 6. Mortimer directs from his own script, starring Manganiello as Max Fist, who claims to be a hero from another dimension, having fallen through time and space only to land on Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate […]

ARCHENEMY: RLJE To Release New Superpowered Fantasy Thriller This December

Lee B. Golden III

Daniel Isn’t Real helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s new fantasy thriller, Archenemy, will release theatrically, on digital and on-demand beginning December 11, from AMC’s RLJE Films. Festival attendees currently making plans to catch the film earlier may do so for BeyondFest world premiere on October 2, and at Sitges beginning October 8. Mortimer produces, as well as directs from his own script, with a story led by actor Joe Manganiello (True Blood) who also produces. In the film, Manganiello plays Max Fist, who claims to be a hero from another dimension after falling through time and space to land on Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager. Storied by Mortimer, and by Lucas Passmore (No Good Heroes), Archenemy […]

ARCHENEMY Trailer Sees Joe Manganiello As A Powerless Superhero Facing His Greatest Battle Yet

Lee B. Golden III

I have a feeling we’re gonna see a few superhero-driven narratives in the year to come – the kind centered on superheroes out of their element only to be pulled back into the fray when duty calls. Such is the case for Daniel Isn’t Here helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s new film, Archenemy, which Voltage Pictures revealed this week in the form of an official trailer, firstly revealed by Variety Max Fist was the greatest hero of a vast city in another universe. He saved his world from destruction but crashed through space and time… and wound up here – a desolate American suburb. Powerless, a broken drunk telling stories about his glory days — stories that no one believes, until he meets Hamster, a kid who wants to be a famous writer who believes Max’s story. Max finally has someone who believes him, and Hamster has someone who he thinks […]

ARCHENEMY Revs Up For Joe Manganiello From Voltage And ‘Mandy’, ‘Color Out Of Space’ Producers

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Joe Manganiello (Sabotage) is still holding up despite not ever getting to don the costume of Deathstroke for Warner Bros. The actor will be starring in Archenemy from writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer, hailing from SpectreVision with Voltage Pictures launching international sales. Archenemy is the story of Max Fist, who claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager. Mortimer created the story with Lucas Passmore. Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood will produce under SpectreVision (Color Out Of Space, Mandy) with Stacy Jorgensen exec producing. Voltage Pictures’ Babacar Diene (Ava, Fathers & Daughters) will exec produce with Kim Sherman producing. “Archenemy […]