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THE MAJOR SALUTES: Catching Up With Actor And Filmmaker Alexander Nevsky

In case you’re just tuning in, I’ve kind of been on a roll in the past week or more with interviews and largely due to the cast of the upcoming crime thriller, Black Rose. With the film less than a week away from its release, I’ve interviewed co-stars Matthias Hues and Kristanna Loken, and as of today, a new interview with its star and director, Alexander Nevsky in this following our interview last year in January. He’s got more films lined up and he discusses them accordingly as well in the text beneath, in addition to plans for a new book now well on the way to publication for health and fitness aficionados. Interestingly, he also hints at some possible prospects for the character he plays and that of others in the murder mystery millieu within Black Rose; you can read our latest review by clicking here while I humbly invite you to […]

KILLER PROFILE: A Word With Actress Kristanna Loken

Lee B. Golden III

Kristanna Loken in Black Rose The past year or so have lended an ample opportunity to familiarize myself with the work of actor and producer Alexander Nevsky in lieu of his upcoming April 28 U.S. release, Black Rose. The film marks his directorial debut wherein he also stars in a formula slightly different from his usually known action star persona from his film career in Russia, and joined by none other than actress Kristanna Loken. With the film a little over a week away from its limited theatrical release courtesy of ITN, we’ve already had the pleasure of sharing questions with one of the film’s guest stars, actor Matthias Hues in which he delves deeply into his career history, progression and plans for the future. The same goes for Loken who now takes center stage in this week’s interview following Hues which also briefly highlights something interesting about the new […]

WORKING IN ACTION, LIVING IN PEACE: An Interview With Actor Matthias Hues

Lee B. Golden III

One of the biggest aspects of operating my site has been earning the opportunity to trade some Q&A jabs with actors I never once in a million years would have thought I would be in touch with. Looking at actor Matthias Hues, really he has to be one of the few people in my purview whose career dates back to a tine when movies arrived on VHS and had to be rewound, which really makes sharing conversational space in this capacity quite the honor. I’ve grown up watching Hues as part of my thriving childhood with film, my first experience being watching him go toe-to-toe with Dolph Lundgren in Craig Baxley’s 1990 sci-fi action thriller, I Come In Peace (a.k.a. Dark Angel) It’s one of the most thrilling and memorable moments of the halcyon days of American action filmlore and I never really thought about the prospects of a sequel […]

Review: BLACK ROSE Flourishes With Murder Mystery Thrills And Stateside Filmic Appeal

Lee B. Golden III

The last several years have been tremendous brain food for me in learning about various filmmakers from around the world and even getting acquainted with some of them in the process. They’ve all been delightful surprises in some degree or another, much like multifaceted Russian bodybuilding exponent, actor and producer Alexander Nevsky who has kept himself weighing in frequently as the latest in action stardom in his own making for close to two decades. His latest brings us to his directorial inaugration, Black Rose, for a familiar, albeit doable murder mystery narrative that largely functions as you would hope. The film doesn’t waste time identifying itself as you are instantly immersed into a world where a presumably Russian serial killer is on the loose in Hollywood, stalking women, torturing and murdering them, and then leaving cryptic notes and black roses with their corpses. Lead detective Matt (Adrian Paul) is running […]

Alexander Nevsky Thriller, BLACK ROSE, Gets An April Outing In The U.S.

Lee B. Golden III

Don’t fall asleep on multifaceted action star/producer/director Alexander Nevsky. His latest U.S. release with the long-awaited thriller, Black Rose, is finally poised for a North American release with word of ITN Distribution’s acquisition of the film hailing from Nevsky’s Hollywood Storm banner. The film, which opens in the U.S. on April 28, is a mix of what our own James Couche described in his review as, among other things, “a gutsy move for a first-time director” in his debut following a spate of locally produced action thrillers in his native Russia, and here with a more cerebral formula in the vein of Red Heat. Nevsky is joined by Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines), and actors Adrian Paul, Robert Davi and Matthias Hues for the story of a Russian police major who sets out to bolster the LAPD’s investigation into a series of gruesome murders of young women […]

BLACK ROSE (2016): Alexander Nevsky Charms With Bygone Action Hero Gravitas

The name Alexander Nevsky first pinged my radar in the mid 2000’s. I came across a DVD of Moscow Heat in a Hollywood Video (remember those?) and decided to take a chance on its unsubtle box art and eclectic cast (Michael York in a modern action movie, sign me up!). What I got was an 80s throwback actioner in the vein of early Schwarzenegger starring writer/producer/Russian Schwarzenegger, Alexander Nevsky. The film was a good pre-Isaac Florentine DTV actioner that wore its 80s influences on its sleeve. What really struck me about it was the infectious enthusiasm that Nevsky brought to the film; he was an action movie fanatic making movies for other action movie fanatics. A few years later I stumbled across Nevsky’s next opus, Treasure Raiders; a wild (if uneven) mix of National Treasure, the Fast and The Furious, the DaVinci Code with a heavy dose of 80s action. […]

Alexander Nevsky's BLACK ROSE Buds With Exclusive New Photos!

Lee B. Golden III

With debut director and rising action star Alexander Nevsky (Moscow Heat, Treasure Raiders) fresh from the successful market sales of his 2014 overseas hit, Black Rose, release dates remain pending for 17 countries around the world. The film represents the next stage of Nevsky‘s career ascension stemming from his successes in Russia as a three-time Mr. Universe winner before establishing himself as a notable film producer, and with particular adherance to a certain goal. The film stars Nevsky along with actress Kristanna Loken, actors Adrian Paul, Matthias Hues and Robert Davi from a script and story Nevsky wrote which centers on a cop from Moscow as he travels to Los Angeles to aid the apprehension of a brutal serial killer. Along with producer and action movie veteran Sheldon Lettich (Double Impact, The Order and Rambo 3) Black Rose is just one of several films in which he aims at shedding […]

Alexander Nevsky's Action Debut, BLACK ROSE, Gets A New International Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Following its 2013 trailer and subsequent release in Russia early last year, a new trailer has surfaced for actor Alexander Nevsky‘s directorial debut, Black Rose. The film arrives in the wake of a fantastic career in bodybuilding for Nevsky who has since self-founded his own studio, Hollywood Storm, with the added benefit of being dubbed as the Russian Schwarzenegger for action fans today, and rightly so. Actress Kristanna Loken joins Nevsky with a story that centers on a Russian police major recruited by the LAPD to catch a sadistic serial killer. You might not have gotten that from the first trailer which focuses on a much more action-oriented narrative, but the new footage now online as of last week fleshes out more of a concentrated and cerebral tone in its formula to accomodate the action that ensues. However, for the sake of discretion, let’s put it this way: two kickass […]