Toby Leach

BREAKING NEWS! 1980년 4월 30일 주 영국 이란 대사관 테러 발생! ‘아라비스탄 해방전선’ 소속 테러범 6명! 억류된 인질 26명! 런던 경찰청 소속 베테랑 협상가 ‘맥스(마크 스트롱)’는 테러범들과 협상을 시작하고, 극적인 순간 마다 위기를 모면하지만…한편에서는 테러범을 완벽하게 제압하기 위한 SAS 공수 특전단이 움직이며 그들을 이끄는 ‘러스티(제이미 벨)’가 언제든 작전이 이뤄질 수 있도록 계획을 세운다.

When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with fascination. They read like a plot of a Hollywood film or detective novel. Poison pen letters, satanic worship, a police hate crime, and a mysterious and violent pyromaniac. But little did the public know that as the truth emerged, the story was going to get far more bizarre, and the police would turn the focus of their investigation on one of their own.

On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.

GOOD FOR NOTHING is an adventurous romp set in the sweeping Old West from Mike Wallis in his directorial debut. Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns and celebrating the Western genre with an interesting twist, the film follows an odd romance and the resulting emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped.