David Ayer
  • Movie Review: 'Street Kings'

    ...the TV show "The Shield," among many others, into one overly familiar, extremely bloody package. The director, David Ayer, wrote the screenplay for "Training Day" - and you can see that movie's fingerprints all over this one, especially......

  • 'The Earth Stood Still' for Keanu Reeves

    ...Lake House" and "A Scanner Darkly." The "Matrix" and "Feeling Minnesota " star has just completed work on David Ayer's "The Night Watchman" for 20th Century's specialty division Fox Searchlight....

  • 'Wanted' and 'Watchman' Employ Common Sense

    ...James Ellroy's "The Night Watchman" (a film the other trade paper thinks has been retitled "Night Watch"). The David Ayer-directed film features Keanu Reeves as a disgraced cop going head-to-head with his mentor ( Forest Whitaker......

  • 'House' Star Works the 'Night' Shift

    ...Golden Globe -winning run on "House." Laurie has booked a key supporting role in the James Ellroy-scripted, David Ayer-directed thriller "Night Watch," set up at Fox Searchlight. In addition to Laurie, the long-gestating film......

  • Fox Wants Forest in 'Night'

    ...opposite Keanu Reeves in Fox Searchlight's "The Night Watchman." According to the industry trade papers, David Ayer ("Harsh Times") will begin directing the James Ellroy-scripted procedural on May 21. That's already nearly a......

  • Reeves on 'Watchman' Duty

    ...but he is taking starring duty in "The Night Watchman," another long-gestating project. According to Variety, David Ayer ("Harsh Times") will direct the James Ellroy-scripted drama , which has attracted and baffled a slew of A......

  • 'Harsh Times'

    ...Harsh Times," is almost a good, salty urban thriller. With a lot of initial kick and attitude, writer-director David Ayer takes us on a violent, catastrophic ride down some of Los Angeles ' meaner streets with a bunch of bad-mouthed......