English Movie Review Silent Night - Cast & Crew

John Woo is a film director, producer, and writer. He was born on 1st May 1946. His hometown was in Guangzhou in China. At the age of five, he moved to Hong Kong due to the Revolution in China. Woo’s family’s financial condition was not stable. Therefore, he lived in a slum area near Shek Kip Mei. His dad was a teacher. His father suffered from tuberculosis. Woo’s mom was a worker on construction sites. In 1953, they had no home to live in because of a big fire at the Kip Mei. They managed to relocate with the help of some donations from management teams. By that time, crime and violence had increased.

Basil Iwanyk is a film producer from America. He is the founder of a production house named as Thunder Road Films. He was born on 4 January 1970 at Teaneck, New Jersey. Basil obtained his education from Villanova. Movies that he has produced are; K-19: The Widownmaker (2002), Basic (2003), If Only (2004), Welcome to Mooseport (2004), Laws of Attraction (2004), Mindhunters (2004), Firewall (2006), We Are Marshall (2006), Brooklyn’s Finest (2009), Clash of the Titans (2010), The Expendables (2010), The Town (2010), Wrath of the Titans (2012), The Expendables 2 (2012), The Expendables 3 (2012), John Wick (2014), Seventh Son (2014), Sicario (2015), Gods of Egypt (2016), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Wind River (2017), The Current War (2017), 24 Hours to Live (2017), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), A Private War (2018), and John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum. Iwanyk is popularly known for Sicario, The Town and the John Wick.  

Marco Beltrami is an American film composer. He is best known for his score music in horror movies like ‘Mimic,’ ‘The Woman in Black,’ ‘Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,’ ‘Resident Evil.’ He was a part of the movie ‘Scream’ and its franchise in collaboration with Wes Craven. He had been nominated twice for Academy Awards and had won the Satellite Award for Best Original Score. He was born in New York and went to Ward Melville High School. He did his graduation from Brown University. He did his learning in music from Yale School of Music. He later joined the USC Thornton School of Music which is in Los Angeles. Over there he studied under the famous composer Jerry Goldsmith. He did his first feature movie in 1994 which was Death Match and directed by Joe Coppolletta. He was very acclaimed for his work in the movie. His second project was in 1996 with ‘Scream.’ The movie was directed by Wes Craven and was a huge hit. After his two successful works, he had made up his name in the industry as a composer in thriller, horror and action genre. In 1997, he came up with ‘Mimic.’ His other movies include ‘The Faculty’ in 1998, ‘Joy Ride’ and ‘Angel Eyes’ in 2001. In 2002, he worked with Marilyn Manson in ‘Resident Evil,’ in the same year he came up with ‘Blade II.’ ‘I, Robot’ in 2004 and ‘Red Eye’ in 2005.

Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-native actor born on 25 November 1979. Joel was born in Stockholm and has a versatile ancestry. He was named Chares Joel Nordstrom Kinnaman by his parents at birth. Although he isa native of Sweden and was raised in the city of Stockholm, Joel holds dual citizenship- American and Swedish due to his parents. Kinnaman has a rich ancestry of an English, German, Scottish and Irish descent from his father’s side. Joel’s dad, Steve Kinnaman was an American soldier sent to Vietnam. He later left the army from its base in Bangkok. On the other side, Joel’smom was a descendant of the immigrant Ukrainian Jews who had moved to Sweden. By profession, she was a therapist. Joel had a big family with five sibling sisters.

Kid Cudi is a stage name of American actor and singer Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi. He got his stage name ‘Kid Cudi’ after the release of his first 'mixtape' or a home-made compilation of music “A Kid Named Cudi” (2008). Upon release of the mixtape, the singer got the attention of the hip-hop recording artist, songwriter, record producer Kanye Omari West. Karney had founded GOOD Music, a record label and management company that would go on to house many upcoming artistes and Karney signed Kid Cudi for his company in late 2008.