Russell Crowe leads the charge at movie theaters with thriller ‘Unhinged’

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Some movie theaters are opening again on July 10 — if you’re going. Russell Crowe leads the charge with “Unhinged,” which is a road-rage thriller with his bad temper in overdrive. Director Derrick Borte: “It centers on the darker tendencies that lurk inside many humans. We’ve all had ‘bad days,’ and this goes to the …

Some movie theaters are opening again on July 10 — if you’re going.

Russell Crowe leads the charge with “Unhinged,” which is a road-rage thriller with his bad temper in overdrive.

Director Derrick Borte: “It centers on the darker tendencies that lurk inside many humans. We’ve all had ‘bad days,’ and this goes to the extreme.”

Russell: “This movie scares the s - - t out of me. The character is intensely dark. Hearing what comes out of my mouth, I was like whoaaa! Since when did I stop doing stuff like that? Used to be that’s basically what I looked for.”

Crowe’s character compares to the shark from “Jaws.” Lethal, unpredictable, stealthy, creepy. His character is unnamed. He’s just the Man.

Russell: “He’s terrifying. When he begins, he comes up from behind. We don’t know where he is, then he gets closer and closer, strikes and disappears again until the next time he’s after his prey.”

What he means, who knows? First reaction to the script is also who knows.

He can’t resist

Jon Stewart’s political comedy “Irresistible,” with Steve Carell, Rose Byrne and Chris Cooper, is coming to homes instead of theaters.

Stewart, a comedian before he turned political pro, directs and says: “I like to be behind the camera instead of in front of it. Because when I’m prancing around wearing my makeup, I’m usually doing it for fun.” I believe that was a joke.

Please pay attention

The face mask someone climbed up to stick onto Eleanor Roosevelt’s West 72nd 12-foot bronze statue face? It’s rainbow-colored. Just letting you know.

Also, from a former Horace Mann student: “I was in Bill Barr’s class. He was no racist or bully, but a quiet studious guy trying to be a good fellow.” OK.

And chef David Burke joins Honest Plate home delivery food in the Hamptons and it’s now expanding to Greenwich, Conn. He says: “Home dining is the future.”

Plus history. HRH Princess Ashraf’s Beekman Place townhouse just sold. From it, the Shah’s twin sister asked me to visit the New York hospital room of Iran’s newly exiled and ailing Shah-in-Shah.

I’d repeatedly visited his Tehran palace, Sadabad, and was flown out of her upcountry Isfahan hotel when hostilities began and when my friend, Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor, helped rescue six Americans. The daring rescue was immortalized in Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning film “Argo.”

I spent two hours with His Majesty in his hospital room. No nurses, no doctors, no aides, no photographers. Next day, Dec. 3, 1979, was my first story for the New York Post. A world exclusive front-page interview with the dying Shah.
And it all began in Princess Ashraf’s Beekman Place townhouse.

Listen, here’s what I’m hearing

Businesses shut — but looters with access steal from them . . . Can’t practice religion in them — but rioters can pillage sanctuaries . . . Punish the cops — but not the anarchists . . . Release violent criminals because jails unsafe due to CV . . . Wait to collect unemployment — but there’s money to pay government officials. None been laid off . . . Seniors die alone in nursing homes — but families cannot visit . . . Protesters decimating areas where locals now lack a grocery store . . . Soldiers wounded invading Omaha Beach, tortured as Vietnamese POWs — now facing hate in their own country . . . Celebs in 10,000-square-foot gated mansions shouting down the USA and fund-raising for rioters — not for citizens who’ve lost all. (Wherever “Seven Hills” is, its former mayor David Bentkowski suggested this.)

And it’s not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.