Jason Sudeikis’ Ted Lasso is my spirit animal. I want to be like him when I grow up. Maybe not the mustache and disdain for English tea… In the third season, which fans have had to wait over a year for, Ted Lasso delivers his son to the airport, and begins to question why he…
Sports films can become pretty formulaic – underdog team trains hard, persists through a beautiful sweaty montage, and beats the big-time school with its big-time players. In the new documentary All In: Miracle at St. Bernard’s takes the action on the field into a bigger stage where the fate of a Catholic high school hangs…
Not everyone smoothly segues from stage direction to cinematic work, as the touch and feel of the different mediums vary in nuanced ways. But in Lila Neugebauer’s transition from the theater to her film debut, she pulls off an intimate feeling film that explores serious subjects in our society today with a delicate touch that…
Four Christmas favorites arrived last week in stunning 4K HD. Now old fans and fans-in-the-making can tackle the stories of Ralphie, Buddy, Clark, and Billy, in the highest clarity possible. Read on for special features and brief synopses – just in case you’ve been stuck in the woods without internet or television for the last…
In Lila Neugebauer’s directorial debut, Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey, a recently discharged U.S. soldier who must sort through her emotional, mental, and physical state as she returns to her hometown. Lynsey’s story is complicated, not just because of the side effects of her tour, but because she’s estranged from her mother and her brother. Her…
ScreenFish sat down with screenwriter, director and star Bill McCann to discuss his biopic The Liberator about Daniel O?Connell, the nineteenth century political leader whose faith shaped the actions he fought for in court and in the countryside of Ireland. Bill McCann admits that when it comes to Daniel O?Connell, he?s obsessed. Spending a year…
The arc of John Ridley?s career reaches back into the early 1990s where he wrote for shows like Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and others, as well as cinematic features Three Kings and Undercover Brother. But his 2013 Academy Award-winning turn as the writer of 12 Years A Slave, coupled with his writing on…
Idris Elba has a captivating presence, as evident by his roles in the Thor films or his starring turn as Luther. But in Beast, a man versus animal feature set in a South African game preserve, Elba shows exactly the range of his acting chops in an exciting showdown with a lion with his family…
Prequels are tricky things. They come with the baggage of expectations based on the films that at one time exist as THE story and eventually become the later portions of the story once the prequels take root. Sci-fi fans have seen this played out in the prequels of the Star Wars films, and now, thanks…
Paws of Fury is the best animated film – maybe one of the best films period – I’ve seen in the last several years. The Legend of Hank tells the story of Hank (Michael Cera), a wannabe samurai who is cursed with being the wrong species – a dog – in a land where only…
