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...
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...
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...
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...
Opulent-spending David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are vacationing in Morocco when they commit a tragic accident. Director John Michael McDonagh's cinematic translation of Lawrence Osborne's book of the same name reveals the way that the...
Liam Neeson has mastered the art of growling his lines out, reflective of the persona he has been developing since he dropped Taken on us, and the particular set of skills he unleashed on traffickers who threatened his daughter. Yes, he's deviated from the norm with...
While I've never read any of Australian author Aaron Blabey's books for kids, the animated trailer for Universal Pictures' The Bad Guys was full of flashy characters and witty one-liners, drawing me into its flair. Watching the film provided an additional realization:...
When I first met Wes Miller, it was 2016 and he was the writer/director of Prayer Never Fails, a little film about a basketball coach who gets in hot water for praying with one of his players. The film didn?t blow critics away, but I noticed that Miller moved known...
Best known for playing Sam Anderson on The Walking Dead, Major Dodson has also appeared in Revolution and American Horror Story. This March, he's starring in Kim Bass' Tyson's Run as an autistic teenager named Tyson, alongside Amy Smart, Rory Cochrane, and Layla...