Just over a week ago, Amazon Prime posted a very unusual “teaser.” On Saturday, July 27, a video appeared with the title “Meet our Fellowship.” Amazon was introducing us to the team which has been assembled for the new Lord of the Rings series which is supposed to hit Prime Video sometime in 2021. Both…
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, Batman: Hush brings all of the main heroes and villains from the Batman universe together in a direct-to-home media story. With voice work by Jason O’Mara, Jennifer Morrison, Jerry O’Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Rainn Wilson, and others, the film’s visuals seamlessly…
Tarek Mounib, the producer and coordinator of Free Trip to Egypt, is a Canadian-born Muslim entrepreneur and filmmaker who had an idea. Largely because of the way they are portrayed in the media, he felt that many people have such a skewed view of Middle Eastern countries. So, Mounib decided that he wanted to bring…
Astronaut tells the story of Angus (Richard Dreyfuss), a lonely widower who feels like his life seems over when he moves into a retirement home. Feeling worthless and alone, Angus?s enthusiasm is reignited when a competition is announced for a seat on the first commercial flight to space. Despite the fact that he?s well beyond…
It?s difficult to put The Mountain from writer director Rick Alverson into a familiar category. Drama doesn?t seem to say quite enough. It borders at times on surrealism, but there is also a strong sense of reality
?You have three choices: die young, life in prison, or start talking.?– Daryle Lamont Jenkins Watching Guy Nattiv?s Skin is like watching brutally violent, incredibly profane lyrical poetry on screen. As white supremacist Bryon Widner, Jaime Bell delivers the performance of the year, re-enacting the racist, sexist, profane twenties of a real-life bigot. While a…
In Deon Taylor’s (Traffik) The Intruder terror is aimed at suburbia, with young African Americans Scott and Annie Howard (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) buying the home of older white Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid), who has a serious obsession with nothing about his home changing. But that is only the beginning of a horrific downward…
Kelly Asbury, the director of Shrek 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, and Smurfs: The Lost Village, has a background as a story artist on films like Toy Story, Beauty & the Beast, Kung-Fu Panda, Madagascar, and a host of other films you’ve seen. But the fifty-nine-year-old director still remembers what it was like to be left…
The emotional ghosts of the past are the driving force of the melodramatic The Price for Silence. Our first images of protagonist Kira Flynn (Lynn Mancinelli) make it clear that she is suffering PTSD centered in the emotional wounds of rape. It is not just her recurring dreams about the rape, but also her behavior,…
The Art of Self-Defensetells the story of timid bookkeeper Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), a timid bookkeeper who joins a local karate studio to learn how to protect himselfafter he?s beaten mercilessly one night by a roving motorcycle gang.?Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), and hardcore brown belt Anna (Imogen Poots), Casey…
