Television
Ballers Season 2: The Rock Cooks on HBO
Is there anything that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can’t do? The former University of Miami Hurricane, the ex-WWE superstar, the hot commodity of?Fast & Furious, the comedic talent of?Central Intelligence… Johnson delivers as HBO’s headliner in?Ballers as Stephen Strasmore, sports agent. Directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights,?Patriots Day,?Deepwater Horizon), the show highlights the realities,…
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman S2E3: Just Look
Freeman introduces a number of ways people find personal proofs for God. By slowing down, stopping, and looking around, we can see them.
The Monster: The Power of the Light
Bryan Bertino wrote and directed?The Strangers, and now reunites with Scott Speedman to deliver?The Monster, a close-up on the relationship between a mother and her estranged daughter trapped in a dark wood. Alcoholic Kathy (Zoe Kazan) is taking her daughter Lizzy (Ella Ballentine) to her ex-husband’s for his custodial visit, with the intent to leave…
USS Indianapolis, Men of Courage:
Since directing?New Jack City?and?Posse?in the early 1990s, Mario Van Peebles has mostly made a way through directing episodes of well-know television shows (NCIS,?Lost, Once Upon a Time, Empire). But with?USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, he directs a nearly made-for-TV film starring Nicholas Cage as real-life Captain Charles McVay, who finds his cruiser torpedoed and sunk…
Heaven or Hell – The Story of God With Morgan Freeman S2E2
In the second episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, the focus is the afterlife?and it seems to bring up more questions than provide answers.
Mars Ep. 6 – The Cost
Manned space exploration has been stuck in orbit around our own planet for nearly fifty years. Is it time to change all that?
American Gothic – the Complete Series: Family Politics
Corinne Brinkerhoff worked her way through the television production process, producing and writing on shows like?The Good Wife?and?Elementary, before creating her own series,?American Gothic, in 2016. Filled with intrigue, family drama, and political machinations, the show lasted one season (thirteen episodes) on CBS, asking primarily two questions: who is the Silver Bells Killer, and who…
Mars Ep. 5 – The Importance of Community
Space life is, in many ways, like being in prison, only with (hopefully) nicer individuals to deal with.
Quarry Season One: Welcome Home, Veterans
Quarry, the latest Cinemax original series, details the life and times of Mac Conway, a Vietnam vet who returns home to a less-than-happy homecoming in 1972. Set in Memphis, the show pulls back any curtain of glamorized war, showing the rough welcome that the Marine receives – and the way he struggles to re-enter the…