Apple TV has debuted the trailer for their Limited Series Lessons in Chemistry, which is based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Garmus and stars Brie Larson as Elzabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist turned famous TV host, who decides to use her platform to challenge women’s stereotypes in the ’50s. Starring alongside Larson is Lewis […]
Movie Review – A Little White Lie (2023)
A Little White Lie, 2023. Written and Directed by Michael Maren. Starring Michael Shannon, Peyton List, Kate Hudson, Perry Mattfeld, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Zach Braff, Aja Naomi King, Natasha Hall, David Cade, Benjamin King, Mark Boone Junior, Don Johnson, M. Emmet Walsh, Adhir Kalyan, Jimmi Simpson, Kate Linder, Reid Miller, Romy Byrne, Spencer Squire, and […]
Michael Shannon is Shriver in trailer for A Little White Lie
Saban Films has released a poster and trailer for A Little White Lie, the upcoming comedy based on Chris Belden’s novel Shriver. Written and directed by Michael Maren, the film stars Michael Shannon as Shriver, a down on his luck handyman who is mistaken for a famous reclusive author and accepts an invitation to attend […]
Movie Review – Sylvie’s Love (2020)
Sylvie’s Love, 2020. Written and Directed by Eugene Ashe. Starring Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendy McLendon-Covey, and Jemima Kirke. SYNOPSIS: An upper-middle-class girl working in her father’s record store meets an aspiring saxophone player in 1950s Harlem. Sylvie’s Love is a period romance movie that exists in a world where […]
Movie Review – The 24th (2020)
The 24th, 2020. Directed by Kevin Willmott. Starring Trai Byers, Bashir Salahuddin, Aja Naomi King, Mo McRae, Tosin Morohunfola, Mykelti Williamson, Thomas Haden Church, Lorenzo Yearby, David King, Cuyle Carvin, Jim Klock, Cranston Johnson, Tony Demil, Joseph Lee Anderson, Derek Russo, Tyshon Freeman, Tanya Chisholm, Michael Rose, Bruce McKinnon, Troy Rudeseal, Matt Burke, and Rhoda […]
Houston Riot drama The 24th gets a trailer and poster
Ahead of its release later this month, Vertical Entertainment has unveiled a poster and trailer for The 24th, a drama telling the timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal […]
Movie Review – The Upside (2019)
The Upside, 2019. Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman, Aja Naomi King, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Julianna Margulies and Tate Donovan. SYNOPSIS: An ex-con unwittingly finds himself employed as the live-in carer for a quadriplegic businessman. People probably get a little bit too angry about English language remakes of foreign films. […]
Movie Review – The Upside (2018)
The Upside, 2018. Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Tate Donovan, Golshifteh Farahani, Julianna Margulies, and Aja Naomi King. SYNOPSIS: When a wealthy man with quadriplegia (Bryan Cranston) employs an ex-convict (Kevin Hart) with no experience as his carer, it sets them both on an unexpected path of friendship and discovery. […]
The Intouchables remake has been renamed The Upside
The Weinstein Company announced yesterday it has given its remake of the French film The Intouchables a new title. Starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Jumanji’s Kevin Hart, the remake is now going by the title The Upside. Nicole Kidman, Julianna Margulies and Aja Naomi King are also starring in the film. Based on a true story, the film chronicles the […]
60th BFI London Film Festival Review – The Birth of a Nation (2016)
The Birth of a Nation, 2016. Directed by Nate Parker. Starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley. SYNOPSIS: Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an […]
