Showtime has released the first trailer for George & Tammy, the limited drama series from creator Abe Sylvia and director John Hillcoat (The Road). Based on Georgette Jones’ biography The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, the series stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon as country music power couple Tammy Wynette and […]
Blu-ray Review – Out of Sight (1998)
Out of Sight, 1998. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks, Michael Keaton, and Steve Zahn. SYNOPSIS: Steven Soderbergh’s electric classic Out of Sight — part heist caper and part rom-com — arrives on Blu-ray again with a print based on a new 4K master […]
Neil Patrick Harris has NES nostalgia in trailer for festive comedy 8-Bit Christmas
Warner Bros. has released a poster and trailer for 8-Bit Christmas, the upcoming festive comedy from director Michael Dowse, which follows 10 year old Jake on his quest to get his hands on a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas in late 1980s Chicago; check them out here… Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, […]
Rusty Nail vs Candy Cane: Revisiting Joy Ride at 20
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at 2001’s Joy Ride… Terror on the highways. A cat and mouse chase as unsuspecting folk wending their merry way across the long American highways, get targeted by a mysterious stalker. It worked in Duel when Steven Spielberg announced himself as a film-maker who might just be something special. […]
HBO’s The White Lotus gets a new trailer and poster
HBO has released a new poster and trailer for The White Lotus, the upcoming social satire series from writer-director Mike White which follows the vacations of various hotel guests and the cheerful staff over the span of a week at an exclusive Hawaiian resort; take a look here… The series follows the vacations of various […]
Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)
Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale, Stephen Root, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: Accompanied by his teenage niece, a gay literature professor reluctantly returns home to attend his father’s funeral. For lack of a better phrase, I am the “Uncle […]
Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)
Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Stephen Root, Peter Macdissi, Margo Martindale, Caity Brewer, Lois Smith, and Cole Doman. SYNOPSIS: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family […]
Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in trailer for Uncle Frank
Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Alan Ball’s 70s-set drama Uncle Frank which stars Sophia Lillis as Beth, a young woman who leaves her rural town to study at New York University where her beloved uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a literature professor, she soon discovers he is gay and […]
Movie Review – Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, 2019. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Cate Blanchett, Emma Nelson, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Troian Bellisario, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, James Urbaniak, Claudia Doumit, Kate Easton, Lana Young, Zoe Chao, Megan Mullally, and Steve Zahn. SYNOPSIS: A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Blaze
Blaze, 2018. Directed by Ethan Hawke. Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, David Kallaway, Richard Linklater, Jenn Lyon, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Ritchie Montgomery, Wyatt Russell, D. Taylor Loeb, and Kris Kristofferson. SYNOPSIS: A biopic of the largely unknown country musician Blaze Foley, charting his tumultuous life, from his early marriage to his short but […]
