Posted on April 7, 2016 at 8:14 am
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, and Forest Whitaker. It’s clear from the storm troopers and the musical theme that we’re in the “Star Wars” universe, but these are new characters and a new look inside the rebel forces. It opens in December, and I’m already counting the days.
Posted on April 5, 2016 at 1:13 pm
The faith-based action drama “The Masked Saint” is now available on VOD. The film won the award for Best Picture at the International Christian Film Festival in 2015.
Inspired by true events in the life of former wrestler and pastor Chris Whaley, and based on his bestselling book, “The Masked Saint” follows the life journey of Chris Samuels (Cliff Granstaff) and his wife (Lara Jean Chorostecki). After retiring from the professional wrestling ring and settling down as a small town pastor, Samuels witnesses rampant crime and serious problems in the community. Tapping into his past, the pastor decides to moonlight as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. When crises hit at home and the church, the do-gooder must evade the police and somehow reconcile his secret, violent identity with his calling as a preacher.
We are pleased to present an exclusive clip, as Chris makes his first sermon in his new church.
Posted on April 4, 2016 at 6:38 pm
“No Letting Go” is a new film about a boy who struggles with mental illness and the impact that it has on his family. The film stars Kathy Najimy, Janet Hubert , Alysia Reiner, Jared Gilman, Richard Burgi, and Noah Fleiss. It is based on a short film called “Illness,” and gives a voice to millions of people who have suffered alone and in silence with mental illness. We are pleased to be able to present this clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ombsrRUZUgQ
Posted on April 3, 2016 at 9:37 am
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw writes:
Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile – Garrone worked on the adaptation with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent. The sort of film, in fact, which is the whole point of Cannes. It immerses you in a complete created world.
Ovid is mulched in with Hansel, Gretel, the Beauty, the Beast, the Prince, the Pauper, in no real order. At times, Garrone seemed to have taken inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni’s own fabular tale The Mystery of Oberwald – at others, it felt like he had deeply inhaled the strange and unwholesome odour still emanating from Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales. But there’s also a bit of John Boorman’s Excalibur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blackadder, The Company of Wolves, the Tenniel illustrations for Alice in Wonderland… and Shrek.
Posted on April 1, 2016 at 12:00 pm
“The April Fools,” starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve, is featured in my book, 101 Must-See Movie Moments, for a scene where Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve (he’s an unhappy executive; she’s his boss’s unhappy trophy wife) meet a happily married older couple played by Myrna Loy and Charles Boyer.
Happy April!
