Love Guaranteed is a harmless romantic comedy
A new romantic comedy hits Netflix in director Mark Steven Johnson’s Love, Guaranteed. The majority of gold-hearted lawyer Susan (Rachel Leigh Cook) involves pro-bono work. After a chance meeting with an endearing physical therapist Nick (Damon Wayans Jr.), Susan learns that Nick wants to hire her law firm. He wants to sue the dating app service, “Love Guaranteed.”
Followed is a promising debut from director Antione Le
Director Antoine Le makes a promising debut with his Followed from Global View Entertainment. The definitive definition of a social media influencer is a person or people who have built a reputation for their knowledge and expertise on a specific topic.
Single Review: Omar Wilson, “The Secret Garden” feat. Sisqó, Shawn Stockman & Raheem DeVaughn
One of the most iconic R&B songs of all time, “The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)” receives a 2020 cover version. The original version was from Quincy Jones’s Back On The Black album and featured American R&B singers Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, and Barry White.
Claustrophobia is front and center in Centigrade
IFC Midnight films bring the latest survival tale to the screen in Centigrade from director Brendan Walsh.
Welcome Back Wyld Stallyns
Iconic time-traveling duo Bill & Ted make a welcome to the big screen after a 29-year hiatus in Bill & Ted Face the Music from United Artists Releasing. Director Dean Parisot helms the threequel while the franchise’s regular screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon provide the screenplay.
Tesla is one of the worst biopics of 2020
IFC Films & Millennium Media bring the story of engineer and futurist Nikola Tesla to the screen in Tesla. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda, Tesla features a quirky performance by Ethan Hawke.
The 24th is a somber look at Houston riots of 1917
Oscar-winning screenwriter Kevin Willmott makes a return to the director’s chair for the first time in seven years in The 24th from Vertical Entertainment. Following the lead established by John Singleton’s still underrated Rosewood and the opening sequence from HBO’S Emmy nominated Watchmen, Willmott uses the film medium to highlight a little known history act involving racism bigotry.
Mindless fun entertainment in Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
2016 zombie action horror hit, Train to Busan receives a standalone sequel in Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula from Well Go USA. Yeon Sang-ho returns to the director’s chair for the sequel as does script scribe Joo-Suk Pak.
Unhinged is a taut & quick paced thriller worth the view
Russell Crowe takes the term “road rage” to a homicidal level in Solstice Studio’s Unhinged from director Derrick Borte. Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth opens the film showing the mentally unstable Tom Cooper (Crowe) preparing to commit a heinous act of violence.
Typical family entertainment in The Sleepover
Director Trish Sie takes a break from directing music-based films to helm the Netflix family comedy, The Sleepover. High school student Clancy (Sadie Stanley) leads a bleak and mundane life, only finding joy playing the cello in her school.
RZA continues to grow as a filmmaker with Cut Throat City
Hip Hop icon RZA dabbles in the heist film genre for this third feature film as a director Cut Throat City from Well Go USA Entertainment. Set in 2005 in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, Cut Throat City centers on longtime friends Blink (Shameik Moore), Miracle (Demetrius Shipp Jr.), Junior (Keean Johnaon) and Andre (Denzel Whitaker).
Project Power is a successful genre mashup
Netflix brings us a different kind of superhero tale in their latest film, Project Power. Directed by filmmaking duo Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, Project Power follows an unlikely triumvirate of heroes seeking to take down Teleios, a shady government organization responsible for the creation of a new drug called Power.