Jovan Adepo and Grace Van Patten chemistry saves The Violent Heart
Jovan Adepo and Grace Van Patten portray Daniel and Cassie, a pair of star-crossed lovers in Gravitas Veritas’s The Violent Heart from director Keram Sanga. The film begins in the year 2004. Daniel (Jordan Preston Carter) is overtly happy that overjoyed that his military father Lee (Cress Williams) has returned home to his family.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is a decent vacay movie
Best Original Screenplay Oscar nominees Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo collaborate once again in Lionsgate’s Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Director Josh Greenbaum makes his feature directing debut and helms the film.
This cat & mouse game is no fun
Director Tim Story brings William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s legendary cat and mouse rivalry to the big screen in Warner Bros. Tom & Jerry. Set in Manhattan, the film introduces us to “Tom Cat” and his grand dreams of becoming a piano player. We get a chance to see Tom play his keyboard in Central Park, where he is a big hit.
Anchored by LaKeith Stanfield & Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah is the first must-see film of 2021
Following a fervent but brief portrayal by Kelvin Harrison Jr. in last year’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, Chairman Fred Hampton’s story is expanded in Warner Bros. Judas and the Black Messiah.
A trio of Oscar-winning actors deserve better than The Little Things
John Lee Hancock directs Oscar Winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto in Warner Bros Pictures, The Little Things. The film is set in the year 1990 and opens with an unnamed young lady as she avoids becoming the next victim of an unseen killer.
Somewhat strong performance elevate No Man’s Land above clichéd plot
Writer-director Conor Allyn teams up with his brother and actor Jake Allyn for the Western No Man’s Land from IFC Films. Border vigilante Bill Greer (Frank Grillo) and his son Jackson (Jake Allyn) are on patrol when Jackson accidentally kills a Mexican immigrant boy.
Talented Cast can’t save Brothers by Blood
Vertical Entertainment and director Jérémie Guez adapt the 1991 Pete Dexter novel Brotherly Love for the big screen in Brothers by Blood. In the City of Brotherly Love, eight-year-old Peter Flood (Nicholas Corvetti) helplessly watches as his little sister is killed by a neighbor’s reckless driving.
MLK/FBI Highlights The FBI’s Surveillance of the Civil Rights Icon
IFC Films and Field of Vision productions collaborate with director Samuel D. Pollard for the documentary MLK/FBI. Screenwriters Benjamin Hedin and Laura Tomaselli adapt the 2015 book The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From “Solo” to Memphis by David J. Garro for the documentary’s narrative structure.
Liam Nesson shoots and misses in The Marksman
Director Robert Lorenz places Liam Nesson back in action in The Marksman from Open Road Entertainment. Hardened Arizona rancher and ex-Marine sharpshooter Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone and enjoy retirement.
Nomadland is an arthouse Disney flick
The world of nomads is explored by director Chloé Zhao, who teams up with two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand for the film Nomadland from Searchlight Pictures. The film is an adaptation of the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder.
Promising Young Woman successfully explores revenge in the Me Too Era
Actress Emerald Fennell makes a stunning feature directorial debut in Focus Features, Promising Young Woman. The film opens with a trio of debaucherous males Jerry (Adam Brody), Jim (Ray Nicholson), and Paul (Sam Richardson), scoping the nightclub scene in search of someone to take home.
Greenland is a smart disaster flick
Director Ric Roman Waugh reunites with his Angel Has Fallen star Gerard Butler in STX Films Greenland. Structural engineer John Garrity (Gerard Butler) resides in Atlanta with his estranged wife, Allison (Morena Baccarin), and their diabetic son, Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd).