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.
A Routine plot & uninspired choreography hurt dance flick, Work It
Actress Sabrina Carpenter gets her dance on in her first Netflix film, the coming of age dance flick Work It. Directed by Laura Terruso and written by Alison Peck, Work It tells the story of Quinn Ackerman (Carpenter), an overachieving senior who dreams of attending Duke University.
Nia Long & Omar Epps save Fatal Affair from mediocrity
Director Peter Sullivan reunites Nia Long and Omar Epps on screen for the first since 1999’s In Too Deep with Netflix’s latest film, Fatal Affair.
The ladies shoot first in Netflix’s The Old Guard
Film director Gina Prince-Bythewood makes history as the first African American woman to direct a comic book property in Netflix’s, The Old Guard.
Family entertainment deserves better than the bland Four Kids and It
Jacqueline Wilson’s children’s novel Four Children and It receives a film adaptation in Four Kids and It from Altitude Film Distribution. Wilson herself adapted the 1902 novel Five Children, and It by E. Nesbit for her book Andy De Emmony directs the film from a screenplay by Simon Lewis and Mark Oswin.
Strong acting saves Burden
Actor Andrew Heckler gives audiences his writing and directing debut in The Fyzz Facility’s race relations drama, Burden. Set in 1996 and based on a true story, Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund) is an Army veteran residing in South Carolina who works a repo man to earn his keep. When we first meet Mike, he’s renovating […]
2 Minutes of Fame is worth 95 mins of your time
Comedian and voice impressionist Jay Pharaoh makes his feature film headlining debut in Codeblack Entertainment’s 2 Minutes of Fame from director Leslie Small. Pharaoh portrays Deandre McDonald, a struggling comic looking for his next big break. Sky (KeKe Palmer) Deandre’s girlfriend and mother of his son would like him the budding comic to take grow […]
Horror fans deserve better than We Summon the Darkness
Director Marc Meyers transports moviegoers back to the eighties in the horror flick. We Summon the Darkness from Saban Entertainment. Alexis Butler (Alexandra Daddario) and her friends Val (Maddie Hasson) and Bev (Amy Forsyth) are on their way to a heavy metal concert. While traveling, the girls nearly get into an accident after a blue […]