Category: New Releases
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MTV Docs takes Skye Fitzgerald’s HUNGER WARD set for March 1
Curated by Screenmancer Staff NEW YORK, NY: MTV Documentary Films announced today it has acquired the documentary short subject Hunger Ward which will have its world premiere on Pluto TV’s 24/7 Documentary Channel, Pluto TV Documentaries at 7pm ET on Monday, March 1st. The film, directed by Oscar® nominated and Emmy® nominated director Skye Fitzgerald,…
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Tina Fey, Pete Docter & Bailey Salwey AFI Audi Scholarship winner, SOUL
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: AFI AWARDS celebrates SOUL with brand new content featuring actress Tina Fey and director Pete Docter. Fey accepts the AFI AWARDS honor on behalf of the creative ensemble and introduces the film to the AFI Movie Club audience, while Docter takes the audience “Behind the Scene” and talks about the influence of jazz…
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Lorne Michaels still makes SNL spin-offs, like single Dad show, “Kenan”
by Screenmancer Staff Lorne Michaels has had his hand on the remote for decades, clicking us all to shifts in the country’s mood about issues and escapism on the small screen. Now he has something new for Feb. 16 on NBC, about single Dads, who know they need a village or at least a couple back-up’s…
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Gustav Stickley tells the American Story in furniture in new documentary
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There are so many takes on the Arts & Crafts movement, and the striking furniture of Gustav Stickley (1858-1942), the self-taught innovator of wooden designs. He manufactured furniture, metal fasteners, and nature-inspired textiles from 1900 to 1916. While Stickley dubbed his style “Craftsman,” and published a magazine of the…
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Love, sky eyes, vax, and not just booze shots is Jack Black’s HAPPILY
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Gotta love Jack Black, because when he picks a project to produce? It goes HAPPILY never after. In this anti-rom-com Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé star as a married couple who are in trouble and in a trouple with surveillance. BenDavid Grabinski wrote and directed this timely chic fright-fest…
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AFI Movie Club lauds MINARI’s Alan S. Kim, Lee Isaac Chung
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: AFI AWARDS celebrates MINARI with brand new content featuring one of the stars and the writer/director of the film. Alan S. Kim, who made his film debut in MINARI, accepts the AFI AWARDS honor on behalf of the creative ensemble and introduces the film to the AFI Movie Club audience. Writer/director Lee…
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Kristen may be a Stewart after all, or former Windsor, as Lady Diana in SPENCER
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Zeitgeist moments happen with movies, and Pablo Larrain’s upcoming Netflix release SPENCER starring Kristen Stewart may just be that spark that brings back the power of Lady Diana into the world. Forgive the hyperbole. With the House of Windsor fractured, meaning Prince Harry in California and HRH Prince William as…
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President Biden’s Press Office notice on Paris Agreement
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent On a typical day, the Screenmancer Staff inbox receives most of the usual Hollywood notices. But after midnight of the Inauguration, we received an official White House item from newly seated US President Joseph R. Biden. Something like this hasn’t crossed our desk before, so we are running it. We left off the…
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Will PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN lift Carey Mulligan to gold this year?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent She’s won BAFTA awards and other industry accolades, but hasn’t gone beyond Oscar Nominee yet; so will 2021 ring in the gold for Carey Mulligan for PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN? With a special 48-hour at home rental period on Jan. 15, the Focus Features film has already generated noise in an odd…
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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… Regina King changes your outlook on 4 future icons
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You might flash on Regina King as Cuba Gooding Jr’s fierce wife in the Jerry Maguire movie, but flash-forward to her 2019 Oscar win for IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. Follow that with her directorial turn in ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… to be released on Jan. 15 as an…
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FFS, a pig and chicken paean from Victor Kossakovsky, or GUNDA With the Wind?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Ever watch a movie and get an allergic reaction? Okay that’s heavy on light sarcasm, but “visionary” Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s GUNDA could give some cinephiles hives when NEON releases it on Dec. 11. While director-turned-film critic Paul Thomas Anderson dubs GUNDA “more like a potion than like a movie,”…
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Putting a face on first 76 DAYS of Pandemic from MTV Docs
by Screenmancer Staff Director Hao Wu unleashes his searing non-fiction examination at the dawn of COVID-19, the initial 11 weeks of the raging superbug, in 76 DAYS from MTV Documentary Films for release on Dec. 4. On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak.…
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Kristen Stewart doubles down in the HAPPIEST SEASON for Hulu
by C. C. Ryder, Screenmancer Film Reviewer In 1621, the first Thanksgiving was held in the Plymouth colonies with the Wampanoag tribe, and a lot has changed since the 32nd US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the holiday into legal status in 1941. Remarkably President Thomas Jefferson had snubbed this event in 1801, so not…
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RECON depicts conflicted WWII troopers misled by Franco Nero for 11/11
by Screenmancer Staff Remember when only US Military service members had to wear masks, and mostly for wartime? Better safe than sorry on that front, but it wasn’t the Home Front in WWII. That said, RECON is an unusual take on The Second World War, and available on VOD for Veterans Day 11/11. Based on true events, RECON…
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Subsequent Moviefilm BORAT Afterparty which broke interwebs for you here, lolz
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Hey, the Rudy Giuliani thing was just the beginning, everyone gets a shellacking in BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, which is now available on Amazon Prime. But for everyone who got an afterparty invite like the one pictured below? It was black mirror time for most as the link would not load.…
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