Category: New Releases
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What about Chinese Americans who vote in 2020: FIRST VOTE from Yi Chen
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Did you know that “until 1952, federal law prohibited immigrants of Asian descent from becoming U.S. citizens and voting? Today, Asian Americans are the fastest growing population in the United States.” FIRST VOTE, from director Yi Chen, is about “what it means to be American through personal stories of America’s fastest growing political constituency’s diverse…
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Paul Bettany’s UNCLE FRANK comes home & out in 1973 for Thanksgiving
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent UNCLE FRANK from Prime Video has a trio of your favorite character actors, the remarkable Lois Smith from MINORITY REPORT, Stephen Root who was also scared in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, and the always amazing Margo Martindale. Add in Judy Greer, plus Steve Zahn; but it’s Paul Bettany…
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Huluween, Freeform & FX: watch your shorts this very scary October
Curated by Screenmancer Ghostwriter HOLLYWEEN: 20th Digital Studio will premiere a series of 30 diverse, genre-bending short films for Halloween 2020. Bite Size Halloween ranges from horror comedy to psychological thrillers and everything in between. Created by up-and-coming filmmakers, these films will screen across digital and broadcast platforms Freeform, FX, and Hulu’s Huluween platform hub and YouTube channel. David Worthen Brooks, EVP of 20th Digital…
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ADDAMS FAMILY 2 nabs Bill Hader, Javon “Wanna” Walton to voice starry two-peat & here’s your casting chance
Curated by Screenmancer Ghostwriter LOS ANGELES, CA: The sequel to MGM’s 2019 box-office smash hit, The Addams Family has rounded out its stellar voice cast with the additions of Bill Hader as all-new character “Cyrus,” and Javon “Wanna” Walton taking on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, “Pugsley.” Hader and Walton join returning Addams Family film stars Charlize Theron (Morticia),…
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Jessica Chastain needs no help rocking THE 355 out of the box for 2021
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “You have cameras in your jewelry,” is one line you won’t hear from Q in 007, but Mr. Bond has nothing on these five eyes in THE 355, starring Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Fan Bingbing ,Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, from Universal to drop in Jan. 2021. Chastain is the…
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Trump has COVID, but does he know Alex Gibney has it TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent This might seem like a double-edged ‘Get Well Soon’ message to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, but renowned filmmaker Alex Gibney “secretly spent the last five months” making a power-packed documentary entitled TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL about the lifespan of this virus. Oscar-winner Gibney actually…
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Big Tribble in Little Cabin from Fischer & Wilson, SAVE YOURSELVES!
by Screenmancer Staff SAVE YOURSELVES!, written and directed by Alex H. Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, has Amy Sedaris in it, so we’re already huge fans. However? We do see some “tribble” in the plot. Or maybe just an Homage to Tribble in a Trekkie sense. No matter, SAVE YOURSELVES! veers off that enterprise quickly, into…
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BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM is Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2nd run at Crazy for Oct. 23
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent We would like to say this footage was stolen off the back of a turnip truck in middle of Kansas, after being pummeled by circus giraffes, however? BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, with perhaps a missing colon for punctuation because we have only seen the hard art logo, is on the…
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“I’d rather be an anarchist than a professional” BELUSHI crashes into Showtime
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Known for The Blues Brothers band from ANIMAL HOUSE after honing his craft on the original SNL, here was a comedian who was neither mean-spirited nor profanity-laced, but literal comedy magic on screen and in person as the one and only, John Belushi. Now an R.J. Cutler documentary, BELUSHI will car-crash the…
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ETERNAL BEAUTY, Sally Hawkins and David Thewlis, bows in October
Curated by Screenmancer Staff Samuel Goldwyn Films will release actor turned director Craig Robert’s (SUBMARINE, NEIGHBORS) feature film ETERNAL BEAUTY, starring Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Sally Hawkins (THE SHAPE OF WATER), Big Lebowski icon David Thewlis (JUSTICE LEAGUE/HARRY POTTER Franchises), Alice Lowe (PREVENGE), Billie Piper (Doctor Who) and Penelope Wilton (DOWNTON ABBEY), on VOD for Oct.…
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Pluto Film shows LAS MIL Y UNA at SSIFF as part of Horizontes Latinos
Curated by Screenmancer Staff We received a letter from Pluto Film in Germany about their latest entry into the SSIFF. That’s the San Sebastian International Film Festival which is ongoing this week through Sept. 26 in the Basque region of Spain. Woody Allen’s newest is the hot-button screen gem, but this should not overshadow the many independent films on…
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No glamping, it’s David Cross in THE DARK DIVIDE about connecting
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent This isn’t a Cheryl Strayed journey, but David Cross as Dr. Robert Pyle, a blocked nature writer, in THE DARK DIVIDE is also straying off the grid in a wandering escape-cancer sojourn. Based on a true adventure, there are wild animals in this endearing movie. As in? “The only dangerous animals…
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How the gig economy has aged into van-dwellers, or Frances McDormand in NOMADLAND
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent On an insider Hollywood level, Nancy Utley from Searchlight has one of the best creative executive reputations in the business, not only for producing thought-provoking and risky content, but for encouraging filmmakers to explore complicated themes to best outcomes. Now Utley has brought NOMADLAND to the screen, starring Frances…
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ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, on domestic silence that is familiar violence, comes to North America
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival this summer. It’s a Greek, Belgian, and German production, dubbed a “psychological thriller” but it is much more than that simple label. As this film opens in North America on Sept. 24 for the Calgary International Film Festival,…
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Natalie Krinsky’s THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY arrives from SONY on 9/11
By Screenmancer Staff Natalie Krinsky, the writer/director of THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY certainly has interesting timing with a Sept. 11 (911) release of this upbeat artsy movie about Lucy, the Gallery Assistant and her entourage of enablers. Okay, not enablers, just other members of this urban fable about a pop-up space for debris from your…
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