Category: VOD
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Every Promising Young Woman Should See Carey Mulligan’s Movie of Same Name
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Updated: AOC, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is the US Congressional representative from the 14th district in New York who just revealed she is a “survivor of sexual assault,” and this is where we are in the zeitgeist right now. Disclosures like this are no longer career-wrecking shamers, but a kind…
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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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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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New Doc Follows Tinder-Addicted Pilot, Lands on VOD Sept. 15: Director’s POV
by Al Bailey, Special Correspondent Introduction: Al Bailey’s DTF, a documentary about one pilot’s search for love and sex through Tinder and the friendly skies. DTF will premiere at LA’s Dances With Films before a VOD launch in the United States. DTF will be available to rent or own September 15th on Amazon, iTunes, Comcast,…
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Stan Brakhage, Gilbert & George, Marlon Riggs, 33 wild films like these on OVID
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When you tell this story, many people find it hard to believe, but occult filmmaker Harry Smith was at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics during my time there as the Ted Berrigan Award winner, and he was one interesting creature of cinema. Anyway, he and Stan Brakhage the experimental…
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ENTWINED is a Greek horror movie that somehow resonates right now during the Pandemic
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Something about this Pandemic is perfect for a Greek horror movie. Opening in theaters before a VOD North American release on Sept. 8 from Dark Star Pictures, ENTWINED is that movie. Why? Because, for one thing, Pandemic is a Greek word, from ‘pan’ meaning “all” and ‘demos’ meaning “people.”…
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Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas take THE SECRET movie beyond belief to a healing love crush
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Movies like THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM come along to remind us that action is required to switch directions in life. So Lionsgate has just released this Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas starrer at the perfect time for a pandemic pause. The source material for this film, also called “The…
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I AM WOMAN, the Helen Reddy movie: it’s about time, right?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent By now the blowout box office numbers from Freddie Mercury biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY have almost stopped echoing off studio halls, including the Best Actor Oscar memories; yet when was the last time a female performer got an in-depth biopic? Okay, Joan Jett and Loretta Lynn among others, but even…
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Shut up & play, but first catch some glory ways to rock stardom from InstaBAND
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent How many of you picked up an instrument during COVID-19 lockdown, or heard some twangy old school Silvertone from a neighbor’s garage? Everybody loves music, even the President, as he keeps getting shut down by name bands for playing their tunes at a rally. Now, wouldn’t it be great…
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Touch Wood: Wood Entertainment drops in with Pro Skater Tony Hawk in August
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Wood Entertainment just announced the August 18 digital/VOD release of the highly awesome documentary entitled PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN – THE TONY HAWK VIDEO GAME STORY. “PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN is a robust, real-life story of our successful video game series as told by those who created it, and many who…
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How About “You Need Work to Feel Like You’re Worth Something,” Watch WORKING MAN
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Peter Gerety and Talia Shire? Yes, they’ve been in your film and TV memory for years, maybe growing up, maybe now in your streaming awareness. Think Shire of ROCKY franchise fame and Gerety (“The Wire”) of almost every procedural TV show of note since the 90’s. These are real-people…
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