Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action, 2018.DeKalb ElementaryDirected by Reed Van Dyk. Starring Tara Riggs and Bo Mitchell.Based on an actual 911 call made to an Atlanta, Georgia high school, DeKalb Elementary is a taut, gut-wrenching thriller revolving around a mentally ill, machine gun-totting young man (Mitchell) and the quick-thinking secretary (Riggs) who attempts to talk […]
Sleep No More with the trailer for horror 200 Hours
A poster and trailer have arrived online for director Phillip Guzman’s (Dead Awake) upcoming horror 200 Hours. The film is set during the 1980’s and sees a sleep deprivation experiment go horribly wrong on a test subject while trying out a new drug to cure sleep; check them out here…A group of graduate students conduct […]
Movie Review – Golden Exits (2018)
Golden Exits, 2018.Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Chloe Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Rabe, Craig Butta, Keith Poulson, and Analeigh Tipton.SYNOPSIS:An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance […]
Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps joins The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Following her breakout performance opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, actress Vicky Krieps has now signed on to the cast of Sony and MGM’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel The Girl in the Spider’s Web.The movie, based upon David Lagercrantz’s bestselling Millennium novel (the first not to be penned by […]
Elisabeth Moss set for A Letter from Rosemary Kennedy
Earlier this week it was announced that Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Elisabeth Moss has signed on to reunite with her Queen of Earth director Alex Ross Perry for Her Smell, and now comes word that The Handmaid’s Tale star has booked another big screen role.Variety is reporting that Moss will portray Rosemary Kennedy, the […]
The Big Sick’s Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon developing Little America for Apple
Apple has tapped the husband-and-wife duo of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of The Big Sick and producers of Master of None and SMILF, to develop a new immigration-themed anthology series entitled Little America.Written by Lee Eisenberg (SMILF), who will also serve as showrunner, Little America is based on true stories […]
Sci-fi drama Imitation Girl gets a poster and trailer
Ahead of its VOD release next month, a trailer and poster have arrived online for writer-director Natasha Kermani’s upcoming sci-fi drama Imitation Girl which stars Lauren Ashley Carter, Neimah Djourabchi, and Adam David Thompson; take a look here…A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the Southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about […]
Director Louis Leterrier going on a Monster Hunt for Lionsgate
The Wrap is reporting that French filmmaker Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) has signed on to direct Monster Hunt for Lionsgate.Plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, but it is being described as “a rural Men in Black action comedy centred on two brothers. The project has apparently been in development since […]
American Crime Story’s Cody Fern cast in final season of House of Cards
Filming on the sixth and final season of House of Cards resumed last month following the removal of Kevin Spacey due to allegations of sexual misconduct, and now comes word from Netflix of a new addition to the cast.Australian actor Cody Fern, who recently portrayed David Madson in FX’s American Crime Story: The Assassination of […]
Diane Kruger and Eric Bana recruited for spy thriller The Operative
Bethlehem director Yuval Adler has enlisted Diane Kruger and Eric Bana to star in the upcoming spy thriller The Operative.Based on former Israeli intelligence officer Yiftach Reicher Atir’s bestselling book The English Teacher, the film will tell the story of a woman recruited by Israel’s Mossad to go undercover in Tehran, where she becomes entangled […]
