Lou, 2022. Directed by Anna Foerster. Starring Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Asha Bateman, Greyston Holt, Matt Craven, Toby Levins, Marci T. House, and Jaycie Dotin. SYNOPSIS: A storm rages. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother teams up with the mysterious woman next door to pursue the kidnapper, a journey that tests […]
Trailer for Netflix thriller Lou starring Jurnee Smollett and Allison Janney
Ahead of its arrival on Netflix this September, the streamer has released a poster and trailer have been released for director Anna Foerster’s upcoming action thriller Lou. The film stars Jurnee Smollett as a desperate mother who begs the mysterious woman next door (Allison Janney) to help save her kidnapped daughter during a storm, only […]
Jurnee Smollett to executive produce and star in thriller Lou for Netflix
It has been a couple of years since there was any update on Bad Robot’s Lou, but Deadline has reported that Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country) has joined the film as both its lead star and an executive producer. She joins Allison Janney (Mom) in the film for Netflix. Lou follows a mother who teams up […]
Blu-ray Review – Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3
Brad Cook reviews Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3… SYNOPSIS: Pixar has scooped up the shorts they’ve released since 2012 for a new Blu-ray release called Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3. They’ve included 13 short films – a mix of theatrical releases and shorts issued elsewhere – along with a pair of brief featurettes […]
Allison Janney to star in Bad Robot’s Lou
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has enlisted Oscar-winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) to star in Lou, a dramatic thriller described as a tonal mix of Thelma and Louise and Taken. THR reports that the film will follow “a young woman and her landlord, Lou, who team up to track down the former’s child after the girl […]
Movie Review – Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation, 2018. Dear Basketball Directed by Glen Keane. Starring Kobe Bryant. You needn’t be crazy about basketball to get something out of this ethereal adaptation of Kobe Bryant’s retirement letter to The Players’ Tribune, which is rendered via watercolour while accompanied by Bryant himself narrating his own letter. There’s plenty of […]
