Saban Films has has released a poster and trailer for writer-director John Swab’s upcoming crime thriller Ida Red which stars Melissa Leo as an incarcerated crime boss who turns to her son (Josh Hartnett) to pull off one last heist and regain her chance of freedom; take a look here… Crime boss Ida “Red” Walker […]
Movie Review – Thunder Force (2021)
Thunder Force, 2021. Written and Directed by Ben Falcone. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Bateman, Pom Klementieff, Melissa Ponzio, Taylor Mosby, Braxton Bjerken, Tyrel Jackson Williams, Melissa Leo, Marcella Lowery, Kevin Dunn, Bria Danielle, Vivian Falcone, Tai Leshaun, Mia Kaplan, and Ben Falcone. SYNOPSIS: In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two […]
Movie Review – Body Brokers (2021)
Body Brokers, 2021. Written and Directed by John Swab. Starring Jack Kilmer, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jessica Rothe, Alice Englert, Peter Greene, Owen Campbell, Thomas Dekker, Sam Quartin, Frank Grillo, and Melissa Leo. SYNOPSIS: Brought to Los Angeles for treatment, a recovering junkie soon learns that the rehab center is not about helping people, but a […]
Trailer for Body Brokers starring Jack Kilmer, Michael K. Williams, Jessica Rothe, Frank Grillo and Melissa Leo
Vertical Entertainment has released a trailer, poster and images for the upcoming crime thriller Body Brokers. Written and directed by John Swab, the film follows Utah, a young junkie living on the streets of Ohio who is approached by an enigmatic man offering to bring him to L.A. for drug treatment which he soon discovers […]
Movie Review – Snowden (2016)
Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, Ben Chaplin, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, and Edward Snowden. SYNOPSIS: The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the […]
Mark Ruffalo plays twins in trailer for HBO’s I Know This Much Is True
HBO has debuted the first trailer for the small screen adaptation of Wally Lamb’s best-selling novel I Know This Much Is True. The limited drama series stars Mark Ruffalo in the dual role of twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, and follows the parallel lives of the brothers in 20th century America; watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO_4DGnmMKk […]
DVD Review – The Big Short (2015)
The Big Short, 2015. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, Max Greenfield, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Tracy Letts, John Magaro, Jeremy Strong, Marissa Tomei, Karen Gillan, Stanley Wong, Byron Mann, Margot Robbie, and Selena Gomez. SYNOPSIS: Four denizens of the world of high-finance predict […]
Movie Review – The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2, 2018. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Bill Pullman, Jonathan Scarfe, Orson Bean, Sakina Jaffrey, Caroline Day, and Melissa Leo. SYNOPSIS: Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? Considering the rate […]
Movie Review – Snowden (2016)
Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Olyphant, Joely Richardson, Ben Schnetzer, Scott Eastwood and Nicolas Cage. SYNOPSIS: The story of Edward Snowden, former soldier and CIA operative, who went on to work for the NSA and make public the agency’s illegal surveillance […]
Michael K. Williams, Melissa Leo, Frank Grillo and more join thriller Body Brokers
Michael K. Williams (When They See Us), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Frank Grillo (Avengers: Endgame), Alice Englert (Them That Follow) and Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys) have been cast in Body Brokers, a crime thriller from writer-director John Swab (Let Me Make You a Martyr, Run With the Hunted). Body Brokers tells the true and […]
