HBO has released a new poster and trailer for The White Lotus, the upcoming social satire series from writer-director Mike White which follows the vacations of various hotel guests and the cheerful staff over the span of a week at an exclusive Hawaiian resort; take a look here… The series follows the vacations of various […]
Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)
Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale, Stephen Root, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: Accompanied by his teenage niece, a gay literature professor reluctantly returns home to attend his father’s funeral. For lack of a better phrase, I am the “Uncle […]
Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)
Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Stephen Root, Peter Macdissi, Margo Martindale, Caity Brewer, Lois Smith, and Cole Doman. SYNOPSIS: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family […]
Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in trailer for Uncle Frank
Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Alan Ball’s 70s-set drama Uncle Frank which stars Sophia Lillis as Beth, a young woman who leaves her rural town to study at New York University where her beloved uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a literature professor, she soon discovers he is gay and […]
Movie Review – Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, 2019. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Cate Blanchett, Emma Nelson, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Troian Bellisario, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, James Urbaniak, Claudia Doumit, Kate Easton, Lana Young, Zoe Chao, Megan Mullally, and Steve Zahn. SYNOPSIS: A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after […]
Movie Review – Blaze (2018)
Blaze, 2018. Directed by Ethan Hawke. Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, David Kallaway, Richard Linklater, Jenn Lyon, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Ritchie Montgomery, Wyatt Russell, D. Taylor Loeb, and Kris Kristofferson. SYNOPSIS: The life of musician Blaze Foley. Unless you’re deep in the heart of the country music scene, it’s not a stretch to suggest […]
Movie Review – Captain Fantastic (2016)
Captain Fantastic 2016 Directed by Matt Ross Starring Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Frank Langella, Steve Zahn SYNOPSIS: A father has moved away from the city and is bringing up his six children single handed in the forest. Their mother is in hospital with an on-going illness. Then a phone call changes everything and […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Blaze
Blaze, 2018. Directed by Ethan Hawke. Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, David Kallaway, Richard Linklater, Jenn Lyon, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Ritchie Montgomery, Wyatt Russell, D. Taylor Loeb, and Kris Kristofferson. SYNOPSIS: A biopic of the largely unknown country musician Blaze Foley, charting his tumultuous life, from his early marriage to his short but […]
Trailer for Ethan Hawke’s Blaze
IFC Films has released the first trailer for the upcoming musical biographical drama Blaze. Directed by Ethan Hawke, the film is based on the life of Blaze Foley and is adapted from Sybil Rosen’s novel Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze. Newcomer Ben Dickey leads the cast as the country musician alongside Alia […]
Movie Review – Lean On Pete (2017)
Lean On Pete, 2017. Directed by Andrew Haigh. Starring Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Travis Fimmel, Chloe Sevigny and Steve Zahn. SYNOPSIS: Fifteen year old Charley (Charlie Plummer) has never lived in one place for long. He and his dad now have a squalid house in Portland and the teenager discovers a local racetrack nearby. He […]
