Review – Ad Astra (2019)

by Kevin Muller

Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, was groundbreaking because it took viewers on a miraculous journey that displayed revolutionary film making. It also inspired countless directors and writers to create films of similar nature, with its beautiful visuals and psychedelic nature, that were either were respectful imitators or just flat out disasters. James Gray, who brought us the severely underrated 2016 The Lost City of Z, has now directed a space film that has hints of Kubrick. Does his film soar like a rocket or get lost in space?

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Review – Brittany Runs A Marathon (2019)

By Kevin Muller

It is always great to see new talent headline a movie. If you look up Jillian Bell, you will probably say to yourself, “oh yeah, that’s where she is from!” One of her more popular roles was playing the antagonist in 22 Jump Street, providing an uncomfortable, but hilarious, sexual tension with Jonah Hill in that film’s final confrontation. She was also a writer on Saturday Night Live for a few years. The chance to headline her own film is a pretty big step for this actress. Did the hard work pay off?

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Cinephellas Podcast – Episode 46 (Interview with Henry Jacobson)

The Stiffmeister is more stabby than you’ll remember in Bloodline. Sean William Scott and Blumhouse are here with Bloodline. A horror movie that follows Seann William Scott as a Evan, a social worker haunted by dark childhood memories and first-time daddy, that has revenge on the mind. In this interview for The Cinephellas Podcast, Nile Fortner speaks with the director of Bloodline, Henry Jacobson. Where Jacobson talks about his documentary style influencing his horror, working with Sean William Scott, and more.

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“Evan (Seann William Scott) values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

WATCH: First Trailer for Trey Edward Shults’ ‘WAVES’

WATCH THE EMOTIONAL FIRST TRAILER FOR TELLURIDE BREAKOUT WAVES

From acclaimed filmmaker Trey Edward Shults and featuring an astonishing ensemble cast lead by Sterling K. Brown, WAVES is the heartrending story of one family’s journey to embrace love and forgiveness.


Following its revelatory world premiere at Telluride, WAVES will next screen at the Toronto International Film Festival
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