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Review – Bad Boys for Life (2020)

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by Kevin Muller

The last time we saw Mike and Marcus, we had just begun the Iraq War, smartphones were a what if, and history had not yet been made with the election of Obama. You can probably name many other important events, even some from your personal life, but it is wild to think that it has been seventeen years since Bad Boys II. The franchise, which started in 1995, and gave way to a sequel in 2003, has always been a beloved one with the public. How can you not appreciate the stylized violence, the hilarious one-liners, and the chemistry between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence? The question is, is this a legit sequel or a half-hearted opportunity to cash in on a popular property?

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Dreamland (2020) – Interview with Bruce McDonald

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by Logan Myerz

Today, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bruce McDonald, best known for his 2008 zombie film Pontypool, about his newest dystopian noir thriller, Dreamland.  The film brings a solid cast of actors including Stephen McHattie, Henry Rollins, and Juliette Lewis. Dreamland reunites the director with the film’s star, Stephen McHattie, who plays the two lead roles, and screenwriter Tony Burgess, who co-scripted the film with Patrick Whistler. In the interview, Bruce McDonald discusses making the film, working with the cast, and shares his advice for up and coming filmmakers.

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“On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.”

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Review – Arkansas (2020)

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Logan Myerz reviews Clark Duke‘s directorial debut Arkansas starring Liam Hemsworth, John Malkovich, Vince Vaughn, Eden Brolin, and Clark Duke. The film is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video!

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“Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they’ve never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.”

Cinephellas Podcast – Episode 73 (Interview with Craig Fairbrass)

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British action movie star, Craig Fairbrass is back in the gangster movie genre with his new film, Villain. A film that finds Fairbrass as Eddie Franks, a man released from prison trying to reconnect with his daughter. But Franks returns to his violent ways when a menacing drug lord threatens his indebted brother. In this episode of Cinephellas Podcast, Nile Fortner discusses with Craig Fairbrass how he got into the action movie genre, his voice-work on video games such as Call of Duty, the movie Villain, and more.

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Review – Ozark (Season 3)

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“Sometimes, if you don’t move forward, you die.” The Byrde family returns in season 3 of the hit Netflix show Ozark starring Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, and Julia Garner.

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“A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.”

THE QUARRY – In Select Theaters April 17th!

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From the novel by Damon Galgut comes this searing thriller, a tale of sin and redemption set in the wilds of Texas. After murdering a traveling preacher, a fugitive drifter (Shea Whigham, Joker) travels to a small town and poses as the man he killed. Though the congregation loves the drifter’s sermons of forgiveness, the local police chief (Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water) is suspicious of the man. Soon a gruesome discovery at a local quarry forces the killer to fight for his freedom.

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