“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” – Proverb of unclear origin. In our lives, there are those who are family by DNA and those by relationships. When those who sired us, grew up… Read More ›
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“The Strangers – Chapter 1” cuts … and pastes too much from the previous films to be its own entry.
When I was just a wee lad, 11 years old to be precise, I had two fears: frogs (still do to this day) and home invasion. For some reason, I figured that I was a special enough little boy to… Read More ›
All you need is “Kill.”
By the nature of social norms, each country includes a specific view in their art. When it comes to movies, this is very noticeable within the subgenre of action. Whereas American films almost always feature a stalwart protagonist who survives… Read More ›
“One from the Heart: Reprise” is a booby, bloated, bad masterpiece.
At the peak of the DVD/VHS era, studios would often release worse, extended, “unrated*” cuts of films with more boobs and cursing to trick a few customers into purchasing the film a second time. That’s what Francis Ford Coppola (The… Read More ›
Writer/director Savi Gabizon remakes his own adult drama for American audiences with the Richard Gere-led “Longing.”
There are many reasons films get adapted. Sometimes it’s because a film wasn’t received well or, confusingly, because a film was received extraordinarily well. Adaptations aren’t necessarily a bad thing. Because someone sought director Roger Corman’s 1960 Little Shop of… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “Unsung Hero” actor Kirrilee Berger, inspiration Rebecca St. James, producer Luke Smallbone, and multihyphenate Joel Smallbone.
Welcome to a special double dose of Open Dialogue as EoM Partner Noel T. Manning sits down with Unsung Hero co-director/co-writer/actor Joel Smallbone and producer Luke Smallbone in one segment and actor Kirrilee Berger and inspiration for her role Rebecca St…. Read More ›
Very loosely based on a real story, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” provides the typical Ritchie mid-level romp.
Guy Ritchie has become something of a young Ridley Scott lately, not in any stylistic choices he’s making as a filmmaker, not at all, but merely in the sheer quantity of his output. In the past five years alone, Ritchie… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “Ordinary Angels” actors Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson.
Thomas Manning offers an Open Dialogue interview with Oscar-winner Hillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) about the Lionsgate/Kingdom Story Company release Ordinary Angels. Swank and Ritchson chat about small towns, family, friends and the ordinary angels that have… Read More ›
“Ordinary Angels” embodies a heartfelt story through powerful performances and a nuanced script.
The purpose of a movie trailer is to get an audience intrigued in seeing the movie, however, when the trailer paints the movie as something it absolutely is not, it does a disservice to the movie itself and sets up… Read More ›
“Scrambled” captures the complexities of finding out your egg timer is going off.
Writer and first-time feature director Leah McKendrick (Pamela & Ivy) taps into the millennial’s primal fear of being alone in her debut feature, Scrambled. When 30-something Nellie (Leah McKendrick) is sick of being an eternal bridesmaid, she goes on an… Read More ›
Novel adaptation “Rumble Through The Dark” may follow a rote narrative path, but delivers enough surprises to satisfy.
Are we the family we’ve come from or the family we create? This is the major question at the center of the Graham and Parker Phillips-helmed Rumble Through The Dark, a drama adapted from the Michael Farris Smith March 2018… Read More ›
Regulators! Mount up for this 35th anniversary first-time HD and 4K UHD edition of “Young Guns.”
“We regulate any stealing of his property. We’re daaaamn good, too. Mr. Tunstall’s got a soft-spot for runaways, derelicts, vagrant types. But you can’t be any geek off the street. You gotta be handy with the steel, if you know… Read More ›
Director John Woo ensures the nearly dialogue-less “Silent Night” is also a very Holey Night.
2003, director John Woo unleashed the sci-fi action thriller Paycheck starring Ben Affleck (Air), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair), Aaron Eckhart (Rumble Through The Dark), and Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) unto the world. It should have been… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “John Wick: Chapter 4” director Chad Stahelski.
On this edition of Meet Me at the Movies: Open Dialogue, Thomas Manning chats with director and producer Chad Stahelski about John Wick: Chapter 4. Stahelski shares about bringing legendary action star and martial artist Scott Adkins into the mix… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “Silent Night” actor Joel Kinnaman.
Today, Joel Kinnaman speaks with Noel T. Manning II about why Silent Night was the most challenging, and demanding film of his career, the difficulties in prepping for a film character with no dialogue, and why Noel & Joel should take… Read More ›
Nikki Mejia puts forth a strong feature debut with “A Place in the Field.”
There are plenty of movies about road trips, self-discovery, and mental health, so to create something singular that stands the test of time and audience exposure is certainly a hard feat to achieve. Unfortunately, because there are so many movies… Read More ›
Actor/writer Kevin Grevioux moves to the director’s seat as he adds his own graphic novel, “King of Killers,” out on home video now.
These days, a comic book adaptation is as ubiquitous in entertainment as westerns were in the silent film era and later. There’re the big releases like the upcoming MCU film The Marvels (2023) or DCEU film Aquaman and the Lost… Read More ›
“King of Killers” Blu-ray Giveaway
If you’ve enjoyed any part of the Underworld franchise or the thus-far single I, Frankenstein film, then you have writer/actor Kevin Grevioux to thank as the creator of those worlds. Now, Grevioux jumps into a new world of his creation,… Read More ›
4K UHD release of “The Mist” is a new horror experience in black and white and with Atmos surround sound.
As I grow older, I find my taste in horror slowly but surely changing with each year, my taste for finding what could jolt me with the most adrenaline-pumping action in my youth slowly morphing into a preference for things… Read More ›
While “Dear David” delivers on horror, it fails to capture the thrill of the original thread.
Whenever a movie is based on something, there is always hesitation that the base work is going to be rather difficult to adapt to be something interesting for an audience to engage with as a film. However, when that film… Read More ›