City Hunter : Interview with Actors Ryohei Suzuki & Misato Morita

Ryohei Suzuki and Misato Morita, ©Courtesy of Netflix City Hunter : An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner’s sister to investigate his death. Director : Yuichi Sato  Producer : Shinichi Takahashi Screenwriter : Tatsuro Mishima Distributor : Netflix Production Co : Netflix Studios, Office…

The Roundup: Punishment: Don Lee’s Beast Cop is Back

©Courtesy of Capelight Pictures International Det. Ma Seuk-do makes Jack Reacher and the Rock look puny and weak. South Korea’s criminal underworld refers to him as the “Beast Cop,” but he is an old softie at heart. When the mother of a murdered programmer commits suicide out of grief, he takes it hard, so he…

Unsung Hero : Exclusive Interview with Actress Daisy Betts on Playing Helen Smallbone

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Daisy Betts is renowned for her role as an Australian actress in Out of the Blue and Persons Unknown. Betts played a role in the 2010 movie ‘Caught In’, which was produced by Adam Blaiklock and starred Ben Oxenbould, Saim Lyndon, Simon Lyndon, Leeanna Walsman,…

Netflix Announces Plans for Final Season of Cobra Kai Will Be Three Parts

Plans have been announced by Netflix for the final season (Season 6) of its popular Cobra Kai series. The streaming service will offer 15 episodes in three blocks of five episodes each, to be shown on July 18, November 28, and on a yet-undisclosed date in 2025. According to the official release, Season 6 will…

Slamdance Film Festival Moving to Los Angeles in 2025

Slamdance is pulling up stakes in snowy Utah and heading for sunny California. After 30 years, the indie-oriented Slamdance Film Festival is quitting its traditional Park City locale, where it has played in tandem with the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance is also in the process of contemplating a move of its own. As a result…

Tony Awards Nominations 2024: The Complete List

Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic have received more Tony Awards nominations than any other production of the 2023-24 Broadway season. Each shows received 13 nominations this morning, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The former is a biographical musical about Alicia Keyes, while the latter is a dramatic stage play whose music was penned by American playwright…

City Hunter : Interview with Actors Ryohei Suzuki & Misato Morita

Ryohei Suzuki and Misato Morita, ©Courtesy of Netflix City Hunter : An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner’s sister to investigate his death. Director : Yuichi Sato  Producer : Shinichi Takahashi Screenwriter : Tatsuro Mishima Distributor : Netflix Production Co : Netflix Studios, Office…

Unsung Hero : Exclusive Interview with Actress Daisy Betts on Playing Helen Smallbone

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Daisy Betts is renowned for her role as an Australian actress in Out of the Blue and Persons Unknown. Betts played a role in the 2010 movie ‘Caught In’, which was produced by Adam Blaiklock and starred Ben Oxenbould, Saim Lyndon, Simon Lyndon, Leeanna Walsman,…

Hacks Season 3: Press Conference with Cast and Staff

Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Jean Smart, @Photograph by Beth Dubber/Max Hacks : A dark mentorship forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comic, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old comedy writer. Executive Producer : Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Mike Schur, David Miner, Morgan Sackett Network : Max Rating : TV-MA Genre : Comedy, Drama Original Language :…

Wildcat : Ethan Hawke Delivers a Stunning Biopic of Flannery O’Connor

©Courtesy of Oscilloscope The best compliment I can give to the heartbreaking biopic directed by Ethan Hawke is that five seconds after the ending titles started I was already researching the short stories and novels published by Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). From the Queens Public Library, I borrowed her first book Wise Blood by the way. …

The Roundup: Punishment: Don Lee’s Beast Cop is Back

©Courtesy of Capelight Pictures International Det. Ma Seuk-do makes Jack Reacher and the Rock look puny and weak. South Korea’s criminal underworld refers to him as the “Beast Cop,” but he is an old softie at heart. When the mother of a murdered programmer commits suicide out of grief, he takes it hard, so he…

‘The Contestant,’ A Look Into the Origins Of Japanese Reality TV

©Courtesy of Hulu Sensationalism is the bread and butter of today’s media and entertainment industry. The competition for higher sales in the field of communications can be traced back to the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal during the mid-1890s. This gave wave to what was…

LEE | Official Teaser Trailer | In theaters September 27 : Starring Kate Winslet

Roadside Attractions has dropped a new trailer for the biographical drama “Lee” starring Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet as a renown war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. Lee begins in the late 1930s, as Hitler amasses power in Germany. Miller (Winslet) leaves her world and her artistic circle of friends behind in France, and travels…

Senna | Official Teaser | Netflix : Starring Gabriel Leone

©Courtesy of Netflix In this first teaser video for Senna, the limited series premiering in late 2024, we see the recreation of Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna’s historic victory, including the narration of Galvão Bueno, at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear…

Mufasa: The Lion King | Teaser Trailer : Starring Seth Rogen, Mads Mikkelsen, Beyoncé

Photo by Disney – © 2024 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Disney unveiled a first look at “Mufasa: The Lion King,” the new film coming to theaters Dec. 20 that explores the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands. The new trailer, poster and images are now available to download and share. Announced this…

Naples Announces CALL FOR ENTRIES  for 16th Annual Naples International Film Festival 

Artis—Naples Announces CALL FOR ENTRIES  for 16th Annual Naples International Film Festival  NIFF to take place October 24-27, 2023    Naples, FL (April 19, 2024) — Artis—Naples announced today that the call for entries has begun for the 2024 Naples International Film Festival (NIFF), which is scheduled to take place October 24-27 at the newly established Alamo…

Tribeca Festival Announces 2024 Feature Film Lineup!

The Tribeca Festival has announced the features lineup for its 2024 edition, which will open with the world premiere of Hulu documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton. The festival highlights in this year’s features lineup include the world premieres of documentaries about Liza Minnelli (Liza: A Truly Terrific…

“The Spiderwick Chronicles”/An Adaption that Grew Up with It’s Readers

©Courtesy of Roku Television So “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is based on the children’s book series by the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (also executive producers in this series). The first book came out in 2003 and then left for 4 subsequent books. These books led to a film adaptation in 2008, again by the…

‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Review: A Story of Family and Survival

It’s difficult to truly comprehend and grapple with the impact of the Holocaust, which sought to and unfortunately succeeded in wiping out the Jewish population of much of Europe. We Were the Lucky Ones, a limited series based on the book of the same name by Georgia Hunter, charts the journey of one family that…

‘Shōgun’ is an Enthralling Japanese Historical Epic

It’s impossible to truly know what life was like and how people actually behaved hundreds of years ago. There are written records, paintings and then photographs, and, in more recent years, gradually more available video evidence so that those in the present day can perceive a moderately insightful look into the past. Imagining the first…