For 35 years, Steve Coogan has been one of Britain’s preeminent comic actors, mainly with his popular TV presenter character Alan Partridge, but he’s also regularly branched off into other genres, and even received two Oscar nominations for writing and producing 2014’s Philomena. The Penguin Lessons puts Coogan in the role of Tom Michell, who…
Paramount Pictures’ new action movie, Novocaine, features a crazy mix of action, romance, comedy and gore, but really, it’s the high-concept premise of a man who can’t feel any pain, played by Jack Quaid, that sets it apart from any other even remotely similar action movie. Quaid plays mild-manner assistant bank manager Nathan Caine, who…
Filmmaker David Koepp has long been considered one of the top screenwriters in Hollywood with a career that stretches back over 35 years and includes massive blockbusters like Jurassic Park and its sequel, the original Mission: Impossible in 1996 and 2002’s Spider-Man, as well as nine movies, which he also directed. In recent years, Koepp…
On October 21, 2021, tragedy struck on the set of Joel Souza’s indie Western, Rust, as a gun that was meant to be loaded with blanks went off in the hands of the film’s star and producer, Alec Baldwin, wounding Souza and killing his cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. It was a shocking incident that created a…
Marvel’s mastermind filmmakers Anthony and Joe Russo are back on Netflix with the sci-fi comedy, The Electric State, starring Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things and Chris Pratt from the Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy. The Electric State was adapted from Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel of the same name by Christopher Markus and…
It’s unclear how many fans of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s film work are aware of his side project directing operas for a number of Canadian opera companies, going back to 1996 when he directed his first production of Richard Strauss’ “Salomé.” In 2023, Egoyan returned to direct that opera for the Canadian Opera Company at…
Since coming onto the scene in 2006 with A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, filmmaker Dito Montiel has made eight feature films, but his latest, Riff Raff, is a rare exception, as it’s one that Montiel didn’t also write. The ensemble crime-comedy stars Lewis Pullman as Rocco, who shows up at the home of his…
In 2012, a trio of saturation “SAT” divers repairing a pipeline at the bottom of the North Sea ran into problems when the ship they were attached to began to drift off course due to a heavy storm. One of the divers, Chris Lemons, was trapped at the bottom of the sea after his umbilical…
It’s been a few years since Noah Pritzker’s indie dramedy, Ex-Husbands, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival back in 2023, but it’s now finally available to watch in theaters with its heartfelt story about an older man going through a divorce, just as his son is dealing with his own relationship crisis ahead of…
In 1968, the band Led Zeppelin seemingly came from out of nowhere, branching out from the Yardbirds with a new line-up that was in the middle of their first North American tour when their first album, simply titled “Led Zeppelin.” Over the next few years, the band would tour constantly, quickly becoming one of the…
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