Brittany Runs a Marathon – Marketing Recap
Jillian Bell has been everyone’s favorite part of a number of recent comedies, reliably coming in to deliver one kind … Continue reading Brittany Runs a Marathon – Marketing Recap
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Apple Wants Indie Films Because Of Course
Apple’s Eddie Cue has made Apple TV’s content strategy at least a little more clear: The company will focus on … Continue reading Apple Wants Indie Films Because Of Course
Late Night – Marketing Recap
Mindy Kaling has emerged as one of the most interesting and original comedic voices of the last 10 years, coming … Continue reading Late Night – Marketing Recap
Suspiria – Marketing Recap
As if Black Swan wasn’t enough, a dance company is once more positioned as being filled with darkness and terror … Continue reading Suspiria – Marketing Recap
Beautiful Boy – Marketing Recap
Steve Carell plays David and Timothée Chalamet his son Nic in the new movie Beautiful Boy, based on the real … Continue reading Beautiful Boy – Marketing Recap
Life Itself – Marketing Recap
Dan Fogelman, creator of popular TV shows like “Parenthood,” “This Is Us” and more, comes to the big screen this … Continue reading Life Itself – Marketing Recap
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot – Marketing Recap
The marketing of DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT consistently misses some opportunities to make the story much more interesting. Continue reading Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot – Marketing Recap
Pass Over – Marketing Recap
Author Antoinette Nwandu debuted her latest play at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater last year. Now, via director Spike Lee, Pass Over is coming to Amazon Prime this week in a feature adaptation that retains the theatrical conceit.
The story follows two young black men in Chicago who are just hanging out on a street corner talking about their dreams for the future and not causing a single bit of trouble. Moses (Jon Michael Hill) and Kitch (Julian Parker) are long-time friends and residents of the neighborhood. The story follows how, staying on that one corner, their routine of talking about “passing over” from one phase of their lives to the next is interrupted by a series of events involving a stranger who’s not from the area, the intrusion of an aggressively bullying cop and other events.
You Were Never Really Here – Marketing Recap
Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a violent man with a gentle soul in the new movie You Were Never Really Here. He’s a Gulf War veteran who has found a new line work as hired muscle, though only in the service of finding and rescuing missing teenagers. His reputation as someone who’s brutal but gets results brings him to the attention of a Senator whose daughter Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov) has gone missing and may be in serious trouble.
As Joe investigates outside the law he gets closer to Nina but also deeper into a world where he has trouble telling truth from fiction. His long-running attempt to use attempts to save innocents as a way to deal with the guilt of his own actions is failing and he’s increasingly paranoid and desperate. Even if he succeeds in finding Nina, the implications of his actions and the after-effects of his descent into a particularly-seedy world may have unintended consequences.
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Gringo – Marketing Recap
David Oyelowo, who to date has primarily in dramas, gets to flex his comedic muscles in this week’s Gringo. He plays Harold, a mid-level executive at a pharmaceutical company that’s looking to corner the market with an innovation around medical marijuana. To help bring that plan to fruition he’s dispatched by Richard and Elaine (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron, respectively), the company’s high-powered heads, to deliver a new formula to a plant in Mexico so production can begin.
Things go badly for Harold pretty quickly. What he thought was going to be a simple business trip turns into a life-or-death situation as he finds himself playing the pawn in the games being played on one hand by Richard and Elaine and on the other by the drug cartel they’ve honked off. It takes all his luck and wit just to stay alive as everyone, it seems, is gunning for him for various reasons. The only help he finds comes from the mercenary dispatched to find him (Sharlto Copley) and Sunny (Amanda Seyfried), a young woman who he meets in the course of his adventures.
