The First Omen is an American horror film directed by Arkasha Stevenson and written by Stevenson, Keith Thomas, and Tim Smith. It is based on Ben Jacoby’s story.
The film is a prequel to The Omen. Its storyline follows an American woman, played by Nell Tiger Free. She’s sent to a church in Rome, where she discovers a sister conspiracy to cause the birth of the Antichrist.
The cast includes Bill Nighy, Ralph Ineson and Sonia Braga.
You may consider Lisa Frankenstein the funniest, goriest undead romance seen all year.
Surviving high school is hard enough on its own—add in the trauma of your mom, an axe-murdered, in your living room, and it becomes virtually impossible to cope.
Just ask Lisa Swallows, played by Kathryn Newton, the awkward 17-year-old trying to adjust to a new school and life after her mother’s demise and her father’s hasty remarriage.
Despite the unwavering support offered by plucky cheerleader step-sister Taffy, played by Liza Soberano, Lisa only finds solace in the abandoned cemetery near her house. She finds her commonality with a young man who died in 1837, tending his grave.
But everything changes one dark and stormy night in the fall of 1989. After being humiliated, Lisa makes a desperate and heartfelt wish—to be with the young man in the world beyond. When a monstrous-looking corpse, played by Cole Sprouse, turns up the following evening, Lisa realizes a cosmic misunderstanding happened.
Still, she feels obligated to help the poor soul regain his humanity, and she embarks on a quest to breathe new life into her long-dead companion. All she needs to succeed are some freshly harvested body parts and Taffy’s broken tanning bed.
A genuinely electrifying new horror-comedy, coming-of-rage romance comes from Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. The film also stars Carla Gugino, Joe Chrestnd, and Henry Eikenberry.
Director Zelda Williams makes her feature debut with the wildly inventive new film Cody and Mason Novick produce under his MXN Entertainment banner.
Written and directed by Leah McKendrick, Scrambled is about a quintessential eternal bridesmaid, Nellie Robinson, played by Leah McKendrick. She constantly finds herself between weddings, baby showers, and bad dates.
When she feels like the clock is ticking and faces bleak romantic prospects, Nellie freezes her eggs — setting her on an empowering journey to a brave new world where she ultimately discovers “the one” she’s looking for might be herself.
The supporting cast includes Ego Nwodim, André Santini, Adam Rodríguez, Laura Cerón, and Clancy Brown.
Singer, actress and filmmaker, McKendrick’s films include:
M.F.A.
Baby Steps
A Nice Girl Like You
Organize Chaos
Filmmaker Goran Stolevski delivers a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.
Housekeeping for Beginners follows Dita, who never wanted to be a mother. Yet circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa.
The story turns into a heartfelt drama. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together.
The foreign film in subtitles includes Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim, Vladimir Tintor, Mia Mustafa, Dzada Selim, Sara Klimoska, Rozafë Çelaj, and Ajse Useini.
“I’ve always been drawn to moments that feel ‘found’ or ‘discovered’ as opposed to ‘staged.’ A lot of my filmmaking background has, from necessity, been built around shoestring budgets and skeleton crews. I’ve embraced this reality, developing a ‘verité’ style that has now become an important element of my work. I am a big believer in working with what’s there, rather than against it — assessing the means at my disposal and shaping the most exciting imaginable story around them,” explains Stolevski.
Films by Goran Stolevski:
Of an Age
You Won’t Be Alone
Would You Look at Her
It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier.
Their volatile marriage suffered because of the loss of their son, Dino, a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi.
Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.
Based on Brock Yates’ 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Car, The Races, The Machine, with a screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin, Michael Mann directed Ferrari as a character study unlike anything else the director has done on the big screen.
“… Enzo Ferrari, one of the most famous yet inscrutable and complex men of the 20th century. For Mann, that was a perfect hook. “There is no equilibrium in his life, and that’s the whole point of Enzo Ferrari,” says Mann. “That fascinated me because that’s more like the way life actually is,” Mann continues. “Life is asymmetrical. Life is messy. Life is filled with chaos. Ferrari was precise and logical, rational in everything to do with his factory and race team. In the rest of his life, he was impulsive, defensive, libidinous, chaotic. This asymmetry and wonderful contradiction is what made him and the other characters in this unique story so human to me.”
Writer and director John Krasinski brings together an all-star cast for this fanciful story about saving imaginary friends. The film cast includes Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., Alan Kim, Liza Colón-Zayas and Steve Carell.
Produced, written and directed by Kobi Libii, The American Society of Magical Negroes follows Aren, played by Justice Smith. He joins a magical group of negroes to help make white people’s lives easier.
Everything seems fine until Aren follows his heart instead of what the ASOMN tells him to do.
The satire premieres at The Sundance Film Festival in 2024.
The cast includes Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Michaela Watkins, Aisha Hinds, Tim Baltz, Rupert Friend and Nicole Byer.
Written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, Miller’s Girl follows a talented young writer, played by Jenna Ortega. She embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher, played by Martin Freeman, assigns a project that entangles them both in an increasingly complex web.
As lines blur and their lives intertwine, professor and protégé must confront their darkest selves while straining to preserve their individual sense of purpose and the things they hold most dear.
The supporting cast includes Dagmara Domińczyk, Bashir Salahuddin and Gideon Adlon.
George Miller continues his Mad Max franchise with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the lead role of Furiosa, which is also the movie’s name. Nick Lathouris and Miller wrote the screenplay Miller directed.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga follows the original story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in Fury Road. Mad Max fans are sure to get their fill in this latest installment.
Other cast members include Tom Burke, Angus Sampson, Daniel Webber and Nathan Jones.
Apple TV has recently produced some compelling films. I am impressed with this documentary, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial.
To think a psychiatrist cannot brainwash or hypnotize someone into killing another person is not valid. This documentary covers that aspect with hard evidence.
For the first time, key figures from John Lennon’s life and death — including friends, doctors and investigators — share personal memories and reveal what happened on the night of his killing.