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“Apartment 7A” Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess

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Apartment 7A is a psychological thriller directed by Natalie Erika James. It stars Julia Garner and premieres on September 27. It will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the US and select international markets. Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story before the legendary horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, exploring what happened in the Bramford building before Rosemary moved in.

An ambitious young dancer, Terry Gionoffrio, played by Garner, dreams of fame and fortune in New York City. However, after suffering a devastating injury, an older, wealthy couple, played by Dianne Wiest and Kevin McNally, welcomes her into their home in the luxury apartment building Bramford.

The horror film delves into the uncertainties of pregnancy problems. When a fellow resident and influential Broadway producer, played by Jim Sturgess, offers her another chance at fame, all her dreams are finally coming true.

While Rosemary’s Baby is considered a classic horror film that explores adult sexuality and occult themes, Apartment 7A follows a similar path. The story taps into paranoia, oven, betrayal and rape.

However, after an evening she can’t fully remember, disturbing circumstances soon have her second-guessing the sacrifices she’s willing to make for her career as she realizes that something evil is living not only in Apartment 7A but in Bramford itself.

The additional supporting cast includes Marli Siu, Andrew Buchan, Rosy McEwen and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

La Maison a French series

“La Maison” Storyline

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La Maison, Foriegn series

High fashion meets high stakes in this behind-the-curtain look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu, played by Lambert Wilson, leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house, LEDU, hanging by a thread.

Perle Foster, played by Amira Casar, Vincent’s former muse still in his shadow, collaborates with visionary next-generation designer Paloma Castel, played by Zita Hanrotto, to save, evolve and renew the century-old Maison LEDU. Taking advantage of Vincent’s demise, Diane Rovel, played by Carole Bouquet, the ruthless CEO of the powerful Rovel luxury group, launches an offensive to acquire what she sees as her most important prize: Maison LEDU. To achieve her goal, anything is fair game, as this is more than acquiring just another brand — it’s about revenge.

Sonic Hedgehog

“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” Images and Poster

action, adventure, animation, based on video game, children movies, family movies, kid movies, sequels, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Jim Carrey in Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Sonic the Hedgehog, voiced by Ben Schwartz, returns, hopefully, in his most thrilling adventure yet.

Sonic, Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba, and Tails, voiced by Colleen O’Shaughnessy, reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, played by Keanu Reeves, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before.

Knuckles (Idris Elba), Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey) in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 from Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc.

With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

Jim Carrey and Bob Schwartz
Jim Carrey as Ivo Robotnik and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 from Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc.

In this all-star cast, Jim Carrey returns as Doctor Egg.

Jeff Fowler returns as the director. Other films he’s directed besides Sonic films:

Knuckles

The Pink Panther

Escape from Pretoria

Superman Reeve

“SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY” Poster and Storyline

documentary, true stories

Most people know the story of Christopher Reeve, who brought Superman back to the silver screen.

He rose to stardom when he landed the role in the 1970s. Yet in 1995, he had a near-fatal horse-riding accident that left him completely paralyzed. Reeve spends the remainder of his life supporting the search for a cure for spinal cord injuries.

Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui directed the documentary, which surely will bring audiences to tears.

The lord of the rings

“The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim” Poster and Storyline

animation, based on a book, children movies, drama, family movies, fantasy, kid movies

Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim follows the life and conflict of Helm Hammerhand’s time. Hammerhand is the King of Rohan.

Phoebe Gittins, Arty Papageorgiou and Jeffrey Addiss wrote the screenplay. According to Warner Bros., Helm Hammerhand is attacked by Wuff, an intelligent and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for his father’s death.

Helm and his people are forced to take a daring stand in the ancient stronghold of Hornburg, a mighty fortress that will later be known as Helm’s Deep.

Finding herself more and more in a desperate situation, Hera, the daughter of Helm, is summoned to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on the destruction of Helm and his people.

The voice actors include Miranda Otto, Brian Cox, Gaia Wise and Luke Pasqualino.

“Exhibiting Forgiveness” Starring André Holland, Andra Day

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Directed by Titus Kaphar, Exhibiting Forgiveness follows Andre Holland as Tarrell, an admired American painter living with his wife, singer Aisha (Andra Day), and their young son, Jermaine.

Tarrell’s artwork excavates beauty from the anguish of his youth, keeping past wounds at bay. His path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, La’Ron, played by John Earl Jelks, a conscience-stricken man desperate to reconcile.

Tarrell’s mother, Joyce, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, a pious woman with a profound and joyful spirituality, hopes that Tarrell can open his heart to forgiveness, giving them all another chance at being a family. In this raw and profoundly moving film, Tarrell and La’Ron learn that forgetting might be a more significant challenge than forgiving.

From Kaphar’s website:

Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and media through formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and the materials themselves. His practice seeks to dislodge history from its status as the “past” to unearth its contemporary relevance. He cuts, crumples, shrouds, shreds, stitches, tars, twists, binds, erases, breaks, tears, and turns the paintings and sculptures he creates, reconfiguring them into works that reveal unspoken truths about the nature of history.

Metropolis with Adam Driver

Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Storyline, Images, Posters

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Francis Ford Coppola

Coppola’s film explores love, power, greed, change, destiny and hope. It focuses on the obsession with perfection in a world far from flawless. The storyline follows Shakespeare’s themes, the political history of Catiline and Robert Moses’s biography of Robert Caro.

Coppola's Megaloplis
Metropolis, Coppola's latest movie

Megalopolis taps literary and historical references such as Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the spiritual journey of Siddhartha and Greek poet Sappho.

Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed Metropolis, a science fiction drama. Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, an artist whose ingenuity leads him into a utopian, idealistic future. A genius student, he develops an innovative material called Magalon. He has plans to use it to build a utopian city called Megalopolis. But his ambitions do not go unnoticed, as his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, played by Giancarlo Esposito, emerges.

Giancarlo Esposito as Mayor Cicero in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate

Cicero is committed to a regressive status quo that perpetuates special interests, greed and partisan warfare. As the new mayor, Cicero inherits a bankrupt administration and plans to orchestrate a casino complex to boost revenue and rectify modern New York City.

Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate

Nathalie Emmanuel plays Julia Cicero. She is romantically involved with Cesar, torn between her father’s scheme and Cesar’s hope for a better world. Such a rift creates a chasm of conflict, though her independent thinking may help her resolve their differences.

Cesar and Julia
Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero and Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate

Principal photography took place in Georgia. Yet one scene showing an entrance to Ciero’s home looks like the front of Huntington Gardens Mansion.

However, the story is about a hierarchical society divided between those who seek a better society and those who maintain the status quo. Coppola compares the Catilinarian conspiracy to today’s America, which is at the beginning of the end.

The rest of the supporting cast includes Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman.

Francis Ford Coppola and Adam Driver.
Writer/Director Francis Ford Coppola and Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Phil Caruso

Familia De Medianoche

“Familia De Medianoche (Midnight Family)” Storyline

Apple TV, drama, episodic, foreign, true stories, , ,

Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, “Midnight Family” follows Marigaby Tamayo, an ambitious and gifted medical student by day.

She spends her nights saving lives aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance in sprawling, contrasted, and fascinating Mexico City.

Along with her father, Ramón, and her siblings, Marcus and Julito, Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.

Amber Alert

“Amber Alert” Poster and Storyline

drama, on Amazon, suspense

Directed by Kerry Bellesa and co-written by Bellesa and Joshua Oram, Amber Alert follows a rideshare driver and a kidnapper as they play cat and mouse.

It appears to be an ordinary ride share, but quickly becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse when Jaq, played by Hayden Panettiere, and Shane, played by Tyler James Williams, receive an alert about a child abduction on their phones.

Realizing they are behind a car that matches the description of the kidnappers, Jaq and Shane desperately race against time to save the child’s life. Kevin Dunn plays the cop who looks angsty when Jaq and Shane take matters into their own hands.

Bellessa cut his teeth working on the TV series Yo Gabba Gabba!

slow horses with gary oldman

“Slow Horses” Season 4 Storyline

Apple TV, based on a book, British, crime, drama, episodic,

Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known unaffectionately as Slough House. Season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.

Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies. The spies end up at Slough House due to career-ending mistakes, frequently blundering through the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.

The returning ensemble cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce.