Directed by Steven Soderbergh, who has brought us profound and laughable movies, takes a deeper shot using an iPhone camera at the psychiatric institution. The charlatans at best as Unsane follows a young woman Sawyer Valentini, played by Claire Foy of The Crown, who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
This movie explains why psychiatric institutions should be closed down and green mental health prevails.
While incarcerated she is confronted by her greatest fear – but is it real or is it a product of her delusion?
The movie is co-written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer and includes Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving. It’s good to see Irving in a movie. I’ve missed her.
This clip is intense. It reminds of a time I was helping a mother release her daughter from a psychiatric facility. Her daughter was being abused, she needed my help. The nurse at the facility was degrading and as a joke said I couldn’t leave the hospital. I put her in her place and she apologized. Moral of the story, stay away from these institutions, nothing but harm comes from them.
This clip is pretty horrific, and I would never want to be in her shoes. I am impressed with the use of the iPhone camera. Soderbergh created some awesome angles.
Soderbergh is a genius and this clip is so intense. I don’t know if I will be able to watch the movie. Which means, horror fans will love it.
Watch this trailer, Claire Foy is amazing. The edit cuts of the trailer and direction by Soderbergh is per entertainment.
Written and directed by prolific artist Tyler Perry, Acrimony follows Taraji P. Henson in the psychological thriller. She becomes enraged after learning the truth about her philandering husband.
The movie trailer pretty much tells the story. The movie also stars Lyriq Bent, Tika Sumpter, Jazmyn Simon and Jay Hunter.
Check out the poster. It gives us an idea of who the movie follows. It seems to be a testimony. I love those words, “Hell – Hath – No – Fury.”
The Blu-ray and DVD are on the streets, so check it out if you haven’t seen the movie yet or want to see it again.
The second trailer gets more into her soul and her problems with her cheating husband. I am impressed with the foreboding tone of the overall theme.
Crystle Stewart said in an interview Perry shot the film in eight days. That is unbelievable.
The movie clip below says much about what the movie is about. We are going to be seeing some fatal attraction.
Taraji P. Henson talks the talk with lots of truth about relationships. It is worth watching.
Tyler Perry talks about why he made this movie and how deeply it means to him.
Written and directed by Samuel Maoz, Foxtrot is a cute little movie, which is evident by the cute short clip below. In his second film, the story originates from Maoz’s experience with his daughter about 20 years ago in Israeli. An unforgettable day developed into an inspiration for Maoz’s, the award-winning Foxtrot.
An intense and phenomenal examination of what writer Paul Auster called “The Music of Chance.” He refers to David Mitchell’s 1999 novel Ghostwritten, dealing with the nature of random chance.
He turned down his daughter’s request for money to take a cab to school when she was running late. He insisted she takes the bus. He heard 20 minutes later that a terrorist attack hit the bus line she was riding.
He learned later she missed the bus. Still, he experienced that distressing window of time when he thought his daughter was dead. He felt compelled to take responsibility for sending her to her death.
Watch the clip below, and you will see why reviewers call the movie a legitimately stunning piece of work.
The movie projects confidence in structure and tone, and the imagery is striking and memorable—some of the most impressive, extraordinary imagery of the year.
Directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy, Beirut follows a former US diplomat Mason Skiles, played by Jon Hamm, CIA operatives Sandy Crowder and Donald Gaines, played by Rosamund Pike and Dean Norris. Caught in the crossfires of civil war, they must send the former U.S. diplomat to Beirut to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
The first part of the story takes place in 1972, where Skiles, his wife and hopefully to adopted 13-year old Lebanese orphan, played by Yoau Saian Rosenberg are having a cocktail party in there home. Mason’s best friend, CIA Agent Cal Riley, played by Mark Pellegrino, arrives and seconds later terrorists attack the party with tragic results.
Ten years later and now an alcoholic working as a mediator for labor disputes in Boston, Mason gets approached by a stranger in a bar. He hands him a passport, cash, and a plane ticket along with an urgent invitation from mutual “friends” that he travel to Beirut. Grudgingly, Mason arrives in Beirut only to find that the formerly picturesque city on the sea has become a violence-ridden warzone. Mason soon discovers the real reason he’s been called back. CIA and Embassy officials Donald Gaines, Gary Ruzak, played by Shea Whigham, and Ambassador Frank Whalen, played by Larry Pine explain that terrorists have kidnapped a CIA agent. The offer Mason a mission. He negotiates a swap for the release of terrorist leader Abu Rajal, played by Hicham Ouraqa, believed to be imprisoned by Israeli secret police, in exchange for the American. The story unfolds with intrigue and competing agendas.
Under the helm of Anderson is a tight spring action thriller
You might recognize Gilroy’s name as the writer behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Before the Star Wars franchise was resurrected, he formulated his fictional script around facts on the ground including the 1984 kidnapping of CIA Station Chief William Buckley. “For me, that was very much the model for what would happen if a high-level CIA officer were kidnapped,” Gilroy says. “Buckley’s body actually turned up just as I was finishing the script and there was a lot of reporting about that case that I drew on. It was all very garish and gothic and horrifying and dramatic.”
Beirut’s central character prefigured the flawed heroes that would later anchor some of Gilroy’s best-known works. “Mason was the beginning of my fascination with characters in need of redemption, which is also true for Jason Bourne and Michael Clayton,” Gilroy says. “With Beirut, I was interested in writing about people trapped inside a political situation, while at the same time Mason is forced to confront his past and his own weakness.”
After Gilroy finished his script in 1992, numerous A-list actors and directors circled the project, known at the time as High Wire Act. It was just too hot to handle because of the authenticity of the story.
Anderson says related to the script as a great story that was well written. “I was very taken by the world of Tony’s story. I frankly didn’t know very much about Beirut, so for me, it was more the character elements that drew me in. I was fascinated with Mason as this tortured soul who’s trying to redeem himself by saving his friend. That’s a very classic dramatic sensibility.”
The featurette, trailer and clip offer an excellent idea of how good this movie is put together.
Gus Van Sant directed Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot and brought us notable movies like To Die For, Milk and The Sea of Trees.
Based on a true story, the movie follows Joaquin Phoenix, a Van Sant alumni, as he performs John Callahan’s lust for life with a quirky knack for off-color jokes and an obvious drinking problem.
The tragedy begins with an all-night bender and ends in a catastrophic car accident. John wakes up using a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
The movie is about his journey back from rock bottom. His honesty and wicked humor turn out to be his saving grace. He builds friends with an oddball AA group while discovering that love is not beyond his reach. He develops a talent for drawing irreverent and sometimes shocking cartoons that bring him notoriety.
Amazon Studios produced the movie, which means I am a Prime member and will see it as soon as it leaves the movie theaters. I look forward to peaking at the acting chops of some fine actors in this movie, including Rooney Mara, Jack Black, and Jonah Hill.
Here is a second trailer with a soundtrack that is like The Beatles.
Check out the trailer and notice Jack Black and Jonah Hill take severe turns in this poignant story.
Directed by Jason Reitman, who brought you Juno and Young Adult, Tully follows Marlo, a housewife of three, played by Charlize Theron. Her brother gifts her a nighttime nanny named Tully, played by Mackenzie Davis. Marlo is initially uncertain about the extravagance, and she forms a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young Tully.
The trailer is touching and honest, but they have released not very much information about the movie except this trailer.
I laughed when I saw this clip. Not because it was funny but because of the way Theron delivered her lines. A true breastfeeding mother who tries to make the best of it.
Here is a poignant movie clip about the tough time that Theron’s character or all mothers go through.
The second trailer differs a little from the first trailer. We get to see the husband and more of the children.
Co-directed by Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin, I Can Only Imagine follows a true story based on a song by possibly the most popular faith-based song ever played on Christian radio – I Can Only Imagine by MercyMe.
The story follows Bart Millard, who the lead singer of the Christian band MercyMe. His relationship with his troubled father played to the core by Dennis Quaid. I saw a dynamic clip of Quaid playing an emotionally torqued father. I encourage you to see the movie, just to Quaid, amazing.
The message in the movie, which is totally Christian, nobody is ever too far from God’s love — for too far from an eternal home in Heaven.
Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are happening. If you are faith-based movie watcher or not, it’s worth seeing. The Blu-ray/DVD trailer is way better than the movie theater trailer.
The movie also stars Cloris Leachman, Trace Adkins, Michael Finley, Priscilla Shire, and Madeline Carroll.
Directed and co-written by Italian Paolo Virzì, The Leisure Seeker follows a vintage recreational vehicle as John, played by Donald Sutherland and Ella Spencer, played by Helen Mirren, take one last road trip from Boston to the Hemingway House in the Florida Keys.
The road trip movie is about John and Ella arriving at the Keys before his Alzheimer’s and her cancer can catch up with them. They base the movie on a novel, so the story is rich and thought-provoking.
Directed by Michael Sucsy, Every Day is based on a bestseller by David Levithan. The movie follows Rhiannon, played by Angourie Rice, a 16-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” who inhabits a different body every day.
Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and “A” to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make.
The movie also stars Maria Bello. I’ve liked her work since History of Violence.
This movie clip is intense and tells us the obstacles these two people or beings have to face to make their relationship work.
The movie clip below explains how the story works. Rhiannon is in love with a spirit who occupies a different body every day.
The featurette tells what the movie is about. This day and age it is very contemporary. I like the spiritual aspect of the story.
The following clip is so real and tender.
The movie trailer is inspirational and gets under my skin.
Directed and co-written by Gary Ross, Ocean’s 8 follows Danny Ocean’s estranged sister, Debbie, played by Sandra Bullock, who attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City’s star-studded annual Met Gala. Her first stop is to assemble the perfect crew: Lou, Rose, Daphne Kluger, Nine Ball, Tammy, Amita, and Constance. These roles are played part and parcel by Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter and Dakota Fanning in an undisclosed role.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, who has brought us profound and laughable movies, takes a deeper shot using an iPhone camera at the psychiatric institution. The charlatans at best as Unsane follows a young woman Sawyer Valentini, played by Claire Foy of The Crown, who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
