Category Archives: true stories

“Indivisible” Trailer, Poster, and Featurette

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Co-written and directed by David G. Evans, Indivisible is a faith-based movie about a true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner, played by Justin Bruening, and his wife Heather, played by Sarah Drew. The couple is strong with a faith-filled marriage. They follow their calling, which is serving God, family, and country.

Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Yet before the Turners can even unpack their new house, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their three young children alone … as well as serving the families of the other deployed soldiers.

Despite a desire to stay connected with their loved ones, the harsh realities of war take a daily toll over the course of the Battalion’s extended deployment. Meanwhile back home, babies are born, kids keep growing and nerves are frayed with every late-night knock on the door.

With deeply etched battle scars, the soldiers’ long-awaited homecoming is much different than any of their families anticipate. Carrying burdens the other can’t comprehend, the Turners must decide if they’re willing to face one more battle. That battle is fought to save their marriage.

All in all, faith-based movies have their purpose and need for people to be reminded of the higher power of God or whatever one wants to call it. We must not forget our religious beliefs and our beliefs in ourselves and our family.

Cheryl McKay and Peter White also contributed to the screenplay. Evans other directing credits include The Grace Card.

“Peterloo” Poster & Trailer

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Directed by Mike Leigh, Peterloo is a true story about victimizing the British subjects who were peacefully demonstrating for democratic reform. Though they were demanding democracy for the common people, it was a peaceful gathering of 80,000 people. The government-supported cavalry charged into the crowd. Turning into one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, known as the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.

Mike Leigh is a respected director who has been nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting and directing Vera Drake and Secret & Lies. He was also nominated for an Oscar for his screenwriting talents including Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year, and Topsy-Turvy.

The movie trailer shows the pastoral and gentle life of the British subjects who are also starving to death. The monarchy and government are oblivious to their plight.  The peaceful demonstration needed to be heard but rather turned into a historical tragedy. 

“Boy Erased” Trailer, Movie Clips, Featurette & Poster

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Directed by Joel Edgerton, Boy Erased is based on a memoir of a teenage boy whose parents encouraged him to attend a gay-deprogramming through a Christian-sponsored program. 

The movie stars some hefty actors like Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe and Oscar-nominated Lucas Hedges. Openly gay singer and songwriter Troye Sivan plays one attendee of the church-sponsored program.  In the trailer, Sivan appears to keep up with the other talented actors, and I am happy for him. 

The movie isn’t about being gay and accepting homosexuality. It’s about accepting your child or people.  Parents can mold their children into being what they want to be. I know it is cliche,  but parents have to accept who their children are and love them unconditionally.

This isn’t an anti-religion movie because, truly, it is about loving and caring for people and letting people be who they are.

Edgerton is an actor, and this is the fifth movie he’s directed.   He also wrote the screenplay based on Garrard Conley’s book Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family.

The featurette shows how much Edgerton is respected for directing this movie.

These two movie clips pretty much say what the movie is all about. Great acting, watch the clips and you will see what I mean.

The movie clip shows Troye Sivan playing a boy at the church-sponsored program.

The movie trailer tells the story and the frustration the boy and parents went through and the outcome we will find out when we watch the movie.

Colette Trailers and Poster

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Co-written and directed by Wash Westmoreland, Colette follows Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, played by Keira Knightley, after marrying a successful Parisian writer Willy, played by Dominic West, is transplanted from her where she grew up in rural France to the scholarly and artistic richness of Paris.

Shorty, Willy persuades Colette to ghostwrite for him. She writes a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and gutsy country girl named Claudine. The book becomes a trending bestseller and a cultural inspiring story.

After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels. Colette’s fight over creative ownership and gender roles drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing literature, fashion, and sexual expression.

Richard Glatzer and Rebecca Lenkiewicz also contributed to the screenplay.  Westmoreland is known for directing Still Alice, which won Julianne Moore several international awards. 

The movie is about real people and their relationship with the story. The second trailer shows more of the movie and the sexual innuendoes of one of the most famous books in the world at the time.

“The Favourite” – Oscar Winner Best Actress – Trailers, Clips, Featurettes, & Review

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Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite comes from a true story in early 18th century England. A frail Queen Anne, played by Olivia Colman, occupies the throne. Her close friend Lady Sarah, played by Rachel Weisz, governs the country in her stead. A new servant arrives named Abigail, played by Emma Stone. Her charm endears her to Sarah, but it looks like there is more to the story.

I saw the movie and enjoyed it. Coleman is brilliant and outshines all her co-stars. Though, each star in the film is stellar. The comedy is an undercoat of crude vocabulary and bizarre behavior. If you are of faint-heart, then don’t see the movie. My daughter and I went in the late afternoon, and the audience members were over sixty. My daughter and I were the only ones laughing throughout the movie. When the lights came up in the movie house, we saw shocked faces.

Don’t get me wrong; the movie is full of British humor and fantastic pacing. Both of us are glad we went to and saw the movie. The music is a bit odd. I am not quite sure of its purpose in the film.

Lanthimos is from Greece, and he earned award recognition for his movie The Lobster, which Coleman also stars. Coleman stars as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown. She is replacing Claire Foy, who won a Golden Globe portraying the younger Queen for two seasons.

The featurette focuses on the director and his quirkiness and oddball way of telling a story.

The original screenplay is by Deborah Davis, and it appears this is her first time writing for a movie. Tony McNamara also contributed to the screenplay.

TheThe featurette shows more of how the interplay of the characters works. Though the clip talks about the female leads, we get to see some of the male leads and their odd behavior.

The cleverness of these scenes and the way it shows the characters manipulating each other is brilliant. “Sometimes, a lady likes to have some fun.”

The poster looks similar to the movie poster for the movie Lizzie. I almost thought them one of the same.

The second trailer is so much more fun to watch. It is funny. I hope the story arches and makes sense in the long run.


The movie trailer indicates the movie is a comedy of sorts. I didn’t even recognize Emma Stone.

The next three clips are featurettes concerning the costumes, the cast, and the production design. It is quite interesting to find out where they shot the movie and the color choices for the costumes.

The featurette covers the cinematography, which is fantastic, with wide-angle lenses. Robbie Ryan shares details of how he shot the wide-angle scenes while setting up each shot.

“Beautiful Boy” Trailer, Movie Clips, and Poster

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Co-written and directed by Felix Van Groeningen, Beautiful Boy follows the real story from the memoirs of father and son David and Nic Sheff.  The movie stars Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, and Maura Tierney.

Groeningen is a Belgium writer and director. One movie he directed is The Broken Circle Breakdown, which earned an Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Film. The movie won several awards, including Label Europa Cinemas at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, the movie chronicles the heart wrenching and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

The two movie clips show the discomfort of trying to reach your child when personal contact is lost.

David Sheff’s memoir is called “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction,” and Nic Sheff’s memoir is called “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.”

Interestingly, kids get diagnosed with learning disabilities and given methamphetamines. They become addicted to them.

Watch the movie trailer and see some fine, fine acting by both Carell and Chalamet.  Chalamet as Nic literal morphs in the restaurant scene.  I didn’t even recognize him at first.

“Welcome to Marwen” Trailers, Movie Clips, Featurettes, & Poster

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Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this unbelievable true story follows Mark Hogancamp, played by Steve Carell, in an original story about a man who fought back from his fears after a devastating attack. Only Zemeckis can helm this miraculous story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit.

The terrible attack entirely wipes Hogancamp memories of his life. There is no chance of ever recovering from this torment. Through art, he puts together pieces from his old and new life, and Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town where he can heal and be heroic.
He builds a world of art that protects him from his own worst memories of his attack. The movie focuses on the testament to the most powerful females he knows—through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

Welcome to Marwen is available on disc and streams on movie outlets. 

Here are some more movie clips that show how the brilliance of this movie and story. I saw some of the behind the scenes footage of them shooting the doll scenes, amazing.

The featurette explains the story and the premise behind what Mark, Carell’s character does to keep his sanity, healing by using his imagination.

The stellar cast includes Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monáe, Eiza González, and Gwendolyn Christie, Leslie Zemeckis, and Neil Jackson.

The third trailer is much better and tells the real story.

The second trailer tells more of the story and shows how Hogancamp relates to each character in this true story.

Watch the trailer, and you will visually see how Zemeckis creates a world so unique and prolific for all to see and understand how art and imagination can save a soul. 

The featurette explains how Marwen built his imaginary world, and from there is a story.

“The Old Man & the Gun” Trailers, Featurettes, and Poster

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Written and directed by David Lowery, The Old Man & the Gun is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, and Sissy Spacek with Elizabeth Moss and Danny Glover as co-stars.

Lowery works as both writer and director on his films. He tends to work with Casey Affleck. His credits include A Ghost Story, Pete’s Dragon, and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.

A great featurette about the director who also wrote the screenplay.

The “The Sundance Kids Reunited” is a great featurette. It is so cool to see a story like this in the film business.

The “Playing Icons” featurette is fun to watch because it tells the story and shows how fun the movie is to watch.

The movie trailer shows more of what will happen in the movie. The cast list is stellar.

The movie trailer tells the story pretty well, and I love the scenes with Redford and Spacek.

“Operation Finale” Trailers, Movie Clips, Featurettes, and Posters

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Directed by Chris Weitz, Operation Finale is a thrilling true story that follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin, played by Oscar Isaac, as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, played by Ben Kingsley, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.

Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel.

Weitz directing credits include About a Boy, Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Golden Compass. His writing credits are impressive, which includes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Mountain Between Us, and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.

The atrocities of the Nazi regime is forever in our minds.  We will never forget how crazy and mad a group of evil men and women can become if they are allowed to dramatize freely without being stopped.

The latest poster image communicates so much better. We must be vigilant and never let such atrocities happen again.

The rest of the cast include Lior Raz, Melanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Joe Alwyn, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Aronov, Ohad Knoller, Greg Hill, Torben Liebrecht, Mike Hernandez, Greta Scacchi, and Pêpê Rapazote.

The feature below offers details of how Weitz works with the actors. The actors speak about working with him and how he directs.

“The Extraction” movie clip is intense.

The movie clip tells us how they plan to get Eichmann out of Argentina.

The featurette tells more about the difficulties of capturing one of the evilest men during the Nazi regime. Kingsley tells us why he wanted to play this man.

The movie clip is directed and edited to keep the fast pace of the story moving – also known as suspense and thrilling.

The movie trailer is intense and Ben Kingsley is fantastic, as usual.

“White Boy Rick” Trailer and Movie Clips

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Directed by Yann Demange, White Boy Rick takes place in the 1980s in Detroit. During this time, the city’s crack epidemic was at its height with a War on Drugs.

Starring Matthew McConaughey as Rick’s dad, the movie is based on the true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., played by Richie Merritt.

Rick became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.

The movie also boasts a talented cast, including Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, Bruce Dern, and Piper Laurie.

The movie clip is about what was happening in the drug work. It’s not a box office appeal but a lesson on the importance of doing the right thing and not breaking the law. 

The movie clip is fantastic. It is a well-written and directed movie with some talented actors.

Demange is a French director who directed a darn good movie called ’71. Both movies are similar in storytelling, with the camera placed exactly in each. 

The second poster has a white background with the image of the father and son.

The movie trailer shows a wacky and hectic life on a dwindling spiral.

The movie is streaming now and available on Blu-ray/DVD. The story is tragic, but there is great acting.