Co-written and directed by Gavin O’Connor, The Way Back follows Jack Cunningham, played by Ben Affleck, who had everything going for him back in high school.
A basketball phenom, he could have punched his ticket to college or even the pros, but he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future.
Jack’s glory days are long gone but not forgotten. Years later, he gets to take back his life when he offers to coach the struggling basketball team at his alma mater.
Jack reluctantly accepts, surprising no one more than himself, and as the boys come together as a team and win, he may get his last shot at redemption.
Brad Ingelsby co-wrote the screenplay with O’Connor. The cast also includes Janina Gavankar and Michaela Watkins.
The clip is Affleck promoting the movie at a Clippers game. Also included are soundbites about the film.
Written and directed by Jon Stewart, Irresistible brings a flare of comedy about a Democrat political consultant, played by Steve Carell,) who helps a retired Marine colonel, played by Chris Cooper, run for mayor in a small Wisconsin town.
Directed by Rapman, Blue Story follows best friends Timmy, Stephen Odubola, and Marco, Micheal Ward, who go to the same high school in Peckham, but live in neighboring London boroughs.
When Marco’s beaten up by one of Timmy’s primary school friends, the two boys wind up on rival sides of a never-ending cycle of a gang war in which there are no winners, only terrible injuries.
The movie also stars Rohan Nedd, Kadeem Ramsay, Khali Best, and Junior Afolabi Salokun.
Directed by Marco Pontecorvo in modern-day Portugal, Fatima follows an author and noted skeptic, Professor Nichols, played by Harvey Keitel, who visits a convent in Coimbra’s riverside city. He meets with Sister Lúcia, played by Sônia Braga, an elderly nun. She recounts her role in a historical event that took place in 1917.
The conversations between pragmatic academics and the severe spiritual self-discipline illuminate a decades-old mystery and set the stage for an inspiring story that has fascinated millions for over a century.
An angel visited 10-year-old Lúcia, played by Stephanie Gil, while wandering in a cave close to home in Aljustrel, on the outskirts of Fátima, Portugal, and showed her a vision of a battlefield.
World War I is raging across Europe and claiming the lives of many young men in Lúcia’s village. In the vision, Lúcia sees her brother, Manuel, played by João Arrais, a soldier at the front, caught in an explosion. Later, while tending her family’s flock of sheep, Lúcia and her younger cousins Jacinta, played by Alejandra Howard, and another apparition, the Virgin Mary, played by Joana Ribeiro, visited Francisco, played by Jorge Lamelas. As she calls herself the “Lady of the Rosary,” she tells the children they must pray and suffer to end the deadly conflict. She also tells them she will return to the same spot every month for six months.
Like many in the town, Lúcia’s devout mother, Maria, played by Lúcia Moniz, doesn’t believe the children’s story and chastises Lúcia for lying. But as the mayor, Artur, played by Goran Višnjić, and Church officials try to convince the youngsters to recant their story, the sighting spreads.
Pilgrims from across the country flock to Fátima, hoping to have their prayers answered, but only the children can see or hear the apparitions. As more people come, the pressure mounts on the newly installed secularist government officials to refute the children’s testimony. Artur eventually resorts to imprisoning Lúcia and her cousins, hoping to have them declared insane. But the psychiatrist he enlists to examine them finds no evidence to support that claim, and the Artur lets them free.
On the day of Mary’s last visit to Fátima, tens of thousands of believers arrive, hoping to witness a miracle that will convince them of her existence. They still talk about what the girls experienced to this day, and the site remains one of the world’s most popular destinations for Catholic pilgrims.
The screenplay is an uplifting story about the power of faith based on real-life events by Pontecorvo, Valerio D’Annunzioo, and Barbara Nicolosi.
Directed by Giuseppe Capotondi with the screenplay adapted by Scott B. Smith from the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford, the American writer initially had the book published in 1971. The Burnt Orange Heresy is a modern version of the book, and the location changed from the Everglades of Florida to the shores of Lake Como in Italy.
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
The cast includes Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang, Donald Sutherland, and Mick Jagger.
Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom with Sean Gray adding material to the story, Greed is a satire on the very wealthy. Not much is being promoted about the movie, but it is a British comedy, and this is the seventh collaboration between Winterbottom and Steve Coogan.
The next two clips show what the movie will entail. The humor is dry, and the situations hilarious.
Directed by Hamish Grieve, Rumble does a different take on the world of wrestling. In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a lovable underdog monster into a champion. The movie voice actors are Will Arnett, Terry Crews, Geraldine Viswanathan, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i, Tony Danza, Becky Lynch, Susan Kelechi Watson, Stephen A. Smith, Jimmy Tatro, Ben Schwartz, and Michael Buffer.
Co-written and directed by Nia DaCosta and produced and co-written by Oscar winner Jordan Peele with co-writer Win Rosenfeld, the movie will bring back childhood memories of a fresh take on a blood-chilling urban legend. Your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover, known as the Candyman, is a contemporary incarnation of the cult classic.
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, quickly summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror.
You come to the present day, after a decade of the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down. Enter visual artist Anthony McCoy, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, played by Teyonah Parris, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.
With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer, played by Colman Domingo, exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio. He sees it as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening the door to a complicated past that unravels his sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Co-directed by Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole and starring Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe with June Squibb and Margo Martindale, the movie, Blow the Man Down, begins at Easter Cove. It is a salty fishing village on the far reaches of Maine’s rocky coast.
Grieving the loss of their mother and facing an uncertain future, Mary Beth and Priscilla Connolly cover up a gruesome run-in with a dangerous man. They conceal their crime, and the sisters must go deeper into Easter Cove’s underbelly and uncover the town matriarchs’ darkest secrets.
Directed by Armando Iannucci, we follow the story based on Charles Dickens’ classic tale of grit and determination. Dev Patel plays the lead role in The Personal History of David Copperfield. The studio calls it re-imagines of Charles Dickens’ story, giving it a comedic lens of the Dickensian tale.
Still, a remake is a remake, even though they say “new life of the story for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world.”
Armando Iannucci also co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Blackwell. They seem to lend their wry, yet heart-filled storytelling style to revisiting Dickens’ iconic hero on his quirky journey from impoverished orphan to the burgeoning writer in Victorian England.
Other cast members include Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton.
