Produced by Amazon Studios and co-creators Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, Julia Roberts will not return for the second season of Homecoming, though she remains as executive producer.
Homecoming: Season 2 follows Janelle Monáe’s character as we learn more about the fallout from the Homecoming program. The show expands on the corporate side of what happened to the men of the Homecoming project.
Written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, Antebellum follows Veronica Henley, played by Janelle Moná. She is a successful author and finds herself trapped in a horrifying existence. The short trailer shows her going from the civil war era to modern time. And it’s creepy. There is a place that is the Antebellum era from history as a thriller, and the fourth trailer seems to indicate it is in the movie, too.
Her necessity to uncover the mind-bending mystery before it’s too late is the force of the movie. The 911 call is coming from her or someone else? The image of the butterfly on the poster is intriguing.
Lionsgate calls the movie a terrifying new thriller, and Bush and Renz are reasonably new filmmakers. The rest of the cast includes Marque Richardson II, Eric Lange, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Tongayi Chirisa, Gabourey Sidibe, Rob Aramayo, Lily Cowles, and Jena Malone.
Co-written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, Harriet follows a story based on the inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter. Harriet Tubman, played by Cynthia Erivo, is one of America’s genuine heroes.
Erivo is a talented singer and starred in the movie Widows, directed by Steve McQueen.
Harriet escaped from slavery and fought slavery by helping to free other slaves. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of enslaved people and changed the course of history.
Lemmons’ directing credits include Eve’s Bayou, and she is also an actress. The story is by Gregory Allen Howard, and he contributed to the screenplay.
The following two clips show a well-acted movie with exciting talent.
The following two featurettes describe Harriet as having superpowers like a superhero. Fascinating, and I wonder if that is true or just folklore.
The following two movie clips are scenes in the trailers and featurettes. The settings seem extended and offer more than what was in the trailers and featurettes.
Directed by Kelly Ashbury, UglyDolls is a movie based on toys you can purchase for your kids or yourself, for that matter. We are all unique; even if you are imperfect, you are still a doll.
The playful UglyDolls confront what it means to be different. We are all different – no two people are alike. It is an excellent message for all kids, young or old. We need to appreciate each other for who we are, not what we are not.
I suspect it is easier said than done in the movie, which the UglyDolls learn by overcoming some conflict of sorts.
Ashbury credits are impressive, from Shrek 2 to Gnomeo. & Juliet The cast includes Emma Roberts, Janelle Monáe, and Nick Jonas.
Enjoy the movie trailers!
The second trailer explains how they became ugly dolls and were set aside or ostracized from society. I can’t help but recall in history the Eugenics – the theory that humans could be selectively bred to weed out undesirable traits and strengthen desirable traits Eugenics was formulated by psychologist Francis Galton a British half-cousin to Charles Darwin Galton was a racist who hated Jews, Irish, and Blacks.
The third trailer offers more of the story and promotes the original songs from pop artists. The blond boy doll is the bad guy but not much of one. The movie is just a bunch of fun with great music.
The following three clips show how this movie is ridiculous. The studio blocked A clip with Jonas’s brother singing as a doll, but it was one of the best. The other clips show a robot dog, and we learn from another clip that even perfect dolls have issues.
The five featurettes explain the development of UglyDolls and how each character contributes to the movie. The inventor of the UglyDolls tells the story of how he came up with the idea in college.
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.
I saw the first trailer in the movie theaters about two weeks ago and thought, why hasn’t this story been told yet? It is priceless, and everyone needs to see it.
Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures is the inconceivable, not surprising, true story of Katherine G. Johnson, played by Taraji P. Henson, Dorothy Vaughan, played by Octavia Spencer, and Mary Jackson, played by Janelle Monáe.
The movie follows a brilliant African-American woman working at NASA who was the brains behind one of the greatest operations. That is the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
The movie is entertaining, if not educating. I hope to see more movies like this one.