In the second part of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” INTERVUES, I sat down with two more stars of this amazing film. Rob Morgan plays James Sr., the father of Jimmie played by Jimmie Fails and Tichina Arnold who plays Jimmie’s aunt Wanda. And away we go!
Max (Patton Oswalt), Duke (Eric Stonestreet), and Snowball (Kevin Hart) return to the big screen in Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s The Secret Life of Pets 2. Picking up some time after the first film, Max and Duke’s owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), is married and has a new baby boy. Max instantly declares himself the child’s protector. When the family decides to take a vacation to the country, Max meets alpha dog Rooster (Harrison Ford) who helps Max discover his
Octavia Spencer reunited with her Get On Up and The Help director Tate Taylor in Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions’ horror thriller Ma. After a heartbreaking divorce, a single mom moves back to her hometown with her daughter Maggie (Diana Silvers). Maggie quickly making friends with the local bad girl Haley (McKaley Miller) and finds a new love interest, Andy (Corey Fogelmanis). After failed attempts at buying booze, Maggie’s friends convince
Japanese monster Godzilla returns to the American cinema in Warner Bros. Pictures’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters from director Michael Dougherty. Godzilla: King of the Monsters opens during the last monster rampage of their previous film. Dr. Mark Russell (Kyle Chandler) is searching for his wife, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), in the destroyed city of San Francisco. Five years later, their relationship has ended and Emma is raising their teenage daughter, Madison
Director David Yarovesky explores the sinister side of an alien child coming to earth in Screen Gems Brightburn. Tori Breyer (Elizabeth Banks) and her husband, Kyle (David Denman), have tried for a while to conceive a child. One night the couple’s lovemaking session is interrupted by a loud crash outside of their farm. Twelve years later, Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn) has become sufficiently accumulated to farm life with his loving parents.
While he is seen as smart by his teacher, Brandon
Elton John is the latest music icon to receive the biopic treatment in director Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman from Paramount Pictures. It’s clear from early on that the director and screenwriter, Lee Hall, didn’t intend to give the audience a standard music biopic. The film opens with a different, yet respectable, monologue from Elton John (Taron Egerton) as he is entering rehab. This opening monologue details Elton John’s vices of choice. I consider myself a casual
Walt Disney Pictures remakes their 1992 animated classic, Aladdin with a live-action adaptation from director Guy Ritchie. Save for a few changes, such as the introduction of a couple of new characters, the general premise of the 2019 version of Aladdin remains the same as the 1992 version. Both are derived from the Arabic folktale “One Thousand and One Nights”. Grand Vizier Jafar (Marwan Kenzari) is a conniving sorcerer who serves as the chief advisor to The Sultan of Agrabah
Actress Olivia Wilde makes her directorial debut with the witty and charming Booksmart from United Artists Releasing. Lifelong friends Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) have spent their high school career overachieving in the field of academics. The girls’ classmates find them to be pretentious and do not associate with them. One day during a bathroom break, Molly overhears one of her rivals Annabelle (Molly Gordon) bad mouthing her and takes the moment to stand up
The latest entry in Keanu Reeve’s action-packed franchise arrives in Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum from director Chad Stahelski. Picking up immediately after the ending of John Wick: Chapter 2, this third installment finds Wick (Keanu Reeves) a marked man on the run as the High Table has declared Wick excommunicado. This means all of the benefits which were available to Wick as a hitman are no longer accessible. Wick reaches out to old friends Sofia
The premise of dueling con artists who eventually team up to take down a mark gets a new spin in director Chris Addison’s The Hustle from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Hustle is a remake of the classic 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which was a remake of the sixties film Bedtime Story. The Hustle opens up with an introduction of Penny (Rebel Wilson) and her style of coning a mark. Penny uses her natural gift of gab to get over on men. Across the pond French con artist Josephine (Anne Hathaway), uses a style of the con that involves her beauty and downplaying her intelligence.
