Triple Threat is the latest martial arts action opus to hit the big screen from Well Go USA entertainment. Stuntman turned film director Jesse V. Johnson has enlisted a who’s who of martial artists and direct to home market action stars for his latest project. The cast includes Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, and Michael Bispin.
Two years after his Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay for the film Get Out, Jordan Peele returns to cinemas with the excellent horror film Us from Universal Pictures. Once again, Peele takes on writing and directing duties, and his sophomore effort is a vastly different film than his debut. Us opens with a young Adelaide Thomas (Madison Curry) enjoying an evening with her parents (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Anna Diop) at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. The curious Adelaide wanders off on her own and experiences a traumatic event.
The Cliburn announces today the 24 competitors invited to participate in the 2019 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, taking place May 31–June 8, 2019, in Dallas, Texas, with the first three rounds at Caruth Auditorium at SMU and the Final Round performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ruth Reinhardt at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
For the third consecutive year, President Trump called for the end of federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in his annual budget request to Congress. The Creative Coalition strongly rejects the President’s annual call to end federal funding for the NEA. Congress must again reject these shortsighted cuts proposed in the President’s budget request and instead increase funding for the NEA.
Fifteen seconds into Hulu’s new series Shrill and we are already seeing skin. The woman is not sexualized, but instead she is shown in her bra, trying to figure out what to wear to work. This mundane event might not even be shown in most shows, however, the moment stands out for one reason– this woman is fat.
Aliens invade earth once again in director Rupert Wyatt’s Captive State from Focus Features. The film opens up in 2017, extra-terrestrial beings have succeed in taking over Earth. As the Drummond family attempts to escape Chicago, the parents die, leaving their sons Gabriel and Rafe orphaned. Ten years later, the Drummond brothers have taken different paths in life. Gabriel (Ashton Sanders) is an average working man, looking for a better life, while Rafe (Johnathan Majors) is part of a rebellion against the invaders, known as “The Legislators”. Surprisingly, we don’t see much of them in the film.
Wonder Park is the latest family entertainment film to hit theaters from Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies. Directed by Dylan Brown, with a screenplay written by Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemac, Wonder Park tells the story of June (Brianna Denski) and an imaginative amusement park named Wonderland she created with her mother (Jennifer Garner). When the film begins, we meet a young June who before bedtime is building the latest ride for the park with her mom. The filmmakers use a framing device to show us how the park to life.
As a fat woman, you could say that I have been hungry for positive fat portrayals of women in media. Since movies and TV rarely showed any normal depictions of fat women, I often went to books to read what I couldn’t see. That’s where I first came across writer and activist Lindy West.
In 2016 Shrill, West’s comedic memoir on fat shaming and coming of age as a woman in a world that wasn’t made for you, was published to critical acclaim. Now, a TV show based on her life and the fat and female experiences, also called Shrill, is coming to Hulu Friday, starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant and produced by Elizabeth Banks and Lorne Michaels. A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to chat with Lindy by phone and talk about adapting her memoir, representation, fat people on TV and how comedy has grown in the last five years to include more diverse voices. Here’s our conversation:
Sony Pictures will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1999 teen cult classic, CRUEL INTENTIONS with a theatrical re-release on March 22nd for an exclusive one-week engagement nationwide. Go back to Manchester Prep to relive the seduction and betrayal between rich & conniving Manhattan teens, played by iconic stars, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair.
Beginning today, FREE SOLO, the Academy Award® winning Best Documentary Feature highlighting soloist climber Alex Honnold, will stream on Hulu. From award-winning documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, FREE SOLO is an unflinching portrait of Honnold as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream of climbing El Capitan, the 3,200-foot peak in Yosemite National Park, without a rope.
