The 1985 film with William Hurt and Raul Julia was a more straightfoward adaptation of the original novel. 40 years later, director Bill Condon is a bit more ambitious in adapting the 90s Broadway musical with Diego Luna as political prisoner Valentin Arregui and Tonatiuh as his new cellmate Luis Molina, a gay window dresser arrested for public indecency.
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Opening in theaters for a limited run before hitting Netflix in two weeks, director Kathryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite is an intriguing film exercise of replaying the same 20-30 minutes after a nuclear missile is launched on the United States from enemies unknown. Focusing on a large ensemble of actors, perspective shifts and the timeline resets to show us the same events from other characters’ point of view.
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Based on true events, Channing Tatum stars as former soldier turned thief Jeffrey Manchester who robbed over 40 McDonald’s before being sent to prison only to escape and hide out for months inside a Toys”R”Us. Fairly early on in the film someone describes Manchester as both a genius in seeing and understanding the world and a complete idiot in terms of lacking basic common sense, and the theme of Roofman is exploring that idea.
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Set in the equally bleak surroundings of mid-19th Century Arizona, Killing Faith follows the unlikely group of a freed slave (DeWanda Wise), her passing daughter (Emily Katherine Ford), a drug-abusing doctor (Guy Pearce), and a half-wit (Jack Alcott) on a five day journey from the town they are no longer accepted to a neighboring one which they hope will lead to salvation.
At the center of the film, although without any lines of her own, is the young girl who is a carrier of the plague ravaging the area. Some, including her mother, believe the child has been infected by the Devil leading to the supernatural overtones of the movie (which are more subtle than you would expect, accepting only by the poorly educated and fearful of the Western territory) and the religious conversations between the mother and the doctor (haunted by the loss of his own daughter to the same disease).
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Presented as something akin to VH1’s Beyond the Music, the new Cold Slither one-shot examines the history of the band Cold Slither (as introduced in the G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero TV episode of the same name) in which Zartan and the Dreadnoks become the front men for a band with hidden subliminal messages within the music. We then learn that years later that same music hit streaming and spread like wildfire giving Cobra control of the world. But what of the band?
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