Josh Gad grows with Adulthood, The Cut, The Man in the Basement — Streaming Guide for September 23
Josh Gad struggles with Adulthood, The Cut, The Man in the Basement — Streaming Guide
Josh Gad struggles with Adulthood, The Cut, The Man in the Basement — Streaming Guide
Bert Kreischer is ’Lucky’ on Netflix, Sadie Sink rocks O’Dessa, Jon Voight takes the ‘High
Bryan Johnson is a Real Life Seth Brundle in Netflix Doc DON’T DIE When I
Films Gone Wild: New on Streaming Guide: December 31 2024 Filmmakers, made it to theaters
New on Streaming Guide for the week of December 10 2024 from Films Gone Wild.
“For our first fellowship, we are proud to highlight Afro Latino voices because Black lives are Latino lives.” says Academy Award®-nominated actor and co-founder of LALIFF and the Latino Film Institute, Edward James Olmos.
Explorations of human reactions to confinement and food insecurity span from altruistic to needlessly cruel. Avoiding uniform verdicts on the characters’ behaviors and choices under these stresses, the film chooses instead to contrast approaches to fear, problem solving and the value of having a conscience. All of it veers into the extremes of those ranges and all of it is vital and wholly believable. In short, Gaztelu-Urrutia has accomplished the rare feat of shunning cheap exploitation in favor of a diligent expedition into what fundamentally makes our species tick.
Skye Borgman’s ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT is a dream of impossibility for the true crime documentary enthusiast. Tracing the two abduction/kidnappings of a pre-teen Jan Broberg by Bob Berchtold with the arguable permission of her parents, the film begins with a reality that is hard for one to wrap their head around, even acknowledging that the events of the film took place in the 70s and to a naïve Mormon family in Idaho – that two parents would stand by and more or less give permission to a man to take their little girl and even “marry” her.
I can’t imagine Francis Ford Coppola standing in front of a Best Buy bin while wearing an old-timey change belt or fanny pack and taking a couple dollars at a time for his GODFATHER films. So why should I do that with my next epic (because it will TOTALLY be an an epic, I’m telling you)?
She has a proposal that is not as indecent as it first sounds: “Would you be interested in coming over and sleeping with me?” Addie nervously tells the shocked Louis that she isn’t interested in sex, but talk and companionship, and hopes having him share her bed will make it easier for her to sleep.