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‘Custody’ Review: Viola Davis Can’t Save This Wildly Messy Lifetime Movie
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“Custody” is the cliched wedding toast of movies. Actually, it’s the drunken cliched wedding toast of movies, in that it starts by defining the title — “the protective care or guardianship of someone or something,” in case you’re unfamiliar with the lofty legal term — before spiraling wildly off-topic, delving full-on into the lives of the wedding guests and often forgetting why these stories are relevant to the happy couple.
In other words, it’s a mess, and if you’re purely interested in Viola Davis’ involvement, I urge you to skip to the first and only paragraph below staring with “Viola Davis” (or the one ending with “our beloved Vi Vi”).
To continue the wedding analogy, our happy couple at the heart of “Custody” is Sara Diaz (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and her kids. A single mother working at a dry cleaner, Diaz is constantly worried about her kids getting into trouble, »
- Ben Travers
‘Rise:’ Short Film Starring Anton Yelchin To Be Made Into a Feature — Watch the Original Here
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The Sci-fi short “Rise,” starring the late Anton Yelchin and directed by David Karlak, will be made into a feature. Producers Johnny Lin (“Bernie”) and Brian Oliver (“Black Swan”) —from Filmula and Cross Creek, respectively— obtained the feature rights from Warner Bros., as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
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The short is based on a screenplay written by Karlak with by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (“Saw” films, “The Collector”). Here is the official description of the short film: A dystopian future, where man’s attempt to create artificial intelligence has spun wildly out of control, leading to a war between man and machine.
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“Brian and I are extremely excited to have an opportunity to build a film franchise based on »
- Yoselin Acevedo
Martin Scorsese Announces Initiative to Restore Classic African Films — Watch Trailer
13 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Martin Scorsese has launched an initiative to locate, restore and preserve classic African movies. Scorsese’s The Film Foundation has partnered with the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fepaci) and Unesco to create The African Film Heritage Project (Afhp). As part of this initiative, 50 films with “historic, artistic and cultural significance,” will be restored.
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The initiative will be lead by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, which was established in 2007 “to ensure that the most vulnerable titles don’t disappear forever… Along the way, we’ve come to understand the urgent need to locate and preserve African films title by title in order to ensure that new generations of filmgoers —African filmgoers in particular— can actually see these works and appreciate them,” the renowned filmmaker said in a statement.
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- Yoselin Acevedo
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