Spotlighting New Hollywood, rising stars & films, with news reviews & exclusive interviews
At Brave New Hollywood we believe in drawing attention to films worthy of time and attention. This month, we pick NEVER AGAIN IS NOW, an important and timely documentary releasing wide on October 23rd, and urge you to see it. Personal films are often the most moving and poignant ones, because they are rooted in reality, ...
The prestigious AFI Fest runs next month in Los Angeles, Nov. 14-21, honoring the best festival films of the year and is, not surprisingly, an important venue for film lovers and filmmakers to converge in the movie capital of the world. AFI Fest, with its November programming, is also a bellwether for Oscar gold as Oscar nominees ...
This month, AFI announced an exclusive yearlong partnership with Spotlight Cinemas to showcase rare and never-before-seen footage from the AFI Archive as a part of Spotlight’s pre-show entertainment aimed at exhibitors and fans of independent film throughout their theater locations, nationwide. Each month, AFI will produce new segments that give theatergoers across the United States a ...
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has traditionally been the harbinger of the best films coming in the fall. A blessing from the audiences and critics at TIFF could signal an award-winner and maybe even a box office hit. So, this September, TIFF 2019 was bigger and better than ever, boasting over 333 films from ...
Like every film festival, new films mean new faces. And at TIFF 2019, these new faces shone brightly through quirky and dark films. In no particular order, the rising, talked-about actors and actresses at TIFF 2019 are... Holocaust drama, THE PAINTED BIRD, had audiences walking out of screenings. A grim and violent film, THE PAINTED BIRD stars ...
Attention Angelenos, a unique celebration is coming to the heart of our historic city, the perfect place for celebrating art, unity, diversity and everything showbiz. Over 30 performers, dancers, artists, and community groups will entertain and engage their audience in a public performance, with art installations, and workshops to explore and a celebration of diversity ...
This month, from TLA Releasing, and all the way from Argentina comes THE BLONDE ONE (UN RUBIO) a compelling, soulful film celebrating the gay male gaze. It is the sixth film by Argentine filmmaker, Marco Berger (Plan B, Hawaii) who wrote and directed this impressive LGBT, romantic, drama. Specific shots, elevating testosterone and tensions, silences that scream ...
This September, a new comedy, drama film arrives in select theaters, with its eye on a sub-culture inside the large melting pot that’s Southern California. 10E is a truly unique film and the first of its kind to shine a light on the Armenian-American teen experience. Actor-director, Vahik Pirhamzei has playfully brought to the table a ...
Kathy Griffin has a hell of a story to tell and she gets to tell it her way. The massive blowback that caused her career to vanish overnight, with the loss of TV contracts and other lucrative deals was due to Griffin posing for a photograph in which she held a mask resembling the bloodied ...
Released today, are the official U.S. Trailer and poster for 15 MINUTES OF WAR coming to select theaters and VOD August 2nd. This French/Belgium production (in English and French with English subtitles) was directed by Fred Grivois and stars Alban Lenoir and Olga Kurylenko, and is based on the true-life 1976 hostage crisis between Somali rebels who kidnapped ...
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