Spotlighting New Hollywood, rising stars & films, with news reviews & exclusive interviews
At the ripe old age of 22, Noah Centineo ruled the Internet this summer, earning the nickname “The Internet’s boyfriend.” For those of you unfamiliar with the tall dark and handsome 6’1” work, he played the brooding, complicated twin brother in the long-running Freeform family drama, The Fosters. That show, a ground-breaking youth drama that began ...
In popular science fiction, there is no character comparable to Mr. Spock. Star Trek's legendary Vulcan, in a role pioneered by the late Leonard Nimoy, wisely served as the first officer, science officer and assorted roles on the starship Enterprise through the 1960s TV series and a number of feature films, not to mention guest ...
From French-born (Moroccan heritage) writer, director Nabil Ayouch (Much Loved, and Whatever Lola Wants), comes the powerful drama, Razzia, co-written by Maryam Touzani who also stars in the indie, foreign language film. Upheaval in the streets of Casablanca serves as the canvas on which multiple storylines of this film collide. Beautifully framed, poetically and authentically ...
New York native and longtime BNH fave, Chad Michael Collins, is one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood. Probably best known for his SNIPER (Sony Pictures) series, Collins has recently been upping his social media game, posting some very hot photos that are not only making for thirsty tweets from fans, but also signaling ...
To the movie going public, celebrities are the actors, the stars, sometimes the directors. To the industry, there are superstar producers, and the late Allan Carr was a well-known and successful producer, manager and promoter who arguably zenithed at the height of the disco era in the late 1970s. The man behind the hugely successful musical ...
Starring Noah Wyle (of ER, The Librarians, and Falling Skies fame), Sharon Leal (Supergirl) and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Shot is a compelling drama about how an accidental gunshot impacts a number of lives. Our film pick and review. Wyle plays Mark, a movie sound editor living the good life in LA except he is having ...
This week, as our film pick, we want to draw your attention to an important crime-drama which sadly tells another true tale of unfair punishment in the jaws of the American prison system. Crown Heights (distributed by Amazon Studios, IFC Films), written and directed by Matt Ruskin, winner of the 2017 Sundance Audience award, is ...
The film we like to bring to your attention this week is a history-based drama, titled Frantz, by François Ozon (Under the Sand, 8 Women, Swimming Pool). Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), Frantz takes place in the tense and sad recovery phase after both sides lost loved ...
Coming off the Special Jury Prize from Sundance, AS YOU ARE is an intriguing drama that bends troubled family film cliches with an unusual plot device. Told in flashback through police interrogations, we learn how three teenagers become friends in the 90s. Obviously, the audience waits for a crime to reveal itself as the interrogations progress. Scroll ...
This week we managed to squeeze in one more film to watch and we chose Detour due to its cleverly pieced together trailer and the rising stars featured as its trio of lead actors. Written and directed by British filmmaker Christopher Smith, Detour is a visually engaging thriller with plenty of twists and clever techniques, ...
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