Category: Crime

I like both the poster and trailer for No Man of God starring Luke Kirby and Elijah Wood.  The title ain’t bad either.  I plan to check this one out.

Starring Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino and Robert Patrick
Directed by Amber Sealey

In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency’s criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim’s families. As Hagmaier delves into Bundy’s dark and twisted mind, a strange and complicated relationship develops that neither man expected. Based on actual transcripts of interviews between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and the incarcerated Ted Bundy, No Man of God is “nothing short of riveting. It is a must-see” (Reel News Daily).

I don’t think the poster for The Evening Hour provides much insight into what the movie may be about.  The trailer on the other hand works.  It makes me think that The Evening Hour could be a winner.  

The autumnal mountains of southern Appalachia hold a haunting power within which Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger FIRST REFORMED), maintains an uneasy equilibrium, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts to help make ends meet. But when an old friend, Terry Rose (Cosmo Jarvis, LADY MACBETH), returns with dangerous new plans that threaten the fragile balance Cole has crafted amidst the addiction, economic stress and environmental devastation that have his declining mining town in a stranglehold, his world and identity are thrown into deep disarray.

Directed by Braden King (HERE) from screenwriter Elizabeth Palmore’s adaptation of Carter Sickels’ acclaimed novel, photographed by Declan Quinn and set to an original score by Michael Krassner, Tim Rutili and Boxhead Ensemble, THE EVENING HOUR presents an authentic portrait of a rural American landscape in transition – and a moving, lyrical hymn for the complex tangle of hardship and hope wrought by opioid addiction in Appalachia.

The poster for Beckett is okay, but man, I really like the trailer.  Deal me in.

Following a tragic car accident in Greece, Beckett, an American tourist, finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy – and on the run for his life.

I liked Don’t Breathe better than I thought I would.  The trailer looks good.  I like the direction it takes — we will learn more about Nordstrom’s past and the sequel has him going after thugs and adapting his methods due to being blind.

The sequel is set in the years following the initial deadly home invasion, where Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang) lives in quiet solace until his past sins catch up to him.

Starring Stephen Lang, Brendan Sexton III, and Madelyn Grace.

Don’t Breathe 2 has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association for strong bloody violence, gruesome images, and language. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on August 13, 2021.