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Hana’s taken hostage on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season six episode 14, airing on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10pm Et/Pt. Directed by Ken Girotti and written by Wendy West & Jon-Alexander Genson, episode 14 will be the first episode to air after CBS confirmed they’ve canceled the FBI spinoffs Most Wanted and International. Season six is Most Wanted‘s final season and International will end with season four.

Dylan McDermott leads the cast as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott. Season six also stars Shantel VanSanten as Special Agent Nina Chase, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.

“100%” Plot: While helping Ethan seek treatment at a Va Hospital, Hana puts out an Sos to the Fugitive Task Force when she is among those taken hostage by an enraged veteran, on the 100th episode. William Nicol, Ben Cain,...

Peace in the Valley Review — Peace in the Valley (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Tyler Riggs and starring Brit Shaw, Dendrie Taylor, Jordan Cox, Michael Aaron Milligan, Michael Abbott Jr., Nicky Buggs, Alex Van, Guy Messenger, Virginia Kirby, Jp Lambert, Nakia Dillard, [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Peace In The Valley: Tyler Riggs’ Movie Features an Astonishingly Good Lead Turn by Brit Shaw [Tribeca 2022]...

Director Sean Kirkpatrick discusses his directorial debut Cost of a Soul, shooting in Philadelphia, landing distribution, and much more

Every year, hundreds of independent filmmakers scrape together money to make their films, with hopes of getting into festivals, and bigger hopes of being picked up by a distributor. Sean Kirkpatrick is one of those filmmakers, who brought his directorial debut Cost of a Soul, to numerous film festivals, although he couldn't secure distribution. Fortunately, the AMC Theater chain held a contest entitled The Big Break Movie Contest, which Cost of a Soul won, earning exclusive distribution in AMC Theaters starting on May 20. I recently had the chance to chat with director Sean Kirkpatrick about his experience in making Cost of a Soul. Here's what he had to say.

I noticed you were a production assistant before becoming a director, and I remembered a story about Eli Roth, how he was...

Reviewed by James Scarborough

(May 2011)

Directed/Writen by: Sean Kirkpatrick

Starring: Chris Kerson, Will Blagrove, Mark Borkowski, Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Nakia Dillard and Daveed Ramsay

War may be hell, but, as laid out in “The Cost of a Soul,” written and directed by Sean Kirkpatrick, the home front isn’t so cool either. Structured as an out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire Grand Guignol, it tells the tale of two men from Philadelphia linked anonymously by a common mission in Iraq who meet in an explosive, brutal series of tit-for-tat, inter-neighborhood reprisals. Studded with raw and powerful performances and direction that screams without success for order in a universe gone awry, it asks the too-little-asked question: Just what exactly are we fighting for if not for a better life at home?

Two young men, Tommy Donahue (Chris Kerson) and Dd Davis (Will Blagrove), enlist to fight in Iraq, motivated more to...

Reviewed by James Scarborough

(May 2011)

Directed/Writen by: Sean Kirkpatrick

Starring: Chris Kerson, Will Blagrove, Mark Borkowski, Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Nakia Dillard and Daveed Ramsay

War may be hell, but, as laid out in “The Cost of a Soul,” written and directed by Sean Kirkpatrick, the home front isn’t so cool either. Structured as an out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire Grand Guignol, it tells the tale of two men from Philadelphia linked anonymously by a common mission in Iraq who meet in an explosive, brutal series of tit-for-tat, inter-neighborhood reprisals. Studded with raw and powerful performances and direction that screams without success for order in a universe gone awry, it asks the too-little-asked question: Just what exactly are we fighting for if not for a better life at home?

Two young men, Tommy Donahue (Chris Kerson) and Dd Davis (Will Blagrove), enlist to fight in Iraq, motivated more to...

Cost of a Soul star Chris Kerson talks about this powerful indie project, shooting in Philadelphia, working with director Sean Kirkpatrick, and much more.

Cost of a Soul is a movie most have likely not heard of, unless you were a regular on the festival circuit over the past few years. This drama, which centers on two Iraq War veterans who return to their hometown of North Philadelphia, and who both fall into troubling circumstances, played at the 2010 Hollywood Film Festival, 2010 Cinequest, 2011 Philadelphia Cinefest, where it won the Audience Award, and many others. Yet, despite all these rounds on the festival circuit, Cost of a Soul still hadn't been picked up by a distributor, until a unique opportunity came along. The AMC Theater chain announced The Big Break Movie Contest, which granted the winner distribution in 50 AMC theaters across the country. Cost of a Soul, which is the directorial debut of Sean Kirkpatrick,...

The Relativity Media release is scripted by Kirkpatrick, who produces alongside Edward J. Eberwine III and Jonathan Risinge. Also in the cast of Cost of a Soul are Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Nakia Dillard, Daveed Ramsay and Christopher Mann. The film is the winner of The Big Break MovIe Contest. Cost of a Soul opens in 50 theatres nationwide on May 20th as part of the AMC independent™ program which showcases the best independent films and targets interested moviegoers through unique promotions and other customized marketing efforts. "It's a messed up world we live in.... if you don't open you're eyes you're gonna get stuck." Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and Dd Davis return home from Iraq to their North Philadelphia slum neighborhood. Tommy returns home to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant. He meets his four-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time,...

The Relativity Media release is scripted by Kirkpatrick, who produces alongside Edward J. Eberwine III and Jonathan Risinge. Also in the cast of Cost of a Soul are Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Nakia Dillard, Daveed Ramsay and Christopher Mann. The film is the winner of The Big Break MovIe Contest. Cost of a Soul opens in 50 theatres nationwide on May 20th as part of the AMC independent™ program which showcases the best independent films and targets interested moviegoers through unique promotions and other customized marketing efforts. "It's a messed up world we live in.... if you don't open you're eyes you're gonna get stuck." Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and Dd Davis return home from Iraq to their North Philadelphia slum neighborhood. Tommy returns home to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant. He meets his four-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time,...

The Relativity Media release is scripted by Kirkpatrick, who produces alongside Edward J. Eberwine III and Jonathan Risinge. Also in the cast of Cost of a Soul are Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Nakia Dillard, Daveed Ramsay and Christopher Mann. The film is the winner of The Big Break MovIe Contest. Cost of a Soul opens in 50 theatres nationwide on May 20th as part of the AMC independent™ program which showcases the best independent films and targets interested moviegoers through unique promotions and other customized marketing efforts. "It's a messed up world we live in.... if you don't open you're eyes you're gonna get stuck." Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and Dd Davis return home from Iraq to their North Philadelphia slum neighborhood. Tommy returns home to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant. He meets his four-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time,...

The Relativity Media release is scripted by Kirkpatrick, who produces alongside Edward J. Eberwine III and Jonathan Risinge. Also in the cast of Cost of a Soul are Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Nakia Dillard, Daveed Ramsay and Christopher Mann. The film is the winner of The Big Break MovIe Contest. Cost of a Soul opens in 50 theatres nationwide on May 20th as part of the AMC independent™ program which showcases the best independent films and targets interested moviegoers through unique promotions and other customized marketing efforts. "It's a messed up world we live in.... if you don't open you're eyes you're gonna get stuck." Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and Dd Davis return home from Iraq to their North Philadelphia slum neighborhood. Tommy returns home to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant. He meets his four-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time,...

Chicago – In our latest drama/romance edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Night Catches Us” with Anthony Mackie (“The Hurt Locker”) and Kerry Washington (“Ray”)

“Night Catches Us” also stars Wendell Pierce, Jamie Hector, Tariq Trotter, Amari Cheatom, Ron Simons, Whitney Wilcox, Thomas Roy, Nakia Dillard, Jamara Griffin and Tariq Rasheed from first-time writer and director Tanya Hamilton. The film opens in Chicago on Dec. 10, 2010.

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The movie poster for “Night Catches Us” with Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington.