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Get ready for some hilarious dark comedy and thrilling crime drama in Apple TV+’s latest series Your Friends & Neighbors. Created by Jonathan Tropper, the Apple TV+ series is set in a wealthy community in New York, and it follows Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a recently divorced hedge fund manager who gets fired from his job and resorts to stealing from his wealthy friends and neighbors to maintain his lifestyle.

Your Friends & Neighbors – Episode Guide (When Will the New Episodes Come Out?) Credit – Apple TV+

Your Friends & Neighbors consists of nine episodes in total. The dark comedy crime drama series premiered on Apple TV+ with its first two episodes on April 11, with the rest of the episodes coming out weekly every Friday. Check out the full episode guide of Your Friends & Neighbors below:

Episode 1 “This...

Whether you love the darker side of humanity or just want to experience the story of a deeply flawed human being, there is something for every psychological thriller fan on Netflix. With some of its latest outings, such as Ripley and Baby Reindeer, the streamer has proved that there is no place better for the fans of psychological thriller shows than Netflix’s vast library of content. If you also want to experience heart-pounding thrills, suspenseful stories, and dark psychological drama, here are the best psychological thriller shows you can find on Netflix.

You Credit – Netflix

You is one of the most popular Netflix psychological thriller shows ever, and most of the credit for that goes to the writing behind its main character, Joe Goldberg. Created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, the Netflix series is based on a novel series of the same name by author Caroline Kepnes. You...

Jeff Nichols' crime drama The Bikeriders features a stacked cast of recognizable stars. The three leads of the movie are Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy. The Bikeriders ensemble cast also includes Michael Shannon and Mike Faist.

The cast of The Bikeriders is full of recognizable stars. The 2024 movie comes from writer-director Jeff Nichols, whose previous work includes the Matthew McConaughey-led Mud and the Oscar-nominated Loving, starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga. The movie, which follows the fictional Chicago-based Vandals motorcycle club in the 1960s, is loosely based on the 1967 photobook by Danny Lyon. The real-life motorcycle club depicted in the book was called Outlaws Mc and was founded in McCook, Illinois.

The $40 million crime movie comes with a cast packed with A-list talent, including a trio of leads that have two Oscar nominations and an Emmy win between them. However, the ensemble cast is nearly as recognizable...

Tracing the evolution of a fictional motorbike gang known as the Vandals, writer-director Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders takes its inspiration from a photobook of the same name by influential mid-20th-century photographer Danny Lyon. A major contributor to the “new realism” photography movement, Lyon lived alongside his leather-clad petrolhead subjects for months at a time, helping him create urgent, spontaneous images of their outlaw lifestyle that oozed authenticity. Unfortunately, those latter qualities are in short supply in the film, but the sheer exuberance of the story and the stylistic brio of Nichols’s direction often compensate.

The Bikeriders is narrated by Kathy (Jodie Comer), the girlfriend of fiercely committed young Vandals member Benny (Austin Butler). She relays the idiosyncrasies and transgressions of the gang from a slight remove as it evolves from a blue-collar fraternity and surrogate family to a nihilistic crime syndicate. As endearing as Kathy’s disapproving bemusement can be,...

Jeff Nichols returns with period drama The Bikeriders, receiving high praise at the Telluride Film Festival. Jodie Comer delivers another top-tier performance. Nichols revitalizes the biker culture genre with a unique perspective, exploring themes of identity and loyalty in a rapidly isolating world. The Bikeriders is an engaging period piece with potential awards prospects, particularly for Jodie Comer's standout performance. Nichols' overdue recognition for directing is also deserved.

Jeff Nichols is back behind the cameras after 2016 film Loving with period drama The Bikeriders, a story inspired in the photo book of the same name by Danny Lyon, starring an amazing cast lead by Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy.

Distributed by 20th Century Studios, the film is set to hit theaters on December 1st, but it has already premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival, with first reviews highly praising it. The story centers on Kathy, member of the...

From the word go, Steven Soderbergh’s crime caper Full Circle works furiously to introduce us to all of its relevant players. Derek (Timothy Olyphant) and Sam (Claire Danes) are a wealthy couple who enjoy a life of luxury thanks to the success of Sam’s father, Jeff (Dennis Quaid), a famous chef. But while everything seems like the picture of perfection inside their lavishly remodeled New York apartment, dark family secrets are dragged, kicking and screaming, into the light when their teenage son, Jared (Ethan Stoddard), is kidnapped.

The abduction plan is put into motion by a Queens-based crime syndicate headed by Cch Pounder’s enigmatic matriarch Savitri Mahabir. She believes that the actions of her late husband have left her family cursed for years, and after consulting with a spiritual leader back in Guyana, she concludes that capturing young Jared is the only way to remove it.

Mahabir...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film reviews for the new releases “The Blackening,” a tart horror/comedy directed by Tim Story and the mystery comedy/romance “Maggie Moores(s), directed by John Slattery. Both In theaters since June 16th.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

“The Blackening” makes fun of the trope that the African-American character is often the first to die in horror movies by placing an all-Black group of friends in the proverbial cabin in the woods, during the Juneteenth weekend. There are confronted by a masked killer who demands that they rank their “degree of blackness” so that he can determine the correct order in which to kill them, and the cabin dwellers must rely on a combination of street smarts and their own knowledge of black history and horror films to survive.

”The Blackening” is in theaters since June 16th. Featuring Dewayne Perkins, Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg,...

Maggie Moore(s) aims to please with a mixture of mystery, buddy cop humor and a sprinkle of romance. While most of the comedy never lands and is often half-baked, the film, directed by John Slattery from a screenplay by Paul Bernbaum, has a winning cast and a serviceable true crime premise that will at least keep you interested the whole way through, even if the ending rushes to tie up loose ends.

The film opens with Chief Jordan Sanders (Jon Hamm) and his deputy (Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed) investigating the murder of Maggie Moore (Mary Holland). They feel like they’re missing something from the case, since the other, seemingly unrelated, murder of Maggie Moore (Louisa Krause) happened ten days prior. We then go back to the beginning when Jay Moore (Micah Stock), an unintelligent franchise owner, who is buying spoiled products from an unapproved source, asks a deaf hitman,...

Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, and Nate from Ted Lasso (Nick Mohammed) do their best to make Maggie Moore(s) a stand-out comedy. At times, the inventive story and its stars succeed. Other times, it feels as if this uneven yet still engaging romp would have worked better if it had been a limited series in à la Fargo. The premise is priceless.

Two women with the same name are murdered just days apart. Enter small-town police chief Jordan Sanders (Hamm), who sifts through an array of suspects — cheating husbands, lonely hearts, very nosy neighbors, and nutty contract killers. The man has enough going on in his shaky personal life. Does he need this stress?

Maggie Moore(s), which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, is directed by Mad Men alum John Slattery, who reportedly wanted to take Paul Bernbaum’s script, and tell a story extremely honed in on tone,...

On paper, the concept of Maggie Moore(s), which premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, is incredibly fascinating: a darkly comedic murder mystery about a bumbling police chief (Jon Hamm) and his wisecracking deputy (Nick Mohammed) trying to solve the mystery involving the deaths of two women who have the same name and were killed around the same time. Add in the fact that it is loosely based on a true story, and you have all the proper ingredients to make the next Coen Brothers masterpiece, and it seems like the film’s director, John Slattery, thought so as well as he takes the Coen Brothers influence and runs with it. I just wished that he ran in a different direction though because the end result is a tonally dissonant, poorly shot and overall underwhelming film.

It is very obvious that the film looked to Coen Brothers’ films...

As an actor, John Slattery has never appeared in a movie directed by the Coen brothers, but judging from his new film, he clearly aims to emulate their work. Maggie Moore(s), Slattery's second directorial feature, works so hard to be the next Fargo that the strain shows early, and oftentimes, to the movie's detriment. Screenwriter Paul Bernbaum doesn't have the Coens's wit or their way with unique characters, and Slattery doesn't quite have a handle on the movie's tone. Still, Maggie Moore(s) is a mostly pleasant, laid-back viewing experience, despite a plot that involves a pair of gruesome murders.

Slattery doesn't show up onscreen in Maggie Moore(s), instead giving the lead role to his Mad Men co-star Jon Hamm. Hamm plays Jordan Sanders, the chief of police in an Arizona town who's faced with two murder victims who inexplicably have the same name. Hamm gave a fantastic...

If his post-“Mad Men” career has taught us anything, it’s that Jon Hamm is a natural comic actor who happens to be great in dramatic roles rather than the other way around. At the risk of downplaying his exemplary work as Don Draper, the 52-year-old has seemed most in his element in the likes of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and especially last year’s criminally underseen “Confess, Fletch.” “Maggie Moore(s)” finds him somewhere in the middle of the comedy/drama spectrum as a small-town police chief investigating the murders of two women with the same name — an intriguing premise to be sure, but one that Hamm’s “Mad Men” co-star John Slattery, in his sophomore directorial effort, struggles to bring to a satisfying conclusion.

Part of the problem is that it isn’t actually a mystery. Beginning with a title card informing us that “some of this actually happened,...

It is always an occasion for celebration when Jon Hamm and Tina Fey are back together on screen — big or small — having shared credits on various 30 Rock and SNL episodes (and the upcoming film version of Fey’s Mean Girls). But their latest collaboration is a clear departure, as well as a rare chance to see Fey out of her comedic zone.

Directed by John Slattery, Hamm’s multi-Emmy-nominated Mad Men co-star, Maggie Moore(s), which world premiered Monday night as part of the Tribeca Festival Spotlight Narrative section, is on paper an extremely clever premise for a murder mystery. When one woman named Maggie Moore is found murdered, the man responsible for the hit job (who also happens to be her husband) stumbles on to yet another woman with the exact same name living just a few blocks away in the same small American town. His thinking is...

There are actors who direct films, and there are those who establish themselves as real-deal filmmakers. In the first category we find John Slattery, a fine actor who, after a respectable career as “that guy,” reached a new level at age 45 thanks to Mad Men. The AMC series was still on the air when Slattery directed his first film, God’s Pocket, in 2014, and he returns now, nearly 10 years on, with the dark comedy Maggie Moore(s). Following his on-screen reunion with Mad Men co-star Jon Hamm in last year’s Confess, Fletch, Slattery here casts the actor in the lead role as Jordan Sanders, a lonely police chief investigating the connection between the murders of two women, each named Maggie Moore.

The first Maggie to die (played by Emily Blunt) is married to Jay (Micah Stock), the owner of a restaurant franchise who plans to become the Howard Schultz of submarine sandwiches.

Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze: “There’s a first film from Germany, which I think is brilliant.”

In the first instalment with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer we discuss Christian Petzold’s Afire; Frédéric Tcheng’s Invisible Beauty (on Bethann Hardison); Ethan Berger’s The Line (on the recommendation of Robert Eggers’ The Witch producer Jay Van Hoy); Michael Shannon’s Eric Larue; David Duchovny’s Bucky F*cking Dent; John Slattery’s Maggie Moore(s); Steve Buscemi’s The Listener; Anna Roller’s Dead Girls Dancing; Maria Fredriksson’s The Gullspáng Miracle; Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Fields, and Stephen Kijak’s Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.

Christian Petzold’s Afire, starring Paula Beer, Enno Trebs, Langston Uibel, and Thomas Schubert

The 21st edition of...

Forget about who’s on first: It’s all about which Maggie Moore is the real Maggie Moore.

Crime caper comedy “Maggie Moore(s)” stars Jon Hamm as a small-town police chief who investigates the back-to-back murders of two women, both named Maggie Moore. Per the official synopsis, things quickly ratchet up in the comedy film.

Hamm’s “Mad Men” co-star John Slattery produces and directs from a script by “Halloweentown” scribe Paul Bernbaum. Tina Fey, who previously starred alongside Hamm in “30 Rock” and will act alongside him for the upcoming “Mean Girls” movie musical, portrays one of Maggie’s next-door neighbors, who becomes key to the investigation.

Micah Stock, Nick Mohammed, Mary Holland, and Happy Anderson also star.

“Maggie Moore(s)” is confirmed to debut at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. Slattery recently collaborated with Hamm on whodunit “Confess, Fletch.” The experience led Slattery to reach out to Hamm once...

Tina Fey and Jon Hamm star in the trailer for Maggie Moore(s), an upcoming comedy thriller that also serves as a stealth Mad Men reunion. Fey gained acclaim as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and then as the star of 30 Rock, a sitcom she created. Hamm's background is rooted more in drama, most notably the classic AMC series Mad Men, though he has tried his hand successfully at comedy in films such as Tag and Bridesmaids.

The first official trailer for the Fey and Hamm-led movie was released today through E! News, clocking in at just over two minutes. Check out the trailer below:

The trailer lays down the movie's main plot, which focuses on Hamm's police chief Jordan Sanders as he attempts to untangle a peculiar situation where two women named Maggie Moore were murdered within one week of each other. The investigation leads to a lot of comedy,...

"I pretty clearly said 'scare her', not 'set her on fire!'" Screen Media has unveiled an official trailer for the indie film titled Maggie Moore(s), the second feature directed by actor John Slattery (his directorial debut was God's Pocket with Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2014). This is premiering at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival in June before it opens in limited theaters later in June. Maggie Moore(s) takes place in a dusty desert town where nothing ever happens, as a police chief is suddenly faced with the back-to-back murders of two women with the same name. (Hence the title of the film.) Who did it and why? Jon Hamm stars as police chief Jordan Sanders, who must deal with all kinds of small town shenanigans and secrets. The cast includes Tina Fey, Micah Stock, Nick Mohammed, Happy Anderson, & Mary Holland. The trailer has a darkly comedic edge to it,...

Exclusive: Maggie Moore(s), the film which marks the reunions of Mad Men duo Jon Hamm and John Slattery and 30 Rock couple Hamm and Tina Fey, has sold to Screen Media for North America.

Slattery directs Hamm and Fey in the true-crime-inspired thriller written by Paul Bernbaum. Pic also stars Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso), Micah Stock (Kindred), Mary Holland (Happiest Season) and Happy Anderson (Mindhunter).

Screen Media is planning a theatrical release in June, followed by a digital release later that month.

In Maggie Moore(s), when two women with the same name are murdered days apart, small-town police chief Jordan Sanders (Hamm) finds himself wading through an unlikely collection of cheating husbands, lonely hearts, nosy neighbors and contract killers in an effort to put the pieces of the case, and his life, together.

The deal was negotiated by Seth Needle, executive vice president of global acquisitions and co-productions, on behalf of Screen Media,...

Exclusive: William Sadler (When They See Us), Happy Anderson (Mindhunter) and newcomer Adia (The Midnight Club) have joined the cast of the HBO Max limited series Full Circle, from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. They join Zazie Beetz, Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Dennis Quaid, Jharrel Jerome, Sheyi Cole and Cch Pounder.

Soderbergh will direct all six episodes of the series and serve as executive producer, with Solomon as writer and EP. Casey Silver also is an executive producer. The trio reteams after working together on the 2021 HBO Max film No Sudden Move.

Related: 2022 HBO Max Series & Pilot Orders

In Full Circle, an investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present-day New York City.

Sadler will be seen with Alfre Woodard in Salem’s Lot, New Line’s upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King novel. His credits include feature Unholy, miniseries The Comey Rule...

Exclusive: Toby Wallace, Emory Cohen, Beau Knapp, Karl Glusman and Happy Anderson are set to join the ensemble cast of the Jeff Nichols drama The Bikeriders at New Regency. Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook and Damon Herriman are already on board. Nichols will direct the pic, which is a fictional story inspired by the photography of Danny Lyon and his 1967 book The Bikeriders.

Sarah Green and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones are producing through Tri-State, the company they share with Nichols, alongside New Regency. Fred Berger is executive producing.

The film is an original story set in the 1960s following the rise of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group’s unique way of life.

Wallace’s big...

Exclusive: Endeavor Content has acquired international distribution rights to Bring on the Dancing Horses, a female-led modern Western drama series starring Kate Bosworth.

The ten-part drama, which launched at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is being sold at the LA Screenings, where Endeavor Content has hired out the theater at Soho House West Hollywood to attract buyers.

Bring on the Dancing Horses is written, directed and executive produced by indie director Michael Polish. Bosworth (The Long Road Home) and Polish, who were married for eight years but separated last year, produce through their Make Pictures Productions banner.

The series sees Bosworth playing a confident assassin with a list of targets to take down. As she makes her way through the men on her list, the truth behind how her story began is revealed.

Jasper Polish (Force of Nature), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Happy Anderson (Snowpiercer), DJ Qualls...

Kesha is set to star in a new scripted musical sci-fi podcast series, Electric Easy, premiering July 19th on Spotify and other podcast services.

Created by Vanya Asher and produced by QCode, Electric Easy is set in Los Angeles in the not-so-distant future, and is centered around a growing subculture of androids called “electrics.” While the story is told through the perspectives of a wide cast of characters, it’s rooted in the forbidden love between a runaway android and the human sent to hunt her down.

In a preview...

"We can get out of this!" Fox has debuted a short new Comic-Con promo trailer for The New Mutants, the sort-of X-Men spin-off movie. After years of delays, they've announced a presentation as part of "Comic-Con At Home" (since the real show was cancelled). And rumors are they might just released it streaming right after the panel. Five young mutants, discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. The first teaser trailer debuted in 2017, it was set to open in 2018, but after extensive reshoots and retooling (and Fox being bought by Disney) they've made an entirely new movie which might finally be released this year. Who knows? Starring Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Mirage; with Alice Braga and Happy Anderson. That end shot...

This week’s episode of Snowpiercer is all about conflict, as revolution has finally arrived but we also see several other characters at odds beyond Layton (Daveed Diggs) and company waging their class warfare on those who wield more power and influence over the titular train.

Before we get into the revolution business at hand, let’s dive into all the other happenings going on in “These Are His Revolutions.” After her meeting with Commander Grey (Timothy V. Murphy) and the Folgers, Ruth (Alison Wright) finds herself front and center of a coup in First Class, as the elite passengers on Snowpiercer want to get to the bottom of just who exactly is running the train – Mr. Wilford or Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly), who just happens to always have a means of covering up the fact that the leader and creator of Snowpiercer isn’t actually aboard the train. The jig is up now,...

Hello, everyone. Last week, I had to take a few days off to deal with some personal stuff, but I’m back now with my latest recap for TNT’s Snowpiercer series that digs into episodes 4 and 5, where we see the culmination of the murder mystery aboard the titular train, as well as the resulting actions and fallout from everything that follows once the killers and their motives are revealed. Oh, and there’s a whole lot more happening as well.

Now, on to the good stuff…

In “Without Their Maker,” the theme of episode four is spelled out rather simply: systems resist change without their maker, which of course is in relation to the fact that Mr. Wilford is more myth than man after seven years aboard the Snowpiercer. And with Nikki now brutally murdered, Layton (Daveed Diggs) sets out to find the killer that must be a First Class passenger,...

This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers.

Snowpiercer Episode 3

One of the smartest things Snowpiercer has done with its first season is, as characters gain prominence in the story, offer up some cold openings. In this case, Dr. Klimpt (Happy Anderson) is the one discussing how the economy of Snowpiercer functions. Not the buy-ins of the first class passengers, but the real economy that shuttles drugs from third class to first class and back again, trading drugs for gold for sex for the most important thing of all, access.

All things that people kill, and have been killed for, on a train that’s 1,001 cars long. It’s exposition, and it’s needed exposition for the world the show is building, but by and large it’s been done stylishly and provides a bit of insight into the character giving the explanation that is necessary to flesh out secondary characters like the good doctor.

Network: Netflix.

Episodes: 19 (hour).

Seasons: Two.

TV show dates: October 13, 2017 — August 16, 2019.

Series status: Ended.

Performers include: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallanay, Anna Torv, Hannah Gross, Cotter Smith, Stacey Roca, Joe Tuttle, Alex Morf, Duke Lafoon, Peter Murnik, Sonny Valicenti, Cameron Britton, and Happy Anderson.

TV show description:

From creator Joe Penhall, the Mindhunter TV show is inspired by the memoir of FBI veteran John Douglas, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit (written with Mark Olshaker). The crime drama centers on FBI Agent Holden Ford (Groff), who realizes the bureau needs a deeper understanding of violent psychopaths' motivations.

Ford teams up with seasoned agent Bill Tench (McCallany) of the Behavioral Science Unit. Together, they tour the country...

"The reason you survived, is because you're a very uncommon girl." Fox has surprised us with a brand new trailer for The New Mutants, the sort-of X-Men spin-off movie. Although they've dropped "X-Men" from the title and are pulling back calling this "an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring." Five young mutants, discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. The first teaser trailer for this debuted in 2017, it was set to open in 2018, but after extensive reshoots and retooling (and Fox being bought by Disney) they've made an entirely new movie which will finally be released in April. Starring Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, and Blu Hunt as Mirage; with Alice Braga and Happy Anderson.

To say that we’ve been waiting a long, long time for Bad Boys 3 would be to deal in wild understatement.

It’s going on 16 years since audiences last glimpsed Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s electric chemistry, leaving many to fear that 2003’s Bad Boys 2 really signaled the end of their buddy-cop shenanigans. But against all odds – delays, director dropouts… you name it – Bad Boys For Life has emerged blinking into the sunlight, ready to deliver a helping of cinematic nostalgia.

Set for release in January 2020, Sony has followed up on yesterday’s sneak peek with a truly explosive new preview of Bad Boys For Life, teasing fast cars, intense shootouts, and that signature energy between Smith and Lawrence’s detectives: Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that their chemistry is the glue that’s held this franchise together after all these years,...

High-octane action ensues in the latest teaser for Bad Boys For Life, Sony’s long-long-gestating sequel featuring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s fast-talking agents.

Embedded below, it signals perhaps the perfect primer for tomorrow’s trailer reveal, as we catch a glimpse of Smith and Lawrence speeding through the streets, before engaging in a suitably explosive firefight with a helicopter. It’s not quite Bayhem – the flavor of blockbuster action that defined the opening two installments in the Bad Boys series – but we’ll be damned if it’s not entertaining.

When, exactly, we can expect the full trailer to debut is another question entirely (9am Pt is our best guess), but we’ll have a full play-by-play breakdown for you here as soon as it’s live. For now, though, you’ll have to make do with another 15-second sizzle reel heralding the return of Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett.

Netflix's psychological thriller Mindhunter first premiered back in 2017, a 10-episode drama based on the true crime book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. Now that it's returned for a second season, you might be wondering once more: is it based on a true story? Pretty much.

The three main characters on Mindhunter are based on real people, though they aren't exact copies. The two FBI special agents from the bureau's Behavioral Science Unit are Holden Ford and Bill Tench, played by Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany, respectively. Those two men are based on John E. Douglas (who co-authored the book on which Mindhunter is based) and Robert K. Ressler.

Douglas, now 74 years old, is one of the first criminal profilers in the United States. After serving in the Air Force, he went to work for the FBI in 1970 - first as a sniper in the Swat...

That's a wrap! Bad Boys for Life has officially wrapped filming, with stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence confirming the news, while taking some time to celebrate. It's been nearly 25 years since the original entry in this franchise first hit theaters, and this sequel has been in the works for a very long time. After a great many speed bumps, several different filmmakers and quite a few false starts, the next installment is finally in the can.

Will Smith took to Instagram to confirm that filming on Bad Boys 3 has officially finished. The actor shared an image of himself alongside his co-star and friend Martin Lawrence. The pair are sitting in folding chairs, umbrellas in hand, for shade, with Mexico serving as the backdrop behind them. Smith had this to say in the caption provided with the photo.

"That's a Wrap! Bad Boys For Life, Ciudad de M&#233xico. Now...

A little movie called Bird Box started streaming on Netflix back on December 21, 2018. You may have heard of it. The film starred Sandra Bullock and birthed an internet full of memes, challenges, and more. It was kind of a thing last year to put it lightly. And it turns out the movie's success has inspired the author of the book on which the Netflix original film was based, Josh Malerman to take to the typewriter once more for a sequel novel called Malorie. A sequel that will follow Sandra Bullock's character from the movie once again and the author promises it will expand on what we know about the creatures.

Josh Malerman says this about working on Malorie.

"In the time between Bird Box coming out and the time since I've been writing Malorie, I've been asked a ton of times: people want to know what happened with Boy and Girl.

Here’s a film where the term “they don’t make em like this anymore” really does apply. A largely single location independent drama with stylized dialogue and a less than politically correct edge? Mixing David Mamet with Quentin Tarantino would normally mean an indie with a wise ass streak and a modern sensibility. Here, with The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, what we have is something far more old fashioned than that. Essentially a whodunit, this flick offers up a compelling tale that keeps you wired in right up until the very end. With a single minded focus, it tells a razor sharp story about as well as it can be told, complete with a hell of an ending, to boot. A drama/mystery, the movie is literally a standoff. Gannon (James Badge Dale) is a former cop who lives in the woods and is a member of a local militia.

Arriving in theaters and on VOD and digital platforms this weekend is writer/director Henry Dunham’s taut and tension-filled thriller The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Starring James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Chris Mulkey, Gene Jones, Happy Anderson, Patrick Fischler, and Robert Aramayo, Dunham’s debut feature follows an ex-cop named Gannon (Dale), who joined a militia group after he gave up his career. Eager to put his law enforcement days behind him, Gannon is reluctantly tasked with figuring out which one of his fellow militia members are behind a shooting at a police funeral once it’s discovered that one of the men might have motives bigger than minding the interests of their controversial group.

Daily Dead recently spoke with Dale about his role in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, and he discussed what initially drew him into the project, trusting his co-stars, and more. Look for the film...

Arriving in theaters and on VOD and digital platforms this Friday is writer/director Henry Dunham’s taut and tension-filled thriller The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Starring James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Chris Mulkey, Gene Jones, Happy Anderson, Patrick Fischler, and Robert Aramayo, Dunham’s debut feature follows an ex-cop named Gannon (Dale), who joined a militia group after he gave up his career. Eager to put his law enforcement days behind him, Gannon is tasked with figuring out which one of his fellow militia members are behind a shooting at a police funeral once it’s discovered that one of the men might have motives bigger than minding the interests of their controversial group.

Daily Dead caught up with Dunham to discuss his approach to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, and he discussed how his home state inspired the concept behind his first film project, the extensive preparations he...

The film begins in total silence to the point where you wonder if something went wrong with the sound. The camera pans through still trees until finding Gannon (James Badge Dale) on the ground with rifle ready to take out the deer we can assume is somewhere out of frame. It’s only when we hear the pop of guns in the distance that we realize first-time writer/director Henry Dunham has been meticulously ensuring that we process exactly what he needs us to before heading towards the solitary locale we’ll spend the rest of The Standoff at Sparrow Creek‘s short yet tense 88-minute runtime. Having Gannon visible when those blasts go off is deliberate because there must be no question that he’s the one man we can implicitly trust.

Why? Because he’s soon to meet-up with the other members of his documented civilian militia inside...

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Trailer Henry Dunham‘s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018) movie trailer stars James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Chris Mulkey, and Happy Anderson. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek‘s plot synopsis: “In the aftermath of a mass shooting, seven members of a militia convene within the chiaroscuro corridors of a lumberyard [...]

Continue reading: The Standoff At Sparrow Creek (2018) Movie Trailer: James Badge Dale Investigates a Militia After a Mass Shooting...

Writer/director Henry Dunham made a splash among critics and film fans alike earlier this year when his feature film debut The Standoff at Sparrow Creek made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie stars James Badge Dale as Gannon, a former cop who has joined a militia group. After a mass shooting at the funeral of a cop, Gannon realizes that someone from the group is responsible for the killings. Determined to find out who did it, he quarantines members of the group at an abandoned sawmill and begins a series of interrogations to root out the culprit.

The movie also co-stars Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Chris Mulkey, Happy Anderson and Robert Aramayo.

A good thriller is always a welcome sight and if the trailer is any indicat...

I’ve got a trailer here that you’ve got to watch for a new thriller called The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. The movie premiered at Fantastic Fest and was met with a lot of positive buzz.

This first trailer for the movie is certainly riveting and quickly got my attention and held me in. The story centers on a group of militia members who fall into a state of paranoia and anxiety after one of their members goes and shoots up a police funeral. The thing is, no one knows who did it and someone is hiding something.

Here’s the official synopsis:

After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. Knowing the police will be closing in on them, Gannon quarantines his fellow militiamen in a remote lumber mill. There,...

"Do you have any idea what's going on out there?" Rlje has debuted the first trailer for one of this year's big discoveries, a contained thriller titled The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the feature debut of Henry Dunham. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, then played to rave reviews at Fantastic Fest, earning some of the best buzz out of both fests as a major find. It's a deviously smart film about a group of men in a militia who meet in a warehouse after a shooting, only to discover that one of their guns is missing. They begin to accuse each other in an attempt to figure out who did it, and it gets even better as it goes on. This has been compared to Reservoir Dogs, but it's really something of its own and it's an incredible debut. Sparrow Creek stars James Badge Dale, Patrick Fischler,...

Paranoia and distrust threaten to implode a militia group after a mysterious mass shooting in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the first feature film from writer/director Henry Dunham. Following the movie's well-received Us premiere at Fantastic Fest, the official trailer for The Standoff at Sparrow Creek has been unveiled by Collider, giving viewers a deeper look at the film's bleak atmosphere and intense performances (including James Badge Dale as the answer-seeking Gannon).

Written and directed by Henry Dunham, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek stars James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Chris Mulkey, Happy Anderson, and Robert Aramayo. Rlje Films will release The Standoff at Sparrow Creek on VOD, Digital HD, and in theaters on January 18th.

Synopsis: "After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. Knowing the police will be closing in on them,...

Rlje Films has acquired North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the thriller written and directed by first-time feature director Henry Dunham that is making its world premiere tomorrow in the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section. An early 2019 theatrical and VOD release is planned.

James Badge Dale stars as a reclusive ex-cop who, after a shooting at a police funeral, finds himself forced out of retirement when he realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. He quarantines his fellow militiamen in the remote lumber mill they call their headquarters intent on ferreting out the killer and turning him in.

Chris Mulkey, Brian Geraghty, Robert Aramayo, Patrick Fischler, Happy Anderson and Gene Jones also star. Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk produce via Cinestate alongside Sefton Fincham, Johnathan Brownlee and Adam Donaghey. Xyz Films’ Nate Bolotin and Todd Brown executive produce with Danielle Cox,...

Rlje Films has acquired all North American rights to the thriller “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek,” from Cinestate and Xyz Films.

Written by Henry Dunham who is also making his feature directorial debut, the film stars James Badge Dale, Chris Mulkey, Brian Geraghty, Robert Aramayo (“Game of Thrones”), Patrick Fischler (“Twin Peaks”), Happy Anderson and Gene Jones.

“The Standoff at Sparrow Creek” premiere Sept. 9 at Midnight Madness at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Rlje plans to release the film nationally in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD in early 2019.

“This is our seventh collaboration with Dallas Sonnier, the producer of ‘Bone Tomahawk’ and ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99,’” said chief acquisitions officer Mark Ward for Rlje Films. “With a Black List script by Henry Dunham and a talented cast led by James Badge Dale, we are confident we will not disappoint genre enthusiasts at this year’s Midnight Madness at Tiff.

Xyf Films in talks with international buyers in Toronto.

Rlje Films has acquired all North American rights to Cinestate and Xyz Films’ thriller The Standoff At Sparrow Creek ahead of its world premiere in Tiff Midnight Madness on Wednesday (12).

Xyz Films handles international sales and has introduced Toronto buyers to Henry Dunham’s feature directorial debut about the repercussions of a police funeral shooting.

When a former police officer realises the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force, he fears the killing might set off a chain of copycat violence.

What follows is a gruelling...

Rlje Films has acquired the North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the upcoming thriller from director Henry Dunham and Cinestate and Xyz Films.

The film, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday as part of the Midnight Madness sidebar, stars James Badge Dale, Chris Mulkey, Brian Geraghty, Robert Aramayo, Patrick Fischler, Happy Anderson and Gene Jones. Rlje plans to release the film nationally in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD in early 2019.

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek portrays the aftermath of a shooting at a police funeral, where reclusive ex-cop ...

Rlje Films has acquired the North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the upcoming thriller from director Henry Dunham and Cinestate and Xyz Films.

The film, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday as part of the Midnight Madness sidebar, stars James Badge Dale, Chris Mulkey, Brian Geraghty, Robert Aramayo, Patrick Fischler, Happy Anderson and Gene Jones. Rlje plans to release the film nationally in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD in early 2019.

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek portrays the aftermath of a shooting at a police funeral, where reclusive ex-cop ...

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