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I had just moved from Germany to Langley, Virginia, when the case of Kenneth Chamberlain became national news. I remembered I was upset by the events leading up to his death at the hands of the Police. 2021 has opened the eyes of many Americans to Police brutality and excessive use of force in cases that don’t call for it. However, when it came time to review writer/director David Midell’s film The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, there was apprehension because I didn’t want to put myself in that traumatized state, having to relive the events of Chamberlain’s death. “Who is this movie for?” is a question that looped through my mind while watching. While I couldn’t make up my mind regarding that question, I can say that Frankie Faison illuminates an otherwise empty, hollow film.

Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. (Frankie Faison) was a 68-year-old Marine Corps...

In “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain,” everything that might (hope against hope) go right doesn’t. Everything that could go wrong does, prompted by the disregard, bias or outright bigotry that has been at work when police officers encounter people of color or people with mental illness. Chamberlain was Black and lived with bipolar disorder.

Writer-director David Midell and actor Frankie Faison have delivered a taut, emotionally excruciating drama based on the police shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. in White Plains, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Nov. 19, 2011. “Hours” is something of an overstatement: The 83-minute movie approximates the real-time duration of the unfolding tragedy, which began around 5:22 a.m. and ended about an hour and a half after police arrived at the veteran’s apartment. The film has played theatrically and is receiving awards attention, including a Gotham Award nomination for Faison for outstanding lead performance.

I’m not sure there’s a more textbook example of police overreach and excessive force than the one depicted in David Midell’s The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain. The number of checkpoints that had to be missed, ignored, or willfully flaunted for the tragedy that ensures to occur is too high to count. In a perfect world (one the “defund the police” movement strives to create), officers wouldn’t have been dispatched to Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.’s (Frankie Faison) in the first place. He was a seventy-year-old Black Marine veteran with mental health flags. Any wellness check should have been conducted by (or had the participation of) a healthcare professional, social worker, or counselor. Welcome to America. Why spend money saving lives when you can overwork an under-educated, already-present police force instead?

The film seeks to more or less present a real-time account of what happened after Chamberlain accidentally...

The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Trailer — David Midell’s The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2020) movie trailer has been released by Gravitas Ventures. The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain trailer stars Frankie Faison, Steve O’Connell, Enrico Natale, Ben Marten, Angela Peel, Tom McElroy, Laroyce Hawkins, Christopher R Ellis, Anika Noni Rose, Kelly Owens, Armando Reyes, [...]

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David Midell’s The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain — a ripped-from-the-headlines film about Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a Black veteran with bipolar disorder who was killed during an encounter with police in 2011 — has won the top narrative feature prize at the 24th annual Urbanworld Film Festival.

Frankie Faison, Anika Noni Rose, Steve O’Connell, Enrico Natale, Ben Marten and Laroyce Hawkins star in the the film, which was produced by Natale, Sharad Chib, Chris Paladino and Milan Chakraborty. Chamberlain’s story garnered national headlines at the time of his death and predated many of the current conversations surrounding how authorities handle situations involving those ...

David Midell’s The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain — a ripped-from-the-headlines film about Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a Black veteran with bipolar disorder who was killed during an encounter with police in 2011 — has won the top narrative feature prize at the 24th annual Urbanworld Film Festival.

Frankie Faison, Anika Noni Rose, Steve O’Connell, Enrico Natale, Ben Marten and Laroyce Hawkins star in the the film, which was produced by Natale, Sharad Chib, Chris Paladino and Milan Chakraborty. Chamberlain’s story garnered national headlines at the time of his death and predated many of the current conversations surrounding how authorities handle situations involving those ...

Title: At Any Price Sony Pictures Classics Director: Ramin Bahrani Screenwriter: Ramin Bahrani Cast: Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Clancy Brown, Ben Marten, Kim Dickens, Chelcie Ross, Red West, Maika Monroe, Sophie Curtis Screened at: Sony, NYC, 4/4/13 Opens: April 24, 2013 Movies have glorified capitalism (“Wall Street”) and trashed the system (anything by Michael Moore), but “At Any Price” represents one of the few times that capitalism has been regarded as literally seedy. The story takes place on an Iowa farm, and aside from being an entertaining yarn anchored by an exceptional performance from Dennis Quaid, it provides us city slicking Yankees with quite a bit of knowledge [ Read More ]

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2011 - 92 mins. - Rated R

D: Omar Naim

C: Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons

A funeral home employee fakes his own death to see if anyone would attend. Two people show up - a junkie and his old high school sweetheart. However, it turns out he may very well indeed be dead and is stuck in between the world of the living and the dead.

Dead Awake is slow to start as it lays the basic foundation for the film's plot. Once that happens, Dead Awake leaves a variety of open ended questions that will be solved throughout the film. The search for those answers is what gives Dead Awake an intriguing quality to it. The balance between the supernatural, drama and mystery is what keeps things interesting. There also happens to be many vignettes scattered throughout that resonate.

New Films Cinema and First Look Pictures presents a supernatural horror film starring Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi and Brian Lynner and directed by Omar Naim of "Dead Awake". 

A decade after their lives were disrupted by a sudden and enigmatic tragedy, three young people find themselves caught in the mysterious realm between the living and the dead in this supernatural thriller.

Dead Awake arrives to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 29, 2011. The only special feature known at this time is that it will come with a free digital copy. The film was shot back in August and September of 2009 on a budget of $3.5 million. It's Rated R for language, drug content and brief sexuality.

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Haven't heard of this film? Well, neither had I! But in the midst of all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, a studio somehow managed to squeeze out this horror-drama-romance yule log right squat on the chest of the viewing public. It's a dreary, melancholy, over-artsy After.Life clone, which can't even make the beneficial claim of constantly nude Christina Ricci. Instead we get crazy-junkie Rose McGowan, Amy Smart squinty-ed up to look like a forgotten Olsen Twin, and Nick Stahl continuing his fine trend of evading quality films. With jittery camera work, a murky backdrop, and mediocre acting, this film is astonishing only in that it was actually released theatrically. I would love to tell you what it's about, but I have no fucking idea. I started playing Angry Birds during the last hour. The two old people who shared the theatre with me were giving me tips on which birds to use.

It's been a little over a year since last we reported on Dylan's Wake, but that's about to change. The flick has a new title, a new one-sheet, and even a new trailer. Dig it all!

The film, now known as Dead Awake, is directed by Omar Naim, and stars Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, and James Serpento. In it Stahl plays a young man working in a funeral parlor who is trying to unravel a 10-year-old mystery that will end up uncovering the truth that lies between the living and the dead.

Sounds ominous, no? Of course it does! It's a horror flick! The more ominous the better. Dig on the one-sheet and the trailer below, and look for the film in limited theatrical release on December 3rd, 2010.

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Omar Naim's ('The Final Cut') latest mystery thriller 'Dead Awake' has wrapped it's shoot. It's 3 main stars, Nick Stahl (who's just signed on to Vincenzo Natali's '388 Areletta Avenue'), Rose McGowan and Amy Smart (below) are in the can and hopefully this baby can be cut in time for it's 3 December Us release date. Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons and Rachel Storey all co-star in 'Dead Awake' which was penned by Johnny Harrington, Justin Urich ('Lake Placid 2 ') and David Boivin. 'Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor, is trying to unravel a mystery that shattered his life ten years earlier. After faking his own funeral to see who will show up, he befriends a mysterious street junkie and is reunited with an old love from his past. The...