Comedy, Drama
Kyle (Kyle Marvin) and Mike (Michael Angelo Covino) are longtime best friends who share a close bond. While bicycling in France, Mike lets it slip that he slept with Kyle s fiancée, Marissa (Gayle Rankin). This shattering bit of news takes the wind out of Kyle, who no longer wants anything to do with Mike.
However, because Kyle was basically Mike s only friend, this sends Mike into a tailspin. Over the next couple of years, he becomes depressed, gains weight and drinks to excess, while Kyle loses weight and achieves some success in his career, writing jingles for commercials. To Kyle s dismay, his family takes pity on Mike and invites him over for Christmas.
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Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel appear in a scene from “News of the World.” (Bruce W. Talamon/Universal Pictures)
There was an era – and that era was the 1970s – when a Time magazine poll named news anchor Walter Cronkite as “the most trusted man in America,” and Watergate investigative heroes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were largely responsible for the occupation of journalist regularly charting near the top of the rankings of most admired professions in the USA. (Even today, 99% of mainstream American journalists remain committed to delivering the truth, despite the delusional cries of “Fake news!” popularized by certain public figures.)
Film Shorts // January 13-19, 2021
American Skin (R) Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation) stars in and directs this drama as a Black man seeking revenge on the white cop (Beau Knapp) who killed his unarmed teenage son. Also with Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi, Vanessa Bell Calloway, AnnaLyne McCord, Shane Paul McGhie, Tony Espinosa, and Wolfgang Bodison. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
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American Skin (R) Nate Parker (
The Birth of a Nation) stars in and directs this drama as a Black man seeking revenge on the white cop (Beau Knapp) who killed his unarmed teenage son. Also with Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi, Vanessa Bell Calloway, AnnaLyne McCord, Shane Paul McGhie, Tony Espinosa, and Wolfgang Bodison. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
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Michael Angelo Covino: The initial concept for this film came to me after a friend of mine slept with my ex and I was riding a bike up a mountain in L.A. trying to clear my head.
Kyle Marvin: At the time, we were working on commercials in L.A., so we were together every day. Mike showed me some pages he had written for what would eventually become the short film. We immediately started talking it through and playing with it. This process really became the foundation of how we wrote the whole film. We would write something, perform it by ourselves or with friends, feel it out, play with it, explore things and then rewrite.