Steve Zahn and Sasha Knight star in Cowboys Damon Smith
Monster: Kevin Harrison Jr as Steve Harmon and Nasir Nas Jones as Raymond Sunset Green
COWBOYS (Cert 15, 85 mins, Blue Finch Film Releasing, available from May 7 on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, Drama)
FOLLOWING screenings at BFI Flare, Glasgow Film Festival and Dublin International Film Festival, Anna Kerrigan s poignant drama saddles up for an extended canter in our homes.
Troy (Steve Zahn) heads into the northern Rockies with his 11-year-old transgender son Joe (Sasha Knight), who is obsessed with cowboys and the great outdoors. Father and boy relish the beauty of their surroundings and the opportunity to eat and sleep beneath the stars.
Black teenager on trial for murder in topical drama Monster
Reuters | May 04, 2021 08:49 PM EDT
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Arrivals – Santa Monica, California, U.S., (Photo : REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo)
A Black teenager on trial for murder fights to clear his name and reclaim his identity in Monster , a film that dives headlong into issues that have animated the Black Lives Matter movement and often led the news agenda in recent times.
The Netflix drama follows 17-year-old Steve Harmon, a promising film student played by Kelvin Harrison Jr., who insists he is innocent after he is arrested for his alleged part in a fatal robbery at a bodega in Harlem, New York.
Saint Maud (16, 84mins) Directed by Rose Glass ½ Now this is more like it. After a dismal diet of spooky house, serial killer and seaside rental horrors during the past year, here’s something truly visually arresting, unsettling and downright nightmare-inducing. Of course, the only disappointment is that this critically-acclaimed, double Bafta-nominated crowdpleaser has bypassed Kiwi cinemas, especially when its breakout star is currently making more than just a “Tolkien” visit to our shores. The success of
Saint Maud though, isn’t just down to a truly committed, breathtaking performance from Swedish-born Welsh actress Morfydd Clark, it’s also a testament to the bravura film-making skills of writer-director Rose Glass, making her feature film debut. From the atmospheric score to the clever, sometimes claustrophobic framing, off-kilter camera angles and sometimes haunting imagery,
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
â Monster,â a courtroom drama starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Ehle that s premiering Friday on Netflix isnât actually new at all.
Yes, itâs adapted from an acclaimed book by the trailblazing author Walter Dean Myers about a Black teen who is in prison for the possible murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2018 and has been sitting on various shelves since. It was acquired by one company, re-titled and planned for a fall 2019 release. But that didnât pan out and then late last year Netflix swept in and took it.
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From concert documentaries from two of music’s biggest stars, to an acclaimed horror film and an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad,’ here’s what to stream on Amazon Prime in May
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It’s a pretty common experience: sometimes you’ll read a great book and conclude there’s no way it could ever be turned into a film or TV series. It was easy to feel that way after reading Colson Whitehead’s