‘Sometimes Always Never’ Film Review: Bill Nighy Helps Lift Scatter-Brained Family Drama

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorMGM has picked up the remaining offshore territories for Bill & Ted Face the Music from Endeavor Content.The Orion movie opens on Aug.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSolveig Langeland’s Stuttgart-based sales agency Sola Media has sold CGI animated feature film “Moonbound” to multiple territories.The film, directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi on a production budget of around $9 million, will be released in Germany and Austria by Little Dreams and Warner Bros.

The Duke of Cambridge misses his brother. Prince William’s “heart broke” after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the royal family, a source told Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 24. The insider told the magazine that, while Harry and William aren’t as close as they used to be, the Duke of Sussex’s older brother is “done with the drama” and almost ready to make amends with his sibling.

Also Read: What to Watch on Juneteenth: A TV Viewing Guide (Photos)Dreams don’t come easily in “Miss Juneteenth,” and first-time feature director Peoples rarely overplays her hand or slips into melodrama.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Film Bridge International will be handling the international and domestic rights to the Milo Gibson-Laurence Fishburne sports drama Brother’s Keeper. Deadline first told you about the project coming together in August 2018 from Minneapolis-based upstart production company Winsterstate Entertainment.Brother’s Keeper follows the true story of West Texas’ ’09 Abilene High School football team — underdogs who rally

There are so many fascinating aspects to Runner that one barely knows where to begin. Sports, immigration issues and the violent, war-torn history of Sudan are but a few of the topics dealt with in Bill Gallagher's engrossing documentary about South Sudanese "lost boy" Guor Mading Maker, who fled his native country, moved to America and became an Olympic athlete.

Don't vacation-rental services have enough trouble in the pandemic era that they shouldn't have to contend with stories like David Koepp's You Should Have Left — in which travelers become trapped inside a house bent on destroying their lives? A rigorous Clorox-wipe regimen won't address the problems facing a rich banker (Kevin Bacon) whose getaway becomes a space- and time-bending nightmare.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn a good haunted-house thriller, architecture is destiny.

Also Read: '7500' Film Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gets Tough in Nerve-Wracking Cockpit ThrillerInstead of the Overlook Hotel, we have an imposing modern house in the Welsh countryside, where Theo Conroy (Bacon), a rich banker who retired under a cloud of suspicion after being acquitted of murdering his first wife, has gone to spend some relaxing time with his actress wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), and their young daughter, Ella (Avery Essex).There are clearly tensions in the relationship,

not OK in Vollrath’s films – not in the short film, in which a divorced father tries to leave the country with his young daughter, and not in the feature, a hijacking thriller that takes place over 92 nerve-wracking minutes.Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a tour de force performance that finds the actor exploring various shades of desperation for pretty much the entire movie, “7500” is brutally simple and brutally efficient.

Also Read: 'Da 5 Bloods' Film Review: Spike Lee's Vietnam Epic Finds an Apocalypse Then and NowThe Samuel Goldwyn film, which is released on digital June 19 and on VOD July 3, oddly opens on George Orwell writing “Animal Farm,” something he did in the mid-1940s, a decade after the events depicted in “Mr.

Jessica Kiang It’s strange that as mannered a film as Carl Hunter’s Scrabble-loving debut feature “Sometimes Always Never” should yield one of Bill Nighy’s very least mannered — and best — performances, but then, these are strange times. They were strange back in 2018 when this British production, based on a screenplay by celebrated screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (“24 Hour Party People,” “Millions,” “Goodbye Christopher Robin”) premiered at the London Film Festival.

Also Read: Pete Davidson Spars - Then Bonds - With Bill Burr in Judd Apatow's 'King of Staten Island' Trailer (Video)And however much of Davidson’s autobiography is here, the movie still feels Apatow-esque.

A hijacked drug deal's messy aftermath ensnares an entire family in Christian Sparkes' effective if overloaded crime drama.

Pushed over a metaphorical cliff, the two nonconformists in Josephine Decker’s “Shirley” — her follow-up to the mind-bending “Madeline’s Madeline” — bond over the maddening submissiveness expected of them, which they both come to furiously abhor. Their strange alliance makes for a psychologically layered portrait of unapologetic womanhood that’s dangerously sensual and sumptuously rebellious.

This year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was scheduled to take place last week, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 may well have been the only force capable of preventing an Indian American competitor from winning the contest for the 13th year in a row.

By Owen Gleiberman