Dope was one of the big success stories at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and now it’s making its way to movie theaters around the country. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa (The Wood, Brown Sugar and Our Family Wedding), it stars Shameik Moore as Malcolm, a straight-A student with a love for ‘90s hip hop and Game of Thrones. Basically, he’s a geek living in a rough neighborhood in Los Angeles hoping to get into a good college.
Many movies today feature characters that leave their normal lives behind for something extraordinary or exclusive, but Barely Lethal takes that story in the opposite direction.
Skin Trade unites two very different kinds of action stars, which makes for a pretty exciting ride. In one corner we have Dolph Lundgren, a veteran of the genre who has appeared in classics like Rocky IV, Universal Soldiers and The Expendables trilogy. In the other corner we have Tony Jaa, the Thai martial artist who starred in the Ong Bak trilogy and had a memorable supporting role in Furious 7.
Little Boy takes us back to the days of World War II and into the life of an 8-year old boy named Pepper Flint Busbee (played by newcomer Jakob Salvati). Pepper is nicknamed Little Boy because of his diminutive size, and as a result, he's the target for the town bullies.
In the latest Blumhouse Productions film, Unfriended, Heather Sossaman plays Laura Barns, a popular high school girl who commits suicide after an embarrassing video of her at a party gets around. A year later, a group of friends gather together online for a conversation on Skype, but they soon find that they have an uninvited guest who has access to Laura’s Facebook account. From there everything goes haywire, as the teens try to discover who, or what, is terrorizing them.
A dangerous game is played in a very hostile environment in Beyond the Reach, the latest film from director Jean-Baptiste Léonetti. The story opens up on Ben (Jeremy Irvine), a young tracker in the southwest who gets an offer he can’t refuse from a rich and powerful businessman named Madec (Michael Douglas).
She first rose to fame as Miss Teen USA before becoming a favorite of soap opera fans as Stephanie Johnson on Days of our Lives and more recently, as Mali Tate on the MTV series Teen Wolf. Now, however, Shelley Hennig is taking on the silver screen with a leading role in Unfriended.
