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A HAUNTING IN VENICE – Review

(L-R): Riccardo Scamarcio as Vitale Portfoglio and Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in 20th Century Studios’ A HAUNTING IN VENICE. Photo by Rob Youngson. © 2023 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Agatha Christie fans will delight in A HAUNTING IN VENICE, because Kenneth Branagh really hits the mark with this one.

Branagh has directed and starred a few of these Christie classic mysteries as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, featuring star casts and a big, splashy out-sized approach (including Branagh version of Poirot’s famous mustache). Those films have been based on very familiar Agatha Christie mysteries, the ones that have been done, on big screen and small, many times before over the years, which meant they invited comparison, sometimes unfavorable, to some stellar films and productions.

With A HAUNTING IN VENICE, Branagh takes a different tack. This Agatha Christie mystery film is based on a less-familiar Poirot mystery, Christie’s “Hallowe’en Party,” but it is re-set in an irresistible location, Venice, and the story is altered from the original in other ways, transforming it into a tale with elements of a supernatural ghost story. This time Branagh strikes gold. That extravagant mustache returns, and again there is a cast with some big name stars, but otherwise it feels like something completely fresh, a movie that is more immersive, unexpected and intriguing.

A HAUNTING IN VENICE leans into the mysterious atmosphere and haunting beauty of Venice, one of the world’s most storied cities. While all Agatha Christie mysteries are murder mysteries, this one is unusual in that it also has a ghost story side. Further, the story is set not during Venice’s Mardi Gras carnival season, with its masks and secrets, but at Halloween, with its masks and mischief, starting with a children’s costume party full or games and bobbling for apples, followed by a more serious seance attended by grown-ups.

Now-retired detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is living quietly in Venice when he is sought out by mystery author Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey) who wants the famous detective to help her de-bunk famed spiritualist medium Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh) at a seance in a private home on Halloween.

The seance is to take place at a grand old mansion, a palazzo, and before the seance, the home will host a Halloween party for orphaned children. The legend is that the palazzo was once a Medieval orphanage but when the plague hit, the orphans’ caretakers abandoned their charges, and the ghosts of those abandoned children still haunt the house, seeking revenge.

But that legend is not why the spiritualist is being called to conduct a seance. The woman who owns the palazzo is a retired famous opera singer, Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly), and she is hoping to contact her dead daughter, a young woman who either jumped or fell to her death in the canal while in the grip of madness. Whether it was suicide, an accident or murder has remained unclear, but the distraught mother still mourns her lost child and seeks to hear her voice again.

Venice itself is almost a character in this tale, as is the still grand but eerie palazzo. Calling on this legendary atmosphere, Venice really shines in its dark, watery, and mysterious way. Branagh makes the most of the location, leaning into all things Venice, with art direction and moody half-lit photography.

Tina Fey’s author Ariadne Oliver’s arm-twisting compels Branagh’s Poirot to go to the palazzo’s Halloween party but whether he will even stay for the seance, much less expose the medium or solve any murder or murders, are details the film slowly reveals. Of course, as with any Christie tale, a diverse group turns up, invited or not, for the proceedings, and all of whom have some connection to the dead young woman, their own secrets, and perhaps motives for murder. Supporting characters include Olga Seminoff (French actress Camille Cottin, who was so excellent as Golda Meir’s assistant and confidant in GOLDA), a straight-laced servant with her own secrets, and Dr. Leslie Ferrier (Jamie Dornan, who played the father in Branagh’s BELFAST), the family’s doctor who is haunted by his war experiences, along with his young son Leopold Ferrier (Jude Hill, the boy in BELFAST) a solemn and wise-beyond-his-years youngster who seems more the parent than his sad father.

Branagh has dialed back his Poirot in this performance, and added a level of doubt not usually seen in Poirot, which works very well here. Tina Fey’s author Ariadne Oliver clearly to represent Agatha Christie, referring to her novels as being based on the exploits of the famous detective, but nothing in Tina Fey’s performance makes you think of the British writer. The supporting parts are strong, with young Jude Hill and, of course, Michelle Yeoh, as memorable standouts.

Without the intense familiarity of the better-know Agatha Christie tales, the audience is allowed the pleasure of trying to figure out the various mysteries, and to better appreciate the writer’s skill in building suspense, and the script made other changes to the novel’s plot to keep us guessing.

The mystery is given a big boost by the Venetian setting and the watery house alone but beautiful, austere, moody photography enhances things too. The photography is perfect and lovely, just what you want for Venice and that the story largely takes place at night adds even more to the mood. All old Venetian houses have unused levels below water and an inherent mysterious atmosphere in them, particularly after the sun goes down. Branagh draws on all that delicious atmosphere with relish. Add in some candlelight, fine old furniture, vintage details and all those period costumes, and our imaginations to do the rest.

All this is catnip for Christie fans but if this kind of cleverly-plotted, period murder mystery is not to your taste, this one might not be for you. As for me, as a fan of Christie, suspense and Venice generally, it is very much my cup of tea (and there are cups of tea). Also note that while is a supernatural element, this is a crime thriller, not horror.

Kenneth Branagh hits the Agatha Christie target dead-on with A HAUNTING IN VENICE, and one hopes that will continue with the next one, as there likely will be another. But it will be hard to top something like this suspense yarn set in Venice at Halloween.

A HAUNTING IN VENICE opens in theaters on Friday, Sept. 15.

RATING: 3.5 out of 4 stars

BELFAST – Review

(L to R) Jamie Dornan as “Pa”, Ciarán Hinds as “Pop”, Jude Hill as “Buddy”, and Judi Dench as “Granny” in director Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST, a Focus Features release. Credit : Rob Youngson / Focus Features

Kenneth Branagh gives us one of his best films, and his most personal, with BELFAST, a partly autobiographical tale of a boy in North Belfast in 1969. It is more a year-in-the-life story rather than a coming-of-age one but it is a pivotal year in many ways.

Mostly, BELFAST is a child-centric comedy but it does take place in the shadow of the Irish “Troubles.” Branagh both wrote and directs BELFAST, which is filled with distinctive Irish humor, biting quick-witted wordplay and colorful characters, along with childhood memories of a working class neighborhood where everyone knows everyone. This 1969 tale is mostly both funny and warm, happening against the wonder of men walking on the Moon, but while thoughts of the Irish Troubles dog the parents and danger sometimes looms, viewers need not worry about graphic violence in this film.

BELFAST opens with 9-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill) and his friends playing in an alley, having mock battles with wooden swords and trash can lids as shields. As Buddy’s mother (Catriona Balfe) is calling him in for dinner, an angry mob shows up at the end of their street. A driver-less car is rolled on to the street and blows up. With that car bomb, children’s mock battles give way to the real battle of the Irish Troubles.

Buddy’s family is Protestant, as are most of his neighbors, but a few Catholics have moved in too, and it is the Catholics the radical mob was hunting. But the tight-knit neighborhood is not having it, and everyone pitches into to build a barrier at the end of the street to keep out the mob, tearing up the paving stones on the sidewalk to build it.

Buddy’s parents grew up here, and he is surrounded by family and friends in this street of row houses and little shops. Buddy is particularly close to his charming, talkative grandfather Pop (Ciaran Hinds), and his no-nonsense Granny (Judi Dench), who is quick to call out her husband’s more outrageous yarns. Buddy’s father, Pa (Jamie Dornan), often is gone for a week at a time as he works in construction in England, leaving Ma to watch over the 9-year-old and his older brother Will (Lewis McAskie).

Shot mostly in gorgeous black and white, the film follows Buddy’s adventures, his crush on a blonde-haired girl in his class, being goaded into shoplifting candy, working on an assignment about the Moon landing and other childhood adventures. The family watch Westerns on TV, go to the movies and the theater, where we get little flashes of color. While Buddy’s world revolves around childhood concerns, his parents try to shield their sons from the dangers of the Troubles, often led by a local radical that Buddy’s father calls a “jumped-up gangster.” It doesn’t always work, and the worried father wants to leave Ireland, but his wife resists leaving the only place she has ever known.

The acting is excellent, starting with young Jude Hill as the stand-in for a young Branagh. The scenes with him, Ciaran Hinds and Judi Dench as the grandparents are among the best, funny and touching. Catriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan as the parents are both passionate and fiery. The kid-centric scenes are pure delight, with the brothers and cousins engaging in a series of misadventures that are sure to bring a smile, but there are times when we see the danger of the upheaval going on around them, when it intrudes on their child’s world.

The film is impressive visually, with a mix of beautiful black and white images, occasionally interrupted with startling dashes of color. There are creative camera angles and some lovely gasp-inducing shot compositions. Time and again, an emotionally-pivotal scene is further enhanced by artistic framing, striking enough to make you note the beauty of the shot, but also adding to scene’s dramatic impact. The pacing and editing are perfect, stylishly supporting and advancing the story. The music is striking, using some pop tunes of the era – often by Van Morrison – along with selected Western movie music, some of which is both comic and spot-on dramatically, in a weird way.

This is an impressive film, working both as cinematic art and movie entertainment, powerful dramatically while warm, funny and sentimental in its childhood remembrances. BELFAST is sure to be a crowd-pleaser and an award-contender.

BELFAST opens in theaters on Nov. 12.

RATING: 4 out of 4 stars

Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST First Trailer Arrives – Only In Theaters November 12

In their Telluride Film Festival review, Deadline’s Pete Hammond says, “As noted the black and white cinematography is stunning, along with very impressive production design from Jim Clay another frequent artisan Branagh works with (the entire Belfast neighborhood was reconstructed in England). The sound track comes mostly from another Belfast native, Van Morrison who contributed eight songs from his archive plus a new one. There is no question it adds significantly to the sound and feel of this terrific film. It is one of the year’s best movies, no doubt.”

https://deadline.com/2021/09/belfast-telluride-film-festival-review-kenneth-branagh-jamie-dornan-1234824023/

Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

The cast includes Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Jude Hill. the film is from producers Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas

Focus Features will release BELFAST in theaters on November 12, 2021. https://www.focusfeatures.com/belfast

Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in WILD MOUNTAIN THYME Available on DVD February 2nd.

John Patrick Shanley, who created the classic, Moonstruck, brings his sweeping romantic vision to Ireland with WILD MOUNTAIN THYME. The headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly’s love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father Tony Reilly’s (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale.

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WILD MOUNTAIN THYME will be available on DVD and Digital February 2nd

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME stars Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Dearbhla Malloy and Christopher Walken

WAMG Giveaway – Win the Blu-ray of SYNCHRONIC Starring Anthony Mackie

SYNCHRONIC, the next great sci-fi thriller from the directing duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless), debuts early on Digital January 12 before hitting Blu-ray™ and DVD January 26 from Well Go USA Entertainment.  

Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of SYNCHRONIC.  We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie is costarring Anthony Mackie (mine’s MILLION DOLLAR BABY. It’s so easy!)

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According to the Cincinnati City Beat, “SYNCHRONIC is a brilliant twist on time travel, an epic mindf**k of surreal imagery, and a beautiful meditation on mortality and friendship,” as well as a “a drug-fueled masterpiece.”  The film stars Anthony Mackie (“Altered Carbon,” Falcon in the Avengers franchise), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy), Katie Aselton (Bombshell) and Ally Ioannides (“Into the Badlands”) in the story of two paramedics whose lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

BONUS FEATURES

  • Commentary with Directors and Producer
  • Making of
  • Previsualization
  • VFX Breakdown
  • Deleted Scene
  • Alternate Ending

When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to the mysterious new party drug found at the scene. But after Dennis’s oldest daughter suddenly disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality—and the flow of time itself.

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME – Review

Somewhere in the long list of what we can’t do during the last holidays of 2020 is spending that week or so break traveling and exploring. Perhaps the best option is vacationing virtually via our local cinema (or streaming service). How about heading to the “old country”? No, it’s not that old country, the setting of this holiday. Instead think about the holiday just a few months away: St. Patrick’s Day. This weekend’s new release is an ode to the “Emerald Isle”, although its time frame allows more rain than snow to cover those verdant green fields. It’s setting isn’t Christmas time, but rather WILD MOUNTAIN THYME.

At its beginning, we actually go back in time to the earlier days of neighboring farm families the Reillys and the Muldoons. Patriarch Tony (Christopher Walken) Reilly’s pride and joy is his only son, ten-year-old Anthony. Ah, but the lad is also adored by little Rosemary Muldoon, despite the efforts of her older sister Fiona. The story springs ahead to the present as the all-grown-up Anthony (Jamie Dornan) now pretty much runs the farm for widowed papa Tony. Things are now complicated by two gates that separate the Reilly farm from a thin segment now owned by the Muldoons. Papa Muldoon has just passed, but neither his widow Aoife (Dearbhla Molloy) nor the also adult Rosemary (Emily Blunt) is interested in selling. But she’s still interested in him, though Anthony never acts on the mutual attraction, now that Fiona moved away started her own family. And after Aoife’s passing, Rosemary now runs that farm. Her demise prompts Tony to make a momentous decision: since Anthony won’t “settle down”, he’ll offer to sell it to his brother living in the states, whose son Adam (Jon Hamm) is actually interested in purchasing the prime property. In fact, Adam is so interested in becoming a “gentleman farmer” that he travels there for a “look-see”. And he likes what he sees in the lovely Rosemary. Yes, it’s a classic romantic triangle. Will the American “interloper” finally spur the eternally hesitant Anthony into action or will the “yank” eventually merge the two farms?

The international cast does their best to “jump-start” this fractured fable. The always interesting Blunt is able to bring a sense of reality to the “passion prize” Rosemary. In her eyes we see a bit of her frustration over the “cards she’s been dealt” and an unrequited passion, not only for Anthony but for experiencing the world that her dusty ole’ records have only hinted about. Blunt does most of the dramatic “heavy lifting” in the amorous encounters with the somewhat dim Anthony. Dornan seems happy to step out of the shadows (and shackles) of Mr. Grey but has to summon all his skills to make the always distracted farmer someone that we can “root” for. It doesn’t help that the role is overwhelmed in the domestic discussions by the charming but miscast Walken, whose accent is right out of a regional dinner theatre production of “Finian’s Rainbow”. He seems to be a “special guest star” in a Dublin-based TV sitcom. The same could be said of Hamm, though mercifully spared a brogue, who is the usual abrasive, arrogant ugly American that’s so popular in many such foreign flicks and TV shows. For most of his scenes, Hamm leans hard on a bemused but often confused reaction to the eccentric townsfolk. It’s hard to accept that his Adam would want to do a whole “Green Acres” life change.

Lauded playwright John Patrick Shanley directs this adaptation of his stage work, which doesn’t have that “let’s open this up for cinema” look as many theatre-based films. Maybe the original venue softened the air of forced whimsy that pervades the take. This seems to be intended for folks who thought that THE QUIET MAN was a brutal, realistic “slice of life”.  So much of this is cringe-worthy “cutesy-ness” passing for wit (Blunt retains her dignity even as she must perform “Swan Lake” moves on a gravel driveway). There’s the beginning of a “spark” between Adam and Rosemary, but zero chemistry with her longtime intended. Then Anthony’s big reveal of the secret that pushed him away from her is indulgently ridiculous. Yes, the flora and fauna are spectacular, but enduring this tripe feels like being bopped on your noggin by the “blarney stone” after a meal of rancid corned beef. After 100 or so minutes of this drivel, the final scene has a big singing curtain call with the deceased characters smiling from a prime pub table (that’s because they weren’t watching or streaming this). WILD MOUNTAIN THYME is far from “time” well spent. I’d rather douse a bowl of Lucky Charms with Guinness.

1 Out of 4

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME screens exclusively in the St. Louis area at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac and in select theatres everywhere. It’s also available as a video on demand via multiple streaming apps and platforms.

Watch Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan And Jon Hamm In First Trailer For WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

John Patrick Shanley, who created the classic MOONSTRUCK, brings his sweeping romantic vision to Ireland with WILD MOUNTAIN THYME.

The headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly’s love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father Tony’s (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale. 

The film is written for the Screen and directed by John Patrick Shanley
Based on the play “Outside Mullingar” by John Patrick Shanley.

Bleecker Street will release WILD MOUNTAIN THYME in theaters and on demand December 11th.

Emily Blunt (L) stars as Rosemary and Jamie Dornan (R) stars as Anthony in John Patrick Shanley’s WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, a Bleecker Street release
Credit: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street
Emily Blunt (L) stars as Rosemary and Jon Hamm (R) stars as Adam John Patrick Shanley’s WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, a Bleecker Street release
Credit: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street

SYNCHRONIC – Review

Okay, fright fans, Halloween’s just days away, how about a nice dose of the shivers? And maybe a bit of time-trippin’ fantasy. Oh, and just a pinch of social commentary, dished up by a couple of the busiest movie actors around. The commentary, well that’s about the current, now mostly legal, use of recreational drugs. So what if there were unforeseen side effects of an “over the dispensary counter” pill, one that somehow got through all the testing and trials? And you don’t need a souped-up DeLorean to “year-jumping”, but rather a lil’ white tablet. That’s a possibility when several characters in this new flick take a time trip on the “not-so-good” ship/pharmaceutical product called SYNCHRONIC.

After a prologue in which a couple goes on a nasty journey via a rec drug, we meet another couple, childhood buddies and overworked New Orleans EMTs Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan). Steve’s a hard-partying ladies man, while Dennis has a fairly steady homelife, with his wife Tara (Kate Aselton), punk/goth stylin eighteen-year-old Brianna (Ally Ionnides), and a near-newborn. They’ve been getting some weird calls lately, including one “druggie” almost run through with a centuries-old sword. And at each one of the “strange” rescues, Steve notices empty packets labeled “Synchronic”. When he accidentally pricks his finger on a needle, Steve goes in for a required check-up. He gets more than he bargained for. Nothing from the needle, but the doctor detects brain cancer, advanced. He could have weeks or months with treatment. Steve hides it from Dennis, who wonders why his pal is popping so much codeine during their night shifts. With little time left, Steve decides to take Synchronic off the street by buying out the local dispensary. As he leaves, another man arrives and offers to buy the pills from Steve at 2 or 3 times their cost. He declines and is later shocked that night when the same man breaks into his home. He’s the scientist behind the pills, who tells of a strange side effect for anyone under 20. Because of their uncalcified pineal gland, they can briefly “time shift”. Steve assures him that he flushed the pills. When the scientist leaves, Steve digs them out of the trash. Recently Dennis’s daughter Brianna disappeared without a trace. Could she have taken these? Because his cancer has cleaned his pineal gland to a much “younger” condition, Steve pops a tablet. Soon his living room “melts away’ to place him ankle-deep in a swamp, trapped by a gator and a charging saber-wielding conquistador. When his watch shows seven minutes have passed, he returns to his modern-day home. Later he finds that if he stands in different spots, he’ll go to other eras: the Ice Age, the 1920’s, etc. But he’s got to get back to that exact spot before his time’s up. Could this be what happened to Brianna? With the few pills he has left, can Steve track her down and bring her home before his own time runs out?

The audience’s acceptance of the story’s more fantastical elements really hinges on the solid performances of the two leads. Mackie, who is best known as Sam “The Falcon” Wilson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, puts a tragic spin on this very different movie hero. Even before the awful diagnosis, his Steve goes about his daily life as though he was “half alive”. With the job that gives him all access to humanity often at its worst, he chooses to numb himself with booze and uninvolving “one night stands”. But we see that his limited future somehow gives his life a purpose, one heightened by his pal’s missing daughter. Still, Mackie often makes it difficult for us to “get behind him” as he shuts out his only real human connection. And Mackie, through his confused eyes, shows us that Steve’s just figuring it out as he goes, though he’s a meticulous planner. He tapes off and labels different spots in his house, makes sure his camcorder rolls when the pills kick in, and always dresses in layers in case he returns to the icy past (the first time makes him spend the rest of the night shivering in a warm bathtub). Dorman (who’s breaking out from those wretched 50 SHADES flicks) is more laid back as “workin’ stiff/family guy” Dennis. He too is emotionally wounded by his job, but finds comfort in the “nest” he’s made for his wife and kids. But he begins to crack as his buddy Steve seems to fade out of their friendship. And when his Brianna vanishes his “rock-steady” life quickly begins to crumble. Dorman conveys this man adrift with his downturned vision and sluggish pacing, making us hope that Steve will throw him a “lifeline” and pull him back in from despair. Aselton as his wife Tara goes from Dennis’ soothing partner to wounded matriarch striking back at him from hopelessness and fear. Ioannides as Brianna makes her a sweet but confused teen that still adores her folks despite her snarky retorts.

Veteran thriller directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (working from Benson’s script) lull us into a sense of unease in that opening sequence as we have a curious dread about the effects of the pills a couple has popped. Is it a hallucination that makes their bodies react with simulated wounds? This question plagues the doctors and the “5-0” as the “freaky fatalities” increase. The pacing of the first act tests our patience as our EMT duo drifts into one messy dwelling to an old theme park in a moonlit haze while the camera glides from room to room and body to body. But as Steve becomes pro-active the film gains more focus as it sets up its own set of “time rules”, though the “space dissolves” are fairly unsettling and woozy, perhaps to convey Steve’s disoriented state. At times it plays as an affectionate riff on “strange science” flicks like ALTERED STATES and time-changing thrillers like SOURCE CODE and FREQUENCY, but has an “off-putting” vibe all its own. If you’re in the mood to take a chance on a fantasy/horror hybrid, then a dose of SYNCHRONIC may be just what the cinema doctor prescribed.

Two and a Half Out of Four

First Look: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, And Christopher Walken Star In WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

Emily Blunt (L) stars as Rosemary and Jamie Dornan (R) stars as Anthony in John Patrick Shanley’s WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, a Bleecker Street release

John Patrick Shanley, who created the classic MOONSTRUCK, brings his sweeping romantic vision to Ireland with WILD MOUNTAIN THYME. The headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly’s love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father Tony’s (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale.

Bleecker Street will release WILD MOUNTAIN THYME in theaters and on demand on December 11th

Photos Credit: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street

Here’s the Trailer For Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan in SYNCHRONIC – In Theaters & Drive-Ins & VOD October 23rd

Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan in SYNCHRONIC will be in theaters & drive-Ins & VOD October 23rd. Check Out the trailer:

When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to the mysterious new party drug found at the scene. But after Dennis’s oldest daughter suddenly disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality—and the flow of time itself.

SYNCHRONIC stars Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, and Ally Ioannides and is directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead