Barry Levitt

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Barry Levitt

It’s 1932, and former soldiers turned gangsters, Smoke and Stack (both Michael B. Jordan), are opening a nightclub in Mississippi. It’s going to be a special place, and to ensure its success, they’ve enlisted their cousin Sammie, a remarkably talented blues singer and guitarist, to provide musical entertainment. That’s the setup of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a supernatural horror movie that starts almost like a prestige HBO drama before morphing into something far more exhilarating.

6 days ago | vulture.com | Barry Levitt

Twins, clockwise from top left: The Parent Trap, Sisters, Sinners, and Dead Ringers. This article was originally published on April 20, 2023, but twin movies have a way of multiplying. We’ve updated the list to include more sets of siblings, including the pair played by Michael B. Jordan in Sinners. The mysterious nature of twins — particularly identical twins — has been a devious source of curiosity and fascination in Hollywood for time immemorial.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Nandika Chatterjee |Barry Levitt |Clare Donaldson

Lindsay Lohan will star in her first-ever scripted TV series called Count My Lies. The actress is also set to executive produce the drama in development at Hulu, Deadline reported. Based on the recently published book by Sophie Stava, the project comes from 20th Television and former This Is Us showrunners Issac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Stava’s recently released debut novel is a mystery thriller and a GMA Book Club Pick.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Jesse Hassenger |Clare Donaldson |Barry Levitt |Nick Schager

Somehow, Jesus returned. That’s both a glib summary of what happens in the new Easter-season animated movie The King of Kings and a description of this cut-rate attempt by Angel Studios to revive the Biblical epic. Angel became an unexpected industry player on the strength of its smash hit Sound of Freedom a few years back, and has been regularly releasing faith-based entertainment ever since.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Barry Levitt

The Amateur may look like your run-of-the-mill spy movie, but it’s surprisingly silly and often surprising. The set-up is suitably outrageous. Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a brilliant technical mind working for the CIA as a cryptographer. But when his darling wife is murdered in London, he goes rogue, using his vast knowledge and intricate technical know-how to…blackmail the CIA into training him as an agent so he can get revenge for his wife. It’s a lot.