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Your Next Viewing: Eric Schultz’s MINOR PREMISE Delivers Major Cognitive Thrills

Memories are tied to emotions. They can bring tears to your eyes, a laugh or smile to your lips, a stabbing pain of regret or loss to your heart. If you could control your memories, would you? Let’s take it further: if there were a program that could map your brain and control your memories and your brain functions in a way to change you, for the better, of course, would you choose that procedure? Utopia’s Minor Premise will have you thinking about all these questions and more. This film is New York filmmaker Eric Schultz’s feature film debut, and if this is setting the bar for what more he has to offer, I cannot wait to see what else he can do. Schultz is the director and helped to write it, along with Justin Moretto and Thomas Torrey. We first meet Ethan (Sathya Sridharan) as he is lecturing a […]

MINOR PREMISE: Science Is A Risky And Entropic Business In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

If you’ve missed the chance to catch Eric Schultz’s scintillating new cerebral sci-fi thriller at the virtual festivals with Minor Premise, then you’re in luck. Indeed it’s a bit of a wait but the film will arrive on VOD beginning December 4 from Utopia, and the official trailer has arrived. Attempting to surpass his father’s legacy and pressured by an old colleague (Dana Ashbrook of Twin Peaks), a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own risky experiment. Ethan (Sathya Sridharan) has now locked himself in his home with his ex-girlfriend Allie (Paton Ashbrook) and the two navigate trauma, ambition, and missteps of the past. Diving headfirst into the uncharted equations of the brain, they realize that there is more at stake than just their relationship or Ethan’s reputation. With time quickly running out, he is forced to face off against the darker sides of himself while frantically attempting to solve […]