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HOT SEAT Review: Bressack’s New Thriller Pulsates Enough But Cools Off Too Soon

An I.T. worker pressed for time between his job and spending time for his family finds himself trapped by a domestic terrorist with a vendetta. As the local police and bomb squad are running out of time before they can solve the mystery of who’s finger is at the trigger, he must find a way to work through his cyber captor’s demands or risk losing more than just his life. Such is the wind-up-and-the-pitch in a script storied and written by Leon Langford and Collin Watts for James Cullen Bressack’s cyberthriller, Hot Seat, following projects like Beyond The Law with Steven Seagal, and Bruce Willis starrers Survive The Game and Fortress to name a few. This time Bressack gets to add stars like Kevin Dillon and Mel Gibson to his roster, for a lean, contained hostage thriller that has its strengths in most of its performances, and mechanical flaws in […]

HOT SEAT Teaser Sits You In A Race Against Time With Mel Gibson And Kevin Dillon

Lee B. Golden III

Lionsgate’s newest thriller from director James Cullen Bressack now arrives in the form of Hot Seat. The contained crime thriller stars Kevin Dillon, and Mel Gibson, actress Shannen Doherty, and actor Sam Asghari from a script by Leon Langford and Collin Watts. Oscar-winner Mel Gibson brings this explosive cyber-thriller to life. The action begins as IT expert Friar (Kevin Dillon, Poseidon) finds a hair-trigger bomb strapped to his desk chair. An unseen hacker orders him to steal digital funds online—or have his daughter abducted. As a fearless bomb expert (Gibson) arrives on the scene, the hacker frames Friar as the bomber. The tension mounts as Friar races to clear his name and expose the real terrorist—without getting himself blown to smithereens. Hot Seat will release in select theaters, On Digital and On Demand on July 1.

FRANK & PENELOPE Trailer: Lovers On The Run Give Chase From Dogmatic Cannibals In Sean Patrick Flanery’s Directing Debut

Lee B. Golden III

Actor and producer Sean Patrick Flanery has made some terrific strides in front of the screen of late, including two of my favorites – Shaun Paul Piccinino’s American Fighter and Alex Ranarivelo’s Born A Champion. Apart from his other screen credits though, he’s done some directing for television about fifteen years ago and lo and behold, he’s back at the helm for his first feature with horror thriller, Frank & Penelope. A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected – as EVERYTHING is now worth dying for. Newcomer Billy Budinich stars alongside Caylee Cowan as they lead the cast, with Johnathon Schaech starring as a cannibalistic Bible thumper whose psychotic family has its sights set on either snacking on the two lovebirds, […]