naomi watts

GOODNIGHT MOMMY Trailer: Naomi Watts Makes a Return to Horror With the Remake of the 2014 Austrian Film

Talented Aussie actress Naomi Watts has had a mixed bag of films under her belt lately. With her ventures into genre fare like Boss Level and The Desperate Hour to indie fare like This Is the Night and Luce; the projects have received mixed reactions with the exceptions of the acclaimed drama Luce and the idiosyncratic TV series Twin Peaks – The Return. In the case of her latest film, Watts returns to the role of the scream queen after making her big impressions with films like The Ring and Mulholland Drive. Ostensibly a strict remake of the Austrian film of the same name by directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, Goodnight Mommy features Watts playing the titular role who arrives home to her intrepid twin sons (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) after a major cosmetic operation. However, the twins have a suspicion that something is not quite right with their […]

BOSS LEVEL Review: An Upbeat, Fresh And Fun Take On Familiar Sci-Fi Tropes With Suitably Violent Results

Lee B. Golden III

Director Joe Carnahan has been one of the most fascinating filmmakers I’ve followed in the last two decades, having seen all of his movies sans his 1998 directing debut, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane. Carnahan definitely gets right down to the grit and gumption of his stories. They’re not all masterpieces, but they kick ass at levels that are wholly worth the attention of his viewing audience. Often times though, that fact gets drowned out by a lot of bullshit, whether it’s Carnahan’s past Twitter fracas or the sheepish excuses of overweening film festival programmers who think a superhero movie about a latino crimefighter doesn’t come up to scratch (as documented in since deleted Tweets), or the blowback he gets for expressing views that reflect on matters of politics or just basic human decency, barring labels. Funny thing about politics though: More often than not, it is inherently inescapable in […]

Liev Schreiber Gets His Wish In Chuck Wepner Bio, THE BLEEDER

Lee B. Golden III

Liev Schreiber has been killing it with his hit SHOtime TV series, Ray Donovan, now up for a fourth season. In the meantime, his career in film is moving forward as well as he’s also set to appear early next year in YA sci-fi epic, The 5th Wave. Before then, the actor will begin filming in New York City with wife and actress Naomi Watts for the new boxing drama, The Bleeder, from Mandalay Sports Media and Campbell Grobman Films with Oscar-nominated director Philippe Falardeau (The Good Lie, Monsieur Lazhar) at the helm. Schreiber will produce and star from a script by Jeff Feuerzeig, Jerry Stahl and Michael Cristofer, based on the life of New Jersey Liquor Salesman-turned-underdog heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner whos upset defeat by Muhammad Ali in 1975 – ultimately encircled much of his career height and dissolve, and incidentally became the root of inspiration for the multi-award winning […]