If you caught onto our review lately for director C.J. Julianus’s new film out of Binary Star Pictures, L.L.C. titled The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater, you might be well aware of its release this week. Thus, folks can log onto Amazon Prime Video or Vimeo On Demand and catch the Chicago-shot award-winning romantic comedy, starring and written by Lorissa Julianus who also edited the film, and more.
In The Misadventures Of Mistress Maneater, Ava (Lorissa Julianus) wants out, but there’s no safe word for golden handcuffs. When her mobster ex gives her 30 days to repay a massive loan, she’s forced into one last job–seducing and extorting Father Radovan Markovic (Mickey O’Sullivan) a.k.a. “Father Dracula,” a small town Episcopal priest.
Little does she know that Markovic smuggled his own secrets from Serbia, and moonlights as an underground MMA fighter while unwittingly hiding the world’s greatest lost painting. Not to mention he’s the one hot guy who is avoiding Ava like loose glitter. Certain he’s embezzling a priceless art collection, will she win his heart only to destroy his life, or doom herself to a custom pair of concrete stilettos?
“We established Binary Star Pictures to tell the kinds of unique, tightly-paced stories that we long to see. Like so many fellow film geeks, we’re weary of remakes, retreaded plots, and the same types of characters seen a hundred times before,” says C.J. Julianus.
“The world needs feel-good entertainment that tugs your heart, tickles your brain, and gets you thinking, because discussing a movie after seeing it is half the fun! The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater stands as is great entertainment on its own, but also has seriousness and depth, if you like to look for literary aspects in a movie. It’s more than a typical rom-com; we have intrigue, art history, aspects of discovering self-worth and forgiveness, underground fighting, mobsters, and a lost Baroque painting (that gallery artist Lorrisa Julianus painted for the film) all as part of the central mystery of the movie.”
John Wesley Norton lensed the pic with music by Lisa Liu. Also starring are Shannon Brown, Cynda Williams, Robyn Coffin, Bonnie Morgan, Molly Morgan, John Mossman, Adam Christopher, Joette Waters, John LaFlamboy, Jax Turyna, Ruth Kaufman, David Lichty, Brian Barber, William Lee, Michael Kristula, and many more.