Spoiler Alert: In case you don’t know the true story of Brian Brown-Easley there are significant plot details revealed in this review. Read on at your own discretion.
Premiering on Friday in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival, the devastating true story of Brian Brown-Easley, a disgruntled Marine veteran who held up an Atlanta Wells Fargo Bank out of desperation to bring attention to his plight after not receiving his monthly disability check of $892, has been brought to the screen with the edge-of-your-seat intensity of a fictional thriller. But sadly this is no fiction, rather the awful truth so many forgotten military vets experience in this country.
Writer-director Abi Damaris Corbin (who co-wrote with Kwame Kwei-Armah) adapted Aaron Gell’s article “They Didn’t Have To Kill Him,” a title that tells you what happened to Brown-Easley before you have even read the first paragraph.
Premiering on Friday in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival, the devastating true story of Brian Brown-Easley, a disgruntled Marine veteran who held up an Atlanta Wells Fargo Bank out of desperation to bring attention to his plight after not receiving his monthly disability check of $892, has been brought to the screen with the edge-of-your-seat intensity of a fictional thriller. But sadly this is no fiction, rather the awful truth so many forgotten military vets experience in this country.
Writer-director Abi Damaris Corbin (who co-wrote with Kwame Kwei-Armah) adapted Aaron Gell’s article “They Didn’t Have To Kill Him,” a title that tells you what happened to Brown-Easley before you have even read the first paragraph.
- 1/21/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' 'A Face in the Crowd' Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper's leading lady in King Vidor's The Fountainhead would go on to win a Best Actress Academy Award 15 years later. Patricia Neal was one of those performers – e.g., Jean Arthur, Anne Bancroft – whose film career didn't start out all that well, but who, by way of Broadway, managed to both revive and magnify their Hollywood stardom. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” series, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating Sunday, Aug. 16, '15, to Patricia Neal. This evening, TCM is showing three of her best-known films, in addition to one TCM premiere and an unusual latter-day entry. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Robert Wise was hardly a genre director. A former editor (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons...
- 8/16/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The hottest nonagenarian in Hollywood, Betty White is going to be honored by taking the hot seat at the Friars' Club annual celebrity roast on May 16.
White says of the honor, "Those Friars may think I'm an easy mark but I have 90 years of comebacks waiting for them. This is such an honor to be roasted by the Friars Club. It will be an afternoon filled with dirty words, risqué jokes & sex talk.....and that's just what I plan on saying. I have no clue what the comedians will talk about."
Betty joins the long line of comedians and actors who have been roasted by the Friars' Club, including Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller, Richard Prior, Jerry Stiller, The Smothers Brothers and Quentin Tarantino.
These roasts are not to be confused with the Comedy Central roasts. The cable channel broadcasted the Friars' Club roasts from 1998 to 2002, but...
White says of the honor, "Those Friars may think I'm an easy mark but I have 90 years of comebacks waiting for them. This is such an honor to be roasted by the Friars Club. It will be an afternoon filled with dirty words, risqué jokes & sex talk.....and that's just what I plan on saying. I have no clue what the comedians will talk about."
Betty joins the long line of comedians and actors who have been roasted by the Friars' Club, including Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller, Richard Prior, Jerry Stiller, The Smothers Brothers and Quentin Tarantino.
These roasts are not to be confused with the Comedy Central roasts. The cable channel broadcasted the Friars' Club roasts from 1998 to 2002, but...
- 3/1/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
A Face In The Crowd Review Pt.1 [Photo: Andy Griffith as Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes.] Rhodes' abrupt fall is based on a New York radio show incident-cum-urban legend from a few years earlier, as a Wor children’s show host named Uncle Don, purportedly believing he was off the air, said: "This is Uncle Don, saying good night. We're off. Good, that will hold the little bastards." The solid Warner Bros. DVD is part of the box set "Controversial Classics." The DVD includes only two extras: the original theatrical trailer and the 30-minute documentary Facing the Past, in which Andy Griffith, Budd Schulberg, Patricia Neal, and several scholars and behind-the-scenes contributors speak of the film, its impact, and director Elia Kazan. An audio commentary would have been most welcome, but Facing the Past is certainly a good documentary, giving the viewer a real sense of what was going on in the minds of the film’s participants. Griffith’s scenery-chewing,...
- 1/25/2012
- by Dan Schneider
- Alt Film Guide
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