"Have you ever sacrificed everything for your country?" Gravitas has released a trailer for an indie hostage thriller titled 86 Melrose Avenue, the latest film written & directed & produced by Lebanese filmmaker Lili Matta. An ex-marine with Ptsd storms into a gallery, taking hostages and forcing them to confront their own complex past and looming mortality, as time ticks by. Starring Dada Elza and Jim O'Heir, with a cast including Anastasia Antonia, Gregory Zarian, Terri Ivens, Langstone Fishburne, Michael Polak, Andy Evans, Richard Sabine, Helen Kennedy, and Gary Sturm. It looks like another attempt to comment on the Ptsd crisis in America and how hard it is to overcome the trauma of war. Have a look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Lili Matta's 86 Melrose Avenue, direct from YouTube: A diverse group of people at a gallery opening is taken hostage by an ex-Marine suffering with Ptsd and forced to confront their cultural differences,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Cocked and Loaded” is a) the name of Andrew Dice Clay’s breakthrough 1992 tour, the one for which he wore his soon-to-be-signature huge-collared leather jacket; b) a 2006 album by the industrial metal band Revolting Cocks; c) a malaprop for the actual military phrase “lock and load”; and d) the latest Twitter fodder all but gift-wrapped by President Donald Trump for pundits, comics and pickers of low-hanging social media fruit.
Or e) all of the above. Ding ding ding.
This morning, Trump used the bizarre, probably mistaken, certainly mangled, wording in a series of tweets that attempted to explain his last-second decision to halt an air strike against Iran in retaliation for shooting down one of our drones this week.
The four-tweet string, beginning with a swipe at Barack Obama (see the tweets below), read, in part: “On Monday [Iran] shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked...
Or e) all of the above. Ding ding ding.
This morning, Trump used the bizarre, probably mistaken, certainly mangled, wording in a series of tweets that attempted to explain his last-second decision to halt an air strike against Iran in retaliation for shooting down one of our drones this week.
The four-tweet string, beginning with a swipe at Barack Obama (see the tweets below), read, in part: “On Monday [Iran] shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked...
- 6/21/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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