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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Maja Vrvilo Set to Direct Episode 2 Posted on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Back in March, viewers learned that Anson Mount (Captain Pike), Rebecca Romijn (Number One), and Ethan Peck (Science Officer Spock) were getting started on the series in Toronto, and now were learning who is joining the team behind the camera. On Saturday, director Maja Vrvilo tweeted that they would be helming the seasons second episode- sharing a look at a laptop screen and a clapp...

The week’s new Netflix, Amazon, and rental releases are here. This week, there’s Michael B. Jordan spy action thriller Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse on Amazon Prime Video, The Mitchells vs. the Machines on Netflix, The Outside Story, Voyagers, and more; all available to stream starting today.

Tribune News Service 39 This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from "Judas and the Black Messiah.". (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) A leading awards-season contender that just nabbed two Oscars sits atop the new releases for the week of May 4. “Judas and the Black Messiah” – Daniel Kaluuya recently won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Illinois Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, killed in his sleep by Chicago law enforc...

Filmmaker Nick Stagliano produced, directed and co-wrote The Virtuoso. A thriller which taps into film noir mainstays, the movie boasts Oscar-winning Anthony Hopkins amongst its cast alongside the likes of Anson Mount, Abbie Cornish and David Morse, and delivers a twist on lone gunman tropes. Ahead of the film’s release today, Stagliano took time out to talk to Martin Carr about his process, those casting choices and certain cinematic influences. Watch the interview here, and be sure to foll...

New On DVD: Oscar winner featured in releases By Tribune News Service Share: A leading awards-season contender that just nabbed two Oscars headlines the new releases for the week of May 4. “Judas and the Black Messiah”: Daniel Kaluuya recently won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Illinois Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, killed in his sleep by Chicago law enforcement in 1969, with LaKeith Stanfield nominated in the same category for playing...

“The Virtuoso” – Not exactly Joshua Bell [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Anson Mount as The Virtuoso in “The Virtuoso.” Photo Credit: Jessica Kourkounis “The Virtuoso,” written by James C. Wolf and directed by Nick Stagliano, tries to emulate film noire of the past, or at least that’s what Stagliano would like to believe. Certainly there are some of the elements but The Virtuoso is not a flawed hero, he’s a paid assassin. And therein lies part of the problem. The Virtuoso is a skilled ...

Less than the sum of its mildly intriguing parts. TWITTER A professional assassin takes a challenging small-town assignment in a thriller starring Anson Mount, Abbie Cornish and Anthony Hopkins. You know youre in the realm of the archetype when a movies closing credits favor descriptors over character names: The Waitress, The Loner, The Mentor — and, first and foremost, The Virtuosos nameless title mercenary. Played by Anson Mount in a tight-jawed register, hes a killer for hire whose armor ...

David Lewis April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 5:00 pm In the neo-noir thriller “The Virtuoso,” a professional hit man (Anson Mount) gets mired in a murder-for-hire plot. Photo: Jessica Kourkounis, Lionsgate “The Virtuoso,” an implausible neo-noir thriller in which a professional assassin gets mired in a murder-for-hire plot, is as flawed as the characters’ ethics. But the movie still manages to keep things mildly interesting for most of its two hours. Anson Mount (�...

Film Shorts // April 28-May 4, 2021 OPENING Cliff Walkers (NR) This Chinese spy thriller by Zhang Yimou ( Hero) is about a group of agents (Qin Hailu, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, and Zhu Yawen) who return to their Japanese-occupied country in the 1930s to find that they’ve been betrayed by persons unknown. Also with Liu Haocun, Li Naiwen, and Ni Dahong. (Opens Friday at AMC Grapevine Mills) Four Good Days (R) Rodrigo Garcia delivers yet another dull, earnest drama about white people living on the Wes...

‘The Virtuoso’ Review: Don’t Let the Title of This Amateur Thriller Mislead You Variety 4/29/2021 Less than a week after Anthony Hopkins won his second Academy Award for “The Father,” a dud called “The Virtuoso” arrives to make you wonder if they gave it to the wrong guy. The lousy-follow-up phenomenon happens all the time (in part because people throw money at newly minted honorees, which explains how Halle Berry became a Bond girl or pretty much everything Melissa Leo has made...