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Seeing a movie called The Violent Heart, you might expect a 50s melodrama to be your awaiting pleasure, the type of time machine throwback romance with a title as profound as Lana Turner was glamorous. So it’s a jarring surprise to instead come across a new Kerem Sanga indie drama with such an understated, even melancholy star-crossed romance to offer, filtered with an unsolved mystery, a protagonist exuding stoic trauma, and a twist only the ripest of moviegoers will find surprising. On sec...

CST_ Gravitas Ventures presents a film written and directed by Kerem Sanga. No MPAA rating. Running time: 107 minutes. Opens Friday at Emagine Frankfurt and on demand. Writer-director Kerem Sanga has a knack for delivering arresting, noir-like visuals, especially from medium- and long-shot distance, and the talented cast gamely tries to sell the material, but “The Violent Heart” is so muddled there are times we have to remind ourselves of the connection between certain characters, ...

Courtesy of Gravitas VenturesJovan Adepo says he jumped at the opportunity to take on the role of Daniel, a troubled young man dealing with past trauma, in the Kerem Sanga-directed film The Violent Heart. "I'm always excited to get an opportunity to play characters who have difficult pasts," he tells ABC Audio. "And they're trying to kind of find their sense or their own place in the world." In the romantic melodrama, Adepo's Daniel, who still struggles wit...

Good melodrama has a whiff of prurience with a shimmer of moralizing. Bad melodrama is schlock that thinks it has something to say. The Violent Heart – a teetering pile of coincidences masquerading as a story – barely passes muster as even the latter. Cassie (Van Patten, crippled by an atrocious script) is appalling, a spoiled middle class brat with daddy issues revolving around her belief that her father, who is also her English teacher (Haas), is having an affair with one of his fellow s...

FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

click to enlarge Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Mitchell This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was virtual, and its offerings trimmed down from previous years. It included 73 feature films, 50 short films, four Indie Series, 23 talks and events, and 14 New Frontier multimedia projects. We watched 38 of the 73 films, inclu...

Ski, snowshoe, and soak in the tranquil beauty of Eastern Oregon "The mountains are calling and I must go" is one of my favorite John Muir quotes. Written in a letter to his sister in 1873, his words echoed in my mind during a recent visit to the Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort outside of Baker City, named for William "Doc" Anthony, a farmer and doctor, who homesteaded in the area in 1864. Located 19 miles west of North Powder Exit 285 off I-84, ALMR feels like a "locals" ski ar...

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Jovan Adepo plays a young mechanic trying to turn his life around in "The Violent Heart," written and directed by Kerem Sanga. Grace Van Patten also stars.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some films are tentatively scheduled for big-screen releases while others will be available digitally via video on demand. ‘Flora & Ulysses’ Genre: Fantasy, adventure and family Cast: Matilda Lawler, Alyson Hannigan, Ben Schwartz, Benjamin Evans Ainsworth, Danny Pudi, Kate Micucci, and B...