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New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Nomadland,' 'I Care a Lot,' 'Test Pattern' Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have been reexamining their own lives. So if there’s a safe way to see it, you’d be hard-pressed t...

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, and the histrionics so over the top we’re hoping everyone will just take a deep breath and CALM TH...

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 with the memories of his sister's unsolved murder, hopes to turn his life around with a career i...

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 staff members. Daniel (Adepo, equally ill-served) is a bad boy with a heart of gold, traumatized by t...

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