Opening in select theaters Friday, The Bronze is an acerbic (and funny) comedy which centers on Hope (Melissa Ann Rauch), a bronze medalist whose Olympic days are now a distant memory. Living in Amherst, Ohio, a jaded Hope gets a shot at redemption as she coaches Maggie (Haley Lu Richardson), a talented gymnast who is shooting for the gold medal.
We’re giving away a new and unused MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN notebook which features a contact sheet/calendar on the final page. This collectible was given out during the press junket for Miracles From Heaven, a movie that’s based on Christy Beam’s memoir of the same name.
It’s Night Four of The Voice Blind Auditions and it’s starting to get a little tight for the coaches as they attempt to fill out the rest of their rosters. As we enter the night, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams all have eight vocalists, while Christina Aguilera has seven. What will Night Four bring? Let’s get into the recap:
As much as staying in one’s lane has its benefits, expanding one’s creative horizons my be even more important. Throughout her diverse career, Queen Latifah has expressed herself through hip hop, jazz, acting, and producing, proving that complacency isn’t one of her traits. She stars with Jennifer Garner in the drama Miracles from Heaven, a movie based on Christy Beam’s 2015 memoir.
A Country Called Home marks the promising feature filmmaking debut of Anna Axster, a director who infuses her story with a wonderfully understated tone. The picture centers Ellie (the always engaged Imogen Poots), a young woman who travels to a small town in Texas to bury her estranged father. Understandably shattered and conflicted as she comes to terms with her father’s passing, Ellie finds comfort and friendship with an entirely new family (Mackenzie Davis is a wannabe country singer with moxie, musician Ryan Bingham as a hard working single father, and Mary McCormack as the father’s former companion).
It’s night two of The Voice Blind Auditions and everyone is still buzzing about Alisan Porter’s performance from the night before. While she appears to be the early frontrunner, there are still plenty of spots left on every coach’s teams. So who will sing their hearts out and join the competition? Let’s get into the Night Two Blind Auditions.
When “A Country Called Home” begins, Ellie (Imogen Poots) is adrift in Los Angeles, saddled with a completely oblivious boyfriend (Josh Helman) and a seeming pipe dream of furniture designing. Her life of relative inaction takes a drastic turn upon hearing of her estranged father’s (J. Alan Nelson) weakened condition. Growing up is occasionally hard to do, and that transition is Ellie’s biggest challenge.
Benicio Del Toro, last seen in the films A Perfect Day and Sicario, turns 49 today. Before the Oscar winning actor (he won for Traffic) decided to embark in film, he had spacier ambitious as a four-year-old.