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Netflix Is Heading Mudbound

by | Nov 17, 2017

Mudbound, A Story Of An Unlikely Friendship

 

Release date: November 17, 2017

Director: Dee Rees

Screenplay: Dee Rees, Virgil Williams

Stars: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige

 

The McAllan family is working-class, raising their family on a Mississippi farm. The Jackson family are sharecroppers, raising their family in Mississippi. In the middle of the families’ struggles to get ahead, a brother from one and a son from another, return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan (Garrett Hedlund is tormented by his thoughts of warfare. Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell) returns from war to battle racism in the Jim Crow South.

 

Dee Rees and Virgil Williams did an astounding job turning Hillary Jordan’s novel into a film that is sure to win audiences over. Mudbound will invoke emotion in the viewer.

 

After the McAllan family was swindled out of the purchase of a new home, they were forced to return to the land they had been trying to get away from. The Jackson family lives and works on the land, fighting to survive. Both are operating in a toxic practice that uses black and whites to profit from hate.

 

Ronsel Jackson is played by Jason Mitchell. The actor who portrayed Eazy E in “Straight Out of Compton.” Ronsel, a sergeant who returns from World War II and wrestles with the terror of being a free man in Europe but has no rights for the nation that he fought on the battlefield for selflessly.

 

Garrett Hedlund plays the role of airborne Captain Jamie McAllan. McAllan, who before the war was the ever so charming ladies man. Now struggles with the horrific memories he witnessed up in the skies.

 

Ronsel and Jamie come together with this common bond in  PTSD. Their friendship is an opposite perfect connection to status, mental health, and racial division for that era.

 

I said it once already, but this film will stir some emotions. Dee Rees did a wonderful job making one feel both families level of poverty, their struggles to get ahead, and what life was like for that period. This sure to be award-winning film hits Netflix on November 17th.

 

Wolfcop Premeires At Texas Frightmare Weekend

Wolfcop Premeires At Texas Frightmare Weekend

by | May 15, 2015

Wolfcop

Here Comes the Fuzz!

Premiere  Horror Convention”  took place May 1st to May 3, 2015 in  Dallas, Tx.

Director:Lowell Dean

 Writer:Lowell Dean (screenplay)

Stars:Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Sarah Lind

 Summary: As a series of strange and violent events begin to  occur, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned  into a werewolf as part of a larger plan.

Leo Fafard who plays Lou Garou a hardcore alcoholic cop. Lou is your typical borderline line halfway functioning cop in the small rural town of Woodhaven. He is always late, has a bottle on supply, has a backup bottle,grumpy as all hell, and is ready to hop on the first muff he can find. WellLou is in for a reality check after a late-night police call that ends up in him being attacked in the woods. Next thing he knows, he wakes up at home with a pentagram carved in his chest. Wolfcop

All this ties into the Woodhaven  drunken annual hunting festival (because hunting and drinking mix well) and a demonic cult. Lou is starting to notice some changes taking place with himself. With all these Lycan changes taking place within him,  Lou must do some real police work for once in his life and get to the bottom of what’s going on.

Lou is joined by Willie (Jonathan Cherry), a surplus shop owner and conspiracy nut who’s oddly attracted to his buddies new changes.  Much of the Wolfcop‘s comedy areWillie’s reactions to Lou’s tactics for handling the situations they meet. A harlot bartender named Jessica (Sarah Lind) also lends a bit of a hand( if ya know what I mean) to Lou and fellow Deputy Tina (AmyMatysio) round out a somewhat solid cast.

What makes this movie work, is that it starts out pretty serious and dramatic, then goes straight to ridiculous.This film has everything you could want from a cheesy horror movie. It has action, the occult,humor, and lycanthropic puns,WolfCop is definitely a cult classic in my book. I highly recommend this flick if you want some good laughs and enjoy a decent amount of gore. Also, Wolfcop is now available on Netflix.

 

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