Stephen King did it again.
John Benjamin Hickey and Joshua Allen talk the new season of HBO’s In Treatment as it sets to premiere May 23rd at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Uzo Aduba stars as “Dr. Brooke Taylor” in HBO’s new season of In Treatment.
On HBO’s In Treatment, Swindell plays, Laila; a teen who struggles to trust Dr. Brooke Taylor (Uzo Aduba) with the details of her internal battles as she struggles to claim her own identity outside of her wealthy family’s expectations.
VOYAGERS, starring Colin Ferrell, Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) Lily-Rose Depp (The King), and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) is a sci-fi thriller where the future of the human race is in danger as a group of scientifically engineered men and women launch into outer space to colonize a new inhabitable planet.
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson stars Steven Silver as “Tunde Johnson”, a teen Nigerian-American whose parents are wealthy and supportive of him coming out as gay while the story follows a love entanglement between his best friend “Marley” played by Nicola Peltz (Transformers: Age of Extinction) and popular football star, “Soren.” Soren has his own internal struggles as he’s hesitant to come out to his dad, who also happens to be the head coach of the high school football team. One night when Tunde drives to see his love interest “Soren” (Spencer Neville from Ozark) he is pulled over by police and shot to death in a racially motivated killing. The horrific incident mirrors what we see too often with police brutality in America. However, for Tunde, he must relive the same day over and over again being murdered time and time again.
The coming-of-age, thriller drama deals with relevant issues such as racism, LGBTQA+ acceptance as well as mental health and addiction. The film was written by Nigerian native, Stanley Kalu and directed by Ali LeRoi and premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film has many accolades including the Austin Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Fesival, NewFest New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Fesival and Outshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Steven Silver and Spencer Neville sat down with The Knockturnal to talk about their experiences playing these intensely complex roles. Spencer Neville opened about how his experience of growing up in the south with friends who had been through similar situations as “Soren” helped him understand the perspective of someone struggling to own their sexual orientation.
“I know a lot of people who have been through this exact situation. Someone in my close family has been in this exact situation so I feel like I understood it immediately,” said Neville.
Neville’s character juggles an internal conflict of wanting to be with Tunde but also feels the pressure to maintain his relationship with “Marley” as he protects his image for fear of rejection from his father. Tunde also deals with internal struggles as we discover his addiction to prescription painkillers. The heavy themes within the film will have the audience unraveling revelations about their own biases and may even leave the crowd with a new perspective on what it means to be human.
Wolfe Releasing is set to release the film Thursday, February 26th.
The beloved classic cat and mouse duo, TOM & JERRY, is back with their notorious antics and sibling-like rivalry; except this time the story is getting an upgrade: Starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Michael Pena, Colin Jost, and Ken Jeong, it’s no surprise the film had me laughing out loud.
At only 17, Michigan native, Ai Bendr is making waves – sound waves that is – as she’s being called “the next Billie Eilish” for her singing and songwriting capabilities. Her track “Love Me Low” was just featured on the special episode of HBO’s 3-time Emmy-award-winning show, Euphoria.
The highly anticipated AppleTV Plus original series SERVANT talks to The Knockturnal as they come back for Season 2.
Watch Nastacia Nickolaou interview Director and Writer, Matthew Michael Carnahan along with lead actors, Adam Bessa (Kawa) and Suhail Dubbach (Major Jasem) as they discuss breaking barriers on film along with the human side to war and terrorism. Netflix’s MOSUL set to release the day November 26th.