The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV series. Although Police Squad went on to become a cult favourite, at the time the American TV network was so unimpressed they only showed four of the six episodes before cancelling it. But Leslie Nielsen’s bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just wouldn’t go away.
When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for his school’s star soccer player, and soon learns she’s not the only one with romantic troubles.
The curse of Rudwick Forest awaits three fearless paranormal investigators, delving into the long history of its unexplained missing persons cases, said to be the work of a vengeful witch.
From the creators of Mr. Pickles and Concrete Cowboy comes the story of a group of friends who leave the city to camp in the woods, disconnect, and eat shrooms. It’s all fun and games until they become hunted by cans of Liquid Death who are dead-set on recycling their souls.
Maycon is a boxer who trains to return to the ring while sharing his time with two underemployees. Malu’s father, the result of a casual relationship he had with Michele, he has his life overturned when he finds himself in the situation of having to take care of his daughter alone. Between the exhausting routine of training and training to survive Maycon’s biggest fight has yet to be won: becoming a father.
A feature documentary celebrating the rise of a humble but driven boxing perfectionist who triumphantly emerged from Muhammad Ali’s long shadow to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World and redefined greatness in his own image.
Set and shot in Afghanistan, Jirga is the story of former Australian soldier, Mike (played brilliantly by Sam Smith), who returns to Afghanistan after three years to find the family of a civilian he accidentally killed during the war. Seeking forgiveness, he gets a driver to take him from Kabul to Taliban held Kandahar where he puts his life in the hands of the village justice system – the Jirga.
When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it’s all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can’t afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.
Two unemployed friends become entangled with a gangster once the money starts rolling in after selling black-market toilet paper during a pandemic.
In the spring of 2016, global music sensation Major Lazer performed a free concert in Havana, Cuba for an unexpected audience of almost half a million people. A concert documentary evolves into an exploration of youth culture in a country on the precipice of change.
Tony Finelli does a one-on-one exclusive interview with celebrity reporter Barbara Bischof for “Hollywood Hotline.” During the course of the interview, Tony looks back at his extraordinarily eventful life.
