Writer-director Brad J. Silverman’s “Selfie Dad” is a pleasantly predictable faith-based dramedy that has been scheduled and marketed for family viewing over Father’s Day weekend on VOD platforms. As it turns out, however, the timing of its release might actually serve to expand the film’s appeal slightly beyond the usual target audience for similar fare. Indeed, in the context of recent real-life events and Black Lives Matter protests, certain elements of Silverman’s narrative give his film, if only inadvertently, a slightly sharper edge than even he likely intended.
Christian standup comic Michael Jr. plays, credibly and creditably, Ben Marcus, an editor at an Los Angeles production house who, several years earlier, walked away from a promising career as a comedian. The movie begins with a snippet from one of his decades-earlier routines, in which Ben, a Black man, recalls how easily he rattled an older white...
Christian standup comic Michael Jr. plays, credibly and creditably, Ben Marcus, an editor at an Los Angeles production house who, several years earlier, walked away from a promising career as a comedian. The movie begins with a snippet from one of his decades-earlier routines, in which Ben, a Black man, recalls how easily he rattled an older white...
- 6/18/2020
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) stars in All Saints, the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock, debuting on digital, Blu-ray and DVD December 12 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Affirm Films. Ordered to shut down a tiny church, Spurlock (Corbett), with a group of refugees from Southeast Asia, band together to risk everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all. All Saints also stars Cara Buono (“Stranger Things”), Myles Moore (Hot Summer Nights), Nelson Lee (“Hawaii 5-0”), Barry Corbin (No Country for Old Men), David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman), Christian comedian Chonda Pierce and Gregory Alan Williams (Hidden Figures).
The DVD of All Saints comes with four behind-the-scenes featurettes. “Act of Faith” delves into how the church and farming community banded together to overcome the unseen. In “All Saints: The Cast & Community,” fans meet the cast, crew and the...
The DVD of All Saints comes with four behind-the-scenes featurettes. “Act of Faith” delves into how the church and farming community banded together to overcome the unseen. In “All Saints: The Cast & Community,” fans meet the cast, crew and the...
- 12/14/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Filed under: TV Replay
'The Huckabee Show' had its own version of 'The Dating Game' when two potential spouses-to-be were grilled by guest Lisa Linehan as part of Project Husband -- her quest to find a suitable spouse to marry by next February.
And Linehan did not hold back with the interrogation. "If you were an ice cream flavor, which one would you be and why?"
("Honey, you need to ask them how much money they have in the bank ... and which one lives with their mother," cracked comedian and fellow guest Chonda Pierce.)
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'The Huckabee Show' had its own version of 'The Dating Game' when two potential spouses-to-be were grilled by guest Lisa Linehan as part of Project Husband -- her quest to find a suitable spouse to marry by next February.
And Linehan did not hold back with the interrogation. "If you were an ice cream flavor, which one would you be and why?"
("Honey, you need to ask them how much money they have in the bank ... and which one lives with their mother," cracked comedian and fellow guest Chonda Pierce.)
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- 8/5/2010
- by Allyssa Lee
- Aol TV.
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