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Kaya Scodelario was, until recently, one of those actors who has been around for decades and starred in multiple high-profile projects, but still many people don’t know about her. All of that changed with Guy Ritchie‘s Netflix series The Gentlemen, in which she stars as the iconic Susie Glass. The role of Susie was all Scodelario needed to break out in the mainstream and become a household name despite her previous high-profile role in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and The Maze Runner film trilogy. So, if you also loved Scodelario’s performance in The Gentlemen, here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Kaya Scodelario you shouldn’t miss out on.

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Spinning Out is a teen drama series created by Samantha Stratton. The Netflix series follows Kat Baker,...

Just in time for Halloween 2024, American Horror Stories season 4, episode 3, "X," delivers scares, twisted stories, terrifying characters, and more, and includes a talented and notable cast. The FX on Hulu horror anthology TV show created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk serves as a spinoff/continuation of the highly successful series American Horror Story. Each episode of American Horror Stories tells a different story, ranging from an installment about a film that makes its audience kill each other to one about an evil AI assistant. Overall, the show has a wide variety of horrific plots.

As for American Horror Stories season 4, episode 3, "X," the installment revolves around a hospital patient who escapes and a nurse who consequently unravels a dark secret in the medical center. As for the 2024 episode's cast, "X" features plenty of talented stars. Of course, its most notable is Henry Winkler of Happy Days fame, but the...

Exclusive: The Disney+ and Hulu Korean spy drama Tempest has added John Cho (Star Trek), Christopher Gorham (The Lincoln Lawyer), Alicia Hannah-Kim (Cobra Kai) and Jacob Bertrand (Cobra Kai) to its cast, Deadline has learned. They join the previously announced leads Gianna Jun and Gang Dongwon.

Disney+ and Hulu tease “assassinations, political games, conspiracies and spies will collide” in 2025 when Tempest premieres in the United States. Production is currently underway in Seoul.

From writer Chung Seokyung, Tempest follows Seo Munju (Gianna Jun), a highly accomplished diplomat and former ambassador to the United States, and Sanho (Gang Dongwon), an international special agent shrouded in a veil of secrets, as they race to uncover the truth behind an attack that threatens the future stability of the Korean peninsula.

Details regarding who Cho, Gorham, Hannah-Kim and Bertrand will portray are under wraps.

Tempest is directed by Kim Heewon and co-directed by Korean martial arts director Heo Myunghaeng (The Outlaws 4). The series is produced by Imaginus, Showrunners, Studio AA and Action School.

Cho can next be seen in the upcoming sci-fi horror film Afraid opposite Katherine Waterston which opens on August 30. He is best known for his portrayal of Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek (2009) and its two sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Harold Lee in the Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg hit comedy Harold & Kumar franchise led by Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). His recent credits include HBO’s The Sympathizer, The Afterparty for Apple TV+, Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop and Fox’s The Exorcist for TV. His film credits include Don’t Make Me Go (2022), The Grudge (2019) and The Graduates, which he also executive produced.

The Tempest reunites Cho and Gorham, who starred in the ABC series Ugly Betty.

Gorham most recently starred in Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer. Before that, he had series regular roles in Netflix’s Insatiable, USA’s Covert Affairs and The WB’s Popular. He is best known for his portrayal of Henry Grubstick in Ugly Betty opposite America Ferrera.

Hannah-Kim most recently starred as Sensei Kim Da-eun in seasons 5 and 6 of Cobra Kai, a continuation of The Karate Kid story starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka. Hannah-Kim co-starred in the drama series alongside Bertrand. Cobra Kai was No. 1 on TV globally in its debut week on Netflix with nearly 15M views. Since then, its viewership doubled its viewership for Season 6A. Before that, she recurred in Max’s Minx.

Bertrand is currently starring in Netflix’s Cobra Kai as Eli “Hawk” Moskowitz, a role he’s portrayed across the show’s six seasons. His prior credits include lead roles in Max’s Batwheels, Disney Channel’s The Swap and for Nickelodeon, Jinxed and Marvin Marvin.

Kaya Scodelario's career showcases versatility, from horror to drama, proving her talent in various genres. Her performances in Resident Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean were notable for adding depth to her characters. Scodelario's emotional range shines in challenging roles like in Don't Make Me Go and The Truth About Emanuel.

Over the years, Kaya Scodelarios filmography has included some incredible movies, but some were better than others. The astonishing actress made her start as a teenager in one of the best TV shows of all time, the British drama Skins. After her screen debut in 2007 as Effy Stonem, Scodelario went on to appear in several more brilliant projects.

Many of these titles varied greatly in terms of genre, with the actress featured in stories that ranged from horror to drama to comedy to holiday-themed movies. Following the success of her career, Scodelario found further success and was applauded...

Exclusive: M3GAN 2.0 is in production as it heads for a June 27, 2025 theatrical release with Timm Sharp, Aristotle Athari and Jemaine Clement boarding the Blumhouse, Atomic Monster and Divide/Conquer sequel.

Also returning from the original 2023 $181M global grossing movie is Brian Jordan Alvarez as Cole and Jen Van Epps as Tess.

Gerard Johnstone, as we previously told you, is returning to the helm with a screenplay penned by Akela Cooper, who wrote the first film.

Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, and Jenna Davis were previously confirmed to return for the sequel which will also star Ivanna Sakhno.

Jason Blum, James Wan and Williams are producers on M3GAN 2.0. Michael Clear and Judson Scott, of Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, will EP. Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek is also an EP with Mark Katchur. Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath, from Divide/Conquer, are also EPs.

Sharp’s acting career started with Undeclared for Fox,...

John Cho begins to regret using an AI device to keep his loved ones safe in the first trailer for the thriller feature Afraid.

Sony released the trailer Wednesday for writer-director Chris Weitz’s film that hits theaters Aug. 30 and was formerly known by the title They Listen. Hailing from Columbia Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, Afraid centers on Curtis (Cho), whose household is selected to test a groundbreaking digital family assistant called Aia. However, the family soon realizes that Aia might have become a bit too attached to them.

“I’m not crazy about having them everywhere,” Curtis’ wife (Katherine Waterston) says in the trailer about all the cameras and sensors being set up in their home.

Later, Cho warns, “There is something very wrong with Aia.” He adds, “Get out of the house, now.”

Havana Rose Liu, David Dastmalchian, Lukita Maxwell, Keith Carradine and Riki Lindhome round out the cast of Afraid.

Hannah Marks started acting when she was 6 years old, after seeing her mother’s acting reel. And she’s pretty much worked nonstop, from roles in the films “Accepted” and “The Runaways” to the cast of “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.” In fact, just last year she took her first vacation — though she confesses to recording several self-tapes during it.

In recent years, she has also made a (forgive me) mark behind the camera as a filmmaker, beginning with writing and directing “After Everything,” The indie film starred Jeremy Allen White as a young man diagnosed with bone cancer who embarks on a new relationship, premiering at the SXSW Film Festival in 2018.

That same year, she landed the coveted directing job of the film adaptation of John Green’s beloved novel “Turtles All the Way Down.” The story focuses on a teenage girl named Aza (Isabela Merced) struggling with...

Many things weigh on Aza Holmes, the anxious protagonist of Hannah Marks’ Turtles All the Way Down, but none more than the existence of bacteria. Thoughts of these microorganisms — the ease with which they can infiltrate a body and the chances of infection — plague her. She worries about a wound on her left middle finger, a slit in the skin she can’t let heal. Picking at the sore relieves her obsessive thought spirals, but it also activates a new round of worries about contamination, disease and the impossibility of safety.

Aza, played by Isabela Merced (Madame Web) has anxiety and Ocd, conditions that make the already challenging experience of high school even more difficult. Turtles All the Way Down, which Marks (Don’t Make Me Go) adapted from John Green’s novel of the same name, is a mostly moving portrait of how one teenager navigates her mind’s unruly terrain.

“Turtles All the Way Down” was always going to be a tricky movie to get right. Based on a popular, well-reviewed 2017 book of the same name by YA maestro John Green, the story follows Aza (Isabela Merced) a girl with sometimes-crippling Ocd — in addition to regular Being a Teen problems. It’s a beautiful story, but not one that necessarily screams blockbuster.

Green himself — who oversaw adaptions of his work like “Paper Towns” and “Looking for Alaska” and serves as an EP on “Turtles” — was hesitant about selling the rights to adapt it, he recalled to IndieWire.

“It was hard for me to imagine that a good movie could be made from the book,” Green said. “Also, Hollywood has a long history of depicting Ocd terribly. But because the producers were people I had such confidence in, I felt like we could at least give it a shot.”

Also helping his confidence?...

Isabela Merced tries to get out of her own head in the first trailer for the forthcoming feature adaptation of John Green’s best-selling 2017 novel Turtles All the Way Down.

Hannah Marks directs the movie which hails from New Line Cinema and Temple Hill and begins streaming via Max on May 2. Merced stars as 17-year-old Aza Holmes, who deals with anxiety and invasive thoughts while reconnecting with her childhood crush, Davis Pickett (Felix Mallard). Rounding out the cast are Cree, Maliq Johnson, Poorna Jagannathan, Judy Reyes and J. Smith-Cameron.

“You’re sweating,” Merced tells herself during an internal monologue in the trailer. “They probably think you’re just a sweaty freak. You can’t have a boyfriend. You can’t go to college. You can’t even control your own brain.”

During a different spot in the footage, Merced tells Mallard, “New things aren’t exactly my strong suit.” He replies,...

Max said Wednesday that its adaptation of John Green’s bestseller Turtles All the Way Down, from director Hannah Marks (Don’t Make Me Go), has been slated for release on Thursday, May 2.

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Hailing from New Line Cinema and Temple Hill, Turtles All the Way Down tackles anxiety through its 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes (Isabela Merced). It’s not easy being Aza, but she’s trying … trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts that she cannot control. When she reconnects with Davis (Felix Mallard), her childhood crush, Aza is confronted with fundamental questions about her potential for love, happiness, friendship and hope.

Also starring Maliq Johnson, Cree, Poorna Jagannathan, Judy Reyes and J. Smith-Cameron, the film was written by the This Is Us duo of Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker,...

Hulu’s adaptation of Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut, “Black Cake,” delves into the intricate roots of a mysterious family tree. It skillfully navigates the journey of a family unraveling the complex and often tragic past of their mother, Eleanor Bennett, following her demise.

Eleanor (portrayed by Chipo Chung) passes away in Southern California, leaving behind a history unknown to her family, including her estranged daughter Benny (played by Adrienne Warren from “The Woman King”) and ambitious son Byron (Bashy from “Top Boy”). Eleanor’s will discloses an audio recording filled with long-buried secrets. Benny and Byron, not on the best of terms, discover a note instructing them to share a small black cake in the freezer when the time is right.

The series draws its name from a Caribbean dessert, reflecting its own intricate history. Like the tale told in “Black Cake,” this dessert, soaked in rum and laden with fruits,...

Since the pandemic, Black female-driven content with universal appeal has found a home on Hulu. Stepping away from the cliched stories that have too often defined others’ efforts, each new project from the streamer, be it “The 1619 Project” or the recent “The Other Black Girl,” grows increasingly more ambitious. “Black Cake,” produced by Oprah Winfrey, pushes the boundaries even further by centering on a biracial, immigrant woman’s experience.

Adapted from Charmaine Wilkerson’s New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name, the sweeping eight-episode family drama from showrunner Marissa Jo Cerar revolves around a Jamaican Chinese woman who has lived an epic life spanning various parts of the globe. The problem is: Her past has been kept hidden from her children. Only through a flash drive of audio recordings played after her death do they learn that they know very little of her story. As their mother unravels her life from the grave,...

“The Graduates,” which counts Chloé Zhao and John Cho among its executive producers and gets its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, revolves around school shooting survivors who are unable to move on even one year later. It’s a compelling subject, for sure, but one on which no dramatic treatments have been nearly as astute or profound as what’s already been in the news.

Genevieve (Mina Sundwall of Netflix’s “Lost in Space”), who lost her boyfriend in a shooting and owes her teacher several assignments, doubts her test score is sufficient to get her into college and contemplates taking a gap year post-graduation. Ben (Alex R. Hibbert of “Moonlight”), who lost his friend and coworker at his part-time job, has transferred and quit the basketball team before dropping out of high school entirely. John (Cho), who lost his son, continues to coach at the school even though...

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In yet another sign of the diaspora’s rising stature in the industry, the Critics Choice Association will be saluting established and emerging Asian Pacific Islander talent at a new, standalone event this awards season.

The Celebration of Asian Pacific Cinema and Television, first announced in July, will take place Nov. 4 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The Cca will also hold its second and fifth annual salutes to Latino and Black artists, respectively, later this year in advance of its centerpiece Critics Choice Awards on Jan. 15.

“We are thrilled with the response from the studios and networks and their support in recognizing the outstanding talent from the Asian American Pacific Islander community at our inaugural Celebration,” Cca CEO Joey Berlin said in a statement.

“For a first-time event, it makes us immensely proud to showcase these films and shows and...

The Critics Choice Association (Cca) announced Thursday honorees for its inaugural Celebration of Asian Pacific Cinema & Television, honoring the finest achievements in front of and behind the camera.

The Celebration will take place on November 4, 2022 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, CA.

The Celebration of Asian Pacific Cinema & Television showcases both emerging and established talent.

The inaugural event comes following an abundance of show-stopping performances and work in recent projects including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Decision to Leave, Ms. Marvel, Turning Red, Squid Game, Pachinko, The Cleaning Lady, Fire Island, and many more.

This year’s honorees include the following: Actor James Hong will receive the Icon Award for his incredible career and most recently, his performance as Gong Gong in A24’s film, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Actor Joel Kim Booster will receive the Breakthrough Actor Award for Film for his performance as Noah in Searchlight Pictures’ film,...

Following in the footsteps of its recent special awards shows such as “The Celebration Of Black Cinema & Television,” which will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in December, and “The Celebration Of Latino Cinema & Television” which will see its second annual event later in November, the Critics Choice Association on Thursday set the honorees for its inaugural “Celebration of Asian Pacific Cinema & Television,” honoring notable achievements in front of and behind the camera.

The event is set for November 4 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

The new ceremony showcases both emerging and established talent, and the event will indeed be spotlighting an a wide array of worthy performances and work in recent critical and audience hits including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Decision to Leave, Ms. Marvel, Turning Red, Squid Game, Pachinko, The Cleaning Lady, Fire Island and many more.

This year’s honorees include the following, per the...

Skins star Kaya Scodelario has shared a photo of a reunion with some of the show’s former cast.

The E4 teen drama, which aired between 2007 and 2013, was a launchpad for some of today’s most in-demand actors, from Daniel Kaluuya to Nicholas Hoult.

Posting on her Instagram stories on Tuesday (20 September), Scodelario posted a selfie with Nope actor Kaluuya and Game of Thrones’s Joe Dempsie.

Scodelario can be seen sticking out her tongue, while Kaluuya and Dempsie smile.

The three actors appear to be at a wedding in the photo.

Scodelario played Effy Stonem in the series, while Kaluuya played Posh Kenneth and Dempsie portrayed Chris Miles.

Last month, Skins fans were delighted after Hoult, Scodelario, Dempsie and Larissa Wilson were seen together in pictures on social media.

Wilson, who played teenage clarinet prodigy Jal Fazer in the hit series, shared photos on her Instagram Stories of the...

The Producers Guild said Tuesday that it has elected Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line its new presidents, after the pair ran unopposed to replace outgoing toppers Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, who had served in the role since 2018.

The vote was held during the PGA’s annual membership meeting.

“As proud members of the PGA for over 20 years, it’s a great privilege to serve as presidents. Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the guild, and we will build on their progress,” Allain and De Line said. “Along with Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while educating members on the current benefits and opportunities available to them.”

Allain, a...

Don’t Make Me Go starring John Cho and Mia Isaac has all of the quintessential elements of a daddy-daughter road trip movie: dingy motels, a shared beloved song, and secrets. What makes this film so compelling is that despite its focus on closeness and bonding, the relationship between father, Max (Cho), and daughter, Wally (Isaac) is fundamentally rooted in secrecy. Max is keeping some life-changing information to himself and wants to set Wally on a path of healing before she can even learn how drastically her life is about to change. Max has recently discovered a tumor at the base of his brain, and the single dad anticipates his daughter will soon be left without a parent. Unbeknownst to her, he takes Wally across the country to reunite her with her estranged mother so she has a guardian lined up after he passes away.

Amandla Stenberg as Sophie from Bodies Bodies Bodies. Pic credit: A24

Bodies Bodies Bodies shares similarities to the 2021 comedy horror film Werewolves Within. It has a handful of characters trying to solve a mystery, the group suspects someone in their party is the wolf (or killer), and the supporting characters keep making their own circumstances worse instead of the wolf itself.

While the likeness to that film can be distracting, Bodies Bodies Bodies finds an interesting spin on this idea. Director Halina Reijn has found a satirical angle on this whodunit approach to horror. And it will most likely ruffle some feathers with Generation Z.

Should you watch Bodies Bodies Bodies in theaters? Here is our full review of the A24 horror movie.

The film centers on a group of teens who decide to throw a party during a hurricane. The location is secluded, the alcohol is flowing, and the emotional immaturity is sky high.

The Scene 2 Seen podcast is finishing off the week strong!

This week I’ve already published conversations with spectacular talents such as Michael Greyeyes, Naturi Naughton and Juliette Binoche. Today is no different as I chat with actress Mia Isaac and writer-actress-director Hannah Marks.

Isaac is a rising talent who starred in back-to-back films released in July. She made her feature film debut starring in Don’t Make Me Go for Amazon Studios. Directed by Hannah Marks, it follows a single father (John Cho) diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain tumor who takes his 16-year-old daughter, Wally (Isaac), on a road trip to meet her estranged mother.

Isaac then co-starred opposite Zoey Deutch and Dylan O’Brien in the Searchlight Pictures feature for Hulu, Not Okay. In the comedy satire written and directed by Quinn Shepard, Issacs plays Rowan, a young adult dedicated to societal change. Her next projects include a short film and a TV series.

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As non-fiction continues to become a priority for streaming services, Amazon Studios has named longtime Amazon vet Brianna Oh head of documentary features.

The newly created role will focus on building out the tech company’s non-fiction feature slate, which already includes docs like the Val Kilmer film Val and P!nk: All I Know So Far. The announcement was made internally last week by Amazon’s head of movies Julie Rapaport.

Oh, who has been with Amazon for over a decade, has credits that range from narrative titles like Emergency and recent release Don’t Make Me Go, as well as docs suc has Amy Poehler’s Lucy and Desi and the upcoming Mars rover title Good Night Oppy.

Rapaport noted that Oh’s “tireless hard work and passion for documentaries have been hugely additive to our customers,” adding that in the role she...

Stars: John Cho, Mia Isaac, Kaya Scodelario, Mitchell Hope, Jemaine Clement | Written by Vera Herbert | Directed by Hannah Marks

When single father Max (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease, he decides to try and cram all the years of love and support he will miss with his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the time he has left with her. With the promise of long-awaited driving lessons, he convinces Wally to accompany him on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion, where he secretly hopes to reunite her with her mother who left them long ago.

Hannah Marks‘ Don’t Make Me Go is one of the most surprising films of the year. From the opening few scenes, it seems as though this will be just another, predictable coming-of-age story, as it follows a young, eighteen-year-old girl named Wally who would rather do...

Big swings can make for big misses, and that’s the situation writer-director Quinn Shephard’s internet satire-screed “Not Okay” finds itself in, lining up all kinds of juicy targets regarding fame and shame in our social media age, but proving not so discerning about character, humor, and story when it comes to following-through.

Starring Zoey Deutch as a wannabe influencer with a cringey ploy for viral notoriety, this queasy, ambitious whiff will hopefully prove to be just a sophomore slump for filmmaker Shephard, whose multi-hyphenate 2017 feature debut “Blame” promised much from its coiled, clinical, near-noirish take on sexual jealousy in high school.

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The craving-attention canvas Shephard is working with is bigger in “Not Okay” – wanting thousands to like you, not just someone across a classroom. But the tone is also edgier,...

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Danni Sanders, the transparently needy protagonist of Not Okay, has goals, but no real grasp of the work they require. They’re more like impatient expectations set to the warp-speed time frame of texting. Her burning aspiration is to be a writer — i.e., someone who’s famous and has lots of followers — a goal that turns into a reality as the result of a bit of attention-hungry social media fakery that she compounds with heinous lies. But as awful as she is, she’s also sweet; without pushing it or insisting that we like her, Zoey Deutch, an actor with considerable comic chops and charisma, finds the vulnerability beneath Danni’s bluster. And so even though we know, in the movie’s opening moments, that she’s headed for a fall, the film percolates with the dread that this will be the...

The question of “What if?” is something that has been fodder in storytelling forever. Just recently, Marvel Studios made a whole animated superhero series revolving around that simple question. “Look Both Ways” tackles the “What if?” question, but not in a superhero way. Instead, it focuses on a simple fork in the road in a young woman’s life and how it has massive consequences.

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As seen in the trailer for “Look Both Ways,” the film follows the story of a young woman who has a one-night stand with a friend.

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Almost two decades since a trip to White Castle and John Cho is still hungry for more roles that break down Aapi stereotypes.

The “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” star reflected on the legacy of the 2004 buddy comedy co-starring Kal Penn.

“Its posture towards race is to laugh at it,” Cho explained to The Guardian. “Instead of elevating it, it took the stereotypes and turned the sock inside out. Looking back, I think we were ahead of our time a little bit.”

The iconic comedy followed two college friends, Harold (Cho) and Kumar (Penn), who set out to escape the pressures of corporate life and grad school applications by smoking weed and fulfilling a craving for White Castle burgers. A trek across New Jersey to find the nearest fast food chain location leads to unexpected adventures with standout guest stars ranging from Christopher Meloni to Neil Patrick Harris.

When John Green's "Turtles All the Way Down" was released in 2017, the young-adult novel was an instant bestseller, topping the New York Times list. It stayed there for over a year, with the "The Fault in Our Stars" author announcing during that time that the movie was in development. The long-awaited adaptation was filmed in 2022, and director Hannah Marks teased the project just a little bit to Popsugar. "'Turtles All the Way Down' is an incredible book," she said while promoting her movie "Don't Make Me Go." "First and foremost, I love the book by John Green, and the movie really stays true to the book in so many ways. I think we really worked hard on making it a faithful adaptation."

She continued, "And beyond that, it's pretty cool that we have two teenage Latina leads in the movie, which hasn't been done very much before. And the...

Mia Isaac is having a huge month. First, the 18-year-old stars with John Cho in the Hannah Marks-directed movie "Don't Make Me Go," which hit Prime Video on July 15. Later this month, she'll also appear alongside Zoey Deutch and Dylan O'Brien in the influencer satire "Not Okay." And while the young actress had the full faith of the "Don't Make Me Go" cast and crew despite being early in her career, there was apparently one thing they weren't so sure she could do: drive. That's a big deal in a movie about a road trip.

"I did know how to drive, but nobody believed me," Isaac tells Popsugar. In the film, Isaac's Wally is learning to helm a vehicle for the first time - with some disastrous results. Isaac says that in reality, neither she nor Cho was actually driving the car most of the time during filming; a...

To celebrate the release of Don’t Make Me Go, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, we sat down with its incredible cast and director to find out all it.

When single father Max (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease, he decides to try and cram all the years of love and support he will miss with his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the time he has left with her. With the promise of long-awaited driving lessons, he convinces Wally to accompany him on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion, where he secretly hopes to reunite her with her mother who left them long ago. A wholly original, emotional, and surprising journey, Don’t Make Me Go explores the unbreakable, eternal bond between a father and daughter from both sides of the generational divide with heart and humor along for the ride.

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[This story contains major spoilers from Don’t Make Me Go.]

In Don’t Make Me Go, teen lead and young narrator Wally — played by burgeoning star Mia Isaac — is just beginning to grapple with the idea that her father might not be around forever when the unthinkable happens.

The bittersweet road-trip film sees John Cho’s Max taking his daughter cross-country to a class reunion, under the guise of seeing friends. But unbeknownst to Wally, they’re really going in hopes that her dad will see his ex and Wally’s mother, who left them both. Max has been diagnosed with a terminal condition that requires surgery, which itself has a questionable survival rate, and he hopes her mother can be the one to take care of their child when he’s gone.

Max has kept his condition — and his plans to decline treatment and use his last year...

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Writer-director Hannah Marks, who got her start acting in projects like Accepted, Weeds, Necessary Roughness and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, made her feature directorial debut with After Everything, which she also wrote. And she directed another film that she wrote, Mark, Mary & Some Other People, before she directed Don’t Make Me Go, which is currently streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.

For Marks, directing a film she didn’t write was something she “really enjoyed.”

“It was a great experience, because I got to have an outside perspective on the material, and it was really fun to get to riff on the material that already existed,” Marks tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We did some improv and played around a bit because everyone was so collaborative that was involved.”

But that doesn’t mean making Don’t Make Me Go wasn’t without its challenges.

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In a Hollywood where the average onscreen high schooler is played by an actor a decade removed from homeroom, Mia Isaac and her lively performance in Don’t Make Me Go stand out. Isaac turned 17 on the first day of filming for the Hannah Marks-directed coming-of-age movie. She plays Wally, the teenage daughter who begrudgingly goes on a road trip with her father (John Cho), who is keeping his terminal cancer diagnosis a secret.

Isaac, an Atlanta native, had long known she wanted to be an actor, but her parents had hesitations. Hoping to break the détente, Isaac, at age 11, asked her parents for an agent — for Christmas. “My dad told me that I had to learn my multiplication first, all the way up to 12,” remembers Isaac. After conquering those multiplication tables and landing an agent, Isaac did some commercial work and auditioned for...

Amazon Prime Video is ringing in the month of July with a smorgasbord of new titles, from “House of Gucci” (previously available to purchase or rent on Amazon Prime Video) to classic films like “Clueless,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “Yentl.” Apart from the Lady Gaga-starring crime drama, which becomes available to stream on July 2, most other titles will join the platform on July 1.

The streamer is also debuting a handful of Amazon originals this month. The comic book series adaptation “Paper Girls” will hit the streamer at the very end of the month. “Warriors on the Field,” a documentary about Indigenous players in the Australian Football League, premieres July 8. Indie drama “Don’t Make Me Go” and coming-of-age series “Forever Summer: Hamptons” debut July 15, followed by the Billy Porter-directed “Anything’s Possible” and the boxing feature “Prizefighter” on July 22.

There are also several titles coming to Freevee – previously known as IMDbTV – in July,...

John Cho and Mia Isaac have incredibly genuine father/daughter chemistry in Hannah Marks’ “Don’t Make Me Go,” a road trip movie that embraces familiar plot points albeit with different handling. Cho’s character Max has just learned he has a tumor in his head that will kill him in a year unless he gets surgery that has a 20 survival rate. He shares this with a woman he’s been sleeping with, Annie (Kaya Scodelario), but decides to keep this news from his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac), who is more concerned with what many teens are: a possible first relationship, listening to music loudly, her growing autonomy, etc.

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for The Gray Man, Rap Sh!t, Where the Crawdads Sing and DC League of Pets.

Where the Crawdads Sing premiere

The novel adaptation, produced by Reese Witherspoon, premiered at MoMA in NYC on Monday with stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith.

The Gray Man premiere

Netflix’s high-powered action flick — its biggest budget project ever — was unveiled in Hollywood on Wednesday, alongside stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Regé-Jean Page, Alfre Woodard, Billy Bob Thornton and directors Joe and Anthony Russo.

Rap Sh!t premiere

Issa Rae’s latest project, which follows the rise of two female rappers in Miami, premiered at L.A.’s Hammer Museum on Wednesday with stars KaMillion and Ada Osman.

Amazon’s road trip tale wastes John Cho and newcomer Mia Isaac on an extended sitcom episode that leaves a sour taste in the mouth

At the beginning of Amazon’s cutesy father-daughter tale Don’t Make Me Go, a voiceover tell us: “You’re not gonna like the way this story ends, but I think you’re gonna like this story.” Almost two hours later and the prophecy was only half-correct. For the way that the film ends is a genuine text-your-friends-and-spoil-it-for-them-in-caps shocker, for all of the very worst reasons, a cheap, emotionally manipulative head-scratcher of a twist that leaves one with a sour taste in the mouth that lingers. But even before the dramatic left turn, all the way over the cliff and into flames, this ho-hum road trip comedy drama was already hard to like, an unspecific sitcom of eye-rolls and finger-wagging.

It’s unsurprisingly the work of an ex-This is Us writer,...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on July 14th, reviewing “Don’t Make Me Go,” a road trip picture shared by a father and daughter, streaming on Prime Video beginning July 15th.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

John Cho is Max, a single father raising his 16-year-old daughter Wallace (Mia Isaac), a child from his failed marriage. When Max finds out he has a rare bone tumor, he takes Wallace on a road trip to meet her estranged mother. Winding from California to New Orleans, the pair face off during a series of incidences, including Wallace staying out all night with strangers in Texas. Despite all the travails, they begin to come to terms with the truth, including that mother reluctant to meet her daughter. It all ends up in a surprising conclusion, and changes all lives along the way.

”Don’t Make Me Go” will...

This review of “Don’t Make Me Go” was first published June 13, 2022, after its release in theaters.

Your enjoyment of the mostly half-baked road trip drama “Don’t Make Me Go” will probably depend on how you respond to its last-minute plot twist.

John Cho stars in and emotionally grounds this two-star tearjerker from director Hannah Marks (“After Everything”), which follows an insurance salesman who struggles to tell his teenage daughter that he’s got a malignant tumor when they travel cross-country to New Orleans for his college reunion.

Unfortunately, the movie’s unexpected plot twist violently re-directs its treacly uplift narrative for the sake of a Hail Mary conclusion that’s almost ridiculous enough to be campy fun. It’s not though, since the twist in question feels like a last-ditch effort to convince viewers that the movie’s otherwise plain story, credited to Vera Herbert (series writer on “This Is Us...

We're told from a very young age that we should not judge a book by its cover. Similarly, we should not judge a movie by its poster or trailer. But some movies follow a formula so closely that you're not really surprised when you predicted everything that would happen. Two people from very different walks of life are thrown together and they fall in love. A group of friends reconnect after many years to remind themselves that the best years of their lives don't have to be over. A family reluctantly goes on a road trip...

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Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”

Taylor Kitsch thinks a reboot or revival of “Friday Night Lights” could happen. “You may see it, but I will not be a part of it,” the actor, who played Tim Riggins on the beloved NBC series, tells me. “I’m done. I’m good. I want to keep growing as an actor. Going back to Rigs — let him live in everyone else’s memories. Whatever that is, whatever he means to them, let him lay there.” However, let me be clear — Kitsch has no bad feelings about “Fnl”: “It was such a huge springboard for me, but I’m such a different actor now. It allowed me to explore the process, be fucking green and embrace it.”

Kitsch can currently be seen on Amazon Prime’s “The Terminal List” opposite Chris Pratt.

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Big Freedia is coming to Los Angeles. The...

Don’t Make Me Go Tribeca Festival Spotlight Narrative Section Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Hannah Marks Writer: Vera Herbert Cast: John Cho, Mia Isaac, Mitchell Hope, Jemaine Clement, Stefania Lavie Owen, Kaya Scodelario Screened at: Village East Cinema, NYC, 4/14/22 Opens: June 13th, 2022 Every parent-child relationship looks a little different, and there […]

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Road trip movies certainly aren’t new but some have come to define cinema and so it takes something special to stand out from a crowded marketplace. Don’t Make Me Go, the latest from Actor/Director Hannah Marks is a Road Trip movie with a difference, it stars John Cho as Max Park, a single dad who discovers he has a terminal disease and intends to make the most of the time he has left with his daughter Wally, played by Mia Isaac, with whom he has a fractious relationship.

The bulk of the film is dedicated to the pair’s journey across the States to his college reunion, making stops along the way to visit Casinos, dance and bond in both bizarre and heartwarming fashion. As the film unwinds we get to know why Max is perhaps so uptight and protective with his ex-wife Nicole running off with a...

Chicago – Exceptional films that reflect honest relationships are rare, but the latest film “Don’t Make Me Go” – streaming on Prime Video on July 15th – accomplishes the father/daughter dynamic with authentic situations and emotions. John Cho and Mia Isaac portray that relationship, in a film directed by Hannah Marks.

John Cho is Max, a single father raising his 16-year-old daughter Wallace (Mia Isaac), a child from his failed marriage. When Max finds out he has a rare bone tumor, he takes Wallace on a road trip to meet her estranged mother. Winding from California to New Orleans, the pair face off during a series of incidences, including Wallace staying out all night with strangers in Texas. Despite all the travails, they begin to come to terms with the truth, including that mother reluctant to meet her daughter. It all ends up in a surprising conclusion, and changes all lives along the way.

Before she hit her sweet 16, Hannah Marks had already lined up an impressive array of acting credits for a rising young performer: an arc on “Weeds,” appearing as Justin Long’s little sis in comedy “Accepted,” and stints on series like “Ugly Betty,” “Criminal Minds,” and “Private Practice.” But what she really wanted to do was direct. And write. And keep acting, too. What she really wanted to do was everything.

As Marks rolls out her third directorial effort, the Amazon-backed coming-of-age dramedy “Don’t Make Me Go,” starring bonafide Internet Boyfriend John Cho and rising star Mia Isaac, the just-turned-29-year-old filmmaker is only continuing to grow as a creator, while building on the valuable stuff she learned as just a kiddo.

“Being an actor myself, and specifically a child actor, I do think it’s served me as a director,” Marks said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I...

It is often difficult for movie audiences to imagine certain actors outside of certain roles they’ve played, especially if that role was a comedy role or a franchise role. John Cho, however, is one of the actors who, while in both comedies (‘Harold and Kumar‘) and franchises (‘Star Trek‘), can do just about anything, and audiences don’t say, “Why is he in this, he should stick to that?

Continue reading ‘Don’t Make Me Go’ Exclusive Clip: John Cho Shines In Hannah Marks’ New Film at The Playlist.

Single father Max (John Cho) hits the road with his teenage daughter, Wally, in this touching dramedy from director Hannah Marks. But don’t expect too many laughs: The emphasis is on the drama, since Max just found out his headaches are caused by a tumor, and his chances of surviving surgery are about 20 percent. “Even though it’s very sad, it’s empowering,” Marks promises. Also, while Max has lessons to impart (like teaching Wally to drive), it’s a two-lane road trip. Marks notes, “It’s not just a father teaching his daughter about life, but a daughter teaching her father about life. It’s such an important relationship in so many people’s lives, but you don’t see it explored that often.” Don’t Make Me Go also stars Kaya Scodelario, Jemaine Clement, Josh Thomson, Otis Dhanji, Stefania Lavie Owen, and more. It’s ...

Check out Variety’s Must Attend calendar listings.

July 7, Thursday

“Moulin Rouge! The Musical” opens followed by an opening night reception at The Highlight Room at the Dream Hotel.

Hollywood Pantages, Hollywood

July 8, Friday

Lana Condor and Christina Ricci are honored at the Maui Film Festival.

Stardust Cinema, Maui

Hilary Clinton hosts BroadwayCon’s Here’s to the Ladies panel, featuring Vanessa Williams, Julie White and Lachanze.

Manhattan Center, New York

July 9, Saturday

Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly and Chandler Kinney attend the “Zombies 3” premiere.

Barker Hangar, Santa Monica

Karl Urban attends the premiere of “The Sea Beast.”

Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles

July 10, Sunday

“Into the Woods” stars Sara Bareilles, Brian D’Arcy James, Patina Miller, Phillipa Soo and Gavin Creel celebrate the revival’s opening night.

St. James Theatre, New York

“Jeopardy” champion Amy Schneider is the Grand Marshal of the Long Beach Pride parade. Paulina Rubio...

John Cho and Mia Isaac make a perfect father-daughter team in the new tearjerker “Don’t Make Me Go.” He’s a father with a terminal disease and she is a daughter who reluctantly goes on a cross country road trip with her dad to discover each other and strengthen their relationship. Take a look at

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