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Riz Ahmed is cleaning up corporate messes, one corrupt client at a time, for David Mackenzie‘s “Relay.” The film, which debuted at TIFF 2024 and was later acquired by Bleecker Street, stars “The Night Of” alum as an anonymous “fixer” who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corporations and individuals threatening to expose them. However, after one client’s case proves to be even more layered than usual, things go sideways.

The official synopsis reads: “A nameless character, he keeps his identity a secret by using a message relay service called Relay, which is usually used by people with a hearing or speech disability to make and receive telephone calls via text. Yet when a message arrives from a potential client (Lily James) who needs his protection just to stay alive, Ahmed’s character abandons his own ironclad rules of communication.” Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald, Matthew Maher, Helen Eigenberg, Pun Bandhu,...

Riz Ahmed is carving out a niche in the action-thriller space. After leading “The Night Of” series, the Oscar-nominated actor (he won for his short film “The Long Goodbye”) is expanding his action chops with David Mackenzie’s “Relay.” The critical darling film debuted at TIFF 2024 and was later acquired by Bleecker Street.

Ahmed stars as a world class “fixer” who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and individuals threatening to expose them. A nameless character, he keeps his identity a secret by using a message relay service called Relay, which is usually used by people with a hearing or speech disability to make and receive telephone calls via text. Yet when a message arrives from a potential client (Lily James) who needs his protection just to stay alive, Ahmed’s character abandons his own ironclad rules of communication.

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It’s hard to make a zombie film feel fresh, especially after the massive zombie obsession of the 00s and 10s. But, writers and directors Brian Kazmarck and Kazy Tauginas want to prove it can be done with their new film, Mirror Life: Modern Zombies.

In the new film:

“A global pandemic is narrowly averted. Shortly after, Tracy Kovalsky discovers that her cousin Jordan has gone missing after enrolling in an illegal study at a research facility for a miracle drug called Dumitor. Following an outbreak at the testing facility, Jordan and other patients are forced into lockdown. A life-and-death struggle for survival ensues as the patients are systematically hunted down while Tracy’s search for her cousin exposes the conspiracy to cover up the entire experiment by any means necessary.”

Watch the official trailer below:

Courtney Cavanaugh (Chicago Fire), Kazy Tauginas (John Wick), Cuyle Carvin (Zero Day), Lawrence Ballard...