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Moscow Never Sleeps Cavu Pictures Director: Johnny O’Reilly Written by: Johnny O’Reilly Cast: Alexey Serebryakov, Evgenia Brik, Yuri Stoyanov, Mikhail Efremov, Lubov Aksenova, Oleg Dolin Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/16/17 Opens: June 9, 2017 at New York’s Village East Theater In Mel Stuart’s 1969 movie “If it’s Tuesday, This Must be Belgium,” a diverse […]

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Writer/director Johnny O’Reilly found himself in Russia during college and decided to stay despite Hollywood opportunities after releasing his debut narrative feature The Weather Station. He sought to film a personal story set in his adoptive home Moscow, one that would touch upon its myriad complexities. So he wrote a sprawling character study following multiple members of and in close proximity to two families on the year’s celebratory “City Day.” Think Crash and its emotion-heavy propulsion, the whole steeped in slice of life observation rather than linear three-act plot working towards a single goal. Some will die by the end and others will discover what it means to live. Some will free themselves from shackles (physical and mental) while others discover they simply aren’t yet able to escape.

I don’t know about you, but that type of parallel optimism and oppression is exactly what I...

It was announced today that Grindstone Entertainment has acquired North American rights in all media to the gritty thriller Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn (formally titled Goat) and will be released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. In a separate deal, International rights have been acquired by Los Angeles-basedsales company, Recreation, helmed by founder and president Ariel Veneziano.

Produced by William DeMeo, Paul Borghese and newcomer Robyn K Bennett, written by DeMeo and Borghese who also directs the movie, Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn stars Golden Globe nominated and Emmy Award winning actor Armand Assante (American Gangster, HBO’s Gotti), Ice-t (New Jack City), Vincent Pastore (Goodfellas), Ja Rule (The Fast And The Furious), William DeMeo (The Sopranos), Cathy Moriaty (Raging Bull) and Paul Borghese (Transamerica).

The film tells the story of Bobby Baldano, who after serving several prison sentences, is finally out. Although desperate to honor his family who...

A zombie horror comedy....Yeah we’ve sure seen that before...but not methinks from Russia? Other than the film is directed by Kirill Kemnits and stars Julia Volkova, Mikhail Efremov, we don’t know a whole lot more about it yet, but we’ll consider that enough to say the stage is set, now onto the trailer featuring and a ragtag bunch of misfits - and babes with machine guns - raining down death on un-dead hordes. That we can understand in any language. Synopsis: When a meteor crashes ruining a wild beach party infecting everyone with the “Zombie Fever”... the dead start walking the Earth. A special-forces veteran joins a group of misfits in an apocalyptic fight for liberty, justice and the “Mother of all Zombie Wars”. Based on almost true events... this epic saga will prove that Love is more powerful than Fear and the game of Killing Zombies is Awesome!

You all remember this title, right? But we are here today to talk about Burnt by the Sun 2, or, a sequel to well known Nikita Mikhalkov’s 1994 film.

Burnt By The Sun 2: Exodus

This Russian drama film is scheduled to compete for the Golden Palm at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

It’s a World War II epic with a budget of 55 million dollars, which makes it the most expensive Russian film ever since Soviet times! The sequel was divided into 2 parts: Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus and Burnt by the Sun 3: The Citadel.

So, the film is about an aged professor and his wife, the pre-revolutionary intellectuals, and of a military leader, the hero of the Bolshevik revolution and Civil War, as well of his young wife and charming little daughter. There is also a family friend-turned traitor and executioner of the family.

A summer day of 1936 begins carelessly and calmly,...