Exclusive: After landing three Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Cinematography, writer-director Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s under-the-radar debut feature Chronicles of a Wandering Saint has been slated for North American distribution and worldwide sales by boutique Hope Runs High. Pic will be released in U.S. theaters early this year.
The rare film to make a splash on the awards front even before release, Chronicles is set in a tiny Argentinian town, where a pious yet competitive woman decides that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood. After discovering a lost statue, she orchestrates a grand reveal that will finally anoint her as the most admired woman in town. But before the unveiling, a jarring event illuminates the hidden magic of her world, forcing her to reevaluate everything she once took for granted.
Previously, the supernatural comedy won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award at SXSW.
The rare film to make a splash on the awards front even before release, Chronicles is set in a tiny Argentinian town, where a pious yet competitive woman decides that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood. After discovering a lost statue, she orchestrates a grand reveal that will finally anoint her as the most admired woman in town. But before the unveiling, a jarring event illuminates the hidden magic of her world, forcing her to reevaluate everything she once took for granted.
Previously, the supernatural comedy won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award at SXSW.
- 1/30/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Palm Springs International Film Awards announced on Friday that Cillian Murphy will receive the 2023 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for his role in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
Murphy, the Irish actor, portrayed American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, in Nolan’s epic biography, which has grossed nearly a billion dollars worldwide.
Previously, Palm Springs announced that Emma Stone will receive the 2023 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things,” and that the creative team of “Killers of the Flower Moon” will scoop the Vanguard Award.
“After working together on five previous films, including ‘The Dark Knight’ trilogy, ‘Inception,’ and ‘Dunkirk,’ Cillian Murphy and writer-director Christopher Nolan reunite for one of the most ambitious and epic films of the year. Murphy gives a stunning portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a conflicted scientist leading the Manhattan Project to...
Murphy, the Irish actor, portrayed American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, in Nolan’s epic biography, which has grossed nearly a billion dollars worldwide.
Previously, Palm Springs announced that Emma Stone will receive the 2023 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things,” and that the creative team of “Killers of the Flower Moon” will scoop the Vanguard Award.
“After working together on five previous films, including ‘The Dark Knight’ trilogy, ‘Inception,’ and ‘Dunkirk,’ Cillian Murphy and writer-director Christopher Nolan reunite for one of the most ambitious and epic films of the year. Murphy gives a stunning portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a conflicted scientist leading the Manhattan Project to...
- 11/17/2023
- by Joe McGovern
- The Wrap
This article contains spoilers
As Kyle Bradstreet’s Secret Invasion reaches its halfway point, the spy series is surprising us in more ways than one. It’s not just the shocking death of Emilia Clarke’s G’iah and the well-signposted reveal that Don Cheadle’s James “Rhodey” Rhodes is a Skrull that make Episode 3 worth a watch. Somehow, Secret Invasion has done the almost unthinkable and made us reconsider Iron Man 3.
Up there with Alan Taylor’s Thor: The Dark World and (more recently) Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, Shane Black’s 2013 threequel is often held as one of the ‘worst’ Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. While even a bad MCU outing usually fares better than an average DC movie, Iron Man 3’s reception hasn’t exactly improved over the years. With botched villains, a bizarre push to release in 3D, and That Mandarin twist, it’s taken a...
As Kyle Bradstreet’s Secret Invasion reaches its halfway point, the spy series is surprising us in more ways than one. It’s not just the shocking death of Emilia Clarke’s G’iah and the well-signposted reveal that Don Cheadle’s James “Rhodey” Rhodes is a Skrull that make Episode 3 worth a watch. Somehow, Secret Invasion has done the almost unthinkable and made us reconsider Iron Man 3.
Up there with Alan Taylor’s Thor: The Dark World and (more recently) Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, Shane Black’s 2013 threequel is often held as one of the ‘worst’ Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. While even a bad MCU outing usually fares better than an average DC movie, Iron Man 3’s reception hasn’t exactly improved over the years. With botched villains, a bizarre push to release in 3D, and That Mandarin twist, it’s taken a...
- 7/6/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Season one of The Lake was about showcasing the family dynamics of stepsiblings, Maisy and Justin. It seemed like an advanced version of Modern Family. The last episode gave us an indication that Maisy’s mother would play a crucial role in the next season. So, let’s find out what this season has in store for the audience.
Spoilers Ahead
Justin And Riley’s Wedding
Justin is back at the lake, awaiting the return of Billie. Riley and Justin got back together in the last season, and it’s been a year ever since. Riley asks Justin to marry him because he feels it is the right time to do so, and it would also allow Justin to stay close to his family cottage, even though it’s filled with people he despises. Justin initially hesitates because of the divorce, which puts a lot of strain on him. But...
Spoilers Ahead
Justin And Riley’s Wedding
Justin is back at the lake, awaiting the return of Billie. Riley and Justin got back together in the last season, and it’s been a year ever since. Riley asks Justin to marry him because he feels it is the right time to do so, and it would also allow Justin to stay close to his family cottage, even though it’s filled with people he despises. Justin initially hesitates because of the divorce, which puts a lot of strain on him. But...
- 6/11/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The Lake is a Canadian Prime Video original that takes the audience through the cottage culture of the Canadians and their summertime ritual of bringing people together to live as a community. The eight-episode show created by Julian Doucet is more than just a coming-of-age story. It talks about family bonding, making new friends, resolving old conflicts, and rediscovering yourself.
The Lake begins with a teenager, Billie, forced to spend time with her long-absent birth father, Justin, who is visiting Canada after a hiatus in Australia. Both have their reasons for being with each other. They initially do not get along because it is their first meeting. Thanks to Billie’s amazing parents, she was made aware of her adoption at a young age. Justin joins this trip with his baggage. Justin is gay, and a recent divorcee, and his trip back home is his way to not just spend...
The Lake begins with a teenager, Billie, forced to spend time with her long-absent birth father, Justin, who is visiting Canada after a hiatus in Australia. Both have their reasons for being with each other. They initially do not get along because it is their first meeting. Thanks to Billie’s amazing parents, she was made aware of her adoption at a young age. Justin joins this trip with his baggage. Justin is gay, and a recent divorcee, and his trip back home is his way to not just spend...
- 6/8/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
While the comic book source material is always close to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's heart, the movies aren't afraid to pave their own way through one of the publisher's many classic stories. Along with changes to plots we thought we knew, new versions of old friends and foes pop up on the big and small screens -- and the results of these transformations aren't always what we expected.
Most of the time, the changes are refreshing, giving us a new view of a character that might've been first introduced in the 1970s, like Starfox, allowing them an opportunity to reboot some seriously dated morals. Or they introduce someone almost totally new, like Scarlet Scarab, to bring in a viewpoint that's never had the representation it deserved. But sometimes, the results are controversial, leading fans to argue that the MCU dropped the ball. It's a conflict that arises around villains the most,...
Most of the time, the changes are refreshing, giving us a new view of a character that might've been first introduced in the 1970s, like Starfox, allowing them an opportunity to reboot some seriously dated morals. Or they introduce someone almost totally new, like Scarlet Scarab, to bring in a viewpoint that's never had the representation it deserved. But sometimes, the results are controversial, leading fans to argue that the MCU dropped the ball. It's a conflict that arises around villains the most,...
- 6/4/2023
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Jonathan Majors is having a great year on screen. The actor began his film and TV career just five years ago, but this month alone, he's starred in two number-one movies at the box office. After making a name for himself as a poetic supporting character in "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," taking on the main role in HBO's "Lovecraft Country," and appearing in films like "Da 5 Bloods" and "Devotion," Majors added some major franchises to his repertoire. He can currently be spotted going head to head with Michael B. Jordan in "Creed III," as well as making his big-screen Marvel debut as Kang the Conquerer in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."
Both of Majors' 2023 performances to date have earned him praise from critics and fans, but by the time the next award cycle runs around, the actor's name could be on the tip of everyone's tongue...
Both of Majors' 2023 performances to date have earned him praise from critics and fans, but by the time the next award cycle runs around, the actor's name could be on the tip of everyone's tongue...
- 3/25/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Now that East New York residents aren't robbing high-end stores, will Suarez be more interested in local crimes?
Even if he does, Regina's still upset about him seeming to take credit for her solo foot patrol program.
She might not appreciate Suarez showing up to comfort a well-known resident after the woman's husband is killed on East New York Season 1 Episode 17. And that's Suarez's fault for getting too involved in politics.
Regina's far too professional to confront Suarez in front of a grieving widow. But you can bet she'll have something to say in private.
Suarez might not be aware that the news station cut his comments giving Regina credit, but that doesn't absolve him of anything, and Regina will let him know that.
View Slideshow: CBS Cheat Sheet: CSI: Vegas & NCIS: Los Angeles in Danger
These two need to have it out. It needs to get loud and ugly...
Even if he does, Regina's still upset about him seeming to take credit for her solo foot patrol program.
She might not appreciate Suarez showing up to comfort a well-known resident after the woman's husband is killed on East New York Season 1 Episode 17. And that's Suarez's fault for getting too involved in politics.
Regina's far too professional to confront Suarez in front of a grieving widow. But you can bet she'll have something to say in private.
Suarez might not be aware that the news station cut his comments giving Regina credit, but that doesn't absolve him of anything, and Regina will let him know that.
View Slideshow: CBS Cheat Sheet: CSI: Vegas & NCIS: Los Angeles in Danger
These two need to have it out. It needs to get loud and ugly...
- 3/21/2023
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
Regina's all about helping young girls make good decisions. That's why she's coaching the track team.
But on East New York Season 1 Episode 16, the people she works with kept making horrible choices.
Suarez's naivety was astounding, and Killian's decision to take $10,000 from a guy who is almost certainly a mob boss wasn't much better. Get it together, guys!
Does Suarez have selective amnesia? This is the second time Allison-related press has screwed him over in as many weeks!
After Allison posted an out-of-context video of Suarez confronting allegedly lazy officers on a street corner, Suarez was furious. Yet he allowed her to do the same thing again by agreeing to sit for a press interview she had arranged.
View Slideshow: CBS Cheat Sheet: CSI: Vegas & NCIS: Los Angeles in Danger
While he was careful during the interview to give Regina credit for the foot patrol program, it never...
But on East New York Season 1 Episode 16, the people she works with kept making horrible choices.
Suarez's naivety was astounding, and Killian's decision to take $10,000 from a guy who is almost certainly a mob boss wasn't much better. Get it together, guys!
Does Suarez have selective amnesia? This is the second time Allison-related press has screwed him over in as many weeks!
After Allison posted an out-of-context video of Suarez confronting allegedly lazy officers on a street corner, Suarez was furious. Yet he allowed her to do the same thing again by agreeing to sit for a press interview she had arranged.
View Slideshow: CBS Cheat Sheet: CSI: Vegas & NCIS: Los Angeles in Danger
While he was careful during the interview to give Regina credit for the foot patrol program, it never...
- 3/20/2023
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
To state it outright, Shane Black's 2013 film "Iron Man 3" is one of the best films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was a film not about overpowering villains or the strength of forward-assault military tactics, but about wit and character. Tony Stark spent a great deal of the film outside of his armor, mentally damaged by the trauma of fighting aliens during "The Avengers" (2012), requiring him to use his brains to solve a new crisis. He also uses his Iron Man suit to stage a daring mid-air rescue in a display of heroism frustratingly lacking from a series about superheroes.
Additionally, the film added a clever twist to its villain, a terrorist calling himself The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). While initially presented as an aggressive, violent criminal, it was eventually revealed that the Mandarin was in fact a dumb, drug-addled actor, hired by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) to merely pose as a villain.
Additionally, the film added a clever twist to its villain, a terrorist calling himself The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). While initially presented as an aggressive, violent criminal, it was eventually revealed that the Mandarin was in fact a dumb, drug-addled actor, hired by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) to merely pose as a villain.
- 3/17/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Stars: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Chris Walley, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Kristian Nairn, Niamh Cusack | Written by Jon Wright, Mark Stay | Directed by Jon Wright
Well my friends I have officially seen what I consider to be my best of 2023… So far of course, I mean it’s only March. However I kid you not, Unwelcome is exactly what you need When you need it. A low key top quality cast, gorgeous sprawling Irish landscapes, a wicked smart script and outrageously awesome practical Goblins. Yes, you read that right and I will say it again Goblins people we are dealing with fricking Goblins.
Director of 2009s Tormented Jon Wright comes at us with Unwelcome, where we find a young married couple, newly pregnant Maya and Jamie, brutally attacked in their London flat by a group of Roadmen (my daughter’s words). A short time later a relative of Jamie has...
Well my friends I have officially seen what I consider to be my best of 2023… So far of course, I mean it’s only March. However I kid you not, Unwelcome is exactly what you need When you need it. A low key top quality cast, gorgeous sprawling Irish landscapes, a wicked smart script and outrageously awesome practical Goblins. Yes, you read that right and I will say it again Goblins people we are dealing with fricking Goblins.
Director of 2009s Tormented Jon Wright comes at us with Unwelcome, where we find a young married couple, newly pregnant Maya and Jamie, brutally attacked in their London flat by a group of Roadmen (my daughter’s words). A short time later a relative of Jamie has...
- 3/8/2023
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
East New York Season 1 Episode 14 Episode Description East New York Season 1 Episode 14 Photos Family Tithes – When a house party in Ruskin Gardens ends in murder, Morales and Killian turn to Quinlan for insight into her neighbors to help crack the case. Also, Haywood takes on an unexpected new role, and Suarez tries to help his brother with a challenging situation, on East New York, Sunday, March 5 (9:00-10:00 Pm, Et/Pt) on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. s01e14 1×14 1.14 s1e14 East New York episode Written By: Mike Flynn Directed By: Mo McRae From executive producers of “NYPD Blue,” East New York stars Amanda Warren as Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood, the newly promoted boss of the 74th Precinct in East New York – a working-class neighborhood on the edge of Brooklyn in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.
- 3/5/2023
- by Thomas Miller
- Seat42F
Elijah Bynum didn’t want to look the man in the eye. No one at the gym did. He was massive, a bodybuilder who inspired fear because of his size.
“No one wanted to be caught in his path, I think because he made us uncomfortable,” says Bynum of the feeling of his fellow gym patrons.
It was relatively early in the pandemic. Bynum had been thinking a lot about isolation, and wanted to craft a character forgotten by society. When he saw how people avoided this bodybuilder, something clicked: “You have an individual who is both feared and invisible — because of everyone around him. And I thought it was a really peculiar way for someone to move through the world.”
That was the genesis of Magazine Dreams, the new feature that debuted at Sundance last month and took home the creative vision jury prize. It is earning rave reviews for Jonathan Majors,...
“No one wanted to be caught in his path, I think because he made us uncomfortable,” says Bynum of the feeling of his fellow gym patrons.
It was relatively early in the pandemic. Bynum had been thinking a lot about isolation, and wanted to craft a character forgotten by society. When he saw how people avoided this bodybuilder, something clicked: “You have an individual who is both feared and invisible — because of everyone around him. And I thought it was a really peculiar way for someone to move through the world.”
That was the genesis of Magazine Dreams, the new feature that debuted at Sundance last month and took home the creative vision jury prize. It is earning rave reviews for Jonathan Majors,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2023 Sundance Film Festival: Early highlights include ‘Fairyland,’ ‘Magazine Dreams,’ ‘Past Lives’ …
The first week of the Sundance Film Festival is drawing mixed-to-positive reactions, but several performers have garnered unanimous praise. Jonathan Majors made a big splash in Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams.” He stars as Killian Maddox, an obsessive bodybuilder who takes care of his Vietnam vet grandfather (Harrison Page) and pursues a relationship with a store clerk (Hayley Bennett) while trying to become a celebrity. The film, which is being compared to Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” looked noteworthy heading into the festival and is reportedly just as intense as early buzz had promised. Even critics who have expressed skepticism regarding the film’s third act are in awe of Majors’ committed work.
Kate Erbland of IndieWire writes, “As mistakes and missteps and pain continues to pile on to Killian, Majors turns an already wonderfully empathetic and deeply touching performance into something much more brutal, something explosive, something truly shocking.
Kate Erbland of IndieWire writes, “As mistakes and missteps and pain continues to pile on to Killian, Majors turns an already wonderfully empathetic and deeply touching performance into something much more brutal, something explosive, something truly shocking.
- 1/29/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
(L-r) Elijah Bynum, Haley Bennett, Jonathan Majors, and Taylour Paige visit the IMDb Portrait Studio at Acura Festival Village at Sundance 2023. Image Source: Getty Images for IMDb /Corey Nickols
Imagine a dimly lit room in a small house that is covered with photos of muscly, oiled-up male bodybuilders. This room exists in "Magazine Dreams" - a feature from writer-director Elijah Bynum that premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival - and it belongs to Killian Maddox (played by Jonathan Majors), an amateur bodybuilder who is caring for his ailing grandfather. Killian spends his days training excessively in his garage and at the gym, all in an attempt to win the world championships and appear on the cover of esteemed magazines like his idol, Brad Vanderhorn (Michael O'Hearn).
Killian's obsessive tendency to "fix" his body initially borders on vanity, but a deeper examination of "Magazine Dreams" reveals a larger truth at the...
Imagine a dimly lit room in a small house that is covered with photos of muscly, oiled-up male bodybuilders. This room exists in "Magazine Dreams" - a feature from writer-director Elijah Bynum that premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival - and it belongs to Killian Maddox (played by Jonathan Majors), an amateur bodybuilder who is caring for his ailing grandfather. Killian spends his days training excessively in his garage and at the gym, all in an attempt to win the world championships and appear on the cover of esteemed magazines like his idol, Brad Vanderhorn (Michael O'Hearn).
Killian's obsessive tendency to "fix" his body initially borders on vanity, but a deeper examination of "Magazine Dreams" reveals a larger truth at the...
- 1/26/2023
- by Pooja Shah
- Popsugar.com
Actor Jonathan Majors is a powerhouse of a performer, disappearing into any role he inhabits. He once again does exactly in his transformation into the world of bodybuilding obsession in the intense drama Magazine Dreams. The first half introduces a fascinating premise, although it loses its way and never quite manages to find a way to recover.
‘Magazine Dreams’ dives into the world of bodybuilding Jonathan Majors as Killian Maddox | Glen Wilson / Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Killian Maddox (Majors) lives with his veteran grandfather, who he helps take care of. Meanwhile, he attends court-mandated therapy appointments and works at a local grocery store, where he admires a cashier (Haley Bennett) he has a crush on. However, Killian can’t seem to garner the strength to ask her out due to his social anxieties.
He spends all of his time dreaming of becoming the world’s biggest bodybuilding superstar. Killian looks...
‘Magazine Dreams’ dives into the world of bodybuilding Jonathan Majors as Killian Maddox | Glen Wilson / Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Killian Maddox (Majors) lives with his veteran grandfather, who he helps take care of. Meanwhile, he attends court-mandated therapy appointments and works at a local grocery store, where he admires a cashier (Haley Bennett) he has a crush on. However, Killian can’t seem to garner the strength to ask her out due to his social anxieties.
He spends all of his time dreaming of becoming the world’s biggest bodybuilding superstar. Killian looks...
- 1/25/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Between the Sundance premiere of "Magazine Dreams" in January, and the theatrical release of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" and "Creed III" in February and March, Jonathan Majors has really come out swinging as one to watch in 2023. The trailers for "Quantumania" and "Creed III" alternatively paint Majors as a supervillain with the ability to "shatter timelines" and a more grounded ex-convict-turned-boxer, ready for a grudge match against his old pal, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan).
Majors' role as troubled bodybuilder Killian Maddox in "Magazine Dreams" is a little more complicated. In his /Film review of "Magazine Dreams," Chris Evangelista likened the character to "God's Lonely Man," Travis Bickle, in "Taxi Driver," adding that the movie "will alienate some viewers, but even those who aren't able to get on board with what [writer-director Elijah] Bynum is doing will be unable to deny how incredible Jonathan Majors is."
Visually, all we have to...
Majors' role as troubled bodybuilder Killian Maddox in "Magazine Dreams" is a little more complicated. In his /Film review of "Magazine Dreams," Chris Evangelista likened the character to "God's Lonely Man," Travis Bickle, in "Taxi Driver," adding that the movie "will alienate some viewers, but even those who aren't able to get on board with what [writer-director Elijah] Bynum is doing will be unable to deny how incredible Jonathan Majors is."
Visually, all we have to...
- 1/24/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Sundance 2023: ‘Magazine Dreams’ Directed by Elijah Bynum
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The producer-savvy and emotional depth of Jennifer Fox and her previous filmic concerns contribute to this unexpected film which if anything might be a contemporary version of ‘Pumping Iron’ in which bodybuilding and celebrity-to-be meets Travis Bickle of ‘Taxi Driver’. The restraint and rechanneling of psychopathological leanings redeem the film and its hero, a sweet but uncontrollable and, in the end, an invincible dreamer.
Director Elijah Bynum. Courtesy of Sundance Institute
In 2018, Jennifer Fox directed the film The Tale (2018), inspired by her own experience as a survivor of child sexual abuse. Unlike her previous works, the film is not a documentary but a narrative film. That, with the script film featured Academy Award-winning actress Laura Dern, and premiered at the Sundance film Festival in 2018 and on HBO in May 2018. The plot of the film directly references Fox’s own experience of recognizing and grappling with her own abuse history. While writing the script, Fox developed the idea of “issue-based fiction,” in which she is able to use storytelling to “dive into issues that people could learn from and experience.” Borrowing from her documentary filmmaking, Fox collaborated extensively on the production of the film, outreaching to mental health advocates, lawyers, sexual abuse survivors, and women’s lived experiences to transform narrative into a tool for change. Along with HBO, Fox was able to develop a resource website and viewing guides to accompany the film to be used in educating and opening up the conversation about childhood sexual abuse, the effects of trauma, and memory.[*] Surely she felt an affinity to this project. Much of Fox’s work deals with understanding trauma. In films like The Tale and Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, trauma is examined in relation to memory and womanhood. In both films Fox is interested in how past trauma is able to shape one’s life and memory. In this film, this same element of a trauma-based life and memory is crucial to understandng the character of Killian Maddox, an obsessive bodybuilder who strives to win the Mr. Olympia contest and to be featured on the cover of body-building magazines.
Jennifer Fox. Photo by George Pimentel — © 2019 George Pimentel — Image courtesy gettyimages.com
“On every street in every city in this country, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.” So says the tagline for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Killian Maddox is such a nobody. Occupying a small space in the film, it is revealed that his uncontrollable temper stems from past abuse and trauma which includes the murder of his mother by his father and his father’s suicide in front of his own childish eyes. That shapes his chaotic and antisocial vision of the world and at the film’s climax is re-experienced.
Killian Maddox lives with his ailing veteran grandfather, obsessively working out between court-mandated therapy sessions and part-time shifts at a grocery store where he has developed a crush on a friendly cashier. Killian struggles to read social cues and to maintain control of his volatile temper. He senses his disconnection in a hostile world, but pours his passion into a dream of bodybuilding superstardom.
The film has you squirming in your seat as he veers toward destruction but, just as you wonder, what good can come out of his journey. As Killian’s behavior becomes more obsessive and erratic, he still looks after his unconditionally loving grandfather. And as his delusions of destruction escalate, he faces his own trauma and breaks down into tears as he embraces his grandfather. This is the turning point for him. Killian sees success in bodybuilding as the link to acceptance and emotional connection. As our pathetic though physically stunning hero googles answers to “How do you make people like you?” and “How do you make a mark upon the world?” (or something like that) he finds the answer he needs in order to keep living.
Jonathan Majors’ has created an alarmingly single-minded body building character with a soft-spoken shyness alternating with indomitable fury, a multisided black man living in perpetual mental chaos. Majors’ eclectic collection of roles show his huge dramatic range. For his role as Montgomery Allen in The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Majors was nominated for a Gotham Award in the category of “Breakthrough Actor” and an Independent Spirit Award for “Best Supporting Male.” From The Last Black Man to a fighter pilot in the recent Devotion, and soon a villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, his choices reveal a huge dramatic range which will reap fans for a long time to come. Born September 7, 1989 in Lompoc, California, Majors is a graduate from the Yale School of Drama and is a recipient of the National Society of Arts and Letters (Nsal), National Drama Competition. He made his screen debut starring in the ABC miniseries When We Rise and has since landed strong roles, cementing him as a Hollywood actor to watch.
For more insight into Jonathan Majors and his work, read the interview with The Hollywood Reporter November 30, 2022 on the subject of Devotion.
Majors is executive producing under his Tall Street production banner along with Nightcrawler producers Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy and Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman. CAA Media Finance arranged financing through the Los Angeles Media Fund and is repping the film for both domestic and international distribution. Los Angeles Media Fund (Jeffrey Soros, Luke Rogers III, Simon Horsman and Andrew Blau) fully financed the film. They are currently working on The Color of Cola, a documentary based on a book by Stephanie Capparell, The Real Pepsi Challenge: How One Pioneering Company Broke Color Barriers in 1940s American Business, which shares the experience of the all-Black sales team at Pepsi, directed by Stanley Nelson and Jacqueline Olive.
Jonathan Majors in ‘Magazine Dreams’. Courtesy of Sundance Institute, photo by Glen WilsonBlackMoviesFilm FestivalsBodybuilding...
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The producer-savvy and emotional depth of Jennifer Fox and her previous filmic concerns contribute to this unexpected film which if anything might be a contemporary version of ‘Pumping Iron’ in which bodybuilding and celebrity-to-be meets Travis Bickle of ‘Taxi Driver’. The restraint and rechanneling of psychopathological leanings redeem the film and its hero, a sweet but uncontrollable and, in the end, an invincible dreamer.
Director Elijah Bynum. Courtesy of Sundance Institute
In 2018, Jennifer Fox directed the film The Tale (2018), inspired by her own experience as a survivor of child sexual abuse. Unlike her previous works, the film is not a documentary but a narrative film. That, with the script film featured Academy Award-winning actress Laura Dern, and premiered at the Sundance film Festival in 2018 and on HBO in May 2018. The plot of the film directly references Fox’s own experience of recognizing and grappling with her own abuse history. While writing the script, Fox developed the idea of “issue-based fiction,” in which she is able to use storytelling to “dive into issues that people could learn from and experience.” Borrowing from her documentary filmmaking, Fox collaborated extensively on the production of the film, outreaching to mental health advocates, lawyers, sexual abuse survivors, and women’s lived experiences to transform narrative into a tool for change. Along with HBO, Fox was able to develop a resource website and viewing guides to accompany the film to be used in educating and opening up the conversation about childhood sexual abuse, the effects of trauma, and memory.[*] Surely she felt an affinity to this project. Much of Fox’s work deals with understanding trauma. In films like The Tale and Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, trauma is examined in relation to memory and womanhood. In both films Fox is interested in how past trauma is able to shape one’s life and memory. In this film, this same element of a trauma-based life and memory is crucial to understandng the character of Killian Maddox, an obsessive bodybuilder who strives to win the Mr. Olympia contest and to be featured on the cover of body-building magazines.
Jennifer Fox. Photo by George Pimentel — © 2019 George Pimentel — Image courtesy gettyimages.com
“On every street in every city in this country, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.” So says the tagline for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Killian Maddox is such a nobody. Occupying a small space in the film, it is revealed that his uncontrollable temper stems from past abuse and trauma which includes the murder of his mother by his father and his father’s suicide in front of his own childish eyes. That shapes his chaotic and antisocial vision of the world and at the film’s climax is re-experienced.
Killian Maddox lives with his ailing veteran grandfather, obsessively working out between court-mandated therapy sessions and part-time shifts at a grocery store where he has developed a crush on a friendly cashier. Killian struggles to read social cues and to maintain control of his volatile temper. He senses his disconnection in a hostile world, but pours his passion into a dream of bodybuilding superstardom.
The film has you squirming in your seat as he veers toward destruction but, just as you wonder, what good can come out of his journey. As Killian’s behavior becomes more obsessive and erratic, he still looks after his unconditionally loving grandfather. And as his delusions of destruction escalate, he faces his own trauma and breaks down into tears as he embraces his grandfather. This is the turning point for him. Killian sees success in bodybuilding as the link to acceptance and emotional connection. As our pathetic though physically stunning hero googles answers to “How do you make people like you?” and “How do you make a mark upon the world?” (or something like that) he finds the answer he needs in order to keep living.
Jonathan Majors’ has created an alarmingly single-minded body building character with a soft-spoken shyness alternating with indomitable fury, a multisided black man living in perpetual mental chaos. Majors’ eclectic collection of roles show his huge dramatic range. For his role as Montgomery Allen in The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Majors was nominated for a Gotham Award in the category of “Breakthrough Actor” and an Independent Spirit Award for “Best Supporting Male.” From The Last Black Man to a fighter pilot in the recent Devotion, and soon a villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, his choices reveal a huge dramatic range which will reap fans for a long time to come. Born September 7, 1989 in Lompoc, California, Majors is a graduate from the Yale School of Drama and is a recipient of the National Society of Arts and Letters (Nsal), National Drama Competition. He made his screen debut starring in the ABC miniseries When We Rise and has since landed strong roles, cementing him as a Hollywood actor to watch.
For more insight into Jonathan Majors and his work, read the interview with The Hollywood Reporter November 30, 2022 on the subject of Devotion.
Majors is executive producing under his Tall Street production banner along with Nightcrawler producers Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy and Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman. CAA Media Finance arranged financing through the Los Angeles Media Fund and is repping the film for both domestic and international distribution. Los Angeles Media Fund (Jeffrey Soros, Luke Rogers III, Simon Horsman and Andrew Blau) fully financed the film. They are currently working on The Color of Cola, a documentary based on a book by Stephanie Capparell, The Real Pepsi Challenge: How One Pioneering Company Broke Color Barriers in 1940s American Business, which shares the experience of the all-Black sales team at Pepsi, directed by Stanley Nelson and Jacqueline Olive.
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- 1/24/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Jonathan Majors’ incredible transformation to play bodybuilder Killian Maddox in Magazine Dreams is breathtaking, first seen in godlike glory in a daydream, striking the requisite professional competition poses, caressed by shafts of golden light. But as the soaring strains of Jason Mills’ score wind down into a deflating drone, signaling trouble ahead, the image shifts to Killian under the naked lightbulbs of his humble garage. That’s the first hint that this physically imposing Adonis is in fact a lonely, painfully shy and desperately insecure man, whose feelings of inadequacy, buried self-loathing and resentment often manifest in eruptions of violent rage.
It’s an all-in performance for the ages, layered with as much vulnerability as anger, and it’s to Majors’ credit that our hearts ache for Killian even — or perhaps especially — when he’s out of control. Majors and writer-director Elijah Bynum manage the considerable feat of making us...
It’s an all-in performance for the ages, layered with as much vulnerability as anger, and it’s to Majors’ credit that our hearts ache for Killian even — or perhaps especially — when he’s out of control. Majors and writer-director Elijah Bynum manage the considerable feat of making us...
- 1/24/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance film festival: there are overly familiar shades of Taxi Driver and Joker in this grim character study lifted by a sensational central performance
It’s not hard to understand why Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors) has anger issues. He’s working a low-paid job, living with and caring for his ailing grandfather, enduring micro- and macro-aggressions as a Black man in America and as he explains to a court-appointed therapist in the opening scene, he’s trapped in one of the country’s many food deserts, raging at a system that forces working-class people to eat themselves to death. And then there’s his primary passion …
Killian is an amateur bodybuilder, pushing his body to extremes in order to do something that he can be remembered by, something to be respected for, a way to separate himself from the trail of violence left behind by his late father. So he...
It’s not hard to understand why Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors) has anger issues. He’s working a low-paid job, living with and caring for his ailing grandfather, enduring micro- and macro-aggressions as a Black man in America and as he explains to a court-appointed therapist in the opening scene, he’s trapped in one of the country’s many food deserts, raging at a system that forces working-class people to eat themselves to death. And then there’s his primary passion …
Killian is an amateur bodybuilder, pushing his body to extremes in order to do something that he can be remembered by, something to be respected for, a way to separate himself from the trail of violence left behind by his late father. So he...
- 1/23/2023
- by Benjamin Lee in Park City, Utah
- The Guardian - Film News
Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams is both too much and not enough. At its center is a role for which star Jonathan Majors has said that he “ate 6,100 calories a day for about four months” to prepare — work that needed to pay off to convince us of its central character, and it does. Majors plays an amateur bodybuilder named Killian Maddox who, at the movie’s start, has already gotten in trouble for his anger and antisocial issues, who is already in counseling for his past misjudgments, and is already...
- 1/23/2023
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
In “Magazine Dreams,” a lonely, emotionally troubled young man (Jonathan Majors) develops an obsession with bodybuilding. Premiering this weekend at Sundance, the film is both an individual character study and a portrait of the American Dream in all its flawed glory.
Writer-director Elijah Bynum, Majors, and cast members Taylour Paige and Haley Bennett visited TheWrap’s Portrait and Video Studio at The Music Lodge for a conversation with Executive Awards Editor Steve Pond.
Bynum had been “walking around with a character in mind for a while” before he found a story to match. He found the missing piece at his local gym, where he took notice of a bodybuilder who came in every day.
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Writer-director Elijah Bynum, Majors, and cast members Taylour Paige and Haley Bennett visited TheWrap’s Portrait and Video Studio at The Music Lodge for a conversation with Executive Awards Editor Steve Pond.
Bynum had been “walking around with a character in mind for a while” before he found a story to match. He found the missing piece at his local gym, where he took notice of a bodybuilder who came in every day.
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- 1/23/2023
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
For better or worse, Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams” has been one of the most talked about films of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The dark character study, which stars Jonathan Majors as an aspiring bodybuilder battling some serious demons, debuted to strong reviews on Friday night. But jurors for the U.S. Dramatic Competition walked out of the screening due to a technical malfunction that prevented a deaf juror from watching it with captions. The incident sparked a larger debate about accessibility at film festivals, with the jury ultimately releasing an open letter asking Sundance to strengthen its efforts to create an inclusive experience.
As other films race to make accommodations for deaf audiences before their premieres, speculation has run rampant about the role that filmmakers play in deciding whether to include captions in their movies. While some directors might object to screening their movies with open captioning, Bynum isn’t one of them.
As other films race to make accommodations for deaf audiences before their premieres, speculation has run rampant about the role that filmmakers play in deciding whether to include captions in their movies. While some directors might object to screening their movies with open captioning, Bynum isn’t one of them.
- 1/22/2023
- by Christian Zilko and Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Take a glance at Jonathan Majors’ eclectic collection of roles, and you’ll find a playwright in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” a fighter pilot in the recent “Devotion,” and soon a villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” The versatility at work in his choices speaks of an enviable dramatic range always ripe for a challenge.
But what Majors does in writer-director Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams” as Killian Maddox, an alarmingly single-minded bodybuilder staring straight into the abyss of his own despair, is the kind of earth-shattering showcase that turns an actor into a legend. His unclassifiable potency leaves us, the audience, to grapple with the fearlessness on display.
Killian’s chiseled body, sculpted from equal parts discipline and consistent steroids use, would astound most people, but the judges at the semiprofessional competitions he enters remain unimpressed. Nor does he fulfill...
But what Majors does in writer-director Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams” as Killian Maddox, an alarmingly single-minded bodybuilder staring straight into the abyss of his own despair, is the kind of earth-shattering showcase that turns an actor into a legend. His unclassifiable potency leaves us, the audience, to grapple with the fearlessness on display.
Killian’s chiseled body, sculpted from equal parts discipline and consistent steroids use, would astound most people, but the judges at the semiprofessional competitions he enters remain unimpressed. Nor does he fulfill...
- 1/21/2023
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
When an independent filmmaker wants to hypnotize an audience, show off his chops, and make a grand statement, a surefire way to do it — at least if he has the talent — is to create his own version of a “Pulp Fiction”-meets-“Boogie Nights” violence-hanging-in-the-air climax set to a succulent needle drop. In “Magazine Dreams,” the writer-director Elijah Bynum (“Hot Summer Nights”), in his second feature, creates a splendid example of one of those scenes. It’s when his antihero, a bodybuilder named Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), has started to fall apart — though you could say that he’s been falling apart from almost the first scene.
Nursing a rage that’s epic and unhinged, Killian, as the “Sopranos” theme song put it, has got himself a gun. It’s a major one: a machine gun that could strafe an elephant. But he’s got it turned on a poor quivering middle-aged man,...
Nursing a rage that’s epic and unhinged, Killian, as the “Sopranos” theme song put it, has got himself a gun. It’s a major one: a machine gun that could strafe an elephant. But he’s got it turned on a poor quivering middle-aged man,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Magazine Dreams is a drama and second feature directed by Elijah Bynum, which stars Jonathan Majors, Haley Bennett, Taylor Paige, and Harrison Page
The film opens with a beautiful shot of Killian Maddox (Majors) showing off his chiseled physique under an orange hue of lights as if he’s at a bodybuilding competition. This is overlaid with a voiceover of him having a discussion with his therapist about his erratic behavior after a stint in the hospital. Killian takes working out very seriously and takes steroids to achieve the perfect body. He seems to be on the Asd spectrum and writes letters to his favorite bodybuilder Brad Vanderhorne (Michael O’Hearn) in hopes of hearing from him. He has no friends, only his grandfather (Page) whom he takes care of. There is Jessica (Bennett), a woman at the local grocery store who he has a crush on. He asks her on a date,...
The film opens with a beautiful shot of Killian Maddox (Majors) showing off his chiseled physique under an orange hue of lights as if he’s at a bodybuilding competition. This is overlaid with a voiceover of him having a discussion with his therapist about his erratic behavior after a stint in the hospital. Killian takes working out very seriously and takes steroids to achieve the perfect body. He seems to be on the Asd spectrum and writes letters to his favorite bodybuilder Brad Vanderhorne (Michael O’Hearn) in hopes of hearing from him. He has no friends, only his grandfather (Page) whom he takes care of. There is Jessica (Bennett), a woman at the local grocery store who he has a crush on. He asks her on a date,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
When “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” arrives in theaters next month, millions of movie-goers are going to get very hip, very fast to the incredible talents of actor Jonathan Majors, who kicks off what is currently set as a three-movie run in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the February sequel. Stragglers can catch him in March when he costars in Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III.” Everyone else — the people who have known and loved him since “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” or “Lovecraft Country” or even the recent “Devotion” — will just have to share him with the late-comers.
And Majors is, no pun intended, a major star already, and one clearly driven to take big-time risks, as he’s done with Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams,” that has already drawn copious comparisons to no less than “Taxi Driver.” But it’s hard to imagine Travis Bickle ever...
And Majors is, no pun intended, a major star already, and one clearly driven to take big-time risks, as he’s done with Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams,” that has already drawn copious comparisons to no less than “Taxi Driver.” But it’s hard to imagine Travis Bickle ever...
- 1/21/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After weeks of earsplitting buzz over Jonathan Majors’ Sundance drama “Magazine Dreams,” the dumbbells have finally dropped. As a deeply troubled – yet still sympathetic – aspiring bodybuilder, Majors dazzled Park City’s Eccles Theater on Friday night, earning a standing ovation.
Writer-director Elijah Bynum drove the narrative about Killian Maddox, a steroid-guzzling, socially inept loner who can’t find success at his dream job. He finds even less in personal relationships, be it with his roommate and ailing grandfather, a perky store clerk (Haley Bennett) who seems open for more than friendship, or even a redemption-offering sex worker (Taylour Paige) who sees past his afflictions.
There’s a lot of homoeroticism in Killian’s obsession with his body and those of other bodybuilders — Majors is frequently seen naked or wearing little more than skimpy underwear.
The star power of Majors could attract buyers, but the film, with shades of “Joker” and “Taxi Driver,...
Writer-director Elijah Bynum drove the narrative about Killian Maddox, a steroid-guzzling, socially inept loner who can’t find success at his dream job. He finds even less in personal relationships, be it with his roommate and ailing grandfather, a perky store clerk (Haley Bennett) who seems open for more than friendship, or even a redemption-offering sex worker (Taylour Paige) who sees past his afflictions.
There’s a lot of homoeroticism in Killian’s obsession with his body and those of other bodybuilders — Majors is frequently seen naked or wearing little more than skimpy underwear.
The star power of Majors could attract buyers, but the film, with shades of “Joker” and “Taxi Driver,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Matt Donnelly and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
"On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." So says the tagline for Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver." It's a sentiment that can also be applied to the main character of "Magazine Dreams," which almost seems to be asking the question: What if Travis Bickle was a bodybuilder instead of a cab driver? Killian Maddox is, to quote "Taxi Driver" again, God's Lonely Man — a socially awkward, mentally unstable young man with big dreams of being a famous bodybuilder. He's certainly ripped enough — his body looks like it's chiseled from stone. But it's not enough. He can't seem to find the acclaim he deserves. And he can't seem to connect with anyone. His only real positive connection is his sick grandfather, who doesn't say much.
Killian is played by Jonathan Majors, and at this point, I think it's more than fair...
Killian is played by Jonathan Majors, and at this point, I think it's more than fair...
- 1/21/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Exclusive: For his first interview on the edgy drama Magazine Dreams that makes its Sundance Premiere tonight at Eccles, Jonathan Majors was pulling into Park City after driving for days cross country from New York. While Majors is one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars after turns in The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Lovecraft Country, The Harder They Fall and Da 5 Bloods, he was not going to drive up a small film’s limited budget with pricey airfare. Magazine Dreams is written and directed by Elijah Bynum, and produced by Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman. Fox & Gilroy made Nightcrawler.
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- 1/20/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The early success of the CBS drama East New York has been no less than “an embarrassment of riches” for series lead Amanda Warren.
In the freshman drama, Warren stars as Regina Haywood, the newly promoted Deputy Inspector of the 74th Precinct — a working-class neighborhood on the edge of Brooklyn in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification. Having family ties to the area, Haywood is out to deploy creative methods to protect her community, though her valiant effort thus far has met all manner of (not-insurmountable) roadblocks.
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In the freshman drama, Warren stars as Regina Haywood, the newly promoted Deputy Inspector of the 74th Precinct — a working-class neighborhood on the edge of Brooklyn in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification. Having family ties to the area, Haywood is out to deploy creative methods to protect her community, though her valiant effort thus far has met all manner of (not-insurmountable) roadblocks.
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- 11/25/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Homeless people get a bad rap. They don't get taken seriously, they get forced out of their encampments, and people judge them all day long.
Not on East New York Season 1 Episode 6.
When a little boy disappeared from a homeless encampment, Regina didn't allow the case to get cold for a second. She treated Isaac's disappearance with the urgency it deserved.
The story felt like a real missing persons case. The police did their best to get leads and question suspects, only to get no closer to finding Isaac than they were when they started.
I can't imagine the terror Isaac's parents must have experienced as one suspect after another turned out to have an alibi. The clock was ticking, and the fears that Sandeford told Bentley not to express aloud must have been at the back of their minds.
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Not on East New York Season 1 Episode 6.
When a little boy disappeared from a homeless encampment, Regina didn't allow the case to get cold for a second. She treated Isaac's disappearance with the urgency it deserved.
The story felt like a real missing persons case. The police did their best to get leads and question suspects, only to get no closer to finding Isaac than they were when they started.
I can't imagine the terror Isaac's parents must have experienced as one suspect after another turned out to have an alibi. The clock was ticking, and the fears that Sandeford told Bentley not to express aloud must have been at the back of their minds.
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The idea of...
- 11/7/2022
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
Regina can't catch a break!
She's celebrating a birthday on East New York Season 1 Episode 5, only to be interrupted by terrible news: a prisoner has escaped, and he's out to get her.
The US Marshalls Office -- and Regina's team -- would probably prefer she stay under the radar while they handle this, but that doesn't sound like Regina.
According to the spoiler video, everything goes from celebratory to dark in a matter of minutes.
The 7-4 is going to be teaming up with the US Marshalls on this, and we already know from East New York Season 1 Episode 4 that Regina isn't going to quietly let someone else take over the case.
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Regina will probably be twice as determined once she learns that the escaped prisoner is after her head. She's not one to stand down and let others protect her...
She's celebrating a birthday on East New York Season 1 Episode 5, only to be interrupted by terrible news: a prisoner has escaped, and he's out to get her.
The US Marshalls Office -- and Regina's team -- would probably prefer she stay under the radar while they handle this, but that doesn't sound like Regina.
According to the spoiler video, everything goes from celebratory to dark in a matter of minutes.
The 7-4 is going to be teaming up with the US Marshalls on this, and we already know from East New York Season 1 Episode 4 that Regina isn't going to quietly let someone else take over the case.
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Regina will probably be twice as determined once she learns that the escaped prisoner is after her head. She's not one to stand down and let others protect her...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
Let's talk about the blue line of silence.
After Bentley was arrested by a racist cop on East New York Season 1 Episode 4, Sandeford disapproved of him filing a formal complaint because of the "cop code."
Sandeford found another way for Bentley to settle the score, but was that the right solution?
The cop was clearly in the wrong.
He argued that Bentley caused himself these problems by getting out of his car and confronting the guy. While it's true that Bentley should have stayed in his vehicle, would the cop have reacted the same way if he was dealing with a white cop who had forgotten his ID?
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There was no question as to the cops' motives. Not only did both Bentley and Sandeford point out that he couldn't possibly know that Bentley was a cop who didn't have his required...
After Bentley was arrested by a racist cop on East New York Season 1 Episode 4, Sandeford disapproved of him filing a formal complaint because of the "cop code."
Sandeford found another way for Bentley to settle the score, but was that the right solution?
The cop was clearly in the wrong.
He argued that Bentley caused himself these problems by getting out of his car and confronting the guy. While it's true that Bentley should have stayed in his vehicle, would the cop have reacted the same way if he was dealing with a white cop who had forgotten his ID?
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There was no question as to the cops' motives. Not only did both Bentley and Sandeford point out that he couldn't possibly know that Bentley was a cop who didn't have his required...
- 10/24/2022
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
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