Country Gold is an upcoming comedy movie directed, written, and starring Mickey Reece with supporting cast members Ben Hall and Joe Cappa.
Country music legends Troyal and George Jones, meet in Nashville in 1994 because George has decided he wants to be cryogenically frozen.
Release Date
March 16, 2023
Where to Watch Country Gold
In Theaters
The Director Mickey Reece
Mickey Reece is a writer/director from Oklahoma City, Ok. He has directed over 25 feature films in just over a decade with each subsequent work pushing the boundaries of his own established form and unique brand of art-house cinema.
The Cast
Lisandro Boccacci / Lawyer
Mickey Reece / Troyal
Ginger Gilmartin / Gail Williams
Ben Hall / George Jones
Colleen Elizabeth Miller / Activist Leader
Cate Jones / Narrator
La entrada “Country Gold” Starring Ben Hall and Mickey Reece Coming to Theaters March 16th se publicó primero en Martin Cid Magazine.
Country music legends Troyal and George Jones, meet in Nashville in 1994 because George has decided he wants to be cryogenically frozen.
Release Date
March 16, 2023
Where to Watch Country Gold
In Theaters
The Director Mickey Reece
Mickey Reece is a writer/director from Oklahoma City, Ok. He has directed over 25 feature films in just over a decade with each subsequent work pushing the boundaries of his own established form and unique brand of art-house cinema.
The Cast
Lisandro Boccacci / Lawyer
Mickey Reece / Troyal
Ginger Gilmartin / Gail Williams
Ben Hall / George Jones
Colleen Elizabeth Miller / Activist Leader
Cate Jones / Narrator
La entrada “Country Gold” Starring Ben Hall and Mickey Reece Coming to Theaters March 16th se publicó primero en Martin Cid Magazine.
- 3/10/2023
- by Em Schaum
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
"Hell Troyal, it's Nashville, everybody down here's a musician." Fandor has revealed an official trailer for a fascinating, surrealist comedy indie creation called Country Gold, the latest from experimental filmmaker Mickey Reece. This premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year and is screening now at the Glasgow Film Festival before a small theatrical opening in the US. Set In 1994, the trailer introduces up-and-coming country music star Troyal Brux, as he joins Country legend George Jones for a wild bender in Nashville - the night before George plans to get cryogenically frozen. It "harkens back to an earlier Reece opus, the award-winning Alien, which reimagined the early days of Elvis and Pricilla Presley's marriage." If you're interested, there's screenings at select Alamo Drafthouses, presented by Fantastic Fest, and more theaters across the nation. Reece will be in attendance at select engagements in New York, LA, and Austin. // Continue Reading ›...
- 3/8/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Cinedigm has snapped up North American rights to Country Gold, a surrealist country music film from director Mickey Reece (Alien, Climate of the Hunter).
Reece co-wrote Country Gold with John Selvidge and plays the lead, the up-and-coming country music star Troyal Brux. The offbeat comedy follows a fateful evening in 1994 when Troyal meets up with country legend George Jones (Ben Hall). Together, they embark on a wild night in Nashville, the eve before George plans to cryogenically freeze himself.
Reece describes the film as a surreal satire on American celebrity culture. “I wanted to explore a seminal moment in American music history,” said Reece. “Not to belabor the facts, but to rather play with some icons of this particular era and let their vibes take the audience to surprising places.”
Country Gold is Reece’s follow-up to 2017’s Alien, a reimagining of the early years of Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s marriage,...
Reece co-wrote Country Gold with John Selvidge and plays the lead, the up-and-coming country music star Troyal Brux. The offbeat comedy follows a fateful evening in 1994 when Troyal meets up with country legend George Jones (Ben Hall). Together, they embark on a wild night in Nashville, the eve before George plans to cryogenically freeze himself.
Reece describes the film as a surreal satire on American celebrity culture. “I wanted to explore a seminal moment in American music history,” said Reece. “Not to belabor the facts, but to rather play with some icons of this particular era and let their vibes take the audience to surprising places.”
Country Gold is Reece’s follow-up to 2017’s Alien, a reimagining of the early years of Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s marriage,...
- 2/17/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A recently fired podcast host comes across a story that he feels could revitalize his career. The story: a recently widowed farmer claims there is a monster living in the woods behind his farm. The plan: trap and kill the beast. Directed by Todd Greenlee, “All Eyes” stars Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger, and …
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- 10/20/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
"It's bigger than we thought!!" "How big are we talking…?" Gravitas Ventures has revealed the trailer for an indie horror thriller film titled All Eyes, made by Todd Greenlee and his brother Alex Greenlee as a family venture. This sounds like another wacky, amusing concept for a horror along the lines of so many other indie creations recently. A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house. He arrives to learn he has a plan of trapping and killing the beast, but is something else going on? Starring Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Nick Ballard, Laurie Cummings, and Jeremy Parr. This looks like it could be good, but I wish there was a glimpse of the monster in here. It better not end with "oh wait, this guy was crazy and it was nothing." ›››
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- 8/25/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive trailer drop on All Eyes, a new horror film in which a podcaster documents a man hunting down a monster.
Directed by Todd Greenlee and starring Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Nick Ballard, Laurie Cummings, and Jeremy Parr, All Eyes is coming to theaters and VOD on September 2nd.
In the film…
“A recently fired podcast host comes across a story that he feels could revitalize his career. The story: a recently widowed farmer claims there is a monster living in the woods behind his farm. The plan: trap and kill the beast.”
Check it out…
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Directed by Todd Greenlee and starring Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Nick Ballard, Laurie Cummings, and Jeremy Parr, All Eyes is coming to theaters and VOD on September 2nd.
In the film…
“A recently fired podcast host comes across a story that he feels could revitalize his career. The story: a recently widowed farmer claims there is a monster living in the woods behind his farm. The plan: trap and kill the beast.”
Check it out…
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- 8/24/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Some people make films for money. Some people make films to appeal to niche audiences. Mickey Reece makes films because he can. His stories are pure things, unfolding in their own time according to their own logic, and the results are always beguiling, albeit not always entirely successful by broader standards.
Country Gold, he says, is probably the only film about country music he will make, but there’s very little country music in it – like all his work, it’s really about the culture surrounding a particular idea. In this case, the central idea concerns legendary musician George Jones (played by this longstanding favourite Ben Hall) deciding to summon Garth Brooks-style rising star Troyal Brux (played by Reece himself) to Nashville for a night of drinking and conversation. What the starstruck Troyal doesn’t know is that this is to be George’s last night on Earth, at least for quite some time,...
Country Gold, he says, is probably the only film about country music he will make, but there’s very little country music in it – like all his work, it’s really about the culture surrounding a particular idea. In this case, the central idea concerns legendary musician George Jones (played by this longstanding favourite Ben Hall) deciding to summon Garth Brooks-style rising star Troyal Brux (played by Reece himself) to Nashville for a night of drinking and conversation. What the starstruck Troyal doesn’t know is that this is to be George’s last night on Earth, at least for quite some time,...
- 7/31/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The cost of fame sits in the living room wondering aloud whether dad will be home for Christmas. Why these two young boys’ voices have been deepened to sound like they’re 40-year-old drunks slurring through a bender is beyond me (an assumption of it being a dream or game is squashed once mom enters without the effect being called out), but their words have meaning. Troyal’s (Mickey Reece channeling Garth Brooks) star has risen to unimaginable heights and he’s embraced it to the point where his “good ol’ boy” demeanor can’t quite hide the growing ego beneath a cowboy hat. While Jamie (Leah N.H. Philpott) tries toeing the line of admiring his accomplishments and being frightened about what they mean for the family, he’s already miles away.
And he’s about to literally be miles away, thanks to a letter from Troyal’s idol George Jones...
And he’s about to literally be miles away, thanks to a letter from Troyal’s idol George Jones...
- 7/31/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
For his latest project, indie wunderkind filmmaker Mickey Reece transports viewers back to the year 1994 as we follow Troyal Brux (played by Reece), a country music star whose popularity is quickly on the rise. One day, he gets invited to spend a day with the legendary George Jones out of the blue, and during their shenanigans, Troyal learns some hilarious truths about the price of fame and just how difficult life can be when you’re a superstar.
Country Gold recently celebrated its world premiere as part of the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, and to mark the occasion, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Reece about his newest cinematic endeavor and during our conversation, he chatted about bringing together the world of country music with ’70s-style storytelling, reteaming with Ben Hall once again for Country Gold, and more.
I never in a million years would've imagined I'd be watching...
Country Gold recently celebrated its world premiere as part of the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, and to mark the occasion, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Reece about his newest cinematic endeavor and during our conversation, he chatted about bringing together the world of country music with ’70s-style storytelling, reteaming with Ben Hall once again for Country Gold, and more.
I never in a million years would've imagined I'd be watching...
- 7/28/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Country Gold Photo: Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival
When, back in 2022, Mickey Reece told me that he planned to make a film about country music, I didn’t expect to see it turn up at the Fantasia International Film Festival, but there’s something about Mickey’s work which just naturally fits in that space. Country Gold is a comedy, as usual, and it stars the director himself as young, up-and-coming Garth Brooks analogue Troyal, who is ambitious and pretty full of himself yet starstruck when he gets the opportunity to go to Nashville and spend an evening with one of his own country music heroes, George Jones. What he doesn’t know is that this is going to be George’s last night out for quite some time, as the ageing star is planning to get himself cryogenically frozen the following day. When Mickey and I reconnected at the festival,...
When, back in 2022, Mickey Reece told me that he planned to make a film about country music, I didn’t expect to see it turn up at the Fantasia International Film Festival, but there’s something about Mickey’s work which just naturally fits in that space. Country Gold is a comedy, as usual, and it stars the director himself as young, up-and-coming Garth Brooks analogue Troyal, who is ambitious and pretty full of himself yet starstruck when he gets the opportunity to go to Nashville and spend an evening with one of his own country music heroes, George Jones. What he doesn’t know is that this is going to be George’s last night out for quite some time, as the ageing star is planning to get himself cryogenically frozen the following day. When Mickey and I reconnected at the festival,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Prolific Oklahoma-based helmer Mickey Reece – now at Fantasia with “Country Gold” – will join forces with “It Follows” producer David Kaplan on his upcoming feature “The Cool Tenor,” Variety has found out exclusively.
The film, set in a vaguely dystopian future and co-written by John Selvidge, sees a retired widow who weds an unstable jazz enthusiast but becomes obsessed with avenging her late husband’s death.
“It’s more of a thriller, but it’s still funny. You will never have to worry about me making a serious movie,” assures Reece, intending to keep his signature sense of humor intact.
“I didn’t know I had a unique sense of humor until people told me that. Essentially, I try to turn every movie into a comedy. It has always been about the same thing for me: ‘What can we do to have fun?,” he says.
Currently casting and looking to shoot later this fall,...
The film, set in a vaguely dystopian future and co-written by John Selvidge, sees a retired widow who weds an unstable jazz enthusiast but becomes obsessed with avenging her late husband’s death.
“It’s more of a thriller, but it’s still funny. You will never have to worry about me making a serious movie,” assures Reece, intending to keep his signature sense of humor intact.
“I didn’t know I had a unique sense of humor until people told me that. Essentially, I try to turn every movie into a comedy. It has always been about the same thing for me: ‘What can we do to have fun?,” he says.
Currently casting and looking to shoot later this fall,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall is still recovering after he was injured in an attack while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, according to a new update from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, he is making “remarkable” progress.
Scott, as well as Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace, recently visited Hall — who is rehabilitating at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas — to commemorate his upcoming 40th birthday and wish him well. After the visit, Scott shared an update with the staff in an internal memo.
“He looks incredible given everything he has endured, and he is truly an inspiration,” Scott wrote. “He still has a long road to recovery but his progress over the last four months has been nothing short of remarkable.”
Fox News correspondent Ben Hall with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and president and executive editor Jay Wallace (Fox News) Also Read:
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Scott, as well as Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace, recently visited Hall — who is rehabilitating at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas — to commemorate his upcoming 40th birthday and wish him well. After the visit, Scott shared an update with the staff in an internal memo.
“He looks incredible given everything he has endured, and he is truly an inspiration,” Scott wrote. “He still has a long road to recovery but his progress over the last four months has been nothing short of remarkable.”
Fox News correspondent Ben Hall with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and president and executive editor Jay Wallace (Fox News) Also Read:
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- 7/15/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Genre festival to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3.
Fantasia International Film Festival will host first wave world premieres for the likes of Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious and Satoshi Miki’s Convenience Story and a career achievement award for John Woo at the upcoming in-person summer edition.
Set to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3, the event will include workshops, and launch events. Screenings and select events will take place in Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinéma du Musée and McCord Museum. The full line-up will be unveiled in June.
Woo, whose credits include Hard Boiled,...
Fantasia International Film Festival will host first wave world premieres for the likes of Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious and Satoshi Miki’s Convenience Story and a career achievement award for John Woo at the upcoming in-person summer edition.
Set to run in Montreal from July 14-August 3, the event will include workshops, and launch events. Screenings and select events will take place in Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinéma du Musée and McCord Museum. The full line-up will be unveiled in June.
Woo, whose credits include Hard Boiled,...
- 5/6/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Hayley McFarland, Mary Buss, Ben Hall, Molly C. Quinn, Chris Browning | Written by Mickey Reece, John Selvidge | Directed by Mickey Reece
After giving us a unique twist on the vampire film in Climate of the Hunter, Mickey Reece and co-writer John Selvidge are back with Agnes, their take on demonic possession and evil doings in a convent. And while I knew this wasn’t going to be another nunsploitation film, I wasn’t expecting just what it delivers.
Sister Agnes is a young nun in an out-of-the-way convent of Saint Theresa. Her behaviour has been most troubling lately, foaming at the mouth, swearing at, and even attacking her fellow nuns. When Mother Superior (Mary Buss; Camp Cold Brook) asks for help she’s sent Father Donaghue an exorcist whom the diocese is looking for an excuse to excommunicate and his protege Ben.
A convent is in many ways the...
After giving us a unique twist on the vampire film in Climate of the Hunter, Mickey Reece and co-writer John Selvidge are back with Agnes, their take on demonic possession and evil doings in a convent. And while I knew this wasn’t going to be another nunsploitation film, I wasn’t expecting just what it delivers.
Sister Agnes is a young nun in an out-of-the-way convent of Saint Theresa. Her behaviour has been most troubling lately, foaming at the mouth, swearing at, and even attacking her fellow nuns. When Mother Superior (Mary Buss; Camp Cold Brook) asks for help she’s sent Father Donaghue an exorcist whom the diocese is looking for an excuse to excommunicate and his protege Ben.
A convent is in many ways the...
- 4/15/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Molly C. Quinn stars in the new indie horror film Agnes, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Quinn signed on as executive producer for Agnes with her production company QWGmire. Quinn has previously starred in the series Castle, as well as the film Doctor Sleep.
Agnes tells the horrific story of a nun who becomes possessed (Hayley McFarland) and is then subjected to an exorcism by a priest, played by Ben Hall (Climate of the Hunter), who was given the task as a form of punishment for his questionable past. Molly C. Quinn plays a nun named Mary who is friends with the possessed nun, Agnes, but is also dealing with her own demons, which leads her on a journey of self-discovery.
During a recent press day for Agnes, Daily Dead was delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Molly C. Quinn about her role in the film,...
Agnes tells the horrific story of a nun who becomes possessed (Hayley McFarland) and is then subjected to an exorcism by a priest, played by Ben Hall (Climate of the Hunter), who was given the task as a form of punishment for his questionable past. Molly C. Quinn plays a nun named Mary who is friends with the possessed nun, Agnes, but is also dealing with her own demons, which leads her on a journey of self-discovery.
During a recent press day for Agnes, Daily Dead was delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Molly C. Quinn about her role in the film,...
- 12/10/2021
- by Michelle Swope
- DailyDead
Mickey Reece is a filmmaker who, despite having made over 20 movies, has only had one theatrically released. It’s a bit of a sad irony how the timing worked out for Climate of the Hunter, initially screening at Fantastic Fest in 2019 before being delayed until theaters opened up in December last year. But in that messiness, it feels like it got a little lost, like so many great indie films did in the foggy Covid release landscape, though a new streaming home on Shudder has brought it more attention.
Climate of the Hunter, as the title suggests, is an examination of predatory men, personified in the film by Wesley, played with a sinister charm by Ben Hall. Two sisters make up the bulk of the rest of the characters, Alma (Ginger Gilmartin), a woman discharged from a mental institution an unspecified time ago, and Elizabeth (Mary Buss), who works in D.
Climate of the Hunter, as the title suggests, is an examination of predatory men, personified in the film by Wesley, played with a sinister charm by Ben Hall. Two sisters make up the bulk of the rest of the characters, Alma (Ginger Gilmartin), a woman discharged from a mental institution an unspecified time ago, and Elizabeth (Mary Buss), who works in D.
- 12/10/2021
- by Laura Riordan
- DailyDead
From Oklahoma City, indie filmmaker Mickey Reece has astoundingly made over twenty-five movies in a decade, often working on a very small budget. His new film Agnes premiered at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year and is now being released by Magnet Releasing. Star Molly C. Quinn even served as an executive producer through her production company QWGmire.
Agnes tells the story of a nun named Agnes (Hayley McFarland) who begins to show signs of possession, much to the dismay of her convent’s Mother Superior. Molly C. Quinn (Doctor Sleep) plays Mary, a nun who is friends with Agnes and who has been struggling internally since joining the convent. Ben Hall (Climate of the Hunter) plays Father Donaghue, a priest with a shady background who is called in to perform an exorcism on Agnes, along with a priest in training, Benjamin, played by Jake Horowitz. From there, the situation...
Agnes tells the story of a nun named Agnes (Hayley McFarland) who begins to show signs of possession, much to the dismay of her convent’s Mother Superior. Molly C. Quinn (Doctor Sleep) plays Mary, a nun who is friends with Agnes and who has been struggling internally since joining the convent. Ben Hall (Climate of the Hunter) plays Father Donaghue, a priest with a shady background who is called in to perform an exorcism on Agnes, along with a priest in training, Benjamin, played by Jake Horowitz. From there, the situation...
- 12/9/2021
- by Michelle Swope
- DailyDead
Mickey Reece’s “Agnes” is the kind of wild and wooly indie whatsit that we’re sometimes lucky enough to get from DIY filmmakers who shoot first and question themselves later. Introducing itself as a hackneyed slab of low-budget religious horror — the title character is a demon-afflicted nun who might as well be possessed by the IMDb quotes page for “The Exorcist” — sacred genre tropes soon fray into something less recognizable as Reece’s freeform plotting comes to reflect his film’s poignantly unorthodox relationship with faith. For all of its ruffled habits and bleeding eyes, “Agnes” is far sadder than it is scary, and often sillier than it is sad; the end product And yet, I’d argue that nothing in “The Conjuring” or any of its offshoots is as harrowing as the moment when someone in this movie is asked, “Have you ever felt love outside of God,...
- 12/9/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Those uncertain just how seriously Paul Verhoeven intended us to take the alternately earnest and lurid nunsploitation of “Benedetta” will be even more flummoxed by Mickey Reece’s “Agnes.” , in addition to being too underdeveloped and tonally wobbly to satisfy in themselves.
Unlike the squirrelly genre-bender that was the director’s last feature, “Climate of the Hunter,” conceptually near-random “Agnes” does not find its own singular terms to work within. Viewers lured in by the horror-movie marketing will be particularly irked by this bait-and-switch oddity, which Magnet releases to limited U.S. theaters and VOD on Dec. 10.
When a young nun suddenly begins ranting obscenities in a “demonic” voice at a Carmelite convent, the bishop informs Father Donaghue (Ben Hall) that he must attend to the situation. He’s been trained for such possession cases but is most reluctant to go, as he doesn’t “really believe in this medieval woo-woo” anymore,...
Unlike the squirrelly genre-bender that was the director’s last feature, “Climate of the Hunter,” conceptually near-random “Agnes” does not find its own singular terms to work within. Viewers lured in by the horror-movie marketing will be particularly irked by this bait-and-switch oddity, which Magnet releases to limited U.S. theaters and VOD on Dec. 10.
When a young nun suddenly begins ranting obscenities in a “demonic” voice at a Carmelite convent, the bishop informs Father Donaghue (Ben Hall) that he must attend to the situation. He’s been trained for such possession cases but is most reluctant to go, as he doesn’t “really believe in this medieval woo-woo” anymore,...
- 12/8/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Filmed over three years, 16mm documentary Anonymous Club gives unprecedented, intimate access to the private life of Courtney Barnett. A paradoxically introverted performer, she is – at the height of her success – ready to walk away. Directed by long-time collaborator Danny Cohen, the film sees Courtney record her innermost thoughts on a dictaphone, and begin her slow acceptance of the camera.
Following screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival, Brisbane International Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, Anonymous Club will launch in cinemas in March 2022 via Film Art Media.
Anonymous Club is a Film Camp production, produced by Philippa Campey and Samantha Dinning, and edited by Ben Hall.
The film was financed with the assistance of the Miff Premiere Fund, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, The Post Lounge, Mind The Gap Film Finance and Film Art Media, alongside private investment. Monoduo Films is handling rest of the world, while distributor Oscilloscope Films, established...
Following screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival, Brisbane International Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, Anonymous Club will launch in cinemas in March 2022 via Film Art Media.
Anonymous Club is a Film Camp production, produced by Philippa Campey and Samantha Dinning, and edited by Ben Hall.
The film was financed with the assistance of the Miff Premiere Fund, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, The Post Lounge, Mind The Gap Film Finance and Film Art Media, alongside private investment. Monoduo Films is handling rest of the world, while distributor Oscilloscope Films, established...
- 11/15/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Agnes Review Video — Agnes (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Mickey Reece, written by Mickey Reece and John Selvidge, and starring Molly C. Quinn, Sean Gunn, Hayley McFarland, Chris Browning, Rachel True, Jake Horowitz, Zandy Hartig, Bruce Davis, Chris Freihofer, Heather Siess, Ben Hall, Lorri [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Agnes (2021): Mickey Reece’s Film has Interesting Moments but Misses its Potential...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Agnes (2021): Mickey Reece’s Film has Interesting Moments but Misses its Potential...
- 11/15/2021
- by Chris Banks
- Film-Book
Exclusive: Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired worldwide rights to Agnes, a new horror thriller from filmmaker Mickey Reece, who has helmed more than 25 features.
The film won praise this summer during its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. It will next screen at Fantastic Fest, followed by a theatrical and on-demand release December 10.
In Agnes, a nun’s disturbing behavior at a remote convent sparks rumors of demonic possession. When a priest-in-waiting and his disillusioned mentor are sent to investigate, their methods backfire, leaving a wake of terror and trauma. The film stars Molly Quinn, Jake Horowitz, Sean Gunn, Chris Sullivan, Chris Browning, Ben Hall, Mary Buss, and Rachel True.
“Mickey Reece has delivered a truly original, truly disquieting work with Agnes,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles.
“I am thrilled to be releasing Agnes with Magnolia,” said Reece. I have long admired their enthusiasm for eclectic genre cinema,...
The film won praise this summer during its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. It will next screen at Fantastic Fest, followed by a theatrical and on-demand release December 10.
In Agnes, a nun’s disturbing behavior at a remote convent sparks rumors of demonic possession. When a priest-in-waiting and his disillusioned mentor are sent to investigate, their methods backfire, leaving a wake of terror and trauma. The film stars Molly Quinn, Jake Horowitz, Sean Gunn, Chris Sullivan, Chris Browning, Ben Hall, Mary Buss, and Rachel True.
“Mickey Reece has delivered a truly original, truly disquieting work with Agnes,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles.
“I am thrilled to be releasing Agnes with Magnolia,” said Reece. I have long admired their enthusiasm for eclectic genre cinema,...
- 9/2/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
To celebrate the Digital HD release of Climate of the Hunter – out 23rd August from Bulldog Film Distribution – we’re giving away a digital voucher.
A cross between Euro-horror classic Daughters of Darkness and George Romero’s vampire tale Martin, with a rural lo-fi charm all of its own, Climate of the Hunter is directed by the highly prolific Oklahoma-based film-maker Mickey Reece. Dubbed the “Soderbergh of the sticks”, Reece has been honing his craft making films for over a decade, building up a loyal cult following who love his idiosyncratic flair, literate scripts and defiantly independent approach.
Watch the official UK trailer: https://youtu.be/EA3LjvlL1Z8
Strikingly filmed in saturated 70s-style colours, with “quality performances” (Kim Newman) from the cast (with Ben Hall recalling horror maestro John Carradine), a beautifully claustrophobic gothic atmosphere tinged with unexpected eroticism, Climate of the Hunter is a vampire film like no other,...
A cross between Euro-horror classic Daughters of Darkness and George Romero’s vampire tale Martin, with a rural lo-fi charm all of its own, Climate of the Hunter is directed by the highly prolific Oklahoma-based film-maker Mickey Reece. Dubbed the “Soderbergh of the sticks”, Reece has been honing his craft making films for over a decade, building up a loyal cult following who love his idiosyncratic flair, literate scripts and defiantly independent approach.
Watch the official UK trailer: https://youtu.be/EA3LjvlL1Z8
Strikingly filmed in saturated 70s-style colours, with “quality performances” (Kim Newman) from the cast (with Ben Hall recalling horror maestro John Carradine), a beautifully claustrophobic gothic atmosphere tinged with unexpected eroticism, Climate of the Hunter is a vampire film like no other,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Something is wrong with Agnes (Hayley McFarland). She’s behaving in a most unseemly way for a nun and her Mother Superior suspects, well, the usual – that some demonic entity has succeeded in getting hold of her. Naturally the Church is a bit embarrassed by this and would prefer to avoid reports leaking into the wider world, so it turns to Father Donaghue (Ben Hall) and earnest young acolyte Benjamin (Jake Horowitz) for help. Benjamin, told not to let anyone know that he isn’t yet ordained, instantly inspires lustful comments from the nuns and thus attracts the Mother Superior’s ire. Donaghue is caught up in accusations that he abused a child, but this is, at least in context, treated as less of a problem. its primary function is to discomfort the viewer as the charismatic Hall draws us onto his side.
This is very distinctly a Mickey Reece film,...
This is very distinctly a Mickey Reece film,...
- 8/22/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Agnes begins how any other possession film might––with the discovery of a demonic presence. When the convent of Saint Theresa fear there’s evil inhabiting the body of one of their young nuns, they outsource help from the diocese. Things quickly, expectedly start to unravel from there. But director Mickey Reece wants you to forget everything you know about possession and exorcism in film––or, well, maybe not. Because part of what makes his new feature Agnes work so beautifully is its very upending of expectations for that particular horror subgenre. With over twenty-five feature films thus far, spanning his career since 2008 as a lower-budget indie darling––and who impressed with a wider reach with last year’s Fantasia staple Climate of the Hunter––Reece makes clear how films like The Conjuring franchise have been failing us. Reece (alongside co-writer John Selvidge) has crafted a disarming, funny, incredibly unique...
- 8/21/2021
- by Brianna Zigler
- The Film Stage
Stars: Ginger Gilmartin, Mary Buss, Ben Hall, Sheridan McMichael, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Jacob Ryan Snovel, Laurie Cummings | Written by Mickey Reece, John Selvidge | Directed by Mickey Reece
Writer/director Mickey Reece has flown under the radar somewhat here in the UK but finally his new film, Climate of the Hunter, along with a number of films from his back catalogue are getting a UK release from Bulldog Film Distribution. The film is set in the 70s and is an elegant mix of melodrama and, potentially, vampirism. Sort of like Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte meets Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
Alma (Ginger Gilmartin; Fingerprints) and Elizabeth are sisters. They’re also totally different. Alma is a recently divorced artist who smokes lots of weed and has a dog who is a philosopher. Elizabeth is a Washington DC lawyer whose career takes the place of a family. They’re at Alma...
Writer/director Mickey Reece has flown under the radar somewhat here in the UK but finally his new film, Climate of the Hunter, along with a number of films from his back catalogue are getting a UK release from Bulldog Film Distribution. The film is set in the 70s and is an elegant mix of melodrama and, potentially, vampirism. Sort of like Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte meets Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
Alma (Ginger Gilmartin; Fingerprints) and Elizabeth are sisters. They’re also totally different. Alma is a recently divorced artist who smokes lots of weed and has a dog who is a philosopher. Elizabeth is a Washington DC lawyer whose career takes the place of a family. They’re at Alma...
- 8/20/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Every wacky detail of indie auteur Mickey Reece’s movie is a reminder of what fun even the oddest art films can be
If you’re an aficionado of Oklahoma’s DIY arts scene, you’ve likely heard of “the Flyover Fassbinder” Aka “the Backwoods Bergman” Aka musican-turned-film-maker, Mickey Reece. For everyone else: welcome to the party. This languid and lascivious vampire movie is the first of the indie auteur’s 37 no-budget films to make it much past the US south-west’s film festival circuit. Reece has modestly described his style as “people talking in rooms” – but, oh what people! His other films tell of demonically possessed nuns, cryogenically frozen country singers and Elvis Presley; Climate of the Hunter is a kind of 70s erotic horror pastiche about two middle-aged sisters, Alma (Ginger Gilmartin) and Elizabeth (Mary Buss), vying for the attentions of their house guest.
Philosophising lothario Wesley (Ben Hall) is an old friend,...
If you’re an aficionado of Oklahoma’s DIY arts scene, you’ve likely heard of “the Flyover Fassbinder” Aka “the Backwoods Bergman” Aka musican-turned-film-maker, Mickey Reece. For everyone else: welcome to the party. This languid and lascivious vampire movie is the first of the indie auteur’s 37 no-budget films to make it much past the US south-west’s film festival circuit. Reece has modestly described his style as “people talking in rooms” – but, oh what people! His other films tell of demonically possessed nuns, cryogenically frozen country singers and Elvis Presley; Climate of the Hunter is a kind of 70s erotic horror pastiche about two middle-aged sisters, Alma (Ginger Gilmartin) and Elizabeth (Mary Buss), vying for the attentions of their house guest.
Philosophising lothario Wesley (Ben Hall) is an old friend,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Following the release of the vampiric Climate of the Hunter last year, filmmaker Mickey Reece will take viewers into the world of exorcisms with his next movie, Agnes, and we have a look at the teaser trailer ahead of the film's world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
Directed by Reece from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Selvidge, Agnes stars Molly Quinn, Jake Horowitz, Sean Gunn, Chris Browning, Ben Hall, Mary Buss, and Chris Sullivan.
To learn more about how you can watch Agnes from the comfort of your own home (beginning June 12th) as part of the virtual "Tribeca at Home" festival experience, visit:
https://tribecafilm.com/films/agnes-2021
Synopsis: "A nun’s disturbing behavior sparks rumors of demonic possession at a remote convent. When a priest-in-waiting and his disillusioned mentor are sent to investigate, their methods backfire, leaving a wake of terror and trauma."
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Directed by Reece from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Selvidge, Agnes stars Molly Quinn, Jake Horowitz, Sean Gunn, Chris Browning, Ben Hall, Mary Buss, and Chris Sullivan.
To learn more about how you can watch Agnes from the comfort of your own home (beginning June 12th) as part of the virtual "Tribeca at Home" festival experience, visit:
https://tribecafilm.com/films/agnes-2021
Synopsis: "A nun’s disturbing behavior sparks rumors of demonic possession at a remote convent. When a priest-in-waiting and his disillusioned mentor are sent to investigate, their methods backfire, leaving a wake of terror and trauma."
The post Watch...
- 6/2/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Ymu Group has confirmed it will rebrand leading scripted talent firm Troika as Ymu Drama and Comedy, effective July 1. The Troika brand will be discontinued as the division is fully integrated within the group, following a management shakeup.
As reported exclusively by Variety in May, Troika co-founders Conor McCaughan and Michael Duff have left the agency. Collectively, they represented some of the British industry’s top names, including Jamie Dornan, Michael Fassbender, Paddy Considine, Ruth Wilson, Babou Ceesay, Peter Capaldi, Holliday Grainger, Michaela Coel and Lena Headey.
Melanie Rockcliffe, the third co-founder of Troika, now a director of Ymu Group, said: “Although I am of course sad to see the Troika name disappear, I’m excited for my team and clients to be part of the new integrated, forward-thinking and future-facing Ymu Group.”
Former Curtis Brown CEO Ben Hall joined Troika in May as executive chairman.
Ymu Group said the...
As reported exclusively by Variety in May, Troika co-founders Conor McCaughan and Michael Duff have left the agency. Collectively, they represented some of the British industry’s top names, including Jamie Dornan, Michael Fassbender, Paddy Considine, Ruth Wilson, Babou Ceesay, Peter Capaldi, Holliday Grainger, Michaela Coel and Lena Headey.
Melanie Rockcliffe, the third co-founder of Troika, now a director of Ymu Group, said: “Although I am of course sad to see the Troika name disappear, I’m excited for my team and clients to be part of the new integrated, forward-thinking and future-facing Ymu Group.”
Former Curtis Brown CEO Ben Hall joined Troika in May as executive chairman.
Ymu Group said the...
- 6/26/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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