Author: olamideadio

What do you get when you mash up a family with an anti-tech father, a tech-savvy, aspiring filmmaker daughter, a damage-control diplomatic mother, a seven-year-old obsessive paleontologist, and a bizarre pug, then pit them against an army of sentient rogue AI robots? The odds of that reality—such a motley crew of eccentrics existing together as a family unit in that scenario—are exciting, yet low, but this is the premise of Mike Rianda’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines. To answer the question, what you get is a 1h 53m comedy fest that opens and ends expectedly, yet surprises with its overwhelming…

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The Water Man movie, slated for a May 2021 release, is directed and co-produced by David Oyelowo. This will be the veteran actor’s directorial debut which is a fascinating development in David Oyelowo’s Hollywood career. The trailer opens with an animated mythology of the water man, arguing for his reality. He still lives by the lake searching the water and the woods for his wife. It shows Gunner (Lonnie Chavis, This is Us), a teenager, reading the myth from a book. The production companies’ logos are presented in a quick series of shots, which ends with the Yoruba Saxon emblem…

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