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"Sometimes it feels like our country is at war with itself." Gravitas Ventures has revealed the official trailer for an indie film titled A Great Divide, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jean Shim. This premiered last year at the Bentonville Film Fest, playing at the Heartland & Hawaii Film Festivals as well, though this is the first time we've encountered it. Always good to discover more "where did this come from?" indie gems. The Lee family leave the Bay Area for a fresh start living in the rural expanses of Wyoming, only to encounter hostility, racism, and xenophobia in their new small town community. How they confront these issues will break them – or make them stronger. A Great Divide also focuses on their son Benjamin, played Emerson Min, struggling with his new life. Jae Suh Park and Ken Jeong co-star as his parents, along with MeeWha Alana Lee as Grandma,...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired the North American distribution rights to Lou Simon’s “9 Windows,” a modern re-telling of Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic, “Rear Window.”

A modern take on the Hitchcockian classic, “9 Windows” made history as the first feature-length, live-action film shot entirely on an extended reality film stage. The film stars Independent Spirit Award Nominee Michael Forsythe and Michael Paré

“On the day of her graduation, Liza and her parents are driving to a restaurant to celebrate when a truck slams into their car. Eighteen months after the car accident, Liza is unable to walk and lives alone after her parents’ death. Feeling responsible, Liza spends her days trolling vloggers on a local website. Late one night, a new video is uploaded in which a man sets fire to a dog. She reports it to the police, but the police detective, Boyle, cannot be bothered with a misdemeanor.

“Prison Break” is getting another sentence, as a new series set in the world of the beloved Fox drama is being developed by Hulu, Variety has confirmed.

“Mayans M.C.” co-creator and showrunner Elgin James is writing the show, which is in early stages of development, via his Sierra Drive banner. The new installment, via 20th Television, is not expected to feature the characters at the center of the original jailhouse drama, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell).

James executive produces alongside Dawn Olmstead, “Prison Break” creator Paul Scheuring, Marty Adelstein and Neal Moritz. In addition to the “Sons of Anarchy” spinoff “Mayans,” James also co-created with Stephen Merchant the Amazon Studios/BBC One series “The Outlaws,” starring Christopher Walken.

“Prison Break” ran for five seasons on Fox and spawned a TV movie, “The Final Break,” and a low-budget spinoff, “Prison Break: Proof of Innocence,” which...

Exclusive: Great Divide, which explores the wave of anti-Asian racism that sprang up in the wake of Covid, has wrapped principal photography on location in Jackson, Wy.

The film, about a Korean American family that leaves the Bay Area for the rural expanses of Wyoming in the early days of lockdown, features Emerson Min as Benjamin Lee, a young boy struggling with the trauma of loss during the pandemic.

Ken Jeong and Jae Suh Park play Isaac and Jenna Lee, Benjamin’s parents, each of whom has a different agendas for their move to Wyoming — Isaac has a new job, Jenna wants to ensure that Benjamin gets into the college of her choice. MeeWha Alana Lee plays Grandma Shim, Jenna’s mother, who has an important lesson to impart to her beloved grandson and a lifetime of memories to share with him before it’s too late. Miya Cech is Ellie Licht,...

There’s nothing the internet loves more than videos of people freaking out on planes. This is especially true in the age of Covid-19, in which mask and vaccine requirements have made air travel significantly more high-pressure than usual: we love watching a Karen go Ham on an unsuspecting flight attendant or passenger, and then to watch her get her comeuppance for it later.

But if there’s anything we’ve learned about viral content, it’s that if a video seems too good to be true, it probably isn’t.

AMC’s sci-fi drama Humans is powering down after three seasons, TVLine has confirmed. The series, which was also produced by the UK’s Channel 4, aired its final episode in July 2018.

“Sadly, there won’t be a 4th season of Humans,” reads a joint statement from creators Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley. “In this age of unprecedented choice and competition, we can have no complaints. Channel 4 & AMC were the perfect partners. They supported the show brilliantly and above all – let us make three seasons!”

The statement also addresses the series’ unfinished and open-ended conclusion: “We know we left some threads hanging.

Vulture WatchWhat will become of the conscious Synths? Has the Humans TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on AMC? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Humans season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  What's This TV Show About?The Humans TV show takes place in a parallel present, where the latest must-have gadget for any home is a Synthetic. But what happens when these Synths are given the right to consciousness and their own free will? The AMC cast includes Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington, Colin Morgan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucy Carless, Theo Stevenson, Pixie Davies, Carrie-Anne Moss, Marshall Allman, Neil Maskell, Ruth Bradley, Will Tudor, Sonya Cassidy, Sam Palladio, Bella Dayne, and Letitia Wright. Season...

Vulture WatchWhat will become of the conscious Synths? Has the Humans TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on AMC? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Humans season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  What's This TV Show About?The Humans TV show takes place in a parallel present, where the latest must-have gadget for any home is a Synthetic. But what happens when these Synths are given the right to consciousness and their own free will? The AMC cast includes Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington, Colin Morgan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucy Carless, Theo Stevenson, Pixie Davies, Carrie-Anne Moss, Marshall Allman, Neil Maskell, Ruth Bradley, Will Tudor, Sonya Cassidy, Sam Palladio, Bella Dayne, and Letitia Wright. Season...

Network: FoxEpisodes: 90 (hour)Seasons: FiveTV show dates: August 29, 2005 -- May 15, 2009April 4, 2017 -- May 30, 2017Series status: Cancelled, then revived for one seasonPerformers include: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams, Sarah Wayne Callies, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Robin Tunney, Stacy Keach, Leon Russom, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Peter Stormare, Muse Watson, Frank Grillo, Jason Davis, Christian Stolte, Patricia Wettig, Barbara Eve Harris, Michael Rapaport, Reggie Lee, Matt DeCaro, Mac Brandt, Chris Vance, Danay Garcia, and Lane Garrison.TV show description: This drama follows Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) as he works to free his older brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) from a maximum security prison. "Linc" has been wrongfully convicted of the murder of the Vice-President's brother and is scheduled to be executed.

Nearly a decade after Prison Break went off the air, the beloved prison drama returns for a brand new chapter on Tuesday, marking the returns of series stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell. Though a lot has happened since 2009 -- when Prison Break wrapped up its original run with Michael Scofield’s supposed death -- there was a deep desire to go back to basics and lean into what made the show's early seasons successful.

“That was the intention. If we’re going to bring it back, let’s try to recapture some of that vibe and magic of that first season,” creator Paul T. Scheuring told Et ahead of Tuesday’s premiere, citing J.J. Abrams’ 2015 blockbuster, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as an unlikely inspiration. “What he did so wonderfully was he evoked that original feel of the first Star Wars movies and brought back a lot of the original characters and supplemented them with...

It's just human nature that we're happy to report the Humans TV show has been renewed for a third season on AMC and UK Channel 4. Season two just concluded last week on AMC, with a cliffhanger no less, so cancellation would have been inhumane.A sci-fi drama airing on the AMC cable channel in the Us, Humans stars Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington, Colin Morgan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucy Carless, Theo Stevenson, Pixie Davies, Carrie-Anne Moss, Marshall Allman, Neil Maskell, Ruth Bradley, Will Tudor, Sonya Cassidy, Sam Palladio, Bella Dayne, and Letitia Wright. The series takes place in a parallel present, where the latest must-have gadget for any home is a Synthetic. But what happens when these Synths are given the right to consciousness and their own free will? Read More…...

Airing on AMC, the Humans TV show is a co-production with Channel 4 and Kudos in Britain. Season two aired in the UK months ago so, could that hurt the ratings for AMC? Because Humans is a co-production, does it need strong ratings? Will it be renewed for a third season or, will it be cancelled instead? Stay tuned.The Humans TV show takes place in a parallel present, where the latest must-have gadget for any home is a Synthetic. But what happens when these Synths are given the right to consciousness and their own free will? The cast includes Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington, Colin Morgan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucy Carless, Theo Stevenson, Pixie Davies, Carrie-Anne Moss, Marshall Allman, Neil Maskell, Ruth Bradley, Will Tudor, Sonya Cassidy, Sam Palladio, Bella Dayne, and Letitia Wright. The second season picks up with Niska (Berrington) still at...

Are you ready for the second season of Humans? Will Tudor, who stars as outdated synth Odi, is teasing the second season of the British sci-fi TV show, premiering in UK on Channel 4, on October 30th. In the Us, Humans, season two debuts on AMC is February 2017. Warning: Humans spoilers after the jump.The second series of Humans picks up months after the season one finale. Niska (Emily Berrington) is still at large and in possession of the consciousness code. Her synth family, Mia (Gemma Chan), Leo (Colin Morgan) and Max (Ivanno Jeremiah), unaware of her location, are each trying to find their place in the world. Meanwhile, Joe (Tom Goodman-Hill) and Laura (Katherine Parkinson) attempt to mend their marriage. The cast also includes Marshall Allman and Carrie-Anne Moss.Read More…...

Carrie Anne-Moss (Jessica Jones), Sam Palladio (Nashville), Marshall Allman (Prison Break) Sonya Cassidy (Olympus) and Letitia Wright (Cucumber/Banana) have joined the Season 2 cast of AMC and Channel 4 sci-fi drama series Humans. Moss will play Dr. Athena Morrow, a pre-eminent Artificial Intelligence expert who is driven by her own motives to create a new kind of machine consciousness. Palladio is Ed, a struggling café owner trying to breathe life into his family…...

A pair of familiar looking Humans are boarding the sci-fi drama’s Season 2 cast.

Jessica Jones‘ Carrie-Anne Moss and Nashville‘s Sam Palladio have joined the acclaimed AMC series, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Moss will play the series-regular role of Dr. Athena Morrow, a pre-eminent Artificial Intelligence expert who is driven by her own motives to create a new kind of machine consciousness. Palladio, meanwhile, takes on the recurring role of Ed, a struggling café owner trying to breathe life into his family business.

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Exclusive: Sam Smith doc, Bryan Greenberg comedy-drama among pick-ups for La-based outfit.

La-based distributor Vision Films has bolstered its line-up with a trio of acquisitions.

Comedy-drama A Year And Change stars Bryan Greenberg (Friends with Benefits) as a man who decides to make some wholesale changes in his life after an accident at a New Year’s Eve party. Co-stars include T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy), Jamie Chung (Big Hero 6), Claire van der Boom (Hawaii Five-o), Marshall Allman (True Blood) and Jamie Hector (Halo: Reach).

Rom-com A Date with Miss Fortune stars Ryan Scott as a man whose luck changes after meeting a beautiful Portuguese woman, played by Jeannette Sousa. Canada’s John L’Ecuyer directs.

Music documentary biopic Sam Smith: Dreams Come True - which includes performances of the musician’s most popular songs – will get a multi-continent release in partnership with distributor Odeon Entertainment Group in the UK.

It was revealed...

Long-gestating Xbox One exclusive, Quantum Break, finally has a release date. Mark April 5th in your calendar everyone – that’s when you’ll finally get the chance to pick up and play Quantum Break in all of its glory.

Glory is an appropriate word to use, too, as Remedy’s Xbox One debut looks absolutely stunning in terms of visuals, and they’re being backed up by an innovative new time-based combat system that lets the player freeze and manipulate time in several different ways.

In addition to all of that, Remedy have come out with a massive list of Hollywood clout that’ll be lending their talents to both the game and its counterpart live-action series, which will be fused together to form an experience that is “greater than the sum of its parts.”

You can check out the confirmed cast members below:

Shawn Ashmore as Jack Joyce Dominic Monaghan...

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Artificial intelligence drama Humans returns to Channel 4 in the UK this October, and here's the first-look trailer...

Here's a minute-long look at Humans series two, courtesy of The Guardian.

In the second eight-part series, Synths all over the world are experiencing 'a catastrophic malfunction', or in Mattie's words 'waking up' and questioning the status they've been afforded by humans.

See Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington, Colin Morgan, Katherine Parkinson, Carrie-Ann Moss and more in clips from the new episodes below, which arrive on Channel 4 in the UK this October.

We'll have much more on the series, including cast interviews, as the air date approaches.

Human series 2 start date

Humans series 2 will return to Channel 4 on Sunday the 30th of October 2016 at 9pm here in the UK. We'll bring you the AMC Us start date as soon as one is confirmed.

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Taylor Swift to shut down Hollywood Blvd for her "Jimmy Kimmel Live” debut She'll perform on the Kimmel show and sit on his couch for the 1st time on Thursday, Oct. 23 (Swift previously appeared in a segment with Guillermo). Over the course of a week, Swift will appear on three ABC shows — “Gma,” “The View” and Kimmel. “Star Wars Rebels” sets a Disney Xd record The premiere's 1.03 million viewers makes it the most-watched cartoon in Disney Xd history. “The Affair” has a disappointing debut About 507,000 watched the premiere of the Showtime series, which is way below the 872,000 who watched the launch of “Penny Dreadful” and the 1 million who tuned in for the “Masters of Sex” premiere. Click Read Full Post For More ABC orders “Men in Shorts,” based on openly gay soccer player Robbie Rogers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are producing the comedy based on the life of the...

Thrice as nice! Jamie Anne Allman is pregnant and expecting her third child with husband Marshall Allman, her rep confirms exclusively to Us Weekly. Allman and the True Blood actor are expecting a baby girl in June. Jamie and Marshall tied the knot in 2006 and welcomed premature twin boys Asher and Oliver back in January 2013. "Oliver was 2 lbs., 11 oz., and he was discharged at 7 lbs., 7 oz," the new mom told Us exclusively. "Asher was 3 lbs., but he was discharged from [...]...

Also Known as The Bounceback. Watch the trailer for Tribeca Film's Love & Air Sex, starring Ashley Bell, Zach Cregger, Sasra Paxton, Michael Stahl-David, Addison Timlin, Marshall Allman and Justin Arnold, When brokenhearted Stan (Stahl-David) flies to Austin for the weekend in hopes of "accidentally" running into his ex-girlfriend Cathy (Bell), he arrives to find their best friends Jeff (Cregger, "The Whitest Kids U'Know")and Kara (Paxton) in the middle of their own vicious breakup. Before too long, battle lines are drawn – and with the Air Sex World Championships in town, anything can go down.

Untitled Gerardo Naranjo Project

Dakota Fanning is attached to star in "Miss Bala" director Gerardo Naranjo’s untitled coming-of-age story which he wrote and will helm for Verisimilitude. Alex Orlovsky and Hunter Gray will produce.

Fanning plays Viena, a roadie who’s on a journey of self-discovery and survival as part of a punk band’s convoy, traveling through America circa the 1980s. Shooting is slated to begin in February. [Source: Deadline]

A Year and Change

Bryan Greenberg ("How To Make It In America") are set to join Stephen Seuttinger's indie dramedy "A Year And Change". Knight, Marshall Allman, Jamie Hector, Kat Foster and Jamie Chung also star.

Greenberg plays a man who falls off a roof at a New Year’s house party. Over the next year, he changes his life - quits drinking, re-enters his estranged son’s life, reignites old friendships, and falls in love with a fellow divorcee.

Much like how the studios push their superhero movies at San Diego Comic-Con, Darren Aronofsky gave a church conference the first look at his Old Testament tale, "Noah."

The "Black Swan" filmmaker cast Russell Crowe as the title character in "Noah," due in theaters next year. Just as Mel Gibson took "The Passion of the Christ" to the core Christian audience nearly a decade ago (with many studios following suit when marketing faith-based films), Aronofsky and Paramount chose the Echo Conference in Dallas, Texas to unveil the first look at "Noah," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Echo is billed as "a church conference for artists, geeks, and storytellers" that explores "creativity in leadership, visuals, communications/branding, tech, and worship." Speakers at this year's event (which wrapped up Friday, July 26) included pastors, a Google employee, musicians and authors like Donald Miller, whose "Blue Like Jazz" was adapted into a 2012 movie starring...

Prison Break, Season 1, “Pilot”

Directed by Brett Ratner

Written by Paul Scheuring

Originally aired: August 29, 2005

This is a grand age of serialized TV drama where networks don’t shy away from airing shows with complex arcs. There’s a downside to this extended story line, however. Creators may plan out multiple seasons for their characters, but they slow the pace down to a crawl. The episodes feel their length, and the audience is just waiting for the rare moments when something happens. Glacially paced series like Flash Forward and The Killing had a good start but became nearly unbearable by mid-season. Thankfully, there are amazing shows that dive into the action like every episode is their last. Even long-running classic shows like Battlestar Galactica and Lost didn’t waste any time and delivered remarkable drama from the start. Another intriguing example is Prison Break, which premiered on Fox on August...

Double the fun! The Killing's Jamie Anne Allman gave birth to twin boys on Thursday, Jan 31., Us Weekly reports. The actress, who married True Blood actor Marshall Allman in 2006, welcomed two premature boys, Oliver Charles and Asher James, but wasn't able to bring them home until late April. "Oliver was 2 lbs., 11 oz., and he was discharged at 7 lbs., 7 oz," she told the mag. "Asher was 3 lbs., but he was discharged from the hospital at 8 lbs., 1 oz." Allman's pregnancy was not a smooth road, either. She encountered major bouts of sickness, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and was finally admitted to the hospital in January after having a bladder...

In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, The Killing's Jamie Anne Allman reveals she had a "horrible" pregnancy that resulted in the premature birth of twin boys. Eighty-one days before her due date, the actress welcomed sons Asher James and Oliver Charles on Thursday, Jan. 31. Jamie, who wed True Blood's Marshall Allman in 2006, didn't get to take her boys home until late April. "Oliver was 2 lbs., 11 oz., and he was discharged at 7 lbs., 7 oz," she says of her son. "Asher was [...]...

South by Southwest (SXSW) is just one of many film festivals, we here at Sound On Sight cover yearly. The fest, which takes place every spring in Austin, Texas, began in 1987, and has continued to grow in size every year. The fest announced the first wave of films back in early January, and the lineup included some highly anticipated films such as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Evil Dead, Downloaded and Spring Breakers. Now the full lineup has been announced, and it just might be one of the best lineups the festival has ever programmed.

SXSW takes place March 8-16 in Austin Texas. Here are just some of the films we are excited about.

Narrative Feature Competition – This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,191 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere.

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Director/Screenwriter: Todd Sklar, Screenwriter: Alex Rennie

Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when...

True Blood's Marshall Allman and The Killing actress Jamie Anne Allman are expecting twins. The couple confirmed to People that Jamie recently learned she is pregnant. "We were ecstatic to find out we were pregnant and overjoyed to learn they were fraternal twins," the stars said in a joint statement. They added: "Twins run in both of our families so we were prepared (more)...

'The Killing' star Jamie Anne Allman and her husband Marshall Allman couldn't keep the big news to themselves -- they're having twins! This spring, Jamie Anne Allman and her husband, True Blood star Marshall Allman will be expecting their first set of children -- twins! Congrats to the happy couple! "We were ecstatic to find out we were pregnant and overjoyed to learn they were fraternal twins,” the couple tells People. The couple knew they had it coming. They continued to say, "Twins run in both of our families so we were prepared for the possibility, but we know we’re gonna need all the prayers and help we can get.” So how'd they break the news to their friends and family? “Both of us being actors, we made a film,” they tell People. “It made it super fun and easy to share the news in a surprising way across the country.

Was this the funniest Sons of Anarchy episode, yet?

Tonight’s Sons of Anarchy was a curve ball of sorts.

So let’s start by exposing the pink elephant in the room – or, rather Walter Goggins as Venus Van Dam.

Holy crap.

Justified’s Boyd Crowder showed up in Charming as a transvestite “escort” in the employ of Nero. Seeing him in a wig was funny enough. However, seeing Goggins dressed up with prosthetic breasts was totally off the charts hilarious. In a post Opie world, it was definitely not the tone fans were expecting on Soa.

But, it caught several laughs, especially with Tig eye balling Ms. Van Dam.

One could argue that “Orca Shrugged” was one of the most humorous episodes of Sons of Anarchy to date.

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Spoiler alert! If you haven’t watched this week’s Sons of Anarchy, stop reading now. There’s a guest spot that should remain a surprise. Now, let’s dig in.

As I said when I reviewed this episode in EW’s What to Watch section, season 5 has been so heartbreakingly brutal that fans deserve a bit of a reprieve. This hour, “Orca Shrugged,” definitely felt like one, even with the dramatic turn in the home-invasion story line (which I suspect we all saw coming the moment Eli kissed wife Rita’s belly). You might recall a tweet from Soa...

Chicago – There’s a reason why the terms “Christian” and “filmmaker” don’t seem to go together. Pictures that push religious agendas tend to sacrifice complex plots and characters in favor of amplifying its message. These films fail not only as entertainment but as quality storytelling. Whenever an aspiring artist attempts to speak for a group rather than oneself, it’s almost always a recipe for tediously preachy dreck.

The mediocre output from studios such as Affirm Films and the mercifully scrapped Fox Faith soured many filmgoers on modern Christian entertainment by displaying an utter lack of interest in artistic integrity. Many doubting Christians found their frustrations mirrored in the 2003 book, “Blue Like Jazz,” a collection of essays written by Donald Miller, who reflected on his evolving faith while auditing courses at Portland’s liberal arts school, Reed College. Director Steve Taylor’s film version of the book functions as...

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A Separation (Sony) This drama from Iran won the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, telling the story of a couple who file for a legal separation, with the wife pushing for a divorce. He won’t leave his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father behind, while she is wanting to take their young daughter with her to the United States. After a series of misunderstandings, threats and legal actions, the couple find that there is more than just their marriage that’s on the line. Hyper-realistic to a fault, reminiscent of the neo-realist films that came out of post-ww II Europe, but also repressive and redundant in the extreme, with the characters seeming to throw the same temper tantrum for two hours straight while the story, meanwhile, seems stalled. Wildly overpraised film is a real litmus test, with viewers seeming to be staunch defenders or equally impassioned detractors. It did win an Oscar,...

*full disclosure: a Blu-Ray screener of this film was provided by HBO Home Entertainment. Director: Michael Lehmann. Writers: Alan Ball, Charlaine Harris, and Alexander Woo. Cast: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kevin Alejandro, and Marshall Allman. "True Blood: Season 4" released on DVD and Blu-Ray May 29th and this season is this reviewer's introduction to the television series. Most fans of the show will know a whole lot more beyond what is discussed here. And really, this review is an intro' to Seas. 4 and to some of the special features hosted on the release, of which there are many. For those unfamiliar with the show, "True Blood" is a fictional show set in Louisiana. Here, all sorts of monsters reign. There are vampires, shapeshifters, fairies, panthers, witches and likely a few other beasts. All of these groups of mostly hairy ne'er-do-wells compete for control of a small parish.

An adaptation of Christian author Donald Miller’s New York Times bestseller listed memoirs, Blue Like Jazz is a film that is going to face an unusual level of critique, scrutiny and judgment, likely to come particularly from those at both ends of the religious spectrum. A challenging book to turn into a film due to its stream of consciousness narration, director Steve Taylor and crew have for the most part succeeded in turning out a generally entertaining film, but one that will probably be too centered on Christianity for those averse to religion and too “edgy” for those of the Christian faith who like their films Kirk Cameronesque. We had the opportunity to met up with writer/director Steve Taylor and star Marshall Allman at SXSW 2012 and have a conversation about Blue Like Jazz. Enjoy! Linc Leifeste’s full review of Blue Like Jazz.

Jamie Anne Allman may be most prominently known for her role as Martha Shaw alongside Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook. Currently, she holds a starring role in the hit AMC series, The Killing, which focuses on the investigation of Rosie Larsen’s murder. Jamie’s character, Terry Marek, is Mitch Larsen’s younger sister and Rosie’s aunt.

I recently caught up with Jamie and we discussed her character in The Killing, the show itself and yes, of course I asked about Ryan Gosling!

Be sure to check out The Killing, Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on AMC.

Is there anything you can tell about what’s to come for your character, Terry Marek, in The Killing as the finale approaches?

Jamie Anne Allman: Yes. For the rest of the episodes, there’s some stuff coming up with her and Mitch [Larsen]. I think Terry feels like...

Blue Like Jazz

Directed by: Steve Taylor

Cast: Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, Jason Marsden, Justin Welborn

Running Time: 1 hr 47 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Chicago)

Plot: A young man (Allman) with extremely religious roots leaves his Southern Baptist bubble to enter the “most godless college in America,” located in Portland, Oregon. While there, he meets a political young girl (Holt) and a punk who dresses up as the pope (Welbern).

Who’S It For? If you’re tired of cheesy religious movies, or crazy people ruining the positive aspects of faith, this movie is definitely for you. That being said, it’s the rare type of religiously-focused movie that will give the Ned Flanders’ of America a true heart attack.

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It’s not any type of revelation to say that a great deal of religious entertainment can be substandard to mainstream entertainment, and not just in the discussion of budget.

Blue Like Jazz represents Steve Taylor’s sophomore outing as a feature director. A riotous adaptation of Donald Miller’s book of essays reworked by Taylor, Miller and co-writer Ben Pearson into a tale of coming of age and crisis of faith, the films follows young Donald Miller (Marshall Allman) as he breaks free from his fundamentalist Christian life in Texas to explore the larger world via Portland, Ore....

Title: Blue Like Jazz Director: Steve Taylor Starring: Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, Tania Raymonde, Justin Welborn Offbeat and shaggy but never emotionally false or hollow, director Steve Taylor’s “Blue Like Jazz” is a precious, precocious coming-of-age story that highlights the difficulties of reconciling the manner in which one has been raised with the discovery and integration of new thoughts, ideas and belief systems. Based on Donald Miller’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name — and adapted for the screen in a somewhat unusual but decidedly fruitful collaboration between Miller, Taylor and cinematographer Ben Pearson – the movie, a world premiere at the recent SXSW Festival, is a delightfully engaging dramedy that wrestles [ Read More ]...

Blue Like Jazz is based on the New York Times best-selling book of the same title by Donald Miller, and an official selection in the SXSW (South By Southwest) Film Festival. This alone may be enough for some to count this film as an unwavering success, but despite the film’s valiant efforts, it is not without it’s flaws. That being said, the film is also far from being a waste of the viewer’s time… in fact, I encourage seeing this film for what it is, flaws and all, because it’s the kind of movie we rarely see in theaters, and one that is rarely as accomplished as this one has turned out within it’s distinct genre of storytelling.

Directed by Steve Taylor, Blue Like Jazz is a story of faith and how it collides with one’s struggle to find his place in the world.

In Theaters Blue Like Jazz Where: Nationwide, in limited release. What: Based on a popular book of essays by Donald Miller, the drama focuses on the crisis of faith experienced by a young man from Texas (Marshall Allman) after he travels to Oregon to enroll in college at ‘the most godless campus in America.’ The filmmakers raised a portion of the budget through individual contributions, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Why Go: For a Christian-themed message movie, Blue Like Jazz goes easy on the proselityzing, instead relying on the easygoing charm of Allman and a strong performance by the lovely Claire Holt as a fellow student with a secret. L!fe Happens Where: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Orange (CA), Santa Monica, Miami...

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Most discerning moviegoers flinch when greeted with the prospect of a 'Christian' film. Religion and mainstream cinema do not make comfortable bedfellows, as many films in this subgenre fit the very definition of "preaching to the choir" -- concerned not with challenging viewers as much as pandering to their most base instincts. "Blue Like Jazz," based on a book of autobiographical essays from Christian writer Donald Miller, likely gives pause to those on the fence about religion-based material. This Kickstarter-funded effort, one that far surpassed its budgetary goal on that website, actually plays like a real live movie, with actors, location, editing and proper music employed. Thank the Lord for small favors and damning praise!

Marshall Allman is Donald Miller, a young future pastor in Texas who dreams of attending a Baptist college, spreading the word of the Lord, and assisting the local youth. Even-tempered to a fault, Miller soon...

Rating: 2.5/5.0

Chicago – Donald Miller’s “Blue Like Jazz” is a beloved book that spent 43 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over 1.5 million copies. I haven’t read it. But I have to believe that it worked on its fans in a way that Steve Taylor’s film simply cannot. This is clearly a personal story, one that touched people by relating to issues they’ve grappled with in their own lives. By taking Taylor’s memories and turning them into cinema, the ability to touch has been removed another degree of separation and the resulting film is a misstep, the kind of work that thinks it’s saying something important but feels more pretentious than precious.

Marshall Allman (“True Blood”) plays Don, the film’s central character and its biggest problem. Don is intended to be a young man on a journey of self-discovery but he...

Capsule Options is a new weekly column intended to provide reviews of nearly every new indie release. This week's capsules are written by Indiewire's Chief Film Critic, Eric Kohn, but future installments will include additional contributors. Reviews This Week: "Blue Like Jazz" "Budz House" "The Cabin in the Woods" "Comic Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope" "Detention" "Here" "Hit So Hard" "Kids of Today" "L!fe Happens" "Lockout" "Monsieur Lazhar" "Post Mortem" "Blue Like Jazz" Based on Donald Miller's best-selling semi-autobiography about a sheltered Christian teen rebelling against his roots by attending the uber-liberal Reed College in Portland, director Steve Taylor's adaptation (from a screenplay co-authored by Miller) is an inoffensive wash. Marshall Allman credibly...

Photos by Courtney Beckett At SXSW this year, Paste editors met Jamie Anne Allman of AMC’s The Killing and her husband Marshall Allman of True Blood and Justified (and this week’s film Blue Like Jazz). We’re big fans of both of their work, and soon found out they loved Paste too. We interviewed Marshall about Blue Like Jazz (you’ll be able to see that interview in this week’s mPlayer feature), and set a date for an interview with Jamie about the second season of The Killing (which continues tonight). Scheduling proved difficult, but the couple were kind enough to take...

I was Donald Miller.

Once upon a time, a lot of us were. Some of us still are.

I, too, grew up in the church. Then it hurt me. So I walked away -- injured, disillusioned and pissed off.

I, too, went away to college and left my faith behind me, with no intention of ever looking back.

I, too, met an beautiful young woman who showed me a different side of what life as a follower of Jesus could be.

And though my journey has been nothing as remarkable as Miller's, it's no less improbable.

As the old song goes, I once was lost, but ... well, you know.

My journey took an even more unlikely turn this week when I had opportunity to sit down with 40-year-old Miller, whose "Blue Like Jazz" memoir has sold more than 1.5 million copies (and counting) since its publication in 2003, to talk about the book,...

However people decide they feel about the comparison about the similarity of Portland, Oregon and Austin, Texas, if you watch Blue Like Jazz, there's certainly some validity to the argument that people in both cities are cut from the same cloth. Based on a novel of the same name, the movie Blue Like Jazz plays like the sort of coming-of-age tale that many sheltered adolescents no doubt experience when they first go off to college. It's the second novel from Donald Miller and is a collection of essays and personal thoughts written as he was experiencing college and learning more about God and nature.

As small-town Texas young adult Don (Marshall Allman) is choosing where to go to college, he learns that his mother has been having an affair with Don's friend, who's also the youth pastor at their church. This shock to the system leads Don to take his...

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Sometimes that which you fight the most is exactly what you need to happen. Though it may look like some futile uphill battle, like The Myth of Sisyphus, American author Chuck Palahniuk once wrote, “Find what you’re afraid of most and go live there.” If you can make your home from and become supremely comfortable among those things that once made you panic on a deep, instinctual level, you can roll with anything. I certainly wouldn’t consider Dickie Bennett to be Raylan Givens’ greatest fear, however, conquering that which he avoided the entire episode led him to a greater sense of self in which he sacrificed neither his attempt at dissuading the court from pardoning Dickie nor his refusal to pander to what he sees as a flawed system.

Raylan spent this episode doing what he could to make sure Dickie isn’t released...

Trailer for Steve Taylor's Blue Like Jazz, starring Marshall Allman, Claire Holt and Tania Raymonde In Blue Like Jazz, Don, a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his religious upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one of the most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed’s surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes. Roadside Attractions distributes Blue Like Jazz which opens on April 13th, and also includes Pic is produced by Steve Taylor, J.Clarke Gallivan and Coke Sams.

Trailer for Steve Taylor's Blue Like Jazz, starring Marshall Allman, Claire Holt and Tania Raymonde In Blue Like Jazz, Don, a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his religious upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one of the most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed’s surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes. Roadside Attractions distributes Blue Like Jazz which opens on April 13th, and also includes Pic is produced by Steve Taylor, J.Clarke Gallivan and Coke Sams.