Here is the official trailer for The Last Bus, the British drama starring Timothy Spall as an elderly gentleman who travels across the UK to scatter his late wife’s ashes. Also starring in the film are Phyllis Logan, Natalie Mitson, Brian Pettifer, Patricia Panther, Ben Ewing, Grace Calder and Kevin Mains. Directed by Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon, the film opens in theaters and on digital on February 18, 2022.
Magnolia Pictures released the official trailer for Indemnity, the South African action-thriller directed by Travis Taute that premiered at the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival. Starring Jarrid Geduld, Gail Mabalane, Andre Jacobs, Nicole Fortuin and Tshamano Sebe, the film will open in theaters on February 11, 2022.
The American Diplomat explores the lives and legacies of three African-American ambassadors — Edward R. Dudley, Terence Todman and Carl Rowan — who pushed past historical and institutional racial barriers to reach high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. At the height of the civil rights movement in the United States, they were asked to represent the best of American ideals abroad while facing discrimination at home. Colloquially referred to as “pale, male, and Yale,” the U.S. State Department fiercely maintained and cultivated the Foreign Service’s elitist character and was one of the last federal agencies to desegregate.
Get the first look at Sirens, directed by LA-based filmmaker Rita Baghdadi, set to World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Executive produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph (Animal Pictures), among others, Sirens follows the Middle East’s first all-female metal band as they wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars. The film will be shown as part of the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Apple TV+ announced a new four-part documentary series “Lincoln’s Dilemma,” a fresh exploration of President Lincoln and the complex journey to end slavery. Narrated by Jeffrey Wright and featuring the voices of Bill Camp as Abraham Lincoln and Leslie Odom, Jr. as Frederick Douglass, the series is a 21st century examination of a complicated man and the people and events that shaped his evolving stance on slavery. All four parts of “Lincoln’s Dilemma” will premiere globally on Friday, February 18 on Apple TV+.
The first international trailer debuted via Variety for Speak No Evil, the Danish horror film which is set to world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Christian Tafdrup, the film stars Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders, Liva Forsberg, and Marius Damslev.
Here is the official trailer for Ghosts of the Ozarks, the horror film starring Thomas Hobson, Phil Morris, Tara Perry, Tim Blake Nelson, Angela Bettis and David Arquette that premiered at the 2021 Austin Film Festival.
Ahead of the World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Searchlight Picture acquired the thriller Fresh, directed by Mimi Cave and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Sebastian Stan (Captain America franchise, I, Tonya)
The new official trailer debuted for Moon Manor, the death comedy film starring James Carrozo, Debra Wilson, Richard Riehle, Lou Taylor Pucci, Reshma Gajjar, Galen Howard, Ricki Lake, Heather Morris, Gayle Rankin, and Whitmer Thomas. Directed by Erin Granat and Machete Bang Bang, the film debuts theatrically and On Demand on March 11th, 2022.
The Roku Channel released the official trailer for The Fix, featuring Samuel L. Jackson narrating the fascinating documentary series on drugs in America.
Shot and abandoned in 1984, martial arts legend John Liu’s NYC-set ninja epic New York Ninja has been meticulously completed by film preservationists – and is headed to theaters, opening first in Los Angeles on January 17, 2022, followed by other cities.
IFC Midnight will release Charles Dorfman’s directorial debut Barbarians which will debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones, The Dirt), Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey, Black Mirror), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full Of Grace, Che), Inès Spiridonov (Section Zero), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Tommy McDonnell (Starred Up), and Will Kemp (Reign). The film premiered at the 2021 Fantastic Film Festival, and IFC Midnight will release the film in theaters and on demand on April 1, 2022.