"There is a bigger goal at the end than just winning." Disney has revealed an offiical trailer for their new series The Quest arriving in May. We usually don't care for reality series, but this seems like a fun magical kingdom creation. This 2022 series is a Disney+ reboot of the same series from 2014 that only aired for one season. An "immersive competition series" that drops 8 young people into the fantastic, fictional world of Everealm, where they must save a Kingdom by fulfilling an ancient prophecy. The "Npc" cast includes Mel Mehrabian as Sorceress Tavora, Elliott Ross, Emily Gateley, Harry Aspinwall, Kerwin Thompson, Braeden De La Garza, Racquel Jean-Louis, and Jarod Lindsey. The producers claim "we're doing something magical that has never been done at this level. We’re taking real people and putting them in a fully realized fantasy story, conceived and built by incredible artisans in every department... It's...
- 4/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Two considerations need to exist side by side when discussing “The Wedding,” the debut feature of Egyptian-American multihyphenate Sam Abbas. One involves the film itself, a dull slice of Lower Manhattan mumblecore about a heterosexual New York couple fitfully planning their wedding until she discovers his gay dalliance. The other, getting the lion’s share of attention, is focused on Abbas’ company ArabQ Films, which apparently is incorporated in Egypt, but given its mission to produce queer-themed movies, can only operate virtually in the country’s increasingly authoritarian and state-sanctioned, virulently homophobic polity. How the company can function, and whether the films it produces can properly be categorized as Egyptian (doubtful), are questions that must be raised in tandem with any treatment of “The Wedding” itself, now on a tiny release in New York and unlikely to get much traction elsewhere.
The film’s lack of originality goes beyond its...
The film’s lack of originality goes beyond its...
- 12/18/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
The first trailer for The Wedding, a film from the first-ever Lgbtq-inclusive Arab film company ArabQ, is out, and The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive first look.
The movie, from Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas, will star Abbas as Rami, a young Muslim-American man who must worry about his upcoming marriage to American Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) while trying to also live a hidden life as his true self, a homosexual man. Co-stars include Hend Ayoub, James Penfold and Harry Aspinwall.
This is the first film under ArabQ, which launched at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is set to premiere ...
The movie, from Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas, will star Abbas as Rami, a young Muslim-American man who must worry about his upcoming marriage to American Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) while trying to also live a hidden life as his true self, a homosexual man. Co-stars include Hend Ayoub, James Penfold and Harry Aspinwall.
This is the first film under ArabQ, which launched at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is set to premiere ...
- 8/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The first trailer for The Wedding, a film from the first-ever Lgbtq-inclusive Arab film company ArabQ, is out, and The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive first look.
The movie, from Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas, will star Abbas as Rami, a young Muslim-American man who must worry about his upcoming marriage to American Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) while trying to also live a hidden life as his true self, a homosexual man. Co-stars include Hend Ayoub, James Penfold and Harry Aspinwall.
This is the first film under ArabQ, which launched at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is set to premiere ...
The movie, from Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas, will star Abbas as Rami, a young Muslim-American man who must worry about his upcoming marriage to American Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) while trying to also live a hidden life as his true self, a homosexual man. Co-stars include Hend Ayoub, James Penfold and Harry Aspinwall.
This is the first film under ArabQ, which launched at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is set to premiere ...
- 8/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nikohl Boosheri, Sam Abbas Star In ‘The Wedding’; Lance Lim, Elizabeth Sung Topline ‘Crossing’ Indie
Nikohl Boosheri, who currently appears in Freeform’s new series The Bold Type, will star in The Wedding, along with Sam Abbas, who wrote and is directing the film, in his feature debut. The indie follows Rami (Abbas), an individual who goes against the taboos within Muslim culture to explore his own sexuality. James Penfold (North of South, West of East), Harry Aspinwall (Turn: Washington’s Spies), and Ruba Blal (Elite Zexer’s Sand Storm) round out the cast. Casey…...
- 8/25/2017
- Deadline
Stars: Michael McCarthy, Jordan Elizabeth, Kane Hodder, R.A. Mihailoff, Harry Aspinwall, Brad Potts, Wade Gallagher, Rick Montgomery Jr., Joel D. Wynkoop, Circus-Szalewski, Robert Crayton, David Astone, Tovah Duffaut | Written by Kevin A. McCarthy, Michael McCarthy | Directed by Kevin A. McCarthy, Edward Payson
You know, I can get behind bad films; I can get behind films made intentionally to be bad (the “so bad its good” type of flicks) but there’s no way I can get behind a film whose sole purpose it seems is to rip-off other intentionally badly-made movies. That’s just lazy filmmaking.
Seemingly a cash-grab made to coincide with the debut of Kung Fury – with whom this film shares a Lot of it tropes, including the grizzled heroes narration - Fury: The Tales of Ronan Pierce is a low-budget take on the likes of Sin City and its ilk. It is a graphic novel brought to life on the screen,...
You know, I can get behind bad films; I can get behind films made intentionally to be bad (the “so bad its good” type of flicks) but there’s no way I can get behind a film whose sole purpose it seems is to rip-off other intentionally badly-made movies. That’s just lazy filmmaking.
Seemingly a cash-grab made to coincide with the debut of Kung Fury – with whom this film shares a Lot of it tropes, including the grizzled heroes narration - Fury: The Tales of Ronan Pierce is a low-budget take on the likes of Sin City and its ilk. It is a graphic novel brought to life on the screen,...
- 11/21/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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