Get ready to return to the neon-colored spectacle of Las Colinas as Apple TV+‘s delightful series Acapulco picks up with Season 3 on May 1, promising new insight into Maximo’s story, through the eyes of his younger (Enrique Arrizon) and present-day selves (Eugenio Derbez). As fans of the series chronicling his journey working at the beachside resort will recall, Maximo’s present-day story ended with a major cliffhanger at the end of Season 2 as viewers were introduced to his daughter! Finally, they’ll get some answers about the young woman he calls Paloma (Vico Escorcia) in TV Insider’s exclusive clip, above. Apple TV+ “Hugo, this is your cousin, Paloma,” Maximo says to his nephew (Raphael Alejandro), with whom he’s been sharing his life story over the course of the series. “Wait, all these years I’ve had a cousin? Do you know how hard it is to be Mexican without any cousins?...
- 4/30/2024
- TV Insider
Stars: Lelia Symingtonm Tyler Posey, Patricia Velasquez, Tate Hanyok, Julian Silva, Vico Escorcia, Stelio Savante, Erik Odom, Chase Mullins, Sidney Symington | Written and Directed by Eve Symington
Written and directed by Eve Symington, Brut Force is a modern female-led film that is very much trying to capture the spirit of classic film noir and present it in a new way for a modern audience. Symington and her Dp Emilie Silvestri also do something remarkable – they manage to create a wonderful dichotomy between the noir elements of the film and the sun-soaked world of California’s wine country, the beautiful landscape bathed in golden sunshine hiding a dark world in its shadowy underbelly.
The follows newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer (Lelia Symington), who hears that someone has been harassing vineyard workers in her hometown, so she starts investigating. When haunting beauty Dulce goes missing and the alluring Tico Reyes shows up looking for her,...
Written and directed by Eve Symington, Brut Force is a modern female-led film that is very much trying to capture the spirit of classic film noir and present it in a new way for a modern audience. Symington and her Dp Emilie Silvestri also do something remarkable – they manage to create a wonderful dichotomy between the noir elements of the film and the sun-soaked world of California’s wine country, the beautiful landscape bathed in golden sunshine hiding a dark world in its shadowy underbelly.
The follows newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer (Lelia Symington), who hears that someone has been harassing vineyard workers in her hometown, so she starts investigating. When haunting beauty Dulce goes missing and the alluring Tico Reyes shows up looking for her,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Batman (Matt Reeves)
Over the 80 years of his comic book, televised, and cinematic existence, Batman has always grappled with his secretive dual identity. Bruce Wayne hobnobs and toasts champagne with fellow philanthropic one-percenters during the day, while his Caped Crusader alter-ego attempts to clean up Gotham City and its never-ending crime problem at night, a particularly torturous method of dealing with childhood trauma. But in The Batman, director Matt Reeves’ moody and riveting addition to the canon, that binary is mostly absent. The cape and cowl isn’t so much a nocturnal costume as it is around-the-clock attire. – Jake K. (full review)
Where to Stream: HBO Max
Brut Force (Eve Symington)
Finding a unique location to place a neo-noir––a genre...
The Batman (Matt Reeves)
Over the 80 years of his comic book, televised, and cinematic existence, Batman has always grappled with his secretive dual identity. Bruce Wayne hobnobs and toasts champagne with fellow philanthropic one-percenters during the day, while his Caped Crusader alter-ego attempts to clean up Gotham City and its never-ending crime problem at night, a particularly torturous method of dealing with childhood trauma. But in The Batman, director Matt Reeves’ moody and riveting addition to the canon, that binary is mostly absent. The cape and cowl isn’t so much a nocturnal costume as it is around-the-clock attire. – Jake K. (full review)
Where to Stream: HBO Max
Brut Force (Eve Symington)
Finding a unique location to place a neo-noir––a genre...
- 4/22/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Welcome back to Santa Lucia, where it always smells like sour grapes." XYZ Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie film called Brut Force, a play on words as it's set in wine country. The neo-noir film is set around California's central coast wine country, playing like Chinatown for wine. Newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer reluctantly returns to her rural California hometown to investigate the harassment of local vineyard workers and uncorks a tangled web of crime & corruption behind wine country's shiny façade. The director explains: "beneath the surface of California's 'wine country' bubble complex histories, racism, class struggles, and moral grey areas, all of which makes this world ripe for a modern noir story. The lead character... is a modern, female take on a classic noir detective." The film stars Lelia Symington as Sloane, Tyler Posey, Vico Escorcia, and Patricia Velásquez. This doesn't look ...
- 4/11/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Finding a unique location to place a neo-noir––a genre usually synonymous with the concrete jungles of cities––Eve Symington’s directorial debut Brut Force is set within California’s central coast wine country. Acquired by XYZ Films for a video-on-demand release on April 21, we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer for the film starring Lelia Symington, Tyler Posey, Vico Escorcia, and Patricia Velásquez.
The film follows newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer (Symington), who hears that someone has been harassing vineyard workers in her hometown, so she starts investigating. When haunting beauty Dulce goes missing and the alluring Tico Reyes shows up looking for her, Sloane is drawn down a twisting trail of violence and crime, determined to help those she’s come to care about in this town… before it’s too late.
“Beneath the surface of California’s ‘wine country’ bubble complex histories, racism, class struggles, and moral grey areas,...
The film follows newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer (Symington), who hears that someone has been harassing vineyard workers in her hometown, so she starts investigating. When haunting beauty Dulce goes missing and the alluring Tico Reyes shows up looking for her, Sloane is drawn down a twisting trail of violence and crime, determined to help those she’s come to care about in this town… before it’s too late.
“Beneath the surface of California’s ‘wine country’ bubble complex histories, racism, class struggles, and moral grey areas,...
- 4/8/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Tyler Posey (MTV’s Teen Wolf) has signed on to star opposite Lelia Symington (Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash) in Brut Force, the first feature from writer-director Eve Symington.
Slated to go before cameras this fall in California, the film follows Sloane (Lelia Symington), a reporter who returns to her rural California hometown to investigate harassment of local vineyard workers, uncorking a tangled web of crime, corruption and murder behind wine country’s shiny façade.
Posey, who was recently seen in the Blumhouse thriller Truth or Dare, will play the love interest and “homme fatale.” Vico Escorcia (History’s Texas Rising) will also co-star as the missing girl and catalyst to the neo-noir tale.
The production has used the multi-union white paper “The Safe Way Forward” to create a risk assessment and production prevention plan, which will continue to be a collaborative work-in-progress,...
Slated to go before cameras this fall in California, the film follows Sloane (Lelia Symington), a reporter who returns to her rural California hometown to investigate harassment of local vineyard workers, uncorking a tangled web of crime, corruption and murder behind wine country’s shiny façade.
Posey, who was recently seen in the Blumhouse thriller Truth or Dare, will play the love interest and “homme fatale.” Vico Escorcia (History’s Texas Rising) will also co-star as the missing girl and catalyst to the neo-noir tale.
The production has used the multi-union white paper “The Safe Way Forward” to create a risk assessment and production prevention plan, which will continue to be a collaborative work-in-progress,...
- 7/17/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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