"Get me down!" Uh, this is awesome!! Suspense is a fantastic 6-minute short film made by the Burghart Brothers, Jacob & Ben, who grew up making films on a farm in Kansas. Having survived a harrowing plane crash, a pilot finds himself suspended from a canopy of trees high above the forest floor by his parachute. He hears his co-pilot, but soon realizes that something is stalking him in the dark. It's a clever short film that takes place entirely in the "treetops" with this parachutist who is stuck hanging up there. And it's near perfectly realized, not only visually also the mysterious ambiguousness of it all. Jelani Talib stars as the stuck pilot, along with Robert Coppage III as his co-pilot. I'm seriously impressed by this and want to see more from these brothers soon. It reminds me of the opening sequence from the underrated WWII thriller Overlord. This initially...
- 3/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Fans of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are begging for a revival after a fan-made movie trailer surfaced online earlier this week.
Much like the original, starring Will Smith and Alfonso Ribeiro, the trailer tells the story of a teenager named Will from West Philadelphia that moves in with his aunt and uncle in Bel-Air after getting into “one little fight.”
While the sitcom, which premiered in 1990 and remains a staple in American culture, was for the most part light-hearted, mega-fan and director’s Morgan Cooper version is much darker and appears in the trailer as if it is a dramatic feature film.
Much like the original, starring Will Smith and Alfonso Ribeiro, the trailer tells the story of a teenager named Will from West Philadelphia that moves in with his aunt and uncle in Bel-Air after getting into “one little fight.”
While the sitcom, which premiered in 1990 and remains a staple in American culture, was for the most part light-hearted, mega-fan and director’s Morgan Cooper version is much darker and appears in the trailer as if it is a dramatic feature film.
- 3/14/2019
- by Robyn Merrett
- PEOPLE.com
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