I’ve been bingeing WWI documentaries and historical specials like crazy since I’ve been laid up. Honestly; what I know about The Great War couldn’t fill a thimble. (THANK YOU, Montgomery County Scools!) So, when I was asked if I wanted to partner with the studio to give passes away for a film set in and around World War I, I jumped at it. Synopsis!
It is 1914. As the Great War looms, the mighty Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople, the once vibrant, multicultural capital on the shores of the Bosporus, is about to be consumed by chaos.
Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun, his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries. Photo-journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale), has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is mesmerized by his love for Ana (Charlotte le Bon), an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father.
When Michael meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men. As the Turks form an alliance with Germany and the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic minorities, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to survive even as events threaten to overwhelm them.
Promises are made and promises are broken. The one promise that must be kept is to live on and tell the story.
The whole “Istanbul”/”Constantinople” re-naming has always been intriguing to me. And let’s not even get started on Byzantium… Passe? Let’s go!
Awesome Con just keeps giving its fans – as well as their creators and guests – better and better things. This time? A spotlight on “queer creators and fans”, as well as a way to consolidate LGBTQ ‘con stuff, so nobody has to miss a thing. The DC area has an amazing, wonderful, awesome nerd community, and LGBTQ community. So why not give to those that happen to share both types of awesomeness? Right? RIGHT!
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The Universal Monsters Shared Universe is ready to come at’cha with it’s first foray into shared-universe territory in decades with The Mummy. This second trailer shows that they’re not kidding around. They’re ready to bring it all to you, and scare you silly, even if they have to grab you by the lapel in order to do it. Synopsis!
Lightning McQueen, Cruz Ramirez and Jackson Storm will be hanging out in downtown Silver Spring (am I the only one who’s glad SS has ditched the silly “Silver Sprung” marketing?) to celebrate the upcoming Cars 3!
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I loved Stephen King’s It. I loved Tim Curry as Pennywise in the 1990 TV adaptation. So I was creeped out in a bad way when I heard that It was going to be re-made. Why mess with perfection, amirite? But this first teaser-trailer for 2017’s It looks like they could be on to something creepy in a good way. Synopsis!
Ready for something spoooooky? Well, I’ve got something for you. Okay, so it’s a ghost story – literally A Ghost Story – but it’s more touching than terrifying. But it sounds really good nonetheless; kinda getting a Truly, Madly, Deeply vibe off of this. And that’s not a bad thing. Synopsis!
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