Mikey Madison Edition: Bits & Pieces – When the G20 summit comes under siege, U.S. President Danielle Sutton (Academy Award winner Viola Davis) becomes the number one target. After evading capture by the attackers, she must outsmart the enemy to protect her family, defend her country and safeguard world leaders in this action-packed thrill ride.
Forgotten soap star and self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie Lipsick is living the life she never asked for. An acting career derailed due to an untimely pregnancy 18 years earlier, dreams of stardom replaced with a suburban performing arts school. A husband, Cormack, whose lust and love for life has gone as limp as his manhood. Youngest daughter, Norah, appears to have no use for her and finally, the ungrateful eldest, Audrey, who Ronnie has given the best part of her parenting time to mould into the success she always wanted to be. But when an accident lands Audrey in a coma, Ronnie gets her second chance at the life she actually wanted by taking on her daughter’s identity.
Based on a true story from the ongoing conflict between Ukraine-Russia, writer-director Franz Böhm’s ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS explores themes of human resilience, courage and sacrifice in the face of the cruel randomness of war. The story follows the harrowing journey of Ivan, a 17-year-old Ukrainian boy, and his father, who find themselves trapped in a makeshift bunker as war rages on around them. The short was nominated for Best International Film at the Oscar-qualifying Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2024 and has been nominated in the British Short Film category for the 2025 BAFTAs.
Back on digital platforms in the UK, SCUM is Alan Clarke’s controversial, powerful film version of Roy Minton’s play that was banned by the BBC from being seen by the British public for 14 years. The film focuses on the violent, brutal events that take place in a 1970s government borstal – a correction centre for juvenile offenders – and what it takes for two boys to survive in this nightmare world.
In the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.” John Kelly’s touching and funny animated short is a meditative stream of possibilities on the beauty, curiosities and fears that we wish to embrace when confronted with an escalating awareness of our own finite mortality. RETIREMENT PLAN made its premiere at the Galway Film Festival and will screen at the upcoming Dublin International Film Festival and SXSW in March.
The HBO Original six-part documentary series EYES ON THE PRIZE III: WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CANNOT REST 1977-2015, executive produced by Dawn Porter (“John Lewis: Good Trouble”), debuts TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 (9:00 p.m-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO with two episodes airing back-to-back. Episodes three and four will debut the following day on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 followed by episodes five and six on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 at the same time on HBO. All six episodes will be available to stream on Max beginning Tuesday, February 25.
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