Actor Ray McKinnon (1957)

An American sci-fi film Chaos Walking (2021), directed by Doug Liman and written by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford, is an adaptation of Ness’s trilogy of the same name. The first book, titled The Knife of Never Letting Go, serves as the basis for the movie’s plot. Set in 2257 AD on the planet New World, the male colonists are affected by a condition known as Noise, which exposes everyone’s thoughts to one another. The colonists were previously ...

News of the World (2020) is an American Western film directed and co-written by Paul Greengrass. Based on Paulette Jiles’ 2016 novel of the same name, the story follows Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former Confederate officer. Kidd earns a modest living by traveling around Texas and reading newspaper stories to locals for a ten-cent fee. While journeying from Wichita Falls, he stumbles upon an overturned wagon on the road, with its driver, a freed black man, lynched. He also discovers a young white girl named Cicada, who speaks Kiowa and reveals herself to be Johanna Leonberger. Through her papers, Kidd learns ...

The American sports drama film, Ford v Ferrari (2019), was directed by James Mangold and written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Jason Keller. In an effort to increase their car sales, Ford Motor Company Vice President Lee Iacocca suggests purchasing the dominant Ferrari team participating in the 24 Hours of Le Mans to Henry Ford II. However, owner Enzo Ferrari uses this offer to secure a deal with Fiat that allows him to maintain ownership of Scuderia ...

Based on Stephen King’s 1991 novel of the same name, Needful Things (1993) is an American horror film directed by Fraser C. Heston. In the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, a mysterious man named Leland Gaunt arrives in a sinister-looking black car and opens an antique store called ‘Needful Things’. The establishment offers various items with great personal value to its residents, some clearly possessing supernatural abilities like a pain-relieving pendant or a toy that predicts horse race outcomes. However, these items come at a price – both in ...

A Perfect World (1993), an American crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, follows the story of convicts Robert ‘Butch’ Haynes and Terry Pugh who escape from a Texas state penitentiary in 1963. While fleeing, Terry stumbles upon Phillip Perry’s home where he lives with his devout Jehovah’s Witness mother and two sisters. Seizing an opportunity for a hostage, Butch takes the young boy along with them. However, things take a turn when Butch is forced to kill Terry after an attempt to harm Phillip. Now on the run from police, the unlikely pair continues their journey through the Texas highway. ...