Spring (2014)

Released March 20, 2015, in the US.

Filmed in California and Italy.

The story: Evan is a young guy, who grew up an only child and is caring for his sick mother.

After his mom passes away and the funeral, he finds himself drinking in the bar where he works with his buddy.

An angry patron starts shit with Evan and Evan finishes it.

But that causes Evan to lose his job and worry about the patron suing him.

The next day, after the cops show up at his house, he decides due to advice from a girlfriend, to get away for a while.

Evan gets on a plane to Italy. 

There he eats pizza, sight sees , and goes to the bar.

While at the bar, he meets up with Tom and Sam, locals who tell him about being in Italy while drinking together.

The next day, Sam talks Evan into taking a drive through the coast with them.

While wandering around a town, Evan meets beautiful, mysterious Louise who seems really into Evan right away.

But she plays hard to get.

When Tom and Sam go off to Amsterdam, Evan decides to stay behind, looking for a place to stay and work.

He quickly finds the perfect place and then, he goes off in hopes of running into Louise again, which he does.

They spend the day together, getting to know a bit more about each other.

Shortly after, Evan falls hard for Louise.

But what Evan thinks he knows about Louise is nothing like who she really is.

Stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Holly Hawkins, Jeremy Gardner, Augie Duke, Nick Nevern, Jonathan Silvestri, Kenzo Lee, Nadia Hilker,  Francesco Carnelutti, Chris Palko, Vinny Curran

Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead

DRAMA/MYSTERY/SCIFI/HORROR

"Life seems short, no matter what."

Begin Again (2013)

Released  July 11, 2014, in the US.

Filmed entirely in New York.

The story: Dan is a record producer who hasn't signed an artist to his co-owned, independent label in eight years.

After sitting in on a meeting, Dan's business partner decides he needs to fire him.

Dan cannot believe it as he is the one who built the business but has no choice due to not really contributing.

Feeling sorry for himself, he goes to a local bar and drowns his sorrows.

There he hears incredibly talented Gretta on stage, just playing guitar and singing a song she wrote.

While listening, Dan is figuring out all the other instrumentals, making her song sound perfectly produced in his head.

When he approaches Gretta, she doesn't take him seriously at all.

She is in a romantic relationship with another singer/songwriter who is following his dream and she is more than willing to go along with him, whether as a team or not.

But when Gretta's boyfriend/partner gets signed she kind of gets shunned by the company.

Then, to make matters worse, she finds her boyfriend cheated.

So now Gretta has decided to work with Dan.

Dan brings her to his business partner without a demo.

His partner tells him to come back with a demo and then they can talk.

Dan gets together a backing band for Gretta's songs and they record an incredible demo that is hard to turn down.

Stars Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley, Adam Levine, Yasiin Bey, Hailee Steinfeld, James Corden, Karen Pittman, Paul Romero, Catherine Keener, Andrew Sellon, Marco Assante, Mary Catherine Garrison, Jen Jacob, Rob Morrow, Ian Brodsky, Jennifer Li Jackson, Ed Renninger, Eric Burton

Directed by (& story written) John Carney

Rated R
DRAMA/COMEDY

Pamela : A Love Story (2023)

Made for Netflix, airing on instant streaming January 31st in the US.

The story: Pamela Anderson has been out of the spotlight for quite some time now.

She has taken to her childhood home in Canada to live out the rest of her life in peace and out of the spotlight.

But Pamela didn't mind living the Hollywood dream while she was living it.

It wasn't until the scandal of her and then-husband Tommy Lee's sex tape exploited them that things got bad for her.

Pamela tells of her rise to fame through her personal diaries, home videos, and tv spot footage, all of which she has collected through the years.

She tells of her lucky stardom in modeling and her immediate after-Playboy playmate position.

All of the people she met, dated, married, and worked with as well as never understanding how people only found her fascinating due to her looks and body.

Pamela had high hopes that her modeling would help her get into movies.

Baywatch helped but the one movie she did star in did not, making her come off as not a serious actress.

When the unauthorized Hulu mini-series 'Pam & Tommy' premiered, it brought up all the hurt that the scandal caused her all over again.

She decided to set the record of her life straight, along with the help of her beloved parents and two, very close sons.

This is her story.

Stars Pamela Anderson, Gregory Butler, Carol Anderson, Barry Anderson, Brandon Thomas Lee, Dylan Jaggar Lee, (voice) Ryan White

Directed by Ryan White

Rated TV-MA

BIOGRAPHY/DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY

"I'm either talented or really dramatic."

13 Going on 30 (2004)

Released April 23rd in the US.

Filmed in California and New York.

The story: Jenna Rink is a 12-year-old desperate to be a 30-year-old, and popular.

On her 13th birthday, her best friend Matty gives her, her very own Jenna dream house that he built.

Matty then sprinkles wish dust over the house, telling Jenna that all of her dreams will come true.

After the mean, popular girls arrive at Jenna's birthday party, along with Jenna's crush Chris, Matty gets offended and goes home to get his Cascio.

While he is gone, one of the girls tricks Jenna into playing Seven Minutes in Heaven, getting her blindfolded and into the closet in hopes of being alone with Chris.

When Matty returns, he finds all the mean kids Jenna invited leaving.

They tell him that Jenna is in the closet waiting for him and he believes it.

But when Matty goes into the closet to kiss Jenna, she realizes he is not Chris and freaks out, slamming the door on Matty.

She bangs into the wall, where she put the dream house that Matty built for her, making the wish dust that Matty sprinkled over the house fall on her.

The next thing she knows, Jenna wakes to find that she is in fact a 30-year-old who is popular, successful, and has a boyfriend.

She thinks it's all a dream but slowly learns that her current situation is her actual reality.

Stars Christa B Allen, Sean Marquette, Alexandra Kyle, Ashley Benson, Brittany Curran, Brie Larson, Megan Lusk, Julia Roth, Alex Black, Jeffrey Shane Cohn, George Hine, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Mark Ruffalo, Kathy Baker, Phil Reeves, Marcia DeBonis, Kiersten Warren, Susan Egan

Directed by Gary Winick 

Rated PG13

DRAMA/FANTASY/COMEDY