What goes bump in the night happens by day. Tranquility is the haven for terror. And the harbingers of doom are gravely underestimated.
In “The Messengers,” a thriller starring KRISTEN STEWART as Jess, DYLAN McDERMOTT and PENELOPE ANN MILLER as Jess’ parents Roy and Denise Solomon and JOHN CORBETT as field hand John Burwell, the Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm’s field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. When those specters become violent, Jess’ sanity is questioned – a double jeopardy for the tormented teen. Her troublesome past comes face to face with the past of those who once lived in the house, a perilous confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late – “The Messengers.”
STARRING: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett
DIRECTORS: Oxide Pang and Danny Pang
STUDIO: Columbia Pictures
RATING: PG-13 (For mature thematic elements, language and terror)
Constellation” chronicles the lives and loves of a black family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch, Helms Boxer (Williams), must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family. When the beloved Carmel Boxer passes away, her entire family returns to Hunstville, Alabama to celebrate her life and legacy. As the Boxer family comes together for the first time in many years, revelations of Carmel’s painful past begin to force each person to address their pent up emotions and true feelings for one another. “Constellation” explores the redemptive power of love and spotlights the importance of honesty and the bonds of family loyalty – “Constellation.”
STARRING: Zoë Saldana, Lesley Ann Warren, Billy Dee Williams, Hill Harper, David Clennon, Rae Dawn Chong, Melissa De Sousa, Alex Newman, Gabrielle Union, Shin Koyamada, Daniel Bess, Clarence Williams III, Ever Carradine
DIRECTOR: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
STUDIO: Codeblack Entertainment (A Division of 20th Century Fox)
RATING: PG-13 (For brief strong language and a sexual reference)
