taps into a range of emotions and exhibits hate in its most primal form. Moving and infuriating, writer/director Kevin Wilson Jr. Williams), who can only plead with the two white men who force their way into his home and kidnapped his nephew. Playing out like a highly-entertaining comedy routine, The Eleven O’Clock is a flat-out riot.īased on the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, My Nephew Emmett tells the true story of the night Till (Joshua Wright) was killed for a minor encounter that took place earlier in the day between him and the wife of one of his murderers from the perspective of Till’s great-uncle Mose Wright (a subtle yet striking performance by L.B. The back-and-forth dialogue is exceptionally clever as we watch “real” doctor Terry Phillips (Josh Lawson of TV’s House of Lies and the film’s screenwriter) attempt to corral his patient’s mind back into their therapy session before he loses his own. Quirky in its delivery, The Eleven O’Clock stars actor Damon Herriman (TV’s Justified) as “Dr.” Nathan Klein, a delusional patient who has scheduled an appointment with a new psychiatrist thinking he, too, is a psychiatrist. Connecting the tales together through the Big Bad Wolf and his lupine family, Revolting Rhymes doesn’t capture the same enchantment as either the original fairy tales or Dahl’s book, but should get a pass from most indiscriminate children. Fox), offers audiences an alternative take on popular fairy tale characters like Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and Snow White, by blending their stories together into a medley of minor amusement. Revolting Rhymes, based on a collection of poems by late author Roald Dahl ( Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Originally released last summer before Cars 3, Lou is cute and playful enough although the final moral-of-the-story homestretch doesn’t make much sense. This time, Pixar’s LOU tells the tale of - well, actually, we’re not really sure what “Lou” is, although he (?) gets very upset when an elementary school bully starts stealing the items from inside a lost and found box where he lives. LOU What animation contest would be complete without an entry from Pixar or Disney? At least one of them has received a nomination in the last seven Oscars.
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