Writer-director Aitch Alberto is blazing trails with her debut feature film, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Resentful at the world, fifteen-year-old Aristotle Mendoza (Max Pelayo) wants to blend in and be left alone, but the summer he meets free spirit Dante Quintana (Reese Gonzales) at the local swimming pool, everything changes. Dante is everything Ari isn’t, and his wanderlust for life and artistic spirit shake something loose in Ari; finally, he has a friend. A near-magical being, Dante disrupts Aristotle’s world, introducing him to music, poetry,
Noxolo Dlamini is a dynamic storyteller who is best known for the nuanced and layered characters she’s brought to life in projects including Silverton Siege, iNumber Number: Jozi Gold, and Jiva!, and is currently the talk of the Toronto International Film Festival for her outstanding performance in Death of a Whisteblower. In Death of a Whisteblower, investigative journalist Luyanda Masinda’s (Noxolo Dlamini) life is thrown into shock when her one-night lover, renowned editor Stanley Galloway (Rob van Vuuren), is hijacked and killed in front of her in a busy Jo’burg
Andrea Scarduzio is a gifted storyteller who is best known for his transformative performances in projects including Roam Rome Mein, Genius: Picasso, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Currently, he can be seen starring opposite Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 3. Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he
Pop Culturalist is excited to be partnering with Sony Pictures to give away tickets to an advance screening of Dumb Money. You and a guest will see the film before it’s released on September 22nd. All the details are below. Good luck! About the Film Based on author Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network, Dumb Money tells the story of fortunes made and lost overnight in the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze that may have changed Wall Street forever. It offers a scathing, funny and emotional portrayal of how a loosely