The SOHO International Film Festival #SOHO10 returns this year to NYC. For the tenth year, the Festival’s films will be flooding the screens at Village East Cinemas (189 2nd Avenue on 12th Street) for an entire seven days of cinematic magic, June 20 – 27, 2019.
By enticing filmmakers, journalists and cineastes from The US and across the globe, SOHO Film Fest draws audiences to New York City. SIFFNYC’s approach to catering to its filmmakers and festival goers has already made it a darling amongst past festival alums like Oscar Winner Octavia Spencer, Pierce & Keely Brosnan, Kevin Jonas, Luis Guzmán, Carrie Preston, Michael Imperioli, Armand Assante & Danny Aiello.
This year’s festival will open and close with GALA events and panels supporting the SOHO Film Forum. The forum will serve as a year round 501(c)(3) for inner-city youth and adults, helping them to gain opportunities as NYC filmmakers.
“For our 10th year we wanted to be more community focused. Mental health issues are plaguing our youth, we felt the need to do our part,” said Sibyl Santiago, Executive Director and Head of Programming, continuing: “It makes us very proud as a festival to be able to present these very diverse films for our audience and present them in an exciting way.”
Among the many titles in this year’s competition will be Opening Night Film “Empty By Design”, a story of the struggle of identity experienced living amongst different cultures, starring Chris Pang (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Osric Chau (“Supernatural”) Dante Basco (Hook) and Filipino stars Madeline Humphries and Rhian Ramos.
With hundreds of submissions from around the world, some of the notable actors include, Vivica A. Fox, Christopher Cousins, George Loomis and Missy Pyle from “Caretakers”, Pei Pei Cheng, Amy Chang, Ludi Linn and Celia Au from “In A New York Minute”, Giacomo Gianniotti, Rachel Skarsten in “Acquainted”; Larisa Oleynik and Richard Kind in “Auggie”. The animated film “Burning Bright” features supermodel Chanel Iman and Victoria’s Secret Angel, Elska Hosk. Also expected this year are Billy Magnussen & Reed Birney in “w4m”, Anthony Rapp with Vivian Ker (Scrap) Stephanie Beatriz in “Lillian” and “Modern Family’s” Nolan Gould with Tim Realbuto and Oscar Nuñez in our closing night film “Yes”.

Interviews
The Les Files With John C McGinley

In the studio today, Les gets to talk to legendary actor John C. McGinley who’s been a force on the stage and the screen. Hollywood has him on speed dial to play certain iconic roles that move the story such as Tom Card in Burn Notice, Brian Kelton on Chicago PD. Now the showrunners of the beloved cop sitcom Brooklyn 99 have brought him in to play Head to the Patrolman’s Union and lover of all things Billy Joel, Frank O’Sullivan. This new character is the antagonist for the final season of Brooklyn 99 and he’s a cross between Archie Bunker and Yosemite Sam.
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Transformers Rise Of The Beast will definitely be a movie I’m going to watch repeatedly.

This was an epic movie overall. What else can I say without giving spoilers? Not a lot else, unfortunately, but I will try. So the start was interesting as it takes place in 1994, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts takes the audience on a globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduces a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to join them as allies in the existing battle for Earth. There are quite a few hidden gems to look for. The humor in this one was excellent definitely the 90s were everywhere in this movie.
The action was awesome as a Transformers movie should be and it does have a decent storyline. The film also has Great references to the older Transformer properties as well. As a major fan of the beast war series, it was awesome to see that version of the universe brought to the big screen. However, there were some moments of eh, been done many times. But just a couple despite being another Transformers movie. but this one did give more life to the series for me to be intrigued to see where it goes. The movie is a good 2 hours long so it goes at a good pace.
But with that being the only bad thing, in my opinion, it is a great theater movie. I think it added some freshness to the franchise. That with a nice blend of the 90s nostalgia. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. This is Chris, an honest review writer until the next movie, see you next time.
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