In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.

今年4月23日是英国剧作家莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）逝世400周年，这位大文豪生前创作过很多经典戏剧，直至今日仍被世界各国的艺术家排演，经久不衰。好莱坞同样喜爱改编他的作品，这不，最近又有两部莎翁剧即将被搬上大银幕。
第一部是《仲夏夜之梦》（A Midsummer Night’s Dream），这是莎士比亚的喜剧代表作，讲述了森林里仙子和人类恶作剧、乱点鸳鸯谱闹出的故事。1999年福克斯探照灯曾拍过一部《仲夏夜之梦》，由米歇尔·菲佛（Michelle Pfeiffer）饰演仙后，算是离现在最近的一次改编。
新版《仲夏夜之梦》由Casey Wilder Mott自编自导，将把故事搬到了现代的好莱坞，明星、大佬、艺术家各色人等轮番登场，而幻想与现实也会交织在一起。
影片主演包括，曾出演恐怖片《护士3D》的帕兹·德拉维尔塔（Paz De La Huerta）、《美国恐怖故事》主演芬·惠特洛克（Finn Whitrock）和莉莉·拉比（Lily Rabe），以及哈米什·林克莱特（Hamish Linklater）、蕾切尔·李·库克（Rachel Leigh Cook）等。

When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.

加拿大导演查尔斯·沃费瑟执导的犯罪片，影片将主人公阿基拉十五岁时的犯罪回忆与金盆洗手之夜偶遇少年犯的经历进行交叉剪辑，展现了一个罪犯的“赎罪”过程。影片引用了荷马史诗《伊利亚特》的相关情节，为故事增添了古典主义悲情气息，富有艺术美感的画面配以雷鬼、说唱等音乐形式，也使观众犹如欣赏一部超大型MV。本片入围2020年多伦多国际电影节最佳加拿大电影单元。

Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.

2001 film by Iain Softley