A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who’s an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children’s imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. (LIONSGATE)
Brie Larson won the Best Actress Academy Award for the 2015 drama “Room”. She is soon set to take on the role of Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster. Woody Harrelson has been nominated for two Oscars: “The People vs. Larry Flynt” (1996) and “The Messenger” (2009). Naomi Watts earned Oscar nominations for “21 Grams” (2003) and “The Impossible” (2012). She was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for the 2014 comedy “St. Vincent” and won the Best Ensemble award that year as a member of the cast of “Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”.
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Currently, Jackson can be heard every Friday morning on WGNA-FM and his reviews are also posted on his website, YouTube channel and Cultjer.com. He is also a contributor to AnimationScoop.com, run by animation historian Jerry Beck. And Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE”, along with “The LCJ Q&A Podcast”, on which he interviews celebrities and filmmakers.