FilmBookCast Ep. 137 – CITY OF LIES (2018)

Chris Banks May 8, 2021Last Updated: May 10, 2021

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FilmBookCast Ep. 137

FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood news.

In FilmBookCast Ep. 137, Chris looks at movie previews including: The Tomorrow War starring Chris Pratt, John David Washington’s True Love, and more.

Among this week’s headlines: Dominique Fishback set to star in Transformers, J.K. Simmons set to star alongside Sissy Spacek in new series for Amazon, to name a few of the news stories.

Chris wraps up every episode of FilmBookCast with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep. 137, he analyzes and reacts to City of Lies directed by Brad Furman.

Based on the book, LAByrinth, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Randall Sullivan, City of Lies follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Johnny Depp stars as determined LAPD detective Russell Poole, who spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, Forest Whitaker is Jack Jackson, a journalist who teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains cold — and why a secret division of the LAPD is seemingly set on keeping it that way.

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MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

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TV News 3:00

Film News 5:55

Film Trailer 8:30

FEATURED REVIEW

Mortal Kombat 10:45

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