Virgil Films &
Entertainment announced two new home entertainment selections this past week
that will be ready for delivery during the month of August.
Life is messy and rarely
are the plans made and the paths taken lead to their intended
destinations. That’s the message that
writer/director Walter Strafford has for Doug (Brian Geraghty — Boardwalk
Empire, The Hurt Locker, etc.) in the Aug. 12 DVD debut of the comedy, Kilimanjaro. Always have Plan B at the ready!
Doug is a New
Yorker. Up and coming, nice
career-oriented job, well-educated and with a beautiful love interest that
comes in the form of Clare (Alexia Rasmussen — California Solo, Last
Weekend, etc.). Life is good …
damn near perfect.
But there’s this nagging
little thing gnawing somewhere in the back of his mind, “maybe this isn’t what
I really want to do.” So when Clare
wants to takes things to the next level, Doug finds himself taking the “leave
me” part of the “love me or leave me” proposition to heart.
He suddenly gets it in
his mind that he like to take on the challenge of climbing to the top of Mount
Kilimanjaro in Africa. His choice of a
training partner seems a little suspect (another nice turn by Chris Marquette,
who was also rock solid in The Odd Way Home). But nothing in Doug’s rapidly changing world
seems to make much sense … it just seems to be a never ending series of one
question being asked of him: “WHY?”
He asks his boss for time
off. The answer is, of course, no. So does he take this new life-path? Tell his boss to pound sand?
Does he go to Africa and
live his dream? Will the new girl,
Yvonne (Abigail Spencer), whom he has met while “training,” be the answer?
And what about his
parents … how does he break the news to them that he’s tossing everything in
his life away so that he can go climb some stupid mountain half-a-world-away?
If you are expecting the
obvious, don’t. Kilimanjaro isn’t some
nice-and-neat romantic comedy with an all-too-obvious ending. Just remember, Plan B! That’s what life mostly is … Plan B.
The following week, Aug.
19, Virgil Films and Entertainment has documentary filmmaker Brent Hodge’s
offbeat look at the world of “The Bronies” in the DVD debut of A
Brony Tale.
Ashleigh Bell has made
quite the impressive career as a voice talent.
She’s been “Oopsy Bear” with the Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot
animated series, “Plum Pudding” in the Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty
Adventures and “Allura” in Voltron Force. She has even been a whole series of creatures
on Dinosaur
Train, but the one series that yielded the most fans was her voice
performance as “Applejack” in the popular My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
animated series.
She has legends of Brony
fans. For the uninitiated, a “Brony” is
an adult male (18 to about 35) who have become enamored with the My
Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series.
They hold conventions
(worldwide), write stories and songs and create art and also raise money for
charitable causes … all of these activities are derived from their
“appreciation” for the series, which is actually targeted for young girls.
With camera and crew in
tow, Brent Hodge followed Ashleigh Ball to BronyCon in New York City to see
what all of the hubbub was about. What
she found was very unexpected … so come along and see for yourself on Aug. 19!
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