This just in: The STW Daily News Round Up featuring all the news that’s fit to (digitally) print for Saturday, July 9th, 2022. Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown, AMC’s Breaking Bad, and more streaming news round up.
Thank God for Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown
The Scary Movie alum and the This Is Us mainstay are heading to Peacock for the feature Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. The film follows a couple who head up an Atlanta megachurch that closes due to an embezzlement scandal. With a bit of a Righteous Gemstones vibe, Honk For Jesus is a satire filmed as a mockumentary that tracks the aftermath of the couple’s grifting of their congregation.
After their crimes come to light, Pastor Lee-Curtis and Trinitie Childs (Brown and Hall, respectively) will do anything to win their congregation back. Including standing on the side of the road shaking what the good lord gave them, asking people to honk for Jesus to perchance save their souls, along with the megachurch that hangs in the balance.
Produced by Jordan Peele, the film is the debut feature from newcomers by Adamma and Adanne Ebo who write and direct. The film won over audiences at Sundance, and from the trailer, it’s clear to see why. The lead performers sing for their supper with swagger to spare, leading audiences to believe that maybe, just maybe, they can pull off a miracle. Is there such a thing as redemption for crimes committed agains the lord? Only god can judge.
Honk for Jesus premieres on Peacock on September 2nd, hitting theaters the same day.
One For the Road
AMC takes one last ride around ABQ with a final trailer drop for the second half of the final season of Better Call Saul.
Presented somberly in black and white (until the very end), the official trailer asks fans to “Try to remember the good times.” It’s an odd ask, given the trailer serves as a greatest hits playlist of all places where Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) ruined someone’s life.
But induce nostalgia it does. And it’s also the perfect lead-in to all the things fans know have to be coming next in order to set the stage for the Breaking Bad timeline to begin playing out. Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) has to go…somewhere? Hopefully to a nice farm upstate and not into a wood chipper.
Better Call Saul returns for its final episodes on July 11th on AMC+.
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