Cole Powell

Thanks to The Daily Leader for covering “Never the Same’s” Best Music Video nomination at the JXN Film Festival. Daily Leader is one of Southwest Mississippi’s leading news publications, and I’m always honored to be featured. 

Read the full article…

Amnesia, superheroes, dream thieves, nukes — over the last quarter century, Christopher Nolan has tackled a plethora of subjects across a variety of genres to massive critical acclaim and box office success. Now, as the director’s hotly anticipated (and already…

Yesterday, I had the privilege of returning to Mississippi's statewide FM radio program Good Things with Rebecca Turner on SuperTalk Mississippi for an interview and live performance. We talked music, music reactions, and my Best Music Video nomination at the…

Newcomer William Franklyn-Miller shines as young George Washington in Angel Studios’ surprisingly solid biopic of the first American president.

Although studios known primarily for “faith-based” films have made significant strides in recent years, most efforts have remained bogged down by…

From revolutionaries battling Red Coats to super soldiers punching Nazis, nothing sets the mood for Independence Day quite like good old fashioned movies about American history and heroes. As we approach the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, I’m counting down…

Although the trailers for Toy Story 5 teased an all-out war on the childhood tech addiction epidemic, recent comments from directors Andrew Stanton and McKenna Harris had me bracing for a milquetoast message about electronics ultimately being fine for young…

As a parent of five, I have experienced the deleterious effect of screens on the child mind. A mere 30 minutes a day of screen time on the “kiddie tablets” someone gifted my children for Christmas yielded behavioral problems that…

Having disliked the one trailer I saw, I opted to catch Disclosure Day in theaters for one reason only: Steven Spielberg. As a millennial who grew up watching E.T., Jurassic Park, and the original Indiana Jones trilogy, I…

In the opening sequence of the new Masters of the Universe movie, we are introduced to a 10-year-old Prince Adam (pre-He-Man), as he fails spectacularly in a combat training session. Furious, his father, King Randor, reprimands him, essentially telling…

The trailers for the new Masters of the Universe movie had me hooked. The film looked to be aiming for a 2000s-to-2010s big-budget, speculative fiction vibe (think early MCU), and as a huge fan of that era, I headed out…

I am thrilled (and frankly, shocked) to announce the music video for my latest single, “Never the Same,” has been selected for the JXN Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film industry events in my home state of Mississippi.

…

Raised on a steady diet of crime novels, a flock of rural English sheep set out to solve their eccentric shepherd’s murder.

So goes the premise of Sheep Detectives, the new Hugh Jackman vehicle released in the U.S. by…