George Janko Interview for No Escape, Social Media Thriller with Keegan Allen and Holland Roden

Watch or Pass Interview with George Janko, who plays Dash in the new social media escape room thriller, No Escape, starring Keegan Allen (“Pretty Little Liars,” Palo Alto), Holland Roden (“Teen Wolf”, “Channel Zero”), Denzel Whitaker (“The Purge”, Black Panther), Ronen Rubinstein (“911: Lone Star” Some Kind of Hate), Pasha Lychnikoff (“Deadwood”,”Shameless”, A Good Day to Die Hard), George Janko (“NCIS: Los Angeles,” Millennial Mafia) and Siya (The First Purge). The film is written and directed by Will Wernick (Escape Room).  We discuss why he chose this role, how he got started in acting and social media, and how he ultimately got this role!  We also get insights and a review of the film from Mama Janko!

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A social media star travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess and danger. As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape, and survive.

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Holland Roden Interview for No Escape, Social Media Thriller with Denzel Whitaker and Keegan Allen

Watch or Pass Interview with Holland Roden, who plays Erin in the new social media escape room thriller, No Escape, starring Keegan Allen (“Pretty Little Liars,” Palo Alto), Holland Roden (“Teen Wolf”, “Channel Zero”), Denzel Whitaker (“The Purge”, Black Panther), Ronen Rubinstein (“911: Lone Star” Some Kind of Hate), Pasha Lychnikoff (“Deadwood”,”Shameless”, A Good Day to Die Hard), George Janko (“NCIS: Los Angeles,” Millennial Mafia) and Siya (The First Purge). The film is written and directed by Will Wernick (Escape Room).  We discuss why she chose this role, where she drew inspiration for her character, and what she is doing outside of Hollywood.  We also discuss some of her own interesting travels and experiences!

So give it a watch and make sure to check out the film on September 18 on demand and digitally.

A social media star travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess and danger. As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape, and survive.

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No Escape Review: A Tense Social Media Escape

Release date: September 18, 2020
Running time: 88 minutes
Starring:  Denzel Whitaker, Holland Roden, Keegan Allen

A social media star Cole (Allen) travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG.  Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess and danger.  As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape, and survive.

It feels like there have been a few movies recently focusing on social media and the effects it has on society and reality.  No Escape explores this subject well with a slick VLOG and over the top personality in Cole.  Allen does a great job of mixing the two personas, his public persona and his private persona, though the film does show how those can tend to merge.  But he is entertaining to watch and the film starts with a montage of what Cole has done to set the stage for the overall film.  Cole is joined by some characters people.  The film does a good job of getting a diverse and fun cast together for this escape room torture session, including his girlfriend Erin (Roden), his best friend Thomas (Whitaker), and his other friends Dash (George Janko) and Sam (Siya).  They each bring something different to the table and to the room, and they all contribute to the overall suspense in the film.

And the escape room part is very suspenseful, with some intense puzzles for the crew to solve.  Some of them even have potentially deadly consequences.  And this level of risk is what makes this a tense film to watch.  And it is still a horror movie so the decision making of the crew is definitely hit or miss.  But that being said, the escape room does have a certain amount of sameness to it.  The film mostly takes place in the escape room, and this causes much of it to look and feel similar.  The first part of the film has the friends traveling and exploring some fun locales, but after it moves to the escape room, a lot happens but we don't see a varied locale.  Furthermore, the character of the film changes at some point and feels like a very different movie from the first part.  It's not bad, just not what I expected from the trailers and overall premise.  But I did love that there was a lot of Russian spoken in the film with no subtitles, to make you experience this as the friends did.  It was a nice touch and one that helped frame this film and its story.  And the ending of the movie is a satisfying one, and really elevates the whole experience.

No Escape dials up the tension in this intense escape room experience with a dynamic cast of characters, plenty of suspense, and a fantastic, satisfying ending.  

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