Devotion and Sleight director J.D. Dillard has confirmed his Star Wars movie is "unfortunately no longer a thing."

Old-school monster action meets island survival thrills in Sweetheart, the standout new creature feature from Sleight director J.D. Dillard, which just dropped on Netflix. The Blumhouse film stars Kiersey Clemons as Jenn, a young woman who wakes up stranded on an island after an off-screen shipwreck and quickly discovers she's not alone -- she floated right to the home of a mysterious, monstrous sea creature. Sweetheart is a cleverly directed film that makes the most a modest budget with resourceful staging and one heck of a leading performance from Clemons, but it also features a stunning creature …

It's extremely rare that I see something that makes me stop and think "this is just extremely my shit" as often as I did during Sweetheart, the sharply-scripted, smartly-directed creature feature from Sleight filmmaker J.D. Dillard. Produced by Blumhouse, Sweetheart is a genre-hybrid character study of Kiersey Clemons' Jenn, part survival movie, part monster movie, part relationship drama; all centered around how the young woman finally learns what she's capable of when she wakes up stranded on a small island... and soon discovers a monster lives there too. Dillard proves himself a master of …

It's extremely rare that I see something that makes me stop and think "this is just extremely my shit" as often as I did during Sweetheart, the sharply-scripted, smartly-directed creature feature from Sleight filmmaker J.D. Dillard. Produced by Blumhouse, Sweetheart is a genre-hybrid character study of Kiersey Clemons' Jenn, part survival movie, part monster movie, part relationship drama; all centered around how the young woman finally learns what she's capable of when she wakes up stranded on a small island... and soon discovers a monster lives there too. Dillard proves himself a master of …