https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78 This feels like Oscar bait from the 1990s, and judging by last year's Best Picture win for Green Book that could be a winning Awards Season formula (especially with its confronation of racial issues). Just Mercy, the latest film from director Destin Daniel Cretton (whose indie breakout Short Term 12 is one of the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI&feature=youtu.be Wes Anderson, but goofier. That's the tone of Jojo Rabbit, the new political satire from writer/director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt For The Wilderpeople), as seen in this latest trailer. The premise -- of a German boy during World War II who befriends a runaway teenage Jewish girl while also having Adolf Hitler [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxy8udgWRmo&feature=youtu.be They're back. And they're together again. Previous promos for Terminator: Dark Fate have teased glimpses of Linda Hamilton's Sarach Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 meeting again, but this final trailer for the reboot-sequel has them finally fighting side-by-side. Serving as a direct decades-later continuation of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (films 3, 4, and 5 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBRcfe4bSo Just call it Meryl Brockovich. The new film from director Steven Soderbergh (his second in a row for Netflix) plays like a mix between his Oscar-winning blue collar whistleblower drama Erin Brockovich and the glitzy fun of his Ocean's trilogy. "Based on some real sh**," as the trailer puts it (along with a [...]
The Joker origin movie -- which has received an R rating, per expectation -- will have its second trailer premiere this Wednesday, August 28. To build anticipation for the latest sneak peak, Warner Bros. has dropped six clip snippets onto the film's Instagram account. (See below, along with image gallery.) They're essentially mood setters, and they [...]
And if she will not be turned...she. will. be. de. stroyed! That's basically what The Emperor is thinking in this new poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which was unveiled at Disney's D23 Expo. A behind-the-scenes video with surprising new footage was also screened, but it hasn't been released online as of now. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fru8IkuDp_k Didn't see this one coming. It's not that the material is any kind of shocker; it's just that the movie was nowhere on my radar. After a nearly twenty year absence, Edward Norton makes his sophomore directorial effort with Motherless Brooklyn, based on a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem (A Scanner Darkly). Set in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=x79Gf4cJDDE The most controversial response to 9/11 by the U.S. government (this side of invading Iraq, anyway) was the use of torture and waterboarding to gather information. The Report is the latest Awards Season contender from Amazon Studios (based on actual events) that dramatizes the process that led to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA [...]
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when love was there (and may still be). That's the melancholic spirit which imbues the first two teasers for Marriage Story, the latest New York set character drama from writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Meyerowitz Stories). It stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as the husband-and-wife who find themselves [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjFOkCKb3g For anyone already cobbling together their must-see list for the upcoming Awards Season, a slot has to be made for Pain And Glory, the Spanish-language film from writer/director Pedro Almodóvar. The legendary auteur reunites with Antonio Banderas (whose collaborations first began back in the late 1980s) in a film that is blatantly semi-autobiographical. Banderas plays [...]