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 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcmZN0Mbl04 The Great War isn't explored in as many films as is the bigger war that followed it; that makes director Sam Mendes' 1917 intriguing enough. The scale on which it's produced (as seen in this first trailer) piques that interest even more. The war picture has a quasi-Saving Private Ryan premise to it, but [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Expe7hf6MU Martin Scorsese has one big mob movie left in him, and now we have our first full look at it in this new trailer -- complete with glimpses at the de-aging digital technology that allows stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci to appear decades younger. The Irishman is the true story [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=VTqd4yNFuSw Playing Hitler for laughs can be a risky proposition, but the off-beat quirkiness of writer / director Taika Waititi is perfectly suited for the gamble. Waititi is the New Zealand filmmaker who made Thor: Ragnarok a smash, but his style was honed on smaller oddball indies with clever laughs (What We Do In The [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLEPhfEN2M "Please don't ruin my childhood." That knowing bit of meta-dialogue is spoken by the wife of a reporter who's about to embark on an in-depth profile of Fred Rogers, the beloved PBS host of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, one of the longest running children's series of all time. The wife, of course, is speaking for [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-iTco6JgZ4o More secrets were uncovered at the Comic-Con presentation for Terminator: Dark Fate. Along with a new 90-second featurette (above; caution, strong language and violence), producer James Cameron officially announced a big surprise: actor Edward Furlong will reprise his role as John Connor in this latest chapter, which is serving as a direct sequel to [...]
The Mother of Dragons is about to get swept up in a yuletide meet-cute. Leaving the controversies of the Game of Thrones finale far behind (along with her own personal frustrations about it -- which I share!), Emilia Clarke will be back on the big screen this holiday season in Last Christmas. What may first [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ON04GCwKs The first teaser for the new Mulan is already the best live action Disney remake of the year, even though we won't see the full movie until 2020. Rather than taking the safe risk-averse route of a shot-for-shot CGI rehash, director Niki Caro (Whale Rider) looks like she'll be telling and crafting the story [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXkOTJBtvU With just a little over two weeks left before the new Lion King finally debuts, Disney has released this new featurette with cast and director interviews that also reveals new never-before-seen footage from the live action remake. In addition, Cast-Character portraits were released (see below), each one framing the various voice actors with their [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 