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 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKqMVPlDg8 Surprise surprise. We're all about to get a new Breaking Bad movie in October. Netflix just dropped the first teaser for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a project that has been filming in secret. None of the original series characters make an appearance, but it sets the premise: we're about to find out [...]
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 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrwN7oDABs Roger Ailes exposés: 2 Matt Lauer takedowns: 0 Harvey Weinstein scandal dramas: 0 That ratio is hardly surprising, given Hollywood's left-leaning biases. The industry is obviously more prone to go after conservative-leaning offenders than they are any of the disgraced titans from liberal outlets who have #MeToo scandals of their own. Funny, too, how [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPuhNtG47M0 This time, it's personal. No, really, this time it actually is personal. Sylvester Stallone returns for one final fight as John Rambo, the burdened Vietnam vet, in Rambo: Last Blood. It's a saga that has spanned four decades, and now the bad guys have come for his daughter. Violent vengeance ensues. Directed by Adrian Grunberg (Narcos, Man on [...]
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=z9CEIcmWmtA The debut trailer for the new holiday romcom Last Christmas barely dropped before the internet was abuzz over the plot twist that may be hiding in plain sight. While I won't divulge that potential spoiler speculation, it almost seems as if the trailer wants us to make the magical assumption (emphasized by another possible [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJXmdY4lVR0 How do you solve a problem like the Nazis? You can't, so you resist. That's exactly what a rural Austrian farmer did during World War II, and now his true story is brought to the big screen on an epic canvas from poetic auteur Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven). During [...]
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 [...]
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