Right, which is why I preferred how Blockers was similarly frank without feeling exploitative in the same way.
I just became aware of a movie Vincent D’Onofrio is directing called The Kid, with Ethan Hawke as Pat Garrett and Dane DeHaan as Billy the Kid. The cast also includes Chris Pratt, Adam Baldwin, and D’Onofrio himself. It’s listed as being in post-production, and there doesn’t seem to be a release date yet.
So, has anyone seen, or is planning to see, this Papillon remake?
Recently watched Hunnam in Lost City of Z fort he first time, and while I ultimately didn’t particularly enjoy the movie, my only previous experience with him was the biker show, Sons of Anarchy, and I feel he was far better in Z than that. As I also tend to like Malek (okay, admittedly only from Mr. Robot), I’m curiously hopeful about the Papillon remake.
Hunman will always be Raahlay! from Pacific Rim to me.
The first trailer for A PRIVATE WAR, the Marie Colvin biopic from the director of CartelLand starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin, dropped yesterday. It looks pretty standard, but solid. Pike’s about 15 years too young to play Colvin, but she seems to be giving a hell of a performance. Stanley Tucci and Tom Hollander are in it, which is always a plus.
Re: KIN and AXEL
When I saw ANTMAN, I noticed that between those and BUMBLEBEE, there were no less than 3 previews for films about tween/teens stumbling upon advanced weapons technology and using it to fight off the Bad Guys who come looking for their new friends.
Is this just the summer of YA IRON GIANT knock-offs, like we had asteroids and volcanoes in the 90s? Is there something in the zeitgeist about young people needing to learn to use the technology they inherited more responsibly than its creators?
Shazam sorta counts too. It just involves literal magic.
I just saw Eighth Grade, and I think it made my skin crawl about as much as Hereditary. Even though nothing much happens, I found it excruciating. It’s a really good movie, for sure, but I felt like Ebert watching Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It’s technically immaculate at making you uncomfortable.
I don’t mean that as a negative. It’s very strong, super confident (ironically), and stunning in its understated horror show, but I sure can’t imagine watching it again.
Bruno aiming for that China market i see.
maybe this deserves its own thread but Paul Greengrass’ 22 JULY trailer:
Netflix is not fucking around this year. Their fall/winter movie slate (not to mention Fukunaga’s new TV show Maniac) is RIDONKULOUS.
yeah, saw that trailer. I question the fact that the Norwegians are all speaking English in it, but otherwise it looks pretty amazing.
PEPPERMINT. Shouldn’t people be more excited about Jennifer Garner doing vigilante stuff?
It looks like a watered down female PUNISHER retread. I’ll pass.
AVClub’s review of Peppermint is pretty scathing.
To All The Boys I Loved Before is very, very charming. It’s one of those films that knows exactly what it is and sets out to do it very well, buoyed by two excellent lead performances from Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. It’s got all the rom-com cliches to be sure, but the whole endeavor is so warm-hearted and precise in its detail that it works.
I also hear SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER is also quite good, if a little problematic. Catfishing is an element of the plot, and I guess there are some trans jokes that don’t land.
But I’m here for anything that gets justice for Barb.
At least 90% of Norwegians speak English and that number probably skews even closer to 100% in urban areas. You can actually do university degrees in Scandinavia which are taught in English. It’s also why I didn’t really have a problem with the Norwegian team in the Thing prequel (almost) all speaking English either. Even back in the 80s, the level of English literacy was very high (versus my being able to only say “Hello, how are you?” and “My name is” in Norwegian due to a particularly boring night shift and my Norwegian co-worker helping me kill time).
I remember interviews with the parents of some of the victims, they were refugees from the Middle East, I think. They’d already learned Norwegian and were giving interviews in it but I could see how the events of the day might have been in English if people had varying levels of Norwegian speaking ability as there were a lot of foreign born people there on the day. Also, since it was a political youth group, English is a useful skill to have for international politics and hence exercise and practice on the day.
For all I know, events of the day were in Norwegian but it’s also plausible that they weren’t (I get the obvious advantages as a film of making it in English).
Netflix really has gone all-in on trying to bring back the rom-com this year and it seems to have paid off pretty well for them.
I hadn’t seen the full trailer, so it wasn’t until reading the review that I learned what the title means. It’s kind of fantastic.
Chinese animated movie “Next Gen” debuted on Netflix and boy is it a mixed bag. On the one hand, pretty decent girl and her robot story, then you have a Kung Fu fight with a robotic toothbrush that then feature a dog that curses (with bleeps and mosaic-ed mouth) and then pretty funny bits like the robot cup of noodles. It’s a lot but I will give it props for a better than it has a right to be fight between the hero robot and the bad guy robot. It was legitimately pretty badass. Worth a watch but it’s a super mixed bag for sure.
The most interesting thing about Next Gen to me is that it was made almost entirely with Blender, the open source 3D modeling and animation package. Everything except the physics sims for fires/explosions/etc (which were simmed in Houdini and imported into Blender for rendering) and the textures (which were done with Substance Painter) was Blender.