'Tis the season for horror movies, and we're getting some really good ones. The latest to hit VOD and theaters is The Monster, the new effort from The Strangers director Bryan Bertino and starring Zoe Kazan. And if the trailer is anything to go by, The Monster is a must-see.
As the Marvel Universe continues to expand and encompass even more superheroes and their increasingly inter-related narratives, it was only a matter of time before something aspiring to the mystical was introduced. Unsurprisingly, this comes in the form of Doctor Strange, about which we have seen so much and learned so little. As we meander slowly to the film's premiere on November 4, Marvel gives us another tantalizing glimpse into its concepts with a new featurette.
If Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets sounds like a pulp sci-fi novel from the 1950s...it sort of is. It's actually the title of Luc Besson's latest film, and Besson has been making pulp sci-fi with the best of them for years now. With the first teaser trailer set to show this weekend at New York Comic Con, EuropaCorp has released the first official poster and a few images to whet our appetites.
It's a real fairy-tale match: the sequel to the 2007 hit Enchanted has landed director Adam Shankman. It's being reported that Shankman is now in negotiations to direct Disenchanted, which will have Amy Adams reprising her role as a fairy-tale princess who lands in the real world.
Ever since Walter Huston did his little gold dance in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, tales of gold-prospecting have captured the Hollywood imagination. The latest comes to us from director Stephen Gaghan with the film Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells.
The German comedy Toni Erdmann has been one of the breakout hits of the festival circuit this year, garnering critical acclaim out of Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York. In fact, our own Josh Cabrita gave it top marks in his review out of Cannes, calling it "one of the most tragic comedies of the decade." Now, as its December U.S. release date approaches, we have the release of the first U.S. trailer, which tries to sell a very curious father/daughter relationship to American viewers.
Shia LaBeouf has taken on many diverse roles in his rather curious career, but now he gets to channel his inner tennis player as John McEnroe in the upcoming tennis drama Borg/McEnroe. Is it going to be a major stretch for LaBeouf to play a famous narcissist with a volatile temper? Probably not.
The films of Pedro Almodóvar always draw out the oft-melodramatic complexities of everyday existence, especially for the multi-faceted female characters that drive the narratives. In Julieta, Almodóvar crafts perhaps his most straight-forward story, shorn of many of the melodramatic flourishes and plot twists that so often permeate his films, yet nonetheless powerful and provocative.
Writer/director Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women bears the burden of being a small indie drama with A-list stars, boasting a cast that includes Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, and Michelle Williams in the title roles. Luckily for the film, and the audience, Certain Women more than justifies itself as a serious argument for the beauty of the small and intimate drama and the importance of female-driven filmmaking.
Thus begins Ava DuVernay’s searing documentary The 13th. The film views the trajectory of the United States’ prison-system, the mass incarceration of African-American men, and the rising tide of police brutality, both past and present, through the lens of systemic racism.
