Trailers for Upcoming Films

[brundlefly]

An extremely short teaser for Bong Joon-ho's MICKEY 17

Trailer. A reminder that not enough people saw Riley Stearns' Dual.

Also: Tim Mielants' Small Things Like These.

[domino harvey]

An extremely short teaser for Bong Joon-ho's MICKEY 17

Trailer. A reminder that not enough people saw Riley Stearns' Dual.

Word is that since the director had Final Cut and refused to make any changes, WB is dumping this in January and will make no awards run for it

[beamish14]

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

I make no apologies for finding the original to be one of the great popcorn films of the past decade

[Maladroit Aggregator]

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

I make no apologies for finding the original to be one of the great popcorn films of the past decade

It's very enjoyable, very rewatchable, despite being derivative and almost objectively a poor film. Guy Ritchie's Wrath of Man is another one (though I dislike all of his others.)

There are a number of films in this genre that fit this bill, for some reason all made in the last 10-15 years. I think of them as "macho" comfort films, all seemingly made since Training Day, Harsh Times (a total masterpiece of flamboyant acting by Bale) etc. Lots of tattooed beardo-d tough (or wannabe tough) guys posturing and talking in smoky rooms, caressing weapons (and guns, too,) treating women badly, making convoluted plans for nonsensical heists. Everyone is "thicc," gone is the gaunt, wiry threat of a Clint Eastwood, I gather these guys take some of their style cues from Dan Bilzerian, perhaps they get their ab implants from the same plastic surgeon.

The single notable influence is without a doubt Mann's Heat, but only superficially, as all of these subsequent flicks and the hacks who make them lack all his intelligence and grace and formal invention, as well as his understanding of 100 years of film language. What you have instead is something like Fury, a WW2 Tank film costumed by Ed Hardy.

What all this says about the state of young men of a certain age, I'm not sure I want to know.

[beamish14]

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

I make no apologies for finding the original to be one of the great popcorn films of the past decade

It's very enjoyable, very rewatchable, despite being derivative and almost objectively a poor film. Guy Ritchie's Wrath of Man is another one (though I dislike all of his others.)

There are a number of films in this genre that fit this bill, for some reason all made in the last 10-15 years. I think of them as "macho" comfort films, all seemingly made since Training Day, Harsh Times (a total masterpiece of flamboyant acting by Bale) etc. Lots of tattooed beardo-d tough (or wannabe tough) guys posturing and talking in smoky rooms, caressing weapons (and guns, too,) treating women badly, making convoluted plans for nonsensical heists. Everyone is "thicc," gone is the gaunt, wiry threat of a Clint Eastwood, I gather these guys take some of their style cues from Dan Bilzerian, perhaps they get their ab implants from the same plastic surgeon.

The single notable influence is without a doubt Mann's Heat, but only superficially, as all of these subsequent flicks and the hacks who make them lack all his intelligence and grace and formal invention, as well as his understanding of 100 years of film language. What you have instead is something like Fury, a WW2 Tank film costumed by Ed Hardy.

What all this says about the state of young men of a certain age, I'm not sure I want to know.

I’m completely with you on Harsh Times and David Ayers’ astoundingly stupid The Tax Collector and Street Kings, which all satiate my late night anxieties by making me laugh or shake my head in disbelief

[yoloswegmaster]

Red One

Absolutely mental that this cost $250,000,000

[beamish14]

Red One

Absolutely mental that this cost $250,000,000

This is truly The Rock’s Waterloo, and will probably finish the job that Black Adam started. An outrageously out of control production that has already been dissected in some of the trades

[brundlefly]

Ryan Coogler's Sinners.

And Steve McQueen's Blitz.

[brundlefly]

Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez.

[brundlefly]

Sylvain Chomet's The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol. (En anglais.)

[Yakushima]

Sylvain Chomet's The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol. (En anglais.)

Fantastic news! Really looking forward to this. In the meantime, I only recently finally caught up with Chomet's live-action effort Attila Marcel (2013) and found it very enjoyable.

[yoloswegmaster]

An extremely short teaser for Bong Joon-ho's MICKEY 17

Trailer. A reminder that not enough people saw Riley Stearns' Dual.

Word is that since the director had Final Cut and refused to make any changes, WB is dumping this in January and will make no awards run for it

No dedicated thread for it yet but here's the official poster:



There's a rumour going around that some studios are planning on taking some 2025 releases and moving them to this year due to the weak Oscar race. This would be the perfect chance to move the Mickey 17 release date from January to December

[beamish14]

An extremely short teaser for Bong Joon-ho's MICKEY 17

Trailer. A reminder that not enough people saw Riley Stearns' Dual.

Word is that since the director had Final Cut and refused to make any changes, WB is dumping this in January and will make no awards run for it

The same thing happened with Snowpiercer. Like Jean-Pierre Jeunet, he’d take a poor rollout over compromising his film

[brundlefly]

Trailer for Andrea Arnold's Bird, which has forced subs for some reason.

NEON is already teasing Osgood Perkins' February 2025 movie, The Monkey, a James Wan production based on a Stephen King story. Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood,

Not going the Longlegs route with the marketing.(NSFW)

[domino harvey]

Impressively fun trailer

[brundlefly]

New Wallace & Gromit feature, Vengeance Most Fowl, coming 1/3.

[colinr0380]

New Wallace & Gromit feature, Vengeance Most Fowl, coming 1/3.

Or showing over Christmas (a fair bet it will be on Christmas Day) on the BBC for those in the UK.

[beamish14]

New Wallace & Gromit feature, Vengeance Most Fowl, coming 1/3.

Hope it performs well. Aardman just had a big round of layoffs

[brundlefly]

I'm far more curious about the Russo's adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's The Electric State for Netflix. It's the best of Stålenhag's books and I hope that 300 million budget is all up there on the screen as this lends itself to some major world building.

Trailer.

[yoloswegmaster]

This is what spending $320 million gets you?

[The Curious Sofa]

I suppose with that price tag it was inevitable that Stålenhag's sparse, melancholy odyssey in the aftermath of a technological apocalypse would become a fist-pumping action flick. And I had no idea that Chris Pratt was in it. Oh well...

[brundlefly]

Pablo Larrain and Steven Knight to reteam on Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas

Trailer.

[brundlefly]

Luca Guadagnino and Justin Kuritzkes' Burroughs adaptation, Queer.

[brundlefly]

Soderbergh's got a new film premiering at Sundance in 2024: Presence, scripted by David Koepp.

Trailer.

[brundlefly]

Joshua Oppenheimer's The End.