Trailers for Upcoming Films

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Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland.

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Adam Wingard is finally done with American Godzilla movies and starting filming on a thriller for A24 this month with Dan Stevens among the cast. Title is Onslaught.

Trailer.

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Adam Wingard is finally done with American Godzilla movies and starting filming on a thriller for A24 this month with Dan Stevens among the cast. Title is Onslaught.

Trailer.

Yeah I'm keen on this. Back into The Guest territory but going harder.

Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man

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I wonder if that is inspired by the 1995 Clint Howard film.

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William and David Greaves' Once Upon a Time in Harlem.

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I Want Your Sex: This is mid-tier Araki in a light, playful mood, and it's often funny with his-brand-of warm (which often feels cold!) The satirical gags about the art world are better than I Love Boosters (though Riley admitted in the Q&A that he didn't really care about a commentary on fashion or art itself, as much as serving a communist manifesto), but the real comedy and engagement with the audience comes from its central conceit about the allure of various relationship dynamics that achieve a unique type of intimacy, and how messy that becomes with competing wills at play. Wilde is boldly wild, and Cooper Hoffman proves once again that he can carry a romantic comedy as the lead. Charli xcx is unrecognizable purely because of the desexualized role she plays, and she nails it.

Teaser ...and a whole day later, the Trailer.

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Whalefall. Perhaps kinkier than the Araki.

I'm a fan of Brian Duffield's pre-pandemic pandemic teen tragicomic romance Spontaneous, and though he's not the writer here, the tagline -- "The odds of being swallowed alive by a whale are not zero." -- has me hoping for a similar mix of tones. And Elisabeth Shue is in this, somewhere.

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I too am a big fan of Spontaneous (and was more lukewarm on No One Will Save You) but it looks like Duffield at least cowrote the screenplay with Daniel Kraus, whose novel this is based on,

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Thanks for the clarification! Somehow looked right past his name, there.

No One Will Save You keeps getting pushed down my queue for one reason or another.

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Georgia Bernstein's Night Nurse is a delightfully perverse good time, exploring the decidedly unconventional relationship that develops between a newly hired care provider at a retirement village and her primary charge, a senior citizen in apparent mental decline. From the opening credits, Bernstein's direction deftly toys with and undermines the erotic thriller genre trappings, and her script capably sets the audience up for an darkly romantic and bittersweet ending.

Bernstein's direction is assured and straightforward, with just enough stylistic flash on what is surely a miniscule budget to hint at what she might do with a larger production, but the film will be most memorable to me as a showcase for Bruce McKenzie, an actor whose primarily television-based work I'm not familiar with but whose piercing, erratic presence is the axis upon which the whole movie turns. From the first time he turns his gaze to the camera and our protagonist (first-time actress Cemre Paksoy, who is also often striking if maybe a bit too opaque at some key moments) to the last smile he gives her, he held my attention completely and carries the film through some of the bumpier parts of the narrative.

There are a few plot developments that are too elliptical for their own good, raising narrative questions that lack satisfying answers, but even while acknowledging its imperfections and shortcomings, I can say that Night Nurse serves as a great example of what I hope for in a Sundance movie: a fun introduction to new talents that whets the appetite for their future work.

Trailer.