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John Woo's Silent Night

Some of the CGI (especially that car crash) looks iffy but I'm still looking forward to this.

yoloswegmaster wrote:John Woo's Silent Night

Some of the CGI (especially that car crash) looks iffy but I'm still looking forward to this.

Don’t know what to make of that trailer. It comes across as a grindhouse romp, yet the actual footage taken on its own looks tortured, grim, and violent. And Woo isn’t known for his light touch. So…who know what this’ll be. At least Woo can finally make an American film without worrying about having to rein in the violence.

Did you know that honey is flammable as f*ck? Jason Statham is a beekeeper and also a B.E.E.K.E.E.P.E.R.(*), doing revenge on Jeremy Irons and Minnie Driver and all the evil minions who made Clair Huxtable click an unsafe link in David Ayer's The Beekeeper. (Link safe, but NSFW. Also NIN.)

This had better be as dumb as it looks.

(*) Guessing, praying it's an acronym

This version of the Theo Angelopoulous film seems to have a lot more quickly edited shots in it than I remembered.

Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway do Ottessa Moshfegh and accents in Eileen.

Steve McQueen's Occupied City

and

Sam (Mr. Robot) Esmail's Leave the World Behind. Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, a Bikini Kill t-shirt, an ominous Dallas Cowboys baseball cap, an (old) LCD Soundsystem song, and Kevin Bacon.

Bradley Cooper's Maestro. Starring Carey Mulligan, Cooper, and Mahler's Second.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

I had no idea they were going to continue these, and they managed to get Bill Murray. I still haven't seen the last one, Afterlife.

Wim Wenders' Perfect Days

Jack Snyder's Netflix film, Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

brundlefly wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:03 pm Bradley Cooper's Maestro. Starring Carey Mulligan, Cooper, and Mahler's Second.

This looks very impressive. And I love Carey Mulligan.

Alex Garland's Civil War

Jonathan Glazer's Zone of Interest

Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead (with Renate Reinsve, from a book and script by the author of Let the Right One In)

Love Lies Bleeding. Rose Glass (Saint Maud). With Kristen Stewart, Ed Harris, Katy O'Brian, and a gym membership.

Ava DuVernay's Origin

Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders

Cinematographer Benoît Delhomme turns director to remake Olivier Masset-Depasse's Duelles as Mothers' Instinct. With Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.

Which was the English-language title of Duelles, which I quite liked in its festival run a few years back, and which I recommended and some of us discussed when it played online in MyFrenchFilmFestival.

Would you rather watch Adam Sandler abandon Carey Mulligan for a giant digital emotional support spider voiced by Paul Dano, or pre-grieve with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and a giant digital parrot voiced by Cookie Monster?

Fourth sequel to a lightning in a bottle film from the 80’s that didn’t need any.

No, that other franchise!

Even my brother is a little weary of this and he liked the last one

Bertrand Bonello's The Beast

cantinflas wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:10 am Horizon: An American Saga

Incredibly excited for these. Open Range is one of my favorite American studio films of the 2000s

The landscape shots are a definite highlight of this trailer. And maybe Costner is the first person to coax a good performance out of Sam Worthington. And thank you for reminding me to watch Open Range again. I only saw it way back on its theatrical release but remember liking it a great deal.

Jane Schoenbrun's follow-up to We're All Going to the World's Fair, I Saw the TV Glow

Ishana Night Shyamalan's The Watchers

brundlefly wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:35 pm Jane Schoenbrun's follow-up to We're All Going to the World's Fair, I Saw the TV Glow

Wow, this looks like it has the potential to blow its already-great predecessor out of the water. And like that film, I expect the OST will be even better than the feature.