Trailers for Upcoming Films

[brundlefly]

Donald Glover's Bando Stone & The New World.

[domino harvey]

Donald Glover's Bando Stone & The New World.

This looked like it was filmed on an iPhone from five years ago and then all of a sudden there’s expensive-looking CGI and a promise that it’s coming to IMAX and I’ve never been so confused

[therewillbeblus]

That's actually a pretty standard reaction to a taste of a Donald Glover project

[Finch]

The Gladiator 2 trailer is out and sums up the entire film. And it uses rap music. Denzel Washington feels like he is acting in a different film from everyone else.

[beamish14]

The Gladiator 2 trailer is out and sums up the entire film. And it uses rap music. Denzel Washington feels like he is acting in a different film from everyone else.

Cinema and politics have too many octogenarians who need to be put out to pasture

[brundlefly]

Timothee Chalamet to play Bob Dylan circa-Newport fest in James Mangold’s next film

Teaser for A Complete Unknown.

Also, The Becomers from Zach Clark (The Little Sister, White Reindeer). Quite the collection of blurbs.

[Mr Sausage]

Also, The Becomers from Zach Clark (The Little Sister, White Reindeer). Quite the collection of blurbs.

I saw it at Fantasia last year, and it's really good. A peculiar, absurd black comedy about body switching aliens and their increasing difficulty swapping into the lives of their hosts. It has a tone all its own: romantic, satirical, absurdist, horrifying.

[JabbaTheSlut]

Teaser for A Complete Unknown.

Looks like a middle of the road biopic.

[cantinflas]

The Red

[brundlefly]

Mary-Louise Parker self-medicates in Bernardo Britto's Omni Loop.

[brundlefly]

Coralie Fargeat's The Substance.

[Mr Sausage]

Matthew Rankin's Universal Language.

So is this taking place in a Canada where the official languages are French and Farsi?

[brundlefly]

Mike Leigh's Hard Truths.

[brundlefly]

Asif Kapadia's 2073.

And teasing Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man.

[brundlefly]

Mati Diop (of Atlantique fame) won the Golden Bear for her documentary Dahomey

Trailer.

And from Michael Felker, who has worked on every Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead feature, the Benson and Moorhead production Things Will Be Different.

[cantinflas]

Twilight of the Gods

[brundlefly]

A few weeks old, but Chloe Okuno's next is slated to concern the Dating Game winner who was a serial killer. (Universal background checks for firearms and game show contestants, please.) For Netflix, starring Anna Kendrick.

Great hook but, as that original footage is deep cringe and no serial killing took place as a result of the show, am curious to see how severely events will be re-worked. Colors on that set would present a severe aesthetic shift from Watcher.

With Okuno no longer involved, it's now Kendrick's directorial debut. Teaser.

[Boosmahn]

Those scenes aren't in the Black List script, which I found pretty weak. Good to see it's been at least a little reworked.

[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.

[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.