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brundlefly wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2024 2:22 pm Donald Glover's Bando Stone & The New World.

Finch wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2024 10:44 pm 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.

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:14 pm Timothee Chalamet to play Bob Dylan circa-Newport fest in James Mangold’s next film

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:05 pmAlso, The Becomers from Zach Clark (The Little Sister, White Reindeer). Quite the collection of blurbs.

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:05 pm
Teaser for A Complete Unknown.

brundlefly wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:58 pm Matthew Rankin's Universal Language.

Matt wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:35 pm Mati Diop (of Atlantique fame) won the Golden Bear for her documentary Dahomey

brundlefly wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 8:47 pm 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.

Computer Raheem wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 3:04 am An extremely short teaser for Bong Joon-ho's MICKEY 17

beamish14 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 6:28 pm 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 wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:35 am

beamish14 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 6:28 pm 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.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Mon Sep 23, 2024 1:05 am Red One

Absolutely mental that this cost $250,000,000