The newly-released trailer is enticing stuff from 5-time academy award winner Kirk Lazarus. Also, Downey Jr. is looking, acting and whispering in very much the same manner as he did in the Sherlock Holmes films. And what’s with every trailer now having a moody version of a previously written song in it? Listen, I love the nonchalant person RDJ has created over the years as much as the next person, but this is an average trailer, not that we were really expecting much from “Dolittle....

The frustrations of online dating are satirically tackled in Mimi Cave’s “Fresh”. This is the kind of film where the less you know, the better. What you should know about the plot is that it concerns a twenty-something millennial named Noa who bounces from one terrible date to another, only to find perfection in Steve (Sebastien Stan) and wonder, what’s the catch? Steve is a little too good to be true — he can cook, has loads of money, and is incredibly handsome....

The movie follows three middle school-aged kids as they prepare for their first-ever “kissing party.” I would expect this to follow the same blueprint as “Superbad” and this year’s “Booksmart,” you know, a plot revolving around antics, all leading to the final destination, which is usually a party. The film stars Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon, Keith L. Williams, Molly Gordon, Midori Francis, and Will Forte. “Good Boys” premiered at SXSW this past March....

“These are not our people and they do not represent us,” Har’el wrote, with a straight face it seems, on social media. “Do not look for justice in the awards system”, she added. And now, today, we have Har’el again preaching for a split of genders in the Director category via a written a guest post for Entertainment Weekly. In case you didn’t know, the Best Director Academy Award nominees in 2020 are Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Todd Phillips (“Joker”), Sam Mendes (“1917”), and Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”)....

First reactions for the movie, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular character, began surfacing at Venice and as buzz built on through the weekend so did its Box-Office prospects. This led Box Office Pro to update the opening weekend range they had for the film from $70 million to now $95m. Only three R-rated movies have ever had 100+ million dollar opening weekends: “Deadpool,” “Deadpool 2” and “IT.” Of course, as mentioned, these projected numbers for “Joker” should not be surprising at all considering the movie’s debut at the Venice Film Festival resulted in an eight-minute standing ovation and some very good reviews....

The result is a neorealist triumph as Camilleri focuses his lens on Jesmark, a Maltese fisherman, whose life goes spiraling out of control after he spots a leak in his wooden luzzu boat. The repairs are pricey, and it doesn’t help that he’s barely making ends meet, having an unhealthy newborn whose medical bills keep accumulating. Jesmark’s desperation thrusts him out into an the illicit fishing black-market where politics and dirty cash go hand in hand....

Zhao’s “The Rider” was a surprise hit at Cannes back in 2017, so much so that her next film was bound to be hotly anticipated. Here was a female filmmaker with a keen, poetic eye for humanism. Marvel Studios, unfortunately, hired her to direct their upcoming “The Eternals,” but the real focus should be on “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, which was announced to simultaneously world premiere on September 11 at the Venice and the Toronto International Film Festivals....

We can now confirm that Paul Dano has been added to the cast to play The Riddler, Batman’s arch nemesis, previously tackled by Jim Carey in 1995’s “Batman Forever.“ [via THR] Jonah Hill was reportedly eyeing the role, but was unable to come to terms on a deal with Warner Bros. Dano is best known as a character actor whose work in such films as “There Will Be Blood,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “12 Years a Slave,” ”Prisoners,” and “Swiss Army Man” received critical acclaim....

Tackling mothers who really shouldn’t be mothers, the film is set on a Coastal Greek town, where Leda, a Cambridge professor, decides to spend her serene one-week vacation. Ghosts that haunt her past start to be relived in vivid flashbacks that show her younger self (Jessie Buckley) struggling to be a mother of two young daughters. These flashbacks get further ignited when present-day Leda (Olivia Colman) notices Nina (Dakota Johnson in her best performance) grappling with her own whiny daughter at the beach front....

“The action movie was dying in 1999, Arnold was just not Arnold anymore, and there wasn’t a new action star to come and take over the throne. “The Matrix” is where the action movie went techno. Literally, it went beyond the technological and creative limits we thought were set for action. For better or for worse, “bullet time” reinvigorated the genre and shattered the clichés for a whole bunch of new ones to come....

I’ll watch anything with Theron, but, based purely on this first trailer alone, “The Old Guard” isn’t doing it for me. It just looks … middle-of-the-road. An adaptation of the graphic novel—written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Leandro Fernandez—of the same name, it plays in the trailer like a fairly standard sci-fi actioneer, but I’m ready to be proven wrong, especially with Theron and Prince-Blythewood involved. Back in the late ‘90s, Theron was deemed “too beautiful” to truly make it as an exemplary actress in the industry, but boy were people wrong about that....

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Sony Pictures Classics can hold out on whatever amount of hope that is left for Zeller’s film, but fact of the matter is that the film crashed and burned at Venice and Toronto. It currently has a 60 on MC and sits at 47% on Rotten Tomatoes. The scores were slightly higher during the fall fests. At least mixed-reviewed fall fare such as “The Whale,” “Bardo” and “White Noise” have had their fair share of ardent supporters, but nobody is going to bat for “The Son”....

We have to remember, Venice also rejected the lovely “Bergman Island” just last year and just this year gave the cold shoulder to Terrence Davies’ equally lovely “Benediction”. The ‘Macbeth’ rejection does illustrate how just because you’re a high-profile director, it doesn’t mean that you automatically get selected into competition. This happens way too frequently, and often for subpar work. The Venice selection committee didn’t like the film, and refused it a slot, which is fair and indeed commendable....

Leonardo DiCaprio will be joining Scorsese’s adaptation of the newly released David Grann non-fiction book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder”. Grann is also the author of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which, as mentioned, Scorsese recently adapted. [via THR] This means, not counting, ‘Killers,’ Scorsese has three movies currently in development; a Jerry Garcia biopic starring Jonah Hill, a Teddy Roosevelt biopic starring DiCaprio and “The Wager....

Told in 12 Chapters, “The Worst Person in the World” is Trier’s return to millennial angst, but the fresh perspective which may have infused his earlier films has vanished here, time has caught up to such a story, at least in cinema, to the point where Noah Baumbach comparisons will inevitably be made. Thank the heavens then for Renate Reinsve who plays Julie, a med school student in her late 20s filled with all the youthful possibilities the world can offer, only to scrap her medicine plans for a botched career in photography....

The Cinema Guild has released an official US trailer for Hong Sang-soo’s “Yourself and Yours,” which first premiered at the Toronto & San Sebastian Film Festivals in 2016. This is the third Hong Sang-soo film being released this year along with “Hill of Freedom” and “The Woman Who Ran.” The man is a cinematic beast. The story follows Korean couple Youngsoo and Minjung, after the latter is seen with another man, an argument happens which leads to Youngsoo breaking up with her....

This marks their 29th film collaboration together. “The Sugarland Express,” their first one, dates back five decades. Williams’ 52 Oscar nominations are an all-time record for scoring, 17 of those are for Spielberg films, including three of his five wins (“Jaws,” “E.T.,” “Schindler”). Slated for a November 23rd release, this autobiographical film will have Spielberg recounting his childhood in Arizona, including his sneaking into studio lots to meet his idols (the rumor is that David Lynch will be playing an eye-patched John Ford)....

Let us not forget that the screenplay was written by Alex Garland, a screenwriter who burst into the directorial scene in 2015 with his brilliant “Ex-Machina.” His lean, mean work on “Dredd” had none of the superfluous tropes that would hamper down most of the action movies we see today. I also can’t fail to mention Karl Urban (“Star Trek Beyond) who played a great, nasty hero as the titular character himself....

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