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Tackling the rummaging effects of toxic masculinity, Shults sets his story on 18 year-old Tyler (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) a bright but cocky high-school wrestling star who’s go-getttng attitude sets him up quite nicely for a bright future. However, aggressive dad Ronald (Sterling K. Brown), the owner of a very successful construction business, is on relentlessly on his back, almost punishingly so, and exudes his own kind of toxicism to the point where it becomes a danger to his own son’s fate....

With all the awards bodies winding down, this is turning into one of the more predictable Oscar ceremonies. Joaquin Pheonix, Renee Zellweger, Brad Pitt and Laura Dern are all expected to win in their respective categories. However, the only major category I’m not ready to call it a day on is Best Director. Yes, Mendes just won, but you can’t deny the Bong Joon-ho factor. The guy has practically become an overnight sensation in Tinseltown....

According to Box-Office Pro, James Cameron’s sequel is looking at a $145 million opening weekend and $475 million domestic total. Of course, this could easily change as reviews start trickling in. Maybe if critics and audiences fall hard for it then it’ll exceed these numbers, the opposite can also happen with a more lukewarm reception. The original 2009 “Avatar” grossed $785 million domestically and $2.3 billion worldwide. The budget for ‘Way of the Water’ is said to be around $250 million, not counting marketing costs....

Directed by Kitao Sakurai (responsible for gonzo, batshit crazy episodes of “The Eric André Show”), “Bad Trip” uses the unsuspecting pranked extras here as part of the narrative. Eric Andre plays naive dimwit Chris, and Lil Rel Howery (“Get Out”) is his smarter more reserved friend, Bud. After Eric has a disastrous run-in at his smoothie-making job with his high school crush Maria (Michaela Conlin), our protagonists decide to move from Florida to New York for Eric to proclaim his love for Maria....

Director Cathy Yan, the Asian-American indie director behind “Dead Pigs,” was tasked to helm the upcoming DC movie “Birds of Prey.” The film is an all-female superhero team-up starring Margot Robbie (reprising her role as Harley Quinn from “Suicide Squad”). Will this be a critical darling ala “Wonder Woman” and “Shazam!” for the WB and DC or are we just going back to the same meshuggeneh nonsense that we saw in“Suicide Squad,” “Justice League“ “Batman V....

Directed with no flair whatsoever by Michael Dowse (“Goon,” “It’s All Gone Pete Tong,” “Stuber”), the film has annoying-as-fuck 12-year-old Kareem Manning (Terrence Little Gardenhigh) catching his widowed mom Vanessa (Henson) and limpdick Detroit PD officer James Coffee (Helms) having “old people sex.” Kareem is so angry that he actually offers his monthly allowance to a Detroit gangster to “ice” Coffee. Once the hit goes bust, Coffee and Kareem end up running for their lives, chased by not just these hoodlums but also by a corrupt Detroit PD in cahoots with the bad guys....

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Filming will go on till the next year and is expected to wrap sometime in January 2020. The movie has the working title ‘MAXIMILLIAN’ and will shoot in Thailand and Spain. As mentioned, Fincher will direct, he hasn’t made a movie since 2014’s “Gone Girl” from a script by Dennis Kelly and Steven Knight. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

The intimidating challenge for a sequel was given to writer-director Mike Flanagan (“Hush”), who is unafraid to open “Doctor Sleep” with flashbacks of little Danny Torrance spinning his big wheel tricycle all around the hallways of the infamous Overlook Hotel. Referencing specific sets and shots, the film has Flanagan taking his time (the film clocks in at an overwrought 152 minutes) to set up all the action and characters he needs to make his opus....

As much as I was mixed on the movie, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is going to get a Best Picture nomination. You can lock that up in the bank. The film was released 5 months ago, but people are still talking about it and it’s still making money at the box-office. Jodie Foster is also a major fan, so much so that she was willing to call it her “favourite movie of the last 20 years....

No, this is not The Onion. The Oscar-winning director is indeed moving forward on a followup of the best picture winner, which would follow Lucius (son of Lucilla and the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s villainous Commodus). If you remember, Maximus saved the boy from his uncle in the 2000 film. Writer Peter Craig (The Crown, Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 & 2) will write the screenplay with Scott returning to direct....

Shyamalan is a talented director, no doubt about it, but sometimes his overzealous pretensions just take over, case in point the horrific quadruple bomb of “Lady in the Water,” “The Happening,” “After Earth” and “The Last Airbender.” There’s a really beautiful selection of framing and colors in “Glass” that, quite frankly, reminded me of how talented he can be. Shyamalan is very much a Spielberg protege, but if his visual talents set a clear and deliberately conceived visual schema for our eyes, he is still lacking the care and thought that it takes to write a decent screenplay....

Suffice to say, in China there has been no controversy regarding the film. On Taopiaopiao, a movie-ticketing platform, Green Book has a score of 9.4/10, based on the ratings of more than 220,000 fans. On the social network and movie review platform Douban the movie has a rating of 8.9/10, “outperforming 98% of comedies and 97% of dramas.” So far, the film has earned more than $30 million at the Chinese Box-Office, making it the highest-earning best-picture winner in China after Titanic....

Bad reviews didn’t stop Director David Gordon Green’s “Halloween Kills” from doing killer business at the box office, at the time it is was the biggest debut of the pandemic era for a horror film or a movie opening simultaneously on the big screen and a streaming service. “Halloween Kills” earned around $50 million on opening weekend. These are staggering numbers especially since audiences also had the option to watch it on Universal’s sister streaming service Peacock....

“How to Build a Girl,” which I saw last September at TIFF, has Feldstein playing a blue-collar British high-schooler that dreams of a better life without the mundane daily trivial dilemmas that come in being a sharp-minded high-schooler. What’s a girl to do to shake up her existence? Well, how about dying her hair, buying some new punk-rock clothes, and writing under the pseudonym Dolly Wilde for a rock magazine....

Colangelo, who stunned more than a few moviegoers with her 2014 feature directing debut “Little Accidents,” creates a film with its own unique identity, the fleshing out of a woman who desperately needs to find meaning in her life. However, the movie belongs to Gyllenhaal, in an awards-worthy performance, who, along with Colangelo’s patient camera, keeps playing with our heads throughout the proceedings. The fact that she maintains a sort of sympathetic nature to her character makes this brilliant film all the more mysterious to the eyes....

“Megalopolis” started production last month in Atlanta. The main cast will be composed of Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Kathryn Hunter, Aubrey Plaza and James Remar. Production is set to run through March 2023. There is, obviously, no release date as of now. I would think “Megalopolis” gets a 2024 slot given all the VFX and new technology that will be used on the film....

The filmmaker has cut 20 minutes from the movie, which will have another festival bow on October 17th at the BFI London Film Festival. The film, a life-long passion project for the Scottish director, takes place during the medieval years of 1304 to 1307 and recounts the story of Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine), Braveheart’s William Wallace’s brother and successor, who went from being king to an outlaw after murdering the high-ranking son of a powerful monarch....

Morgan Neville’s “Roadrunner” isn’t necessarily an investigatory doc, it plays more as a celebration of Bourdain’s joie-de-vivre. For the first 90 minutes, it is infatuated with exploring Bourdain’s life; his early days as a chef, best-selling author, the two marriages that fell apart, his struggle at being a father, the political activism that would shape him, and, for most of that runtime, it’s a breeze to revel in the unadorned passion he brought to everything he did....

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