HBO’s Mountainhead is a snapshot of everything that’s ridiculous and terrible about Silicon Valley’s billionaire class.
If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of art, furniture, taxidermy, or other ephemera that was once owned and / or touched by the late, great David Lynch, Julien’s is running a massive auction beginning June 18th that you’re probably going to want to keep an eye on.
If you’re a celebrity promoting a new movie or your latest album, you used to follow a standard playbook of late night shows, magazine cover stories, or daytime talk shows. Now you have to do all that and eat chicken wings with YouTubers or give your hottest take while riding the subway. The New Media Circuit is a powerful driver of views, likes, and comments — but does it actually sell anything?
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While you may have forgotten that Elio is hitting theaters next month, the film’s latest trailer makes it seem like Pixar has been listening to the ridiculous 100 men vs 1. gorilla hypothetical fight people have been debating about for the past few weeks.
For folks who’ve been salivating in anticipation of being able to (re)watch Ryan Coogler’s Sinners from their couches, Warner Bros. just announced that the film will be available to purchase on digital platforms beginning June 3rd ahead of its physical release on 4K UHD / Blu-ray / DVD on July 8th.
In writer / director Nacho Vigalondo’s Daniela Forever, the grief Nick (Henry Golding) feels over the sudden death of his girlfriend Daniela (Beatrice Grannò) leads him to a clinical trial for a drug that induces lucid dreaming. Nick’s drug-fueled dreams are meant to help pull him out of his depression, but as the movie’s new trailer teases, things go terribly (and beautifully) wrong. The movie’s in theaters July 11th.
Bluesky reminded me that John Carpenter’s Escape from New York has a deleted ten-minute opening sequence, and while I think he made the right choice cutting it, it’s a pretty fun short heist film that barely even requires having seen the film.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a spectacularly silly tribute to the franchise’s explosive past.
Apparently we’ve got some prospective cast members for a new Street Fighter movie, so it’s time to revisit Polygon’s classic Chris Plante feature about the 1994 film’s production trainwreck. RIP Raul Julia.
The film, called Ancestra, “is directed by Eliza McNitt and blends emotional live-action performances with generative visuals, crafting a deeply personal narrative inspired by the day she was born,” according to a description from the movie’s trailer.
