Wes Anderson’s inclination to put style before substance is what keeps his latest from being the truly thought-provoking piece of cinematic art it wants to be.
For those who’ve been patiently waiting for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget to hit Netflix, summer and fall might be a bit disappointing. But come December 15th, it’s nugget time.
Samuel L. Jackson and Olivia Colman shine in Marvel’s new Disney Plus show, which feels more like a souped-up Agents of SHIELD TV event than a proper spy thriller.
I’m a Virgo is creator Boots Riley at his best — even once the brilliant series reveals what kind of familiar story it’s not so secretly telling the whole time.
That’s the most basic premise of director Juel Taylor’s upcoming Blaxploitation-adjacent, sci-fi comedy They Cloned Tyrone. But there’s so much more than that going on the movie’s latest trailer, making it seem like it might be worth a viewing when it hits Netflix on July 21st.
For his new Spider-Verse short The Spider Within that just premiered at the Annecy International Film Festival, director Jarelle Dampier wanted to get real about Miles Morales having anxiety because he “just seems like that kind of kid.”
“We’ve never been able to have that slice-of-life moment because the movies are so big and excellent and breathtaking. I think horror is just one of those great down-on-the-street-level genres that you can use to just get intimate and find out what really makes this character tick.”
After all the drama surrounding (HBO) Max’s The Idol from Sam Levinson, one would hope the show might actually have something interesting to say that warranted co-creator The Weeknd’s pre-premiere theatrics. But as Variety so elegantly puts it, at two episodes in:
“It’s a bit frustrating to watch a show so plainly and plaintively depict the quest towards perfection in a way that seems so clumsily unable to get to ‘consistently pretty good.’”
It hasn’t even been a full year since we saw Baby Colin Robinson grow back into an adult energy vampire, but What We Do In the Shadows is set to make its season five return to FX on July 13th.
While most of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s creatives were seasoned professionals, Preston Mutanga, the genius behind the movie’s brief foray into a stop-motion world full of Lego characters, is a Canadian teen — the same who recreated the movie’s trailer:
“We found out that it was a 14-year-old kid who made it and we were like, ‘This looks incredibly sophisticated for a nonadult, nonprofessional to have made,” [Across the Spider-Verse writer/producer Chris] Miller said on a video call. “It blew us all away, including some of the best animators in the world.”
[The New York Times]
Paramount’s new Transformers feature barely capitalizes on Beast Wars’ Maximals, but the action-packed movie has a couple of surprises sure to please a certain kind of fan.