Category: Movies

The wait continues! Over the weekend, 20th Century Fox updated a few release dates for upcoming projects, and also announced a new set of release dates for the Avatar sequels. We’ve been waiting years, and years, for these sequels and we’re not sure when exactly they will show up… But maybe this time it’s official? Only Cameron knows. Fox has announced the first Avatar sequel (Avatar 2) will open December 18th, 2020, followed by Avatar 3 on December 17th, 2021, continuing three years later with 4 on December 20th, 2014, and finally concluding with 5 on December 19th, 2025. So it starts three years from now, and plays on for 5 years to see it all play out. Oh boy. This is worse than waiting a few years for Lord of the Rings! But this is expected from Cameron, and at least they’ve announced something – we’ll see if it holds up this time. ›››

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It’s difficult to say which is sharper in Ben Wheatley’s latest film, Free Fire: the bullets being fired by the nefarious characters found within or the witty jabs those characters tend to fling at one another between the continual barrage of deadly gunplay. One may kill you, but the other may actually hurt your feelings. As with his previous films, Wheatley presents Free Fire with a gleefully dark sense of humor, the ridiculousness of events playing out made all the more senseless when you take into account where everyone’s mindset is at. That sense of humor – not to mention the aberrantly comical characters – washes the onslaught of violence down all the easier, though, and, with Free Fire, Wheatley once again proves to be a unique voice ›››

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“I’m not doing too well, mum.” Another outstanding short film to watch. Sometimes it’s the moments you least expect when you are suddenly forced to reflect on your life choices. This short Forever After, made by writer/director Charlotte Scott-Wilson, follows a woman who wakes up after a drunken one-night stand and must take the dread “walk of shame” back home. Along the way she begins to feel the heavy emotions of reality, and has many moments of reflection that make her start questioning what she’s doing. I really like this short, it’s meaningful and makes you think about your own life, while keeping our attention throughout. ›››

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“Music is the one thing that we all understand, that we don’t understand.” Gravitas Ventures has revealed a trailer for a documentary about the work of composers, titled Score: A Film Music Documentary. This played at film festivals all last year and is opening in theaters this June, which is great news because I’ve been waiting to see this. The doc profiles the work of composers and also examines how important music is to movies. Featuring interviews with composers including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Trent Reznor, Rachel Portman, Junkie XL (aka Tom Holkenborg), Brian Tyler, Thomas Newman, Bear McCreary, Moby, Garry Marshall, Jerry Goldsmith, and lots more. Hoping this goes deep into the art beyond just some chats. ›››

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“A vision of pure magic.” How many of you have ever seen this film? If you haven’t, maybe now is a good time to get into Tarkovsky. The Film Society of Lincoln Center has debuted a brand new trailer for the digitally restored re-release of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi film Stalker. While this was first released in Russia in 1979, it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980, and didn’t hit US theaters until two years later. This 2k digitally restored version was commissioned by the Criterion Collection for a new release, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. And if you live in NYC, you have the lucky chance to catch it on the big screen in early May. Many critics consider this Tarkovsky’s masterpiece, for good reason. ›››

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“You will see the safe delivery of our holiest relic to Rome. Go with God.” RLJ Entertainment has debuted a trailer for an indie action thriller titled Pilgrimage, set in the religious times of 13th century Ireland. The film is about to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month, hence the release of the trailer to build extra buzz. The story follows a group of monks who must escort a sacred relic across the “Irish landscape fraught with peril”. There’s plenty of gnarly violence in this. Starring Richard Armitage, Tom Holland, John Lynch, Stanley Weber, Lochlann O’Mearáin, Hugh O’Conor, Eric Godon, plus the badass Jon Bernthal as a character named “The Mute”. This actually looks pretty cool, consider me interested. ›››

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“C’est moi!” Another teaser for the Cannes Film Festival! Kicking off the 70th edition of the festival this May is this film, Ismael’s Ghost (or Les fantômes d’Ismaël), from French director Arnaud Desplechin (of My Golden Days). The film stars Mathieu Amalric as a filmmaker named Ismael, who is just about to begin shooting his next feature. However, his long lost former lover suddenly shows up out of nowhere, freaking him out, sending him into a metnal “tailspin”. Marion Cotillard plays his former lover, and Charlotte Gainsbourg plays his current lover, who also freaks out. The rest of the cast includes Louis Garrel, Alba Rohrwacher, Hippolyte Girardot, & Samir Guesmi. This looks really good, I’m very curious about it. ›››

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“Dorfman is uniquely fascinating… spending the entirety of a film with her is a rare pleasure.” Neon has released an official trailer for the documentary The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography, the latest from veteran documentarian Errol Morris. The feature doc profiles the life of Elsa Dorfman, a “nice Jewish girl” photographer who fell in love with large scale portrait photography in the 1980s. She used to photograph all kinds of different people, including famous rock stars and poets, using a Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. Morris’ film is a trip into her workplace (and life) to examine what it was like to work with this kind of “analog” medium. The title of “The B-Side” is a reference to the way Dorfman always took two pictures of her clients and kept the rejected one, which she refers to as the “B-Side”. This looks wonderful. ›››

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“In the beginning their was faith that the egg was the start of all life. Then came reason that the egg must have come from a great chicken.” So what came first: the chicken or the egg? The eternal, unanswerable question finally gets addressed in this amusing, wacky short film titled Time Chicken. This claymation short was written, directed and animated by Nick Black, who made it over two years using Canon DSLRs and handmade sets from various objects he found. It’s a totally wacky but incredibly enjoyable short film, that does have touches of “Robot Chicken”, but still feels like something original. You just need to watch and enjoy because while it might seem odd, it’s so much fun and will make you laugh. Plus it’s under 6 minutes. ›››

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“He seems to be a sensitive person.” “Does he?” Focus Features has debuted a new full-length trailer for Sofia Coppola’s latest film, titled The Beguiled, adapted from Thomas Cullinan’s Southern Gothic novel. Set during the Civil War, an injured Union soldier ends up being nursed back to life at an all-girls’ boarding school in the Confederate south. Soon the girls begin to turn on him, making this into more than it seems at first glance. Colin Farrell plays the soldier, and the cast includes Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, and Oona Laurence. This looks like a rather twisted, wicked, seductive film from Coppola. The Beguiled will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. Expect to hear plenty of buzz about this soon. ›››

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