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And just like that, the streaming epidemic has set its sights on Disney. Call it downsizing, consolidating, streamlining - but Disney announced on August 24th that not one or two but five apps will be taken down on September 23rd. They are DisneyNOW, Freeform, FXNow, ABC and Nat Geo TV. Granted, the content from these platforms will probably make its way over to Disney Plus at some point, but there will definitely be some shows or movies we will likely never see again. A lot of online posts say that most of this content is already available on Disney Plus already, but others are pointing at a whole slew of shows and movies that are hosted on FXNow that are not yet available anywhere else. What do you think? Were these apps important to your selection? Or did you not know they even existed? 

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While 2017’s The Lego Batman movie is the most memorable entry to come out of the building toy cinematic universe (that is what it is at the end of the day), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part was the last film to be released in the franchise two years later in February 2019. For Warner Brothers, this was a box office disappointment and any future plans were shelved immediately and indefinitely. Believe it or not, just last year Dan Lin - the producer behind all the Lego films - said that there is actually another one in the works, but they need to switch up the art form. With the Nee Brothers attached to direct (Band of Robbers, The Lost City), something unique is definitely in store. But let’s be honest here - the best way to incorporate Lego is by featuring another property in that small, adorable brick size. Batman was first. Who do you want to see get the Lego treatment next? I am all for a comedic, fourth wall breaking version of Neo and the Matrix, haha.  

If you’ve seen the Crow, is it as bad as Madame Web?

The British online newspaper called The Independent has rounded up initial reviews regarding the recently released remake of Brandon Lee’s The Crow, and it is not looking good. At all Moviegoers are now doing the impossible - putting this gothic superhero film below Madame Web! I personally couldn’t even watch the trailer for that movie - Dakota Johnson’s narration ruined any chance for me. "Everything was wrong", "zero chemistry between the two leads", "the theater itself was audibly upset the more it went on". All these insults, but yet I cannot fathom how this stylized adaptation can be anything worse than the abysmal track record created by Sony’s fourth Spider-Man spin-off film. For those who have seen it, what did you think of the film? Was it a waste of time? Would you actually rather see Madame Web? Let’s talk about it!

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'¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!' Doc Trailer About the Beloved CO Restaurant

"Is there a possibility that it just never opens?" Sweet Relief, in association with MTV Documentary Films, have revealed the official trailer for ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! , a documentary film from filmmaker Arthur Bradford about the famous Mexican restaurant. This doc premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and is next play at the Telluride Film Festival before opening in theaters (Denver first, of course) this fall. ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! tells the story of the beloved Denver, Colorado restaurant known as Casa Bonita , a huge place with a waterfall, cliff divers, hidden caves, and tons of tasty tacos and sopaipilla (I went many times as a kid because I grew up in Colorado and my parents took my brother and I). ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! tracks the rise, fall and revival of the beloved Colorado landmark Casa Bonita by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who bought the place after it nearly went bankrupt. I'm so so excited to watch this film! It seems like an incredible inside look at how hard it is to renovate and update an iconic restaurant landmark.

›  Posted on August 29 in Documentaries , To Watch , Trailer | Comments

Delightful Trailer for Adam Elliot's 'Memoir of a Snail' Stop-Motion Film

"I believe in glasses half-full and silver linings..." IFC has revealed the official US trailer for the wonderful stop-motion animated film Memoir of a Snail , the latest creation from animation maestro Adam Elliot . It's set for a US release in October this fall. Adam won an Oscar in 2004 for his short Harvie Krumpet , but he is best known for his exceptional stop-motion film Mary and Max , which premiered at Sundance 2009 . He's back again 15 years later with his second feature. A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, & guinea-pigs. Set in 1970s Australia, her life is troubled by misfortune & loss. After their mom dies during pregnancy, she and her twin brother, Gilbert, are raised by their paraplegic-alcoholic former juggler father, Percy. Despite a life filled with love, tragedy strikes when Percy passes away in his sleep. The siblings are separated and thrust into different homes to grow up. With voices of Sarah Snook as Grace, Jacki Weaver , Eric Bana , Kodi Smit-McPhee , Dominique Pinon , Magda Szubanski , with Nick Cave . I totally adore this film - I wrote a glowing review which is quoted in this trailer. I'm more than happy to bring more attention to it! If you love stop-motion, this is a must watch.

›  Posted on August 29 in Animation , To Watch , Trailer | Comments

Thrilling Behind-the-Scenes Look at Jason Reitman's 'Saturday Night'

"We were trying as much as possible to recreate a set we're all familiar with." Sony Pictures has debuted a fantastic behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming Saturday Night movie, a new film from director Jason Reitman . It was just announced as part of the 2024 Telluride Film Festival line-up screening this weekend, premiering there before heading to TIFF next. At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed TV forever. Find out what happened in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. With Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Tommy Dewey , Willem Dafoe , Matthew Rhys , and J.K. Simmons . This is an exciting inside look at what they pulled off, including a live score by Jon Batiste in addition to everything happening in the background on set while filming. This is looking more & more like it might end up being one of the best films of the year - cannot wait to watch this.

›  Posted on August 29 in Featurette , To Watch , Trailer | Comments

Official Trailer for 'The Herricanes' Doc - 70s Women's Football League

"As women - why wouldn't we want to play America's game?" Blue Harbor Entertainment has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film called The Herricanes , a fascinating look back at sports history with an eye on moderns athletes, too. This doc premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival last year and won the Audience Award in the Doc Spotlight section. The Houston Herricanes were a part of the first women's full tackle football league in the 1970s. Their unknown story is one of commitment, courage, and strength. Despite adversity and hardship, they fielded a team purely for the love of the game. What they started is a movement that is still in motion today. These groundbreaking ladies from all different walks of life came to the field with little to no experience but together they made history, even if it hasn't been told yet. Despite this story, and much progress since, there's still setbacks... As the number one sport in America, football is still only visibly played by men, and still remains the final frontier for women in sports. This documentary explores the larger question of what it means when America's most popular sport is only visible among men.

Review: Andres Veiel's 'Riefenstahl' is a Damning Look at Her Nazi Past

One of the most eye-opening, chilling, fascinating, and frightening documentaries this year just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It's titled Riefenstahl , referencing the iconic & also infamous German female filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl . The film is sort of a biopic taking us through her life as a filmmaker, though it actually ends up being an indictment regarding her past association with the Nazis in the 1930s & 40s. It's the latest film directed by acclaimed German filmmaker Andres Veiel , who previously made the excellent doc Beuys (which I saw at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival and wrote about back then ). For much of the film, I was wondering if Veiel is trying to portray Riefenstahl as a misunderstood artist unfairly scrutinized, or if he was going to lean in on hinting she has always been a Nazi. It's the latter. There's no debate anymore. After watching scene after scene of irrefutable evidence (which she always refutes) this becomes an eye-opening experience. By the end, I couldn't stop thinking this is a doc version of The Zone of Interest . It shows how a talented visionary artist who pioneered techniques could wholeheartedly support a dehumanizing ideology.

›  Posted on August 29 in Documentaries , Review , Venice 24 | Comments

New Trailer for Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon: The Director's Cut' on Apple

"When I move, the world moves forward." Apple has announced that a brand new official " Director's Cut " version of Ridley Scott's Napoleon is now available to watch on Apple TV+. Anyone planing to dive in? The original theatrical cut of Napoleon opened in theaters last year, right before Thanksgiving in November, playing in theaters worldwide before it ended up streaming. It earned mostly negative reviews and a lower-than-expected box office because it wasn't that great. Napoleon is an original & personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte's origins. Along with his swift and ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine. As she says: "You want to be great. But you are nothing without me." Joaquin Phoenix stars as Bonaparte, with Vanessa Kirby as Josephine, plus Ludivine Sagnier , Ben Miles , Tahar Rahim , Catherine Walker , Youssef Kerkour , Paul Rhys , and Matthew Needham . Ridley Scott's Napoleon: The Director's Cut features 48 minutes of new, never-before-seen footage from the Academy Award-nominated historical action epic. There's a new trailer out ( view it below ) but luckily there's no wait - this Director's Cut is already available to enjoy now.

›  Posted on August 29 in To Watch , Trailer | Comments

Official Trailer for 'Paris Has Fallen' Action Series with Tewfik Jallab

"When the city falls, heroes will rise." Studiocanal has launched an official trailer for their upcoming action series called Paris Has Fallen , streaming in France first this fall. This is a TV continuation of the " Has Fallen " franchise of movies - which includes Olympus Has Fallen (2013), London Has Fallen (2016), Angel Has Fallen (2019). While we wait for the next Night Has Fallen movie, it's time to head to Paris for another dangerous mission. A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack in Paris. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris. The plot follows protection officer Vincent Taleb who finds himself working with street-smart MI6 agnet Zara Taylor to save the day. Starring Tewfik Jallab , Ritu Arya , and Sean Harris as the main bad guy, with Ana Ularu , Camille Rutherford , Jérémie Covillault , Emmanuelle Bercot , Karl Collins , and Nathan Willcocks , and others. No idea why they needed to make a series from this action franchise, but why not I guess? Wasn't Sean Harris already a villain in a Mission Impossible film? Alas this doesn't look as good as any of the films.

›  Posted on August 29 in Streaming , To Watch , Trailer | Comments

Emilia Jones is Reality Winner in Another Film About 'Winner' Trailer

"Reality Winner is just like us." She is? Vertical has revealed an official trailer for a film called Winner , yet another film about the American whistleblower Reality Winner . This premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and will be out on VOD to watch this September. There were two other films about the same person recently: Reality starring Sydney Sweeney, and the feature doc Reality Winner . Now we have Winner to watch. What's next, two more films called R. Winner and Reality W. ? Yes we've heard her story, what's next. Reality Winner, a brilliant, sarcastic young misfit from Texas with a relentless need for helping others, finds her morals challenged working as an NSA contractor, ultimately leaking Russia's hacking campaign of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Emilia Jones (from CODA ) stars as Reality, with Connie Britton , Danny Ramirez , Kathryn Newton , and Zach Galifianakis in the cast. This seems to look like a cheap, cheesy made-for-TV movie that would air as a Saturday Night Special. Oh well, it happens.

›  Posted on August 29 in Indies , To Watch , Trailer | Comments

Kristen Bell & Adam Brody in Lovers Series 'Nobody Wants This' Trailer

"Are you dating hot rabbi?" "Yes, chef!" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a romantic comedy series titled Nobody Wants This , streaming this fall. The love story series is created & written by actress Erin Foster, following the unexpected relationship between a rogue rabbi and an irascible, loud, agnostic woman. "This show really represents how I view love now, which is so different than how I viewed it before," Erin states. "Being in a really beautiful, healthy, fun relationship, it made me soften some of my cynicism." She adds: "This show is based on the only good decision I ever made: falling for a nice Jewish boy. But I realized that being happy is way harder than being miserable — there’s nothing to complain about. So, I created this show based on all the ways that finding the right person can be so hard." Okay. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody star as the two new lovers, with Justine Lupe , Timothy Simons , Stephanie Faracy , Michael Hitcock , Tovah Feldshuh , Paul Ben-Victor , and Emily Arlook . This looks kinky & sweet & amusing, but not exactly anything original or clever, with so much humor that we've heard before in other romcoms.

Intriguing First Teaser for 'Happyend' - Japanese Surveillance Drama

"If we're going to die, let's have fun." NYFF has revealed the first look teaser for a Japanese film arriving soon called Happyend , the first feature film directed by filmmaker Neo Sora , best known for his many Ryuichi Sakamoto docs . Happyend is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival this weekend, before it goes on to play at both TIFF and NYFF later this fall, with an October release in Japan. Set in near-future Tokyo, the threat of a catastrophic earthquake looms. Two friends prank their principal before graduation, leading to school surveillance installation, which eventually leads to a rift between the high schooler boys. Happyend "amplifies the sociopolitical dynamics already present in Japan today." It's another fascinating surveillance thriller, with commentary on contemporary society, much like the other one Stranger Eyes also premiering in Venice. With Hayato Kurihara , Yukito Hidaka , Yuta Hayashi , Shina Peng , ARAZI , Kilala Inori , PUSHIM , and Makiko Watanabe . The story is about two friends dealing with their new surveillance world that's taking over their entire lives. Another film must watch new film at the fall festivals.

›  Posted on August 29 in Foreign Films , Indies , To Watch , Trailer , Venice 24 | Comments

'Rosemary's Baby' Horror Prequel Movie 'Apartment 7A' Official Trailer

"There's something wrong with these people..." Paramount+ has revealed an official trailer for new horror thriller titled Apartment 7A , the official or sort of unofficial prequel to Rosemary's Baby . This detail is barely mentioned in the marketing, though it is adapted from the same book that the classic 1968 horror movie is based on as well. The highly anticipated prequel will debut at this year's Fantastic Fest. Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story prior to the legendary horror classic Rosemary's Baby, exploring what happened in the infamous Bramford building before Rosemary moved in. Julia Garner (from "Ozark", The Assistant , The Royal Hotel ) stars as Terry Gionoffrio, joined by Dianne Wiest , Jim Sturgess , and Kevin McNally , plus Marli Siu , Andrew Buchan , Rosy McEwen , and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith . As much as a horror prequel like this should be a bigger deal, sadly this one is getting a direct-to-streaming debut because it seems like direct-to-video quality. Not the carefully crafted atmospheric horror like the original.

›  Posted on August 29 in Horror , Streaming , To Watch , Trailer | Comments

First Teaser for 'Families Like Ours' Thomas Vinterberg's Danish Series

"I think we should gush out like a river." 🌊 Studiocanal has revealed a teaser trailer for a thriller series titled Families Like Ours , the latest creation from acclaimed Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (director of The Hunt , Far from the Madding Crowd , The Commune , Another Round ). This is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival this year in their Series section; made by a filmmaker they've featured many times before when he made feature films. In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels (climate change is definitely coming to mess with everyone whether we like it or not). As the entire nation of ~6 million people prepares to leave their homes, high school student Laura must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she's fallen in love with. It's a flip on the refugee crisis the world is experiencing already - what if wealthy, white people from Denmark had to flee their homes and move to other countries. What would happen? The cast includes Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Millang, Esben Smed, David Dencik, Thomas Bo Larsen , and Asta Kamma August . All this footage looks very good so far.

›  Posted on August 29 in Foreign Films , Streaming , To Watch , Trailer , Venice 24 | Comments

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I'm so happy to see lauren lavera's sienna back in terrifier 3, sonic 3 isn’t even out yet but already has one of the coolest scenes of 2024.

Although all the Terrifier movies are frightening, the upcoming indie slasher sequel Terriifer 3 seems to be the scariest movie in the series so far. None of Art the Clown’s movies are harmless fun. From his first appearance in the 2008 short film "The 9th Circle" through to 2022’s sleeper hit sequel Terrifier 2 , the horror antagonist has always been a chilling screen presence. That said, the tone of Art the Clown’s movies has shifted over time. 2016’s Terrifier is grim and intense, whereas Terrifier 2 is a more heightened, self-consciously wild horror story.

Terrifier 2 ’s stomach-churning violence ensures it is a brutal watch, but the sequel lacks the tension of Terrifier . Terrifier features more straightforward suspense sequences, whereas Terrifier 2 leans into over-the-top gore effects more often. Now, the upcoming sequel Terrifier 3 is ready to bring back more of the original movie’s atmosphere. Set five years after the events of Terrifier 2 , Terrifier 3 sees Art the Clown return for another gruesome killing spree as Lauren LaVera’s Sienna tries to put an end to his supernatural massacre. Unlike Terrifier 2 , Terrifier 3 will return to the franchise's horror roots.

The Clown Cafe is just one of the gruesome sequences in Terrifier 2 and the movie is chock full of blood and gore up until even past the credits.

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It is strange to call Terrifier 2 silly when the sequel famously had viewers vomiting and passing out in the aisles due to its intense gore. However, it is worth noting that Damien Leone’s earlier efforts featuring Art the Clown were more focused on tension than the sequel. Terrifier 2 remained appropriately terrifying, but it wasn’t as relentless as Leone’s earlier work. The director himself acknowledged this was a post on X , formerly Twitter . Leone stated that, after Terrifier 2 ’s excesses, he wanted Terrifier 3 to bring back the “ Creep factor ” of Art the Clown’s first short film appearance.

Terrifier 3’s trailer features glimpses of a horrifying hellish nightmare world.

Judging by Terrifier 3 ’s first full-length trailer, the director has managed this aim admirably. Terrifier 3 ’s trailer features glimpses of a terrifying hellish nightmare world, Art the Clown soaked in blood, and his new accomplice Victoria cutting a bloody swath through new victims. Terrifier 3 ’s story is almost guaranteed to have a downbeat ending thanks to Sienna’s unexplained link to Art, and the trailer makes it clear that no one will be safe from the slasher villain this time around. In one unsettling sequence, Art sets up shop as a mall Santa and is surrounded by children.

Terrifier 2 earned over $15 million on a budget of only $250,000 upon its 2022 release.

Terrifier 3 Definitely Looks Like The Franchise's Scariest Movie To Date

Terrifier 3’s trailer looks more traditionally scary than terrifier 2.

This moment alone proves tha t Terrifier 3 will center on suspense more than its predecessor. While Terrifier 2 featured some lengthy chase scenes, the movie was mostly concerned with spectacularly gross murder sequences. In contrast, Terrifier 3 ’s Christmas setting offers many more opportunities for Art the Clown to play the role of a murderous Santa Claus. Home invasions and sequences like the mall Santa scene mean the sequel will lean further into atmospheric horror and build up unbearable tension before the inevitable gory payoff. Thus, Terrifier 3 could fulfill Leoen’s promise and become the scariest Terrifier movie.

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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Embraces the Crazy in Dreamlike Maria Callas Drama

Venice Film Festival: Pablo Larraín follows his films about Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana with another dark fantasia about an iconic woman

Over almost two decades, Chilean director Pablo Larraín has been making Spanish-language films that have ranged from creepy tales (“Fuga,” “Post Mortem”) to political stories (“No,” “Neruda”) to character studies (“Tony Manero,” “Ema”) to, well, creepy political character studies (“El Conde”). For the last eight of those years, though, Larraín has had a parallel career making a trio of English-language films that draw their one-word titles from the names of the famous women at their center: first 2016’s “Jackie,” starring Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in the days following the assassination of her husband, U.S. President John F. Kennedy; then 2021’s “Spencer,” with Kristen Stewart as Diana Spencer, the soon-to-be Princess of Wales, on a fraught weekend at the British royal family’s country home; and now “Maria,” with Angelina Jolie as opera diva Maria Callas.

Those three films make an unlikely triptych of adventurous, dark fantasias about iconic women under extreme pressure. But “Maria,” which was bought by Netflix prior to its Venice Film Festival premiere, is in some ways a counterintuitive way to follow up “Jackie” and “Spencer.” Those first two films were florid, sometimes deliciously overwrought (“Jackie” more effectively so than “Spencer”) and often flirting with hysteria – and given the fact that “Maria” is set in the wildly theatrical world of grand opera, you’d expect it to be the most florid and overwrought of the bunch. Instead, in many ways it’s the most restrained; the music of Puccini and Verdi is there to supply the grand emotional flourishes, but the film itself is dreamlike and almost studiously placid.

Like the first two installments of Larraín’s famous-women chronicles, “Maria” is exquisitely beautiful but also elusive; it explores Callas but has no interest in defining her, explaining her or pinning her down. And where “Jackie” was a virtuoso exercise in tension and “Spencer” occasionally went off the rails, the new film feels controlled and precise, with a brilliantly burnished glow courtesy of cinematographer Ed Lachman (recently Oscar nominated for his work on Larraín’s “El Conde”).

Partly, that’s because Callas herself always insisted on remaining in control. If “Jackie” and “Spencer” were about women fighting not to go crazy and lose control, “Maria” is about one who is at peace with her craziness. She may slip in and out of a fantasy world at times, but it’s her fantasy world. “As of this morning,” she tells her faithful housemaid (Alba Rohrwacher) at one point, “what is real and what is not real is my business.”

Any opera worth its high C needs a great death scene, and that’s where “Maria” begins, with Callas lying on the floor of her unfathomably lavish Paris flat, surrounded by ornate furnishings and dead of a heart attack at the age of 53. But it doesn’t stay there for long, instead cutting to a black-and-white closeup of the diva singing “Ave Maria (Desdemona)” from Verdi’s “Otello.” The voice clearly belongs to Callas, because you can’t make a movie about her and have a movie star deliver the arias, but Jolie manages to not look out of place – and at times throughout the film, Larraín’s vocal mix does combine the actress and the diva.

Callas’ own music is heard constantly in the film, and often serves as a portal to other times and other worlds – in the case of “Ave Maria,” summing up an entire career in the space of an aria.

The bulk of the movie takes place during the final week of its subject’s life, albeit with those copious flashbacks. It’s set in a time in which Callas can no longer be the grand diva with the incomparable voice, but every move can still be imperious and royal. She walks through the house slowly and deliberately, measures her words and deploys them dramatically; her reputation as a fearsome uber-diva precedes her, and she knows it and uses it.

She’s also addicted to pills and has visions of her dead boyfriend, Aristotle Onassis, almost every night. But she has no interest in changing her medication to control the visions, so the woman and the film both toy with the notion of reality.

This is ideal territory for Larraín, who’s long evinced an interest in using artful fantasy to get at the heart of real people. Callas tells her staff of two (the second being a butler played by Pierfrancesco Favino) that she’s got a TV crew coming to interview her that morning, and shrugs off the question of whether or not the crew is real. Sure enough, a cameraman and an interviewer (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) do show up and she does spar with them on and off for the course of the movie – but that doesn’t mean they’re not figments of her imagination.

Or maybe they’re a way for her to be her true self. “Perhaps we can speak a little about your life away from the stage,” the interviewer says at one point, and Callas’ answer is quick: “There is no life away from the stage. The stage is in my mind.”

The stage is also in the dressing room of her home, which is lined with marble busts as if supplying its own audience. And it’s on the streets of Paris, where a crowd walking by the Eiffel Tower can morph into an opera chorus and a bare theater in which she and a lone pianist are practicing can be filled with adoring fans by the time she gets halfway through her aria.

Larraín’s Callas is in love with those adoring fans, and her long-suffering housemaid and butler (Pierfrancesco Favino) are accustomed to her needs. “Book me a table in a café where the waiters know who I am,” she says to her butler at one point. “I’m in the mood for adulation.”

The film tells a sad story as it slides inexorably toward the ending that we know is coming, but it also suggests there was a very good reason for that adulation, and a reason why it came with a price. When her sister tells her to close the door to the damaging memories from a brutal childhood, Callas shakes her head. “I can’t,” she says. “It’s the only way the music gets in.”

Does the music do a lot of the heaving lifting in “Maria?” Sure, and why not? It’d be hard to imagine a better way to sum up the heartbreak of family tensions than with Puccini’s “O mio babbino caro,” or a more dramatic way of exploring a fracturing psyche than with the mad scene from “La Boheme,” which in the film shifts back and forth between eras and is alternately thrilling and heartbreaking.

In a movie that is stately on the surface and stormy underneath, Jolie’s drawn, almost architectural features and air of enforced restraint is ideal for Larraín’s vision of Callas. She’s a glorious, luminous wreck, looking for peace but drawn inexorably to a world of grand artifice. “My life is opera,” she says. “There is no reason in opera.”

“Maria” abandons reason, too. And it’s all the better for it.

“Maria” will be released on Netflix later this year.

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I know the trailer for David Fincher’s 2010 drama, “The Social Network,” by heart.

We hear the soft sounds of a young women’s choir singing Radiohead’s “Creep” as a montage of mundane Facebook interactions flashes across the screen. When the voices hit the lyric “you’re so very special,” the camera zooms out of a pixelated image to reveal the face of Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. It’s almost a minute in when footage from the actual movie starts to play and Zuckerberg chatters about wanting to get into Harvard final clubs. From there it’s a quick escalation of tension that reaches a peak when Andrew Garfield strides onscreen screaming, “Mark!” That’s when the tagline appears: “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”

Just thinking about it, I get chills. “The Social Network” is a great movie. The “Social Network” trailer is also a great movie. It just happens to be only 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.

Movie trailers are, at their most basic level, marketing, of course. But they can also be so much more, little short films unto themselves, defined by excellent editing and the ability to create a feeling of thrilling anticipation. I love a great trailer, yet I can’t help but feel that there’s been a drought recently. And I’m not alone. My social media feeds are flooded with trailer-related complaints. (Currently one of the main targets is the trailer for “Speak No Evil,” which has been charged with showing the entire movie.)

With studios scrambling to fill theaters, they seem to be struggling to figure out what kind of trailers will draw audiences. Instead of taking chances, they are making creatively inert spots. There are trailers that give away too much (“Trap”), trailers that are disappointingly generic (“A Quiet Place: Day One”) and trailers that feel tonally off (“Gladiator II”). Mostly, no one is having any fun with them anymore.

Throughout Hollywood history, trailers have taken many forms. In the industry’s early days, the appeal to the audience was direct. The trailer for “Citizen Kane” spends about 30 seconds on a shot of a microphone descending while the director and star Orson Welles explains in voice-over that “what follows is supposed to advertise our first motion picture.”

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The Has Fallen franchise is returning this fall , this time, on the small screen with the TV series, Paris Has Fallen . Ahead of its imminent release, StudioCanal has revealed the first trailer that shows Sean Harris as a tough-as-nails terrorist, Captain Jacob Pearce, boldly declaring his demands, and a formidable tag team determined to make his mission impossible. Based on the Has Fallen movies that began with Gerard Butler -led Olympus Has Fallen , the spin-off series aims to mirror the high-octane action that made the movie a crowdpleaser, and from the looks of it, it seems to be on the right track.

Paris Has Fallen has its plot wrapped around a political conspiracy that threatens the safety of France and its allies. The show will follow terrorist leader Jacob Pearce targeting top French political brass, threatening to expose their dark secrets. When he attacks a high-profile political event that has the French Minister of Defence in attendance, protection officer Vincent Taleb joins forces with MI6 agent Zara Taylor to thwart his plans. However, things get even more complicated as "Vincent and Zara soon realize that the plan extends beyond just one politician. When they suspect that one of their colleagues in the security services is feeding information to Jacob, Vincent and Zara find themselves needing to rely only on each other. Increasingly isolated and with Jacob always one step ahead, can this unlikely pair stop Paris from falling to a man hell-bent on vengeance?

The trailer opens with an introduction from Pearce detailing his grievance against the French state. "All my men were murdered for political and financial gain. I want people out there to know the truth." The clip then cuts to some heavy gun action as security forces move fast to close in on the terrorist. There are some impressive stunts and air-borne flight action that could have Ethan Hunt blushing. "I can't be bought, I can't be negotiated with," says the resilient villain who is seen executing a dangerous hostage situation and even demanding for the French President. If this trailer is anything, then this should be fun and who knows, if it turns out nearly as successful as the movies, could likely feature a crossover with Agent Mike Banning .

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Paris Has Fallen will premiere on Canal+ in France starting September 23rd, 2024. Episodes were directed by Hans Herbots and Oded Ruskin . Overman also produced alongside Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy . Though Butler does not star in the series, the series will benefit from the actor's behind-the-scenes input as he serves as executive producer alongside Jeffrey Greenstein , Avi Lerner , Yariv Lerner , Jonathan Yunger , Oded Ruskin , and Alan Siegel .

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‘Kill the Jockey’ Review: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart Anchors a Surreal Argentine Dramedy About Identity and Gender Fluidity

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Luis Ortega’s slow, unpredictable dramedy set in the world of mob-run racing in Buenos Aires , “ Kill the Jockey ,” plays its cards close to its chest. If surprising shifts into magical realism and existential rumination mean we are kept guessing about the film ’s ambitions, there is also a sense that Ortega has let the material get away from him like a runaway horse. 

Who is this man and why is he in such a state? Initially the film does not appear to answer this question, rather it plunges us deeper into his predicament. Once the goose who laid the golden eggs for a mob-run racing syndicate, he is starting to malfunction. The issue isn’t substance abuse. He alway raced intoxicated and used to win, laments a hired heavy as a group, headed by boss Ruben Sirena (Daniel Giménez Cacho) sits around a table. Also present is the jockey that blew Remo the kiss, his pregnant girlfriend Abril (Úrsula Corberó).

It is decided that Remo can clear his debts with these mobsters if he wins a big race, riding a new horse specially imported from Japan: the very handsome Mishima. Aki Kaurismäki’s regular cinematographer Timo Salminen ( “Fallen Leaves,” “Le Havre,” “The Other Side of Hope”) captures Mishima’s glossy muscles as the horse gallops on an oversize treadmill. The film’s most vivid sequences recall the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar while Remo’s second-act transformation calls to mind the title character from Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro.”

“His injuries are not compatible with life,” a doctor says, after Remo is taken to hospital following another horrific accident. It’s a humorous phrase (one of many) given an even more raucous pay-off when the next shot reveals Remo, alive, traveling down in the hospital elevator dressed in a woman’s fur coat and handbag with a head bandage like a helmet. Now a fugitive from the mob, this stolen outfit reconnects him with an identity from years ago — from before being conscripted as a jockey.

Remo becomes Delores and is greeted by everyone with acceptance. Especially Abril who recognizes her long-lost girlfriend. Even the mob boss, Sirena, recognizes her femininity. The most moving and mature philosophy within “Kill the Jockey” is the framing of identity not as a fixed point, but as an exploration that involves being lost and taking detours and — still — keeping on keeping on. Gender fluidity is presented matter-of-factly as one more potential aspect of our eternal search for an elusive self. Themes of birth and rebirth are at the forefront, shoehorned in visually and narratively.

Sporadic dance sequences are beautifully and hypnotically mounted, and it is during them that the story and characters feel most alive — the desultory pacing and metaphoric overloading means that they are otherwise dogged by a certain ennui. The likes of Michelangelo Antonioni built reputations from replicating the listless sensation that can embalm our lives, however this film stops short of having such a profound sweep.

“Kill the Jockey” is an elusive and sometimes frustrating watch. It elides interpretation in ways both intentional and undercooked, flirts with a greatness that isn’t fully earned, yet it has some glorious moments and never unseats the viewer. Fittingly for a film in which characters frequently say they don’t know who they are, this film suffers from its own identity crisis.

“Kill the Jockey” premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival . It is currently seeking U.S. distribution.

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The actress stars as opera singer Maria Callas in director Pablo Larraín’s new movie that premiered at the Venice Film Festival

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Early reactions to Angelina Jolie ’s latest movie are signaling the superstar’s triumphant return to the big screen.

Maria , director Pablo Larraín’s new biopic about opera singer Maria Callas , premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on Thursday, Aug. 29.

Deadline film critic Stephanie Bunbury described Jolie, 49, as "an almost magical match for the real diva," in a review of the film.

"The actor’s commitment to this creation is obvious at every turn," she wrote. "Knowing that Callas was only happy when on stage, she learned to sing for the role; the voice we hear is a blend of Callas and Jolie’s own. Even more importantly, we can see her chest rise and veins swell as she is consumed, body and soul, by the physical and emotional effort of singing."

The Independent 's Clarisse Loughrey praised Jolie's performance in a review: "It’s a career-defining bit of synchronicity, bolstered by one of Jolie’s very best performances. Her work has always been about that immaculate sense of control over posture and tone."

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Variety 's Owen Gleiberman wrote that Jolie "seizes our attention, playing Maria as woman of wiles who is imperious, mysterious, fusing the life force of a genius diva with the downbeat emotional fire of a femme fatale," in the movie, while expressing some issues with the film as a whole.

"Jolie, for the first time in years, reminds you that she can be a deadly serious actor of commanding subtlety and power," Gleiberman added.

Writing for the film and television website Little White Lies , Hannah Strong asserted that Jolie has "found the role of a lifetime" in a similar manner to Natalie Portman 's portrayal of Jackie Kennedy in Larraín's 2016 film Jackie .

"It’s quite something to watch a woman as instantly recognizable as Jolie be so bewitching while playing someone else incredibly famous (always a challenge in biopics where footage of the subject exists) and without the layers of prosthetics that actors normally rely on to 'transform,' " she wrote. "Yet Jolie achieves such with a refined purr of a European accent and something equally feile in her gait."

Fionnuala Halligan wrote for Screen Daily that the movie exceeds with "a sense of elusiveness and the unexpected even within its familiar structure," adding, "Larrain leans into Jolie’s aimlessness as she wanders around Paris by creating scenes and memories that take place only in her mind, and adding orchestras which spring to life across the city to usher in ’Madame Butterfly’, for example, in the rain."

Maria , written by Steven Knight, is the latest in a string of biographical films from director Larraín, 48. His previous Spencer and Jackie featured Oscar-nominated performances from Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Portman as the former first lady, respectively. 

"I take very seriously the responsibility to Maria's life and legacy. I will give all I can to meet the challenge ," Jolie said in a statement when the project was announced in 2022. Callas, who became an international sensation thanks to her three-octave vocal range, died in Paris in 1977 of a heart attack, according to The Guardian .

Maria , also set to screen at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, does not yet have a release date; Netflix purchased the film's distribution rights.

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