Mayday is due to be released on October 1st. Personally, I would have held off until next May but what do I know? The film is about Anna, who is transported to a fantasy world where she becomes a part of an all-girl army, just to discover that she’s not really into killing and war.
Will pacifism win the day? I guess we’ll find out in October!
A few days ago, the trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home supposedly leaked online. I say “supposedly” because I would honestly be shocked at the idea of anything in the world of entertainment happening without Disney somehow knowing about it beforehand.
Anyway, I held off on sharing the leaked trailer because I have integrity or something. Or maybe I was just scared I would get sued or the site would be taken down. I don’t know. I held off for some reason. But now that the trailer has been officially released …. well, here it is:
Apparently, Peter’s life has gotten difficult now that the world knows that he’s Spider-Man. Since Tony Stark is dead and Robert Downey, Jr. would probably demand too much money to play Tony’s hitherto unknown twin brother, Peter decides to get a new bearded mentor but, in typical Peter fashion, he screws up Dr. Strange’s spell by talking too much and soon, universes are literally colliding.
If I sound like I’m being snarky, that’s just the way I always sound. I love these movies in all of their occasionally silly glory and I’m really looking forward to Spider-Man: No Way Home. I really enjoyed the previous two movies and this trailer is certainly more entertaining than the one that dropped for The Eternals. I actually think that Tom Holland and Benedict Cumberbatch have the potential to be a pretty good team. Plus, I know a lot of our readers are probably really excited about Alfred Molina showing up there at the end. Will the other Spider-Men make an appearance? We’ll find out soon.
You know, everyone, the truth of the matter is that you just never know where John Malkovich is going to pop up nowadays. He’s done the serious actor bit and now, he’s enjoying the career of a prestige actor who appears in action and direct-to-video films. And you now what? Good for him!
Seriously, the man deserves to make some of that Christopher Walken/Bruce Willis money.
Here’s John Malkovich in the trailer for The Survivalist!
Cassie’s dead but she still has a chance to do right in her life …. actually this sounds familiar. Oh well, no matter! We all love Victoria Justice around here.
The party comes to Netflix on September 2nd. Try not to die while watching.
After being delayed by the COVID pandemic, King Richard is finally coming out later this year. King Richard is a film about Richard Williams, the father and coach of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams. Richard Williams will be played by Will Smith and that seems like such perfect casting that a lot of forecasters are already predicting that this role might land Will Smith his third Oscar nomination.
Here’s the trailer for King Richard:
There’s some trailer that really can’t be described and the trailer for the Icelandic drama Lamb is one of them. I’ll just say that Noomi Rapace is the only girl with the dragon tattoo who matters. Now, check out the trailer for Lamb.
I’m a little bit worried about the fate of the cat that appears in this trailer but I’ll still definitely be watching this film.
The new trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife dropped today and you can watch it below.
Someone on twitter commented that the bad thing about a new Ghostbusters movie coming out is that we’re now going to have to spend a few months “relitigating” the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters, the existence of which Afterlife appears to ignore. I can’t remember who it was who tweeted it but whoever it was is very much correct. So, I’ll say this about the 2016 Ghostbusters …. it wasn’t very good. At the time, a lot of people (like me) tried really hard to focus on the positive when we reviewed the film, largely because the online backlash against the reboot was so deeply misogynistic, obnoxious, and stupid. But, when taken on its own terms and separated from both the controversy and also what we all wished the movie could be, the 2016 Ghostbusters was rather forgettable. I mean, I honestly don’t remember a damn thing about it other than Melissa McCarthy going on and on about wontons and the finale feeling as if it was lifted from Pixels.
(The fact that an Adam Sandler-starring tribute to old video games was more memorable than the reboot of pop cultural milestone should tell you all you need to know about the 2016 version of Ghostbusters.)
The trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife doesn’t really look that memorable, either. If anything, it looks like it’s trying a bit too hard to mix sentiment with comedy. The little Marshmallow Man is cute, though I suspect that the main reason he’s in the film is because of the popularity of Baby Yoda. Anyway, we’ll see how it goes. Jason Reitman has been struggling a bit lately, with both audiences and critics. After the initial successes of Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up In The Air, and Young Adult, there’s been a bit of a backlash against him and his style of storytelling. In other words, he could use a hit or, at the very least, a film that’s not considered to be a complete disaster. If nothing else, Ghostbusters: Afterlife will probably make more money than The Front Runner.
When A.I. goes wrong!
The film, which is set in 2040, is about what happens when an A.I. is reprogrammed to kidnap the Vice President’s son and to potentially execute him on live TV. At least, that’s what the imdb plot description says. The reviews that have been posted to the site insist that there’s actually more to the film than just this. Maybe so. I guess I’ll find out when I watch the movie later because there’s no way that I’m not going to watch something that looks this potentially ridiculous!
The film can currently be viewed on imdbTV!
Having now watched the trailer for Dune, I have to say that “The House Atreides accepts!” might replace “I declare him to be an outlawwwwwwwww!” as my favorite over the top Oscar Isaac line reading. Seriously, Isaac is just one of those actors who can take a slightly silly line and deliver it with just enough gusto to make it memorable.
As for the trailer itself, it appears to have a little bit for everyone. There’s humor. There’s explosions. There’s sand. There’s Zendaya. There’s Timothee Chalamet. There’s Duncan Idaho! I know that a lot of folks here at the Shattered Lens will be excited about that.
Warner Bros. is pouring a lot of their hopes into this film, which will be available both on HBOMax and, hopefully, in theaters. The trailer attempts to keep both Dune readers and Timothee cultists happy and I imagine that it probably succeeded.
We’ll find out in October!
Neill Blomkamp, the director behind District 9 and a few films that were not District 9 and have since been kind of forgotten, has a new movie coming out! It’s called Demonic and it’s about a mother and a daughter and demonic forces and the Vatican apparently funding a black ops team. That sounds like a lot! Actually, it sounds likes it could almost be too much. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Here’s the trailer:
This film is set to be released on August 20th.
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