Here’s the trailer for Goodbye, Christopher Robin!
For a while, I’ve been predicting that this film could be an Oscar nominee. It’s a biopic. It’s about British people. And it’s about war. With Dunkirk and Darkest Hour also probable contenders, it’s looking like next year’s Oscar telecast could very well be dominated by the British going to war.
This one opens on October 13th and it will provide some counter programming for all the ghost movies and found footage rip-offs.
As the negative reviews for The Dark Tower continue to roll in, fans of Stephen King now turn their weary eyes to the upcoming film version of It.
Luckily, the latest trailer for It looks better than the trailer for The Dark Tower.
I know, I know. These two trailers dropped in July and I’m late in sharing them. Trust me, I feel totally guilty.
Anyway, it’s been a good year for comic books movies so far. Will that trend continue with Thor: Ragnarok? Traditionally, of all the MCU films, it’s the Thor movies that always have the toughest time with the critics. I’ll just say that, to me, Jeff Goldblum was born to play an intergalactic villain.
Plus, Tom Hiddleston! Everyone loves Tom Hiddleston!
Thor: Ragnarok is coming out later this year. We won’t get to see Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One until 2018 but we can watch this teaser!
Hopefully, after slipping a bit with The BFG, Spielberg will return to quality filmmaking with Ready Player One.
(It’s interesting to note that Spielberg does — in theory — have a film coming out this year. It’s called The Papers and it was hastily put together to serve as both a historical drama and a rebuke to the Trump administration’s criticism of the press. The Papers is currently in post-production and there’s some confusion as to whether it will be ready for a 2017 release and Oscar run. To be honest, Ready Player One sounds like it’ll be more fun than The Papers.)
Here’s four trailer for four films, none of which I have high hopes for.
First off, we’ve got LBJ. You’d probably expect that I, as a history nerd, would be excited about any presidential biopic and that usually would be the case. However, LBJ was directed by Rob Reiner and this seems like exactly the type of project that is going to bring out all of his worst tendencies as a filmmaker. I imagine this film will make Lincoln look subtle. I also imagine it will get some good review from the “Let’s make every review about Trump” crowd.
LBJ has actually been around for a while. It was mentioned as an Oscar contender last year. Then festival and preview audiences were exposed to it and all that LBJ Oscar talk abruptly ended. No one is mentioning it as an Oscar contender this year.
The good news about Suburbicon is that it was co-written by the Coen Brothers. The bad news is that it was directed by George Clonoey, a great actor who just happens to be an absolutely lousy director. Much like LBJ, this is another film that I hope will be good but I just fear the material will bring out all of Clooney’s worst instincts as a filmmaker.
That said, as an actor, Clooney had done some of his best work for the Coens. (His self-mocking performance in Burn After Reading was absolutely brilliant.) So, I’m hoping that I’ll be proven wrong and Suburbicon will be great.
Rebel in the Rye is a biopic of writer J.D. Salinger. The advance word on this one is not good. Not good at all.
And finally, here’s the trailer for 9-11, which I’m predicting will be one of the worst films of 2017. Outspoken truther Charlie Sheen plays a man stuck in a elevator September 11th. Apparently, this was directed by Martin Guigui, who also directed National Lampoon’s Cattle Call.
Apparently, this will be the first Charlie Sheen film to actually make it into theaters since A Glimpse Into The Mind of Charlie Swan III. It’ll be released on September 8th and hopefully, it won’t be as annoying as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Here’s the teaser for Mother! The full trailer drops on the 8th.
No one seems to be really sure what Mother! is about. It appears to be a horror/thriller sort of thing but, with Darren Aronofsky directing, it’s safe to assume that there will be all sorts of layers of meaning. Along with starring Jennifer Lawrence (who, after Joy and Passengers, could really use a movie that’s worthy of her talents), Mother! also features Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Ed Harris. Judging by how the majority of this teaser goes out of it’s way to portray Jennifer Lawrence as being isolated in a big house, I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that Bardem, Pfieffer, and Harris all plays figments of Lawrence’s imagination.
Who knows? We’ll find out on September 15th!
Every year, a major Oscar contender emerges from the Sundance Film Festival. This year, a lot of people think that contender is going to be Mudbound. Personally, I think it’s going to be Call Me By Our Name.
Mudbound, after all, was bought by Netflix and, judging from what happened to Beasts of No Nation, the Academy is not quite ready to embrace the Netflix brand.
Call Me By Your Name, on the other hand, is a historic drama that not only won’t be streaming until after the award ceremony but which will probably feel especially timely today. Add to that, Armie Hammer’s in it and every year, film bloggers like me a contractually obligated to announce, ‘This is the year that Armie Hammer gets an Oscar nomination! It may not have happened for The Social Network! It may not have happened for J. Edgar! It definitely didn’t happen for The Lone Ranger or whatever movie he made last year! It might not happen for Free Fire but this year is still going to be the year of the Hammer!”
Check out the trailer below:
We all know that Chicago has one of the highest murder rates in the nation. What is not so clear is what to do about it.
Now, some would argue that perhaps a good first step would be for Chicago voters to stop electing douchebags like Rahm Emanuel, reject the city’s political machine, and actually make the sacrifices necessary for actual reform while taking an honest look at the effects of systemic racism, police corruption, and the bloated municipal government.
You could do all that or you could just give Bruce Willis a gun and send him out on a murder spree. Guess which solution Death Wish goes for?
This film, from Eli Roth, will be released on November 22nd. I imagine our resident Charles Bronson experts, Gary Loggins and Jedadiah Leland, will have a lot to say about it.
Todd Haynes should have, at the very least, received an Oscar nomination for Carol. He’s back again this year with another movie that’s being touted as possible Oscar nominee, Wonderstruck.
To be honest, most of the reviews that I’ve seen of Wonderstruck (it premiered at Cannes) have been respectful but not quite enthusiastic. I don’t know, though. I find this teaser to be intriguing, in much the same way that I found the traler for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo to be intriguing.
Wonderstruck is scheduled for an October 20th release, at which point we’ll all get to judge it for ourselves.
Belatedly (because it dropped on July 19th but, at the time, I was busy writing about reality television for another site), here’s the first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water.
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you know that we’re big Del Toro fans here at the Shattered Lens. Arleigh loved Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. I thought Crimson Peak was incredibly underrated. So, you better believe that we’re all really looking forward to seeing The Shape of Water.
Especially after watching this trailer!
And, since I mentioned Pacific Rim, here is the first teaser for the sequel to that beloved film, Pacific Rim: Uprising!
I have to admit that I kind of forgot about The Snowman. Based on a best-selling novel and directed by Tomas Alfredson, The Snowman was one of those films that I was excited about in January but then, somehow, it continually slipped my mind that it would be coming out later this year.
Luckily, on July 19th, this trailer was released and it reminded me of The Snowman‘s existence! Thank you, trailer!
A serial killer drama, The Snowman stars an appropriately haunted-looking Michael Fassbender. It is scheduled to be released on October 20th, just in time to freak everyone out for Halloween!
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