From writer/director Boots Riley, the new comedy/adventure/sci-fi I Love Boosters follows a group of shoplifters targeting a cutthroat fashion maven. (Demi Moore).
Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter and Naomi Ackie are among the key cast.
I like this talented cast.
I love that this is somehow giving me a Zoolander (2001) vibe. Anyone else?
Hannah Alline, Eiza González, Poppy Liu, Taylour Paige, Don Cheadle, Kerris Dorsey, Rachel Walters, Kasmere Trice Stanfield, Briana Starks, Angelina David and Alan Z also star.
The Bride!, Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley, Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard and Jake Gyllenhaal’s latest movie has a good looking new trailer.
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, it’s a drama/romance/horror/sci-fi/musical film about the bride of Frankenstein.
Greetings, trailer glow up!
The teaser trailer released for this movie a few months earlier didn’t fill me with the most confidence. It’s great to see that this edit is quite the improvement. So much so that, as a known non-fan of musicals, I’m not even mad at the singing featured here.
May this be a musical in the way that The Greatest Showman (2017) is a musical. Meaning it’s good, with high-quality, brilliantly performed songs.
Is The Bride! looking better to you, too?
Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Julianne Hough, John Magaro, Jeannie Berlin, Louis Cancelmi, Matthew Maher, Sofía Ko and Ben Elaine Apruzzese also star.
Starring Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Masters of the Universe is the story of a young man on Earth who discovers he’s the prince of an alien planet. His destiny now involves a magic sword and a return home to protect his kingdom.
Directed by Travis Knight, Masters of the Universe, an action/adventure/fantasy film, has Morena Baccarin, Idris Elba and Jared Leto as additional key cast.
I’d forgotten most of the details of He-Man’s story until reading the synopsis above. Curiosity is once again my main reason for wanting to see this, mostly curiosity about Galitzine’s performance, and partly because I wouldn’t mind a refresher on He-Man lore.
I’ll admit, I laughed when I heard the words ‘I have the power!‘ And both rightly and wrongly, seeing Galitzine in full He-Man attire immediately brought to mind Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Dolph Lundgren in Masters of the Universe (1987).
How are you feeling about this trailer?
Kojo Attah, Stephen Adentan, Alison Brie, Kristen Wiig, James Purefoy, Charlotte Riley, Camila Mendes, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Christian Vunipola and Sasheer Zamata also star.
Created by Matthew Hodgson and Ryan Murphy (All’s Fair 2024- ), The Beauty is a new drama/sci-fi series starring Ashton Kutcher, Bella Hadid, Evan Peters and Anthony Ramos.
It follows an investigation into a drug referred to as the Beauty STD, a drug that results in aesthetic effects while also being lethal.
Two words. The Substance (2024). A few more words, considering how things went with All’s Fair, my expectations aren’t high. But curious, I remain. Even more so because of the humour, how fun Kutcher and Rossellini’s roles look.
I will cautiously try to watch this. How about you? What do you think of this trailer?
Chanel Stewart, Rob Yang, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Hall, Patrick Luwis, Chris Silcox, Matthew Giovanni Laureano, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Swanmy Sampaio, Jacqueline Honulik, Wes Jetton and Josh Bone also star.
All that beautiful red in the trailer. That’s the main thing that drew me to Tron – Ares, the latest in the Tron franchise, a series of films about the internal digital world of computers.
Directed by Joachim Rønning, Tron – Ares, the third movie in the franchise, after Tron (1982) and Tron – Legacy (2010), centres on a highly sophisticated program that’s sent on a dangerous mission into the real world.
Starring Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Greta Lee, and Jodie Turner-Smith, it’s no surprise then that out of everything else in the film, I enjoyed the special effects, along with the opening music and visuals, the most.
Tron – Ares (2025), Evan Peters, Disney
Granted, I still haven’t seen the original movie,but I can take a guess at why it achieved cult status. Nevertheless, I’d probably likely feel similarly about it as I do about Ares, in that I consider it ‘sort of okay,’ at best. Because, for me, dare I say, Rønning’s filmhas a general air of silliness, but not in a good way.
The silliness is in part because of the writing, but also the overly robotic speech/movement of some characters, which proved distracting. Additionally, as a non-enthusiast of 80s electronic music, I admit that the musical score soon became annoying, as did the visuals that showed us what/how the programs see, while they’re out in the world.
So yes, red visuals may have been reason enough for me to tune in, but it’s not enough for me to be enthusiastic about Tron – Ares post-viewing.
Of course, as always, watch it if you absolutely must.
