1 Patrick Redmond Writer-director John Ridley readily admits that his indie treatment of guitar great Jimi Hendrix—which focuses on the year the influential instrumentalist spent in London before he became a worldwide phenomenon—eschews the typical cradle-to-grave biopic style. ''The excitement was in avoiding what was expected,'' he says about JIMI, which stars Outkast frontman André Benjamin. After they were introduced by a mutual friend, Ridley enlisted Benjamin, whose primary credit is the 2006 movie-musical Idlewild.
Mila Kunis plays a young woman with the great comic book name Jupiter Jones, who leads an ordinary life cleaning toilets in Chicago. That’s until a band of evil homunculus aliens attempt to murder her while she’s in gynecologist stirrups. In bursts Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), an intergalactic wolfman in hover-boots, pointy ears, and a blond goatee. “I have more in common with a dog than with you,” he says after rescuing her.
The last time we saw Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), she’d just consummated her lustful obsession with international assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) — by climbing into bed with her (normal) and plunging a knife through her guts (okay, a bit weird, but who are we to judge their love?!) It was a bloody, bizarre end to the game of cat and mouse that saw both women driven deep into a codependent fixation; it’s also where we picked up on Sunday, as the show kicked off a new season.
In an era when the cinematic sex scene has been debated to death by vocal detractors, Yorgos Lanthimos’ films keep on truckin’. The Favourite (2018) followed a fairly explicit lesbian love triangle, last year’s Poor Things gave Bella Baxter a thorough coming-of-age story in more ways than one, and now, the filmmaker’s latest project, Kinds of Kindness, boasts a bounty of casual nudity and off-kilter sexuality. The anthology film presents three distinct segments featuring the same actors playing different characters in dark, liminal parables, each allowing performers to get down and dirty in one way or another.
Knives Out mastermind Rian Johnson just dropped a massive clue to the third chapter of the Daniel Craig-led whodunnits. The filmmaker and writer behind the movie series has announced the title of the next chapter, which itself is a big ol' clue as to where it's heading next. The film to follow 2019's Knives Out and 2022's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will be called Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
To me, the series premiere of ABC’s new, Tim Allen-led sitcom Last Man Standing seemed simply annoying, what with its low-brow and overly testosterone-fueled humor. Macho jokes about what it means to be a man? Simply not my cup of tea, I thought. I was going to turn it off a few minutes in, but I kept watching half-heartedly until the show’s lead character Mike — played by Allen — uttered a “joke” somewhere near the end of the first half hour.
The American remake of Let the Right One In started production this week, which I knew because I felt a great disturbance in the force. I’m still not convinced the movie needs an American remake — especially one renamed Let Me In, which is not the same — but Richard Jenkins’ presence (as the Håkan character) gives me a sliver of hope. A tiny, tiny sliver. I was wild about the original film, but I’m skeptical that an American version will tolerate the same level of silence, particularly at the hands of Cloverfield director Matt Reeves.
Lovecraft Country might be canceled, but, in the wake of the short-lived HBO series' 14 Emmy nominations, showrunner Misha Green teased where the show might've gone if enough viewers had stuck around for the ride. "Just going to leave this right here," Green tweeted Tuesday alongside an image of a rough season 2 outline, which indicated plans for 10 more episodes as well as a section for "season three and beyond.
George Miller is about to walk his biggest dog yet—Mad Max: Fury Road, a $150 million reboot of the film that ignited his iconic ’80s franchise—with a new cast and a bold new idea. In a future where fuel is scarce and water is scarcer, damaged warrior Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) is drawn into the struggle of Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a badass commander who has fled an evil warlord’s citadel with a harem of women who are looking for a new home.
Time to pick up that conductor's baton again, awards-minded viewers. No, it's not a Tar sequel, it's Bradley Cooper's highly anticipated A Star Is Born follow-up, Maestro, about the life of Leonard Bernstein (played by Cooper) and his relationship with wife Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). On Tuesday, Netflix dropped the first trailer (below) for Maestro, which centers on Bernstein and his wife's relationship, built around a game of telepathic number guessing.