Manik is a lonely middle-aged man who lives with his father, but with whom he has no contact. Instead, his life consists of taking care of his plants and ants, plus a spider and a lizard. But then a change happens in the man’s dull life – he notices a cloud in the sky that seems to follow him all the time. Life takes on a new, previously unknown value for him. Is it friendship or perhaps love?
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/884783-manikbabur-megh
A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1225518-the-whip
In 1934 London, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen), the most feared drama critic in town, finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper's new owner. Nina Land (Gemma Arterton), the actress determined to win his favor, becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/992940-the-critic
Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent get stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy's past: the Crooked Man.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1087822-hellboy-the-crooked-man
In 1992, Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum, from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/413846-1992
A father (Josh Hartnett) and teen daughter (Ariel Donoghue) attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1032823-trap
The remarkable life of Lhakpa Sherpa, who, as a girl denied an education, conceals her gender to work in the mountains, and became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest before immigrating to the United States, raising children as a single mother, and climbing in pursuit of a better life.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1156649-mountain-queen-the-summits-of-lhakpa-sherpa
Plot summary tbd
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1275026-bando-stone-and-the-new-world
Including his sexual assault victims?
Original title (ES): Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes)
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas (Jose Coronado), a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/997294-cerrar-los-ojos
Original title (DE): Sisi & Ich
After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/913521-sisi-ich
My head canon for the kids anime film Penguin Highway is that the plot is about a visitation by >3 dimensional beings. Adventures in flatland, but we’re living in flatland.
Original title (KO): 하이재킹 (Hijacking)
The movie depicts the story of people fighting for their lives in an extreme situation when a passenger plane is hijacked in the airspace of Korea in 1971.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1147710
A woman looks back on her life, through narration and song. In Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan, filmmaker Tessa Leuwsha uses a stream of fascinating colorized archival footage to illustrate the lives of Surinamese women like her grandmother, who was a washerwoman.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1200266-moeder-suriname-mama-sranan
I haven't yet seen an in-depth interview with Villeneuve where he addresses whether or not he wants to continue making (admittedly thoughtful and overall excellent) adaptations vs original works.
Going back over his filmography, every film since Maelström (2000) (or perhaps Polytechnique in 2009) has been an adaptation of a previous work. I really love the work he does, and I would not want him to be tied down to existing properties. Then again, he may believe that adaptations are where he does his best work.
Whichever it is, let the man work the way he wants to work. I'm here for it.
A Japanese businessman (Arata Iura) goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1039780-tokyo-cowboy
After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his wife Leah (Ella Rae Peck) head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a waiter and bartender from the reception (John Speredakos), blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. But the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, an outlandish device called... the crumb catcher.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1028688-crumb-catcher
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1241674-the-last-breath
The film dives into the dangerous world of Jack, a logger working in the rugged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. What begins as a routine day of timber cutting quickly spirals into a harrowing fight for survival when Jack and his team stumble upon a meth lab hidden deep in the forest. This discovery sets off a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a relentless drug cartel.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1309770-clear-cut
A pilot (Mark Wahlberg) transports an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they go across the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested as not everyone on board is who they seem.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1126166-flight-risk
Original title (ES): Negociando con mi mujer (Negotiating With My Woman)
Alan Bender (Mauricio Ochmann) is a skillful hostage negotiator, the best in Mexico, who will soon face the most crucial case of his career when the President and his lover are kidnapped. The kidnapper demands to negotiate only with him.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31227221/
The first feature-length documentary about Faye Dunaway who speaks about her career, with landmark roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network. Joining Faye are her son Liam, colleagues and friends such as Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, James Gray and many others.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1280483-faye
In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what’s becoming a transformative summer.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/947891-my-old-ass
I (and many other trans folks) didn't benefit from supportive parents, sisters and friends to provide initial advice, ongoing feedback and moral support. We didn't have them when we were growing up, and we may not have them now. As an adult, one is expected to have already been through that experience. And, paradoxically, finding new friends and people you can trust often relies on not looking like a total mess to begin with (not to mention the expectations of employers, or the experience of people not yet out to themselves and just want to experiment).
It sucks to have to learn this stuff in a vacuum, but that's the situation some people are in. "Have you tried not?" is not helpful advice.
54 minutes until they actually start reviewing the show.
Up until then, the video can be boiled down to:
- fans and pundits focusing on political alignments of sci-fi should STFU and focus on real shit, and
- sci-fi creators should stop leaning on progressive idealism in lieu of good storytelling when justifying their existence.
Even more concisely: things are good or bad regardless of their political ideology.
I have quibbles with many their arguments, including the Rotten Tomatoes demonstration of progressive-leaning media having high critic ratings and low public ratings vs conservative-leaning media being flipped the other way. You make that case by pointing out examples of modern Christian-financed movies and conservative documentaries that don’t completely suck, which they didn’t do.
That said, I’m not arguing that good Christian-financed movies and conservative documentaries don’t exist. They absolutely might, and I’d like to see them if they do. But I also absolutely do not trust the ideologues to fairly or accurately measure quality in that way.
And that’s precisely the problem they’re pointing out with modern Star Wars and Trek. The creators seem to be getting high on their own progressive ideology and forgetting to focus on making great media first, which is SUPER annoying for people who don’t share those views.
I’m a lefty type, and I get it. I’d feel the same way if the genre I loved was flooded with hella conservative content and the creators were parading around its conservatism as a reason it’s so great.
DMs containing the identities of spies and assets.
He also managed to wriggle away from multiple rape charges in Sweden by waiting out the statute of limitations.
Heroes and villains alike have complex legacies.
So it has an MPAA rating, but no published cast list or director yet? WTF?
Advocacy for a best-stunt-ensemble academy award sounds swell and all, but what’s to prevent that from leading to a stunts arms race that will simultaneously lead to more work and prestige in the field and absolutely lead to more people getting hurt?
And by “find”, they mean that Indonesian phone bank people are calling every pharmacy near you until they find one who has the drug you’re looking for.
I’m a 404 Media subscriber, but I was a bit disappointed at the misleading nature of that headline.
The last season of Picard managed to turn things around. Yeah it was fan service, but it felt like tasteful fan service (mostly).
I think if he were to get top notch creature effects artists to do practical effects work on the alien world and save the CG stuff for wide shots and space stuff, I think people would respect that.
I started paying attention to this stuff back when Dolby Pro Logic was new, which was a pretty clever way to get surround effects using only left and right audio channels. Left and right channels went directly to the front left and right speakers, but it also compared wave forms coming from the left and right channels. Any wave forms that matched got sent to the center channel (like most on-screen dialog) and any that mismatched got sent to the rear surround speakers (noise, ambience, etc). It wasn't perfect by any measure, but it was a pretty clever hack.
It was a kids cartoon created to sell toys. The mistake was aging the concept up to appeal to adults in the first place.
I’m actually really excited to see this as a return to form.
