This Week In Trailers: The Kill Team, Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's, The Manor, In Fear, Furever

This Week In Trailers: The Kill Team, Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s, The Manor, In Fear, Furever Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we try and make sense of war, do a little shopping, visit a nudie bar, get kidnapped and left for dead, and then mummify our dead kitty....

July 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1218 words · Daniel Bradford

Tim Blake Nelson On His New Western Old Henry, And Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley [Interview]

Tim Blake Nelson On His New Western Old Henry, And Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley [Interview] Tim Blake Nelson is a character actor through and through. You probably know him from his work in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, “Holes,” “The Incredible Hulk,” and HBO’s “Watchmen,” in which he thrived playing supporting roles. But sometimes, character actors are given the chance to step into the spotlight. He did it a few years ago in the Coen Brothers' “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” and now he’s back as the title character of “Old Henry,” a new Western in which he plays a stoic father trying to keep his teenage son out of trouble....

July 23, 2025 · 8 min · 1613 words · Tracy Chandler

Why Anthony Bourdain Called Ratatouille The Best Food Movie Ever Made

Why Anthony Bourdain Called Ratatouille The Best Food Movie Ever Made Anyone who has watched “Ratatouille” will probably agree that it is a dazzling movie.Pixar’s2007 animated comedy is one of the studio’s best films because its resonance isn’t bound by an age group and is built around universal ideas and themes. It follows the adventures of Remy, a rat who lives in the French countryside and is blessed (or cursed, if you will) with a refined palate....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 495 words · Joseph Kennedy

Wong Kar-Wai Sets 'Blossoms Shanghai' As His First TV Series

Wong Kar-Wai Sets ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ As His First TV Series Back in 2015,Wong Kar-waibegan development on the feature filmBlossoms, based on the short stories by Jin Yucheng, intended to be his follow-up to his 2013 filmThe Grandmaster. But as the years passed, and Wong flirted with heading over to television with the now-dead Amazon seriesTong Wars,Blossomshas bloomed intoBlossoms Shanghai, a TV drama project that is set to be Wong’s television debut....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 436 words · Kimberly Wu

'American Made' Featurette: Tom Cruise Dabbles In Drugs, Guns And Money Laundering

‘American Made’ Featurette: Tom Cruise Dabbles In Drugs, Guns And Money Laundering Right nowTom Cruiseis out of commission with a broken ankle, halting the production ofMission: Impossible 6for anywhere from six weeks to three months. But if you still need your fix of Cruise in the meantime this fall will deliver a big dose of the international superstar in the true story of an airline pilot turned drug and gun trafficker and money launderer for the government....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Calvin Burton

'Ant-Man' Concept Art Reveals The Scrapped Return Of Arnim Zola

‘Ant-Man’ Concept Art Reveals The Scrapped Return Of Arnim Zola One of the strangest surprises to come out ofCaptain America: The Winter Soldierwas the return ofToby Jones' Arnim Zola, who had managed to negotiate his way into the good graces of the American government after the events ofCaptain America: The First Avengerbefore uploading himself into a computer to achieve post-human immortality. This version of Zola, a creepy face on a computer screen with a disembodied voice, was a toned-down version of how he looks in the pages of Marvel comic books....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 465 words · Melissa Vincent

'Apostle': 'The Raid' Director's Next Film Gets A First Image And An Official Synopsis

‘Apostle’: ‘The Raid’ Director’s Next Film Gets A First Image And An Official Synopsis DirectorGareth Evansearned a lifetime of support from me with his impressive martial arts filmMerantauand his astounding work onThe Raidmovies, so it’s safe to say I’m very much looking forward to seeing what he does with his newest film,Apostle. The fact that he’s castDan Stevens(Legion) in the lead role and has people likeMichael Sheen(Masters of Sex) andLucy Boynton(Sing Street) in supporting parts is just icing on the cake....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Christina Madden

'Atomic Blonde' First Look: Charlize Theron Goes Full 'John Wick' In Cold War-Era Berlin

‘Atomic Blonde’ First Look: Charlize Theron Goes Full ‘John Wick’ In Cold War-Era Berlin I remember being a little bummed out thatDavid Leitchand Chad Stahelski parted ways after co-directingJohn Wick, with the latter going on to tackle the incredible sequel on his own. However, Leitch is doing quite well for himself.He’ll be calling the shots onDeadpool 2(he directedthat teaser trailerthat played beforeLogan), but before that, he’s delivering a thriller starringCharlize Theronas a British spy kicking ass during the Cold War....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 465 words · Robert Soto

'Dragonslayer' Trailer: Skateboarding And Anarchy In A Punk Rock Doc

‘Dragonslayer’ Trailer: Skateboarding And Anarchy In A Punk Rock Doc The voiceover in this trailer forDragonslayer, the documentary that won Best Documentary and Best Cinematography awards at SXSW, is your standard “screw the government” claptrap. Avoid corporations, don’t do anything that will contribute taxes, rely only on yourself. That last tenet is pretty good, but the speech as a whole comes off as absurdly naive. Because one presumes that the skateboarding kids inDragonslayerneed roads to skate on as they navigate from one empty house and forgotten pool to another....

July 22, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Sydney Johnson

'In Time' Review: Andrew Niccol Tries To Occupy Sci-Fi

‘In Time’ Review: Andrew Niccol Tries To Occupy Sci-Fi I’ll say this forIn Time,Andrew Niccol’s story describing a society driven into extreme class segregation by an economic system in which time is literally money: Niccol drivesJustin Timberlakelike a taskmaster. The singer-turned-actor runs like crazy, jumps, fights, and sweats his way through a movie that all too often feels more detached than a severed limb. It’s a very physical, very present performance that lends the movie some much-needed credit....

July 22, 2025 · 6 min · 1108 words · Leah Hamilton MD

'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' Trailer: Dinosaurs Vs. The Volcano

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Trailer: Dinosaurs Vs. The Volcano Ready for another stroll in the park?Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomwill continue the dino-mayhem that broke the bank with 2015’sJurassic World, a continuation of Steven Spielberg’sJurassic Park. TheJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomtrailer has just arrived to sink its teeth into you (metaphorically; don’t worry). While critics were less-than-kind to 2015’sJurassic ParksequelJurassic World, the film was a dinosaur-sized hit at the box office, netting a worldwide total of $1,671,713,208 (perBox Office Mojo)....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 525 words · John Sanders

'The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs' Star Tim Blake Nelson On Working With The Coen Brothers And Preparing For HBO's 'Watchmen'

‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ Star Tim Blake Nelson On Working With The Coen Brothers And Preparing For HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Tim Blake Nelsonplays one of the deadliest and happiest men in the West inThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Buster Scruggs isn’t a gunslinger who growls and grimaces, but instead sings and dances and enjoys every moment without thinking it’ll be his last. Everything is just sunny to the titular character ofJoelandEthan Coen’s six-part anthology film, which is a western with all of the joy and misery we love from those filmmakers....

July 22, 2025 · 17 min · 3449 words · Tony Clark

'The Burial': Jamie Foxx To Star In Amazon Studios Legal Drama

‘The Burial’: Jamie Foxx To Star In Amazon Studios Legal Drama Oscar winnerJamie Foxxis heading into another cinematic courtroom. Foxx, who played a lawyer in the deranged 2009 thrillerLaw Abiding Citizen, is set to both produce and star inThe Burial, an Amazon Studios legal drama about a real-life court case involving the owner of a funeral parlor. Get the details below. Deadline reports that Foxx will star inThe Burial, which is being directed byMaggie Betts(Novitiate) and written by Pulitzer Prize winnerDoug Wright(Quill)....

July 22, 2025 · 2 min · 397 words · Jeremy Brown