‘Oxygen’: Alexandre Aja’s Derivative ‘Buried’-Like Thriller Still Asphyxiates With Breathless Tension [Review]

He’s learned to slam on the brake — but not this time. Shortly after the first Dear Evan Hansen trailer dropped, Ben Platt took aim at critics who claim he’s too old to play the titular high school student.

Following last week’s first look teaser at the long-awaited Friends reunion, HBO have released a full trailer showing fans exactly what they can look forward to on May 27. HBO Max released the video on Tuesday, May 19 – at round 6pm for all the fans tuning in from the UK – and in just 12 hours it was viewed over 4 million times on Youtube alone.

It was a tearful reunion for the Friends cast as they sat down for their upcoming special. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer couldn’t hold back their emotions in the first look trailer for the reunion special.

Liam Neeson is back on screen battling the bad guys in the first trailer and images for Netflix’s The Ice Road.

In a rapid-fire six-year period, tall, square-jawed Midwestern writer/director Taylor Sheridan became the auteur of Forgotten America, with all the good and bad baggage that brand carries. 2015’s drug cartel movie “Sicario” is grim and problematic, but hyper taut thanks to Denis Villeneuve.

Antonio Ferme editorAlexandre Aja has been infatuated by the genre of one-location cinema. The director’s latest film, “Oxygen,“ marks his deepest descent into this tingling fascination.In the likes of “Buried” with Ryan Reynolds or “Locke” with Tom Hardy, the entire film takes place in one medical cryo unit no longer than a coffin.

Netflix’s Oxygen (Oxygène), a French-language thriller set inside a tiny cryogenic pod, went through a handful of iterations before landing as an eerily timely take on confinement. The film, based on Christie LeBlanc’s 2016 Black List script, was originally slated to be shot in English and with Anne Hathaway attached to star.

If you’ve felt physically trapped over the past 14 months, you’ll feel right at home in Oxygen (Oxygène), a locked-in-a-box conceptual thriller that more or less succeeds almost entirely due to Mélanie Laurent’s resourceful performance as a woman who has no idea why she’s become trapped in a tiny cryogenic pod.

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Adele is another year older! The beloved Grammy winning singer, who celebrates her 33rd birthday on May 5, took to Instagram on her special day to share never-before-seen photos from her year. Adele looked as stunning as ever in the pictures, and fans loved seeing the star totally feeling herself on her birthday. The first pic featured the singer going totally makeup free and rocking her long locks.

Instant BFFs! Brittany Cartwright, Lala Kent and more Vanderpump Rules stars have hosted playdates with their costars’ kids since becoming parents.

Since the shock and gore of his 2003 breakoutHigh Tensionushered him into the Splat Pack, Alexandre Aja has taken an entertaining detour with rip-roaring excursions into creature horror, in the self-explanatory Piranha 3D and the gators-in-a-hurricane disaster movie, Crawl. The French genre specialist abandons that gleefully schlocky B-movie throwback spirit but not the taut storytelling skills in Oxygen, a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller driven by Mélanie Laurent's gripping performance.

The first trailer for Netflix‘s highly anticipated limited series Halston, based on fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, just debuted online!

Julianne Hough is having a blast on vacation!

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