Sally El Hosaini’s Netflix movie The Swimmers will be making its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as the opening-night film on September 8 at Roy Thomson Hall.
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The results of the departure are less impressive in Williams’’ case, but there’s still a notable maturity to “The Sea Beast” that could have clashed with the mostly sanitized storytelling that currently dominates Disney. Sailors drink their pints and bleed when injured.But though one can appreciate Williams’ and Benjamin’s interest in crafting a philosophically layered fable, there’s a righteousness to the message of “You must change!” that blindsides the adult characters.
In the expansive duration of “The Sea Beast,” the creators didn’t find time to examine why Captain Crow and Jacob behave the way they do, instead demanding they abandon their ways without much compassion for their respective trauma and loss that prompted them to hold those beliefs in the first place.In its final act, the story is so quickly and seemingly neatly wrapped that we don’t even get a resolution on Captain Crow’s destiny once he realizes that killing the large creatures is wrong. “The Sea Beast” also presents a character like Sarah Sharpe (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a Black woman officer, with little depth of character beyond her loyalty.For all their efforts to show us that non-human entities are individuals that experience physical and psychological pain, and in turn using that as a metaphor for our biases towards those we don’t know, the filmmakers emotionally shortchange most of their human protagonists.
The touching exception being Maisie, whose defined arc as someone willing to question what she thought to be true, even though her parents presumably died as heroes, exemplifies the ideal mindset. As bumpy as many of its components appear, one notion “The Sea Beast” unequivocally notes is how effortlessly inclusive fantasy stories can be
.Sally El Hosaini’s Netflix movie The Swimmers will be making its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as the opening-night film on September 8 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Not many directors would follow an Oscar Best Picture win with a genre remake of a film with a mixed reception on its release almost 75 years ago. But that’s what Guillermo del Toro did with last year’s luxurious noir “Nightmare Alley,” his follow-up to 2017’s “The Shape Of Water.” “Nightmare Alley” didn’t quite catch on despite a great case, but maybe del Toro’s next film will bring a real shot of life.
“DC’s League of Super-Pets” is a goofy, colorful throwback to those comic books of the 1950s and ’60s that allowed no costumed avenger to go un-sidekick-ed.While not as anarchic or outrageously hilarious as “Teen Titans GO! to the Movies,” this latest all-ages animated adventure from DC Comics and Warner Bros. nonetheless has — and offers — lots of fun with the four-legged counterparts of a Justice League that’s more “Super Friends” than Snyder Cut.We open on the final moments of the planet Krypton, where puppy Krypto (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) hops into baby Kal-El’s spacecraft to join him on his sojourn to Earth.
The only real problem with Thirteen Lives, an engrossing account of the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their coach from desperate straits when they become stranded in perilous caves during a monsoon, is that the same story was just recounted in the documentary The Rescue last fall. Yes, of course, big-budget feature films starring known actors can draw a lot more customers than do docs. But the fact that Ron Howard’s sometimes stirring new drama will only be in theaters for a week before it starts streaming August 5 will vastly diminish the number of people who might otherwise have experienced this stirring tale on the big screen, where it was clearly designed by Howard and his colleagues to be seen. Too bad, because it’s a fulsome film, both emotionally and as a production.
Paramount and Nickelodeon have three animated Avatar films are in the works. Last month, Lauren Montgomery (Avatar: The Last Airbender) was announced as director on the untitled first installment. And today at Comic-Con, there was more news about the first film at the panel for Avatar: Braving the Elements, the rewatch podcast hosted by the franchise’s voice actors Janet Varney (Korra in The Legend of Korra) and Dante Basco (Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender). Varney, who was not there in person, made the announcement via a video that was played in the room.
Prey, the latest Predator film, has received rave reactions from critics ahead of its release on Disney+.A prequel to the first four instalments of the Predator franchise, the film takes place in the Comanche Nation in 1975, as a highly skilled warrior protects her tribe from an evolved alien that hunts humans for sport.Prey is directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane), who introduced the film to crowds at Comic-Con on Thursday, July 21.Those who have seen the film have since been sharing their glowing reviews on social media, with many describing it as the best Predator movie since the 1987 original with Arnold Schwarzenegger.Collider critic Perri Nemiroff wrote: “#Prey is my favorite Predator movie. (Coming from someone who’s a big fan of the original and also 2010’s Predators.) Love how the story is a deeply personal journey — one powered by Comanche tradition just as much as it is by Predator-sparked thrills.”“Prey is exactly what fans want in a Predator movie — bloody deaths, insane weapons, and ties to other films in the franchise.
After a lymphoma scare in 2020 and an even worse COVID-19 scare in 2021, Jeff Bridges is back in action in FX On Hulu‘s “The Old Man.” And while the long-time actor’s career is well into its golden years, with his last film roles coming in 2018, it’s great that Bridge is still alive, thriving, and being The Dude. After all, he’s had some amazing roles over the years, including “The Big Lebowski,” “Fat City,” “The Fisher King,” and more.
wrote on Twitter Wednesday. “Can you think of another horror director that had 3 great films, let alone 3 in a row? I can’t.”Peele, while flattered, was quick to jump in and cite who’s actually the greatest horror filmmaker of all time.
“The Horse in Motion.”)The soft-spoken, laconic OJ remains committed to the day-in, day-out labor of maintaining the ranch, while his brash sister has other show-business ambitions. With live animals increasingly phased out by CG, OJ finds himself having to sell horses to a neighboring Wild West–themed amusement park managed by former child star Jupe (Steven Yeun), who survived a traumatic incident that occurred during the shooting of a ’90s sitcom.That’s before OJ and Emmy come to realize that a UFO is hovering over the ranch, and they set out to make their fortune documenting it.
Naman Ramachandran Olivia Colman (“Landscapers”), Jessie Buckley (“Men”) and Luke Evans (“Crossing Swords”) will voice parts in Netflix’s CG animated feature “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol.” The film is a supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ beloved Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future.
Jak Knight, best known for voicing the character of DeVon in the Netflix animated series “Big Mouth,” on which he also served as a writer, has died in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was 28.Knight died Thursday night.
are meant to live in the real world. The icy lens of cinematographer Eric Gautier (“Ash Is Purest White’) ensures that Jean and Sara do not embody the Paris of your dreams but of their mundane routines. They have to remember to carry their COVID-era masks everywhere, and it’s usually rainy or gray as Sara heads to her radio job interviewing guests on a range of social ills.
The brand new trailer for Apple TV+‘s Luck invites viewers into a world with only good fortune.
Sky regularly switches up its TV package offers but for viewers signing up this month there's even bigger savings to be had as the company has done deals with major streaming services Netflix and the newly-launched Paramount+ that will see them incorporate them at no additional cost into customers' bundles.