surprise, after the two have barely shared a few drinks and a roll in the hay. We have hardly seen her, and Melfi already paints this grown woman as immature and delusional. Clare is far from Phil’s only female problem. Maggie (Kim Quinn, “The Starling”), one of Astrid’s children, is an attorney specializing in estate law, who seeks to nullify the property sale by claiming Astrid has dementia.
‘Zero Contact’ Film Review: Anthony Hopkins Zoom-Call Thriller Lays a Goose Egg
27.05.2022 - 23:59 / thewrap.com
did make the movie more engaging, but this is simply as engaging as “Zero Contact” can get.What does stand out in “Zero Contact” is the score by Anders Niska and Klas Wahl, but not because it tells the story very well. Instead, it creates an incessant filter between the audience and the film, so that every moment in the narrative has to fight its way to the audience through a hazy aural mishmash of non-specific tension.
It’s as though Niska and Wahl knew that, for the most of the movie, nothing was happening, and that when things did happen they were deeply confusing, and the best they could do was perpetually suggest a generic sense of portent.And then of course there’s Hopkins, who adds a heck of a lot of respectability to these proceedings. He would have added a heck of a lot more if he’d actually interacted with any of the other actors, but instead he seems to have been invited to shoot his entire part like a series of Cameos, to be added into the movie later when it needed a boost in personality.
Hopkins can’t help but elevate the film whenever he’s on screen, but he’s given so little to do, and such claptrap to say, that it doesn’t make much of a difference in the long run. There’s no denying that the production of a film like “Zero Contact” was complicated, and that everyone involved is at least trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
But when all is said and done, the lemonade doesn’t taste good. It’s a film full of boring conversations, daft sci-fi conceits, and confusing suspense, which add up to practically nothing.
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thewrap.com
13.06.2022 / 22:49
‘Lightyear’ Film Review: The Pleasures of Pixar’s Spin-Off Are Far Too Finite
Pizza Planet? What about a jokey reference to the “Woody’s Roundup” TV show for viewers the age of Andy’s mom? And let’s face it: as admirable as it is that Pixar has created an LGBTQ character that can’t easily be dubbed over in foreign markets (the ones that demand that sort of thing will certainly find a way), there was no such thing as a mainstream studio kids’ movie of 1995 — not even an adult-aimed studio movie — progressive enough to pair a white male protagonist with a Black lesbian confidante.The most 1995 aspect of “Lightyear” comes from Evans’ performance, but only if you imagine he’s intentionally impersonating George Clooney for the entire movie; that’s how it sounds, anyway. The laughs generally come from Sohn, Aduba and Taika Waititi as an inexperienced member of the Space Ranger reserves who gets pressed into service.
theplaylist.net
09.06.2022 / 00:19
‘Rebel Moon’: Anthony Hopkins Joins Cast Of Zack Snyder’s Sci-Fi Fantasy Epic
Even though cameras have been rolling for months on Zack Snyder’s next ambitious film, “Rebel Moon” is still adding names. The Netflix project originates from an old rejected “Star Wars” pitch the filmmaker made in the early days of Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm that was loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s iconic samurai film “Seven Samurai.” Deadline reports that Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins (“Silence of The Lambs”) has nabbed a part in the big sci-fi movie at Netflix and will be voicing a robot named Jimmy.
deadline.com
08.06.2022 / 18:19
Anthony Hopkins Joins Zack Snyder’s Netflix Sci-Fi Adventure Pic ‘Rebel Moon’
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins (Armageddon Time) has boarded Rebel Moon—the sci-fi adventure film that Zack Snyder (Army of the Dead) is directing for Netflix.
variety.com
02.06.2022 / 22:35
‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ Paramount+ Film Gets June Release Date, Drops First Trailer
Wilson Chapman editorTwo of television’s most iconic idiots are back. “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe,” a new animated feature film starring the ’90s MTV characters, is set to premiere on Paramount+ June 23.The news was announced alongside the release of the official trailer for the film (see below), which sees Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced by creator Mike Judge), on a space mission with NASA in 1998 (the year after the original series ended) and winding up in the year 2022. As the NSA and the U.S.
variety.com
27.05.2022 / 04:35
‘Zero Contact’ Review: The Zoom-Shot Movie Subgenre Dies Yelling
Dennis Harvey Film CriticThe mild initial curiosity stirred by Zoom-shot movies died quickly, because so few of them were watchable, and because filmmakers quickly found workarounds to create more fluid entertainments while still observing COVID precautionary measures. Thus “Zero Contact” arrives as a novelty that’s already more than worn out its welcome, aiming for dubious additional distinction as “the world’s first star-powered feature film NFT.” (It was released in that form last September — whether anyone actually purchased it as such is unknown.)We’ll just gingerly step around that factoid, as the aptly named “Zero Contact” has plenty of more tangible ways in which it is a steaming pile of nada.