Damien Chazelle, who directed Whiplash, La La Land, now brings us another side of Hollywood, Babylon.
It’s an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, including an ensemble cast: Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart.
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Directed by and starring Olivia Wilde, Don’t Worry Darling is a clever twist on living in an experimental community. The story follows Alice, played by Florence Pugh, who grows suspicious of her husband, played by Harry Styles, and his company is hiding disturbing secrets.
The story by Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke and Katie Silberman is a psychological thriller that goes deep into the obscurity of hidden secrets to manipulate those unsuspecting victims.
Also starring are Gemma Chan, Kiki Lane, Nick Kroll and Chris Pine.
Co-written and co-directed by Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, How It Ends follows freewheeling Liza, played by Zoe Lister-Jones. She scores an invitation to one last wild party before the world ends.
The catch is she takes her younger self, played by Cailee Spaeny, with her. This is a feel-good apocalyptic comedy, and making it to the party won’t be easy after her car gets stolen, and the clock is ticking on her plan to tie up loose ends with friends and family. Liza embarks on a hilarious journey across Los Angeles, running into an eclectic cast of characters.
The sizeable stellar cast includes Whitney Cummings, Tawny Newsome, Finn Wolfard, Nick Kroll, Logan Marshall Green, Bobby Lee, Fred Armisen, Glenn Howerton, Bradley Whitford, Ayo Edebiri, Sharon Van Etten, Olivia Wilde, Paul W. Downs, Raymond Cham Jr., Lamorne Morris, Angelique Cabral, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Helen Hunt, Colin Hanks, Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Pauly Shore.
Making her directorial debut, Oliver Wilde tells the story of two girls graduating from High School. Their tale is based on getting straight A’s while keeping their noses clean until they realize they must branch out and fit in with the high school crowd.
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are included as executive producers. When you hear the crude, crass, and dirty-mouthed girls, there are no surprises about who produced this movie. Ferrell and McKay worked on Vice together, with McKay also directing.
The studio promotes Booksmart as a wildly original, fresh, modern perspective. I beg to differ. These crude and disgusting jokes are common in Ferrell and McKay’s movies.
Booksmart is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds we create that last a lifetime. Capturing the spirit of being a girl in High School, the film is a coming-of-age story for a natural generation.
Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein play best friends forever. The movie includes Lisa Kudrow and Jason Sudeikis to keep it grounded. You might recognize Dever, who also starred in The Beautiful Boy, and Feldstein, who starred in Lady Bird.
The movie trailer is crude and foul-mouthed, and you might enjoy it.
Olivia Wilde talks on the red carpet at SXSW 2019 about the movie being a commitment.
On the red carpet, Feldstein talked about how special the night was because it was Wilde’s birthday and how the movie was fun.
Dever talks on the red carpet at the SXSW premiere about how much she enjoyed working with her co-star Feldstein.
These two trailers are similar, but one is called “no green band,” and the other is called “green band.” The “green band” trailer is 7 minutes longer. The differences are subtle, and if you figure it out, great!
The following featurettes show how the two girls are such good friends and make the movie seem like a lot of fun. There are crazy, unorthodox characters and a bit of truth squeezed in between.
The following movie clip shows us how it all began for these nerdy but daring high school girls.
The two “Meet the Characters” featurettes are humbling and descriptive, showing each character’s contrast. Gigi, played by Billie Loured, the daughter of Carrie Fisher, is introduced and captioned for all her zany tricks. Amy is the main character, and she and Gigi have a moment together in the movie.
Written and directed by Dan Fogelman, Life Itself follows a young New York couple going from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child. The story begins here, and unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
The second poster shows the couple expecting their first baby, happy and secure in their relationship. Watch the clip and trailer; something has happened to them so far. All is not heavenly forever.
Life Itself examines the perils and rewards of everyday life in a multigenerational saga featuring a talented ensemble including Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Laia Costa, Alex Monner, and Mandy Patinkin.
Fogleman shot the movie in both New York City and Carmona, Spain. Life Itself honors the human condition and its complications with humor, poignancy, and love.
He is multi-talented and wrote the screenplay for Bolt, Cars, and Tangled. His work includes several TV series, from Galavant to This Is Us.
The movie clip shows the main couple we see throughout the trailer. Somehow, they influence the rest of the characters in the story.
Watching the movie trailer, I got the idea of vignettes about life itself based on the birth of the couple’s child.