Written by Will Tracy and Seth Riess and directed by Mark Mylod, The Menu follows a couple, played by Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult. They travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef, played by Ralph Fiennes, has prepared a great menu with a few shocking surprises.
Mylod is a British film and television director and executive producer. Entourage, Game of Thrones and Succession are some of his best works on television.
Joining the couple are three young, already inebriated tech brothers, Bryce and Dave, an older wealthy couple and repeat clients, Anne and Richard, renowned restaurant critic Lillian Bloom and her slavish magazine editor Ted, and a famous middle-aged movie star with his assistant Felicity.
With the immaculately dressed front-of-house staff led by general Elsa, the evening unfolds with increasing tension at each of the guest tables as secrets are revealed and unexpected courses are served. With wild and violent events occurring, Slowik’s motivation begins to rattle the diners as it becomes increasingly apparent that his elaborate menu is designed to catalyze a shocking finale.
Co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves follows a charming thief, played by Chris Pine. A band of unlikely adventures embarks on a huge quest to retrieve a lost relic. But things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ release date is in the latest poster below.
Justice Smith plays Simon, Sophia Lillis plays Doric, Chris Pine plays Edgin, and Michelle Rodriguez plays Holga in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from Paramount Pictures.
Daley wrote the screenplay with Michael Gilio with the story by Chris McKay. The rest of the cast includes Hugh Grant, Justice Smith, Michelle Rodriguez and Rege-Jean Page.
Written by Bragi F. Schut and directed by Julius Avery, Samaritan follows a young boy, played by Javon “Wanna” Walton. He begins a journey to see if the mythic superhero, Samaritan, played by Sylvester Stallone, is still alive after disappearing 25 years ago.
Written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu, with Chukwu directing, TILL is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s, played by Danielle Deadwyler, relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, played by Jalyn Hall.
In 1955, they brutally lynched Till while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Directed by Nick Hamm, Gigi & Nate is the story about Nate Gibson, played by Charlie Rowe. He’s a young man who suffered a near-fatal injury, turning his life upside down and becoming a quadriplegic.
Moving forward seems near impossible until he meets his unlikely service animal, Gigi – a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey.
Although she assists Nate with his basic needs, Gigi helps Nate find what he needs most in life — hope. The film also stars Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden and Jim Belushi. It’s a tearjerker of a story based on actual events, so bring plenty of tissues to the movie theater.
Also starring are Josephine Langford, Zoe Colletti, Hannah Riley and Diane Ladd.
Directed by Emmy winner Maria Schrader, She Said is from the screenplay by Oscar winner Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Based on the New York Times bestseller, She Said stars two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America limited series, The Big Sick). Together they play New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who broke one of the most important stories in a generation.
The story helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever.
The Academy Award-winning producers of 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight, Minari, Selma and The Big Short bring the New York Times bestseller: She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement to the screen.
Written and directed by John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal follows Emily, played by Aubrey Plaza. She has saddled herself with student debt and locked herself out of the job market because of a minor criminal record.
Desperate for income, she takes a sketchy gig as a “dummy shopper,” buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef, played by Theo Rossi.
Faced with a series of dead-end job interviews, Emily soon finds herself seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills of black-market capitalism and increasingly interested in her mentor Youcef.
Together, they scheme a plan to bring their black-market business to the next level in Los Angeles.
Ford brings his personal experience of having graduated with 90 thousand dollars in debt. “The housing crisis was still doing damage, and I ended up delivering food and struggling to pay my interest each month. Not the principal, just the interest.”
That’s when Ford decided to make a movie about a millennial hitting the breaking point and choosing to operate on her own rules.
On the surface, Emily the Criminal is about a woman who becomes a criminal to pay her student loans. “I’m not a criminal (or a woman for that matter), but the story is personal, nonetheless.”
Being in so much debt scared Ford. “I was trying to be a filmmaker, and the whole thing filled me with fear — the fear of failure, the fear that someday I might regret having spent so much time even trying.”
Ford poured all that fear into the script, and a story came about just going for it. “A story about running toward your passion despite the warning signs. Emily discovers that she loves being a criminal … and unlike most of us, she has the guts to follow her love to the bloody end. Maybe I was giving myself a hero to follow.”
Emily the Criminal
They made the film in 20 days, one hundred and thirty scenes, including stunts, a car chase and Covid. “Somewhere along the line, I morphed into the character: feral, driven, and no longer concerned with the imminent dangers of chasing the dream. I was all in.”
Ford was all in, just like Emily — Being all in. “The moment when you discover what you want — and commit to it. There is fear and joy in that moment, nobody escapes clean, and you suffer losses along the way.”
Emily the Criminal is a thriller, but to Ford, it’s also a coming-of-age story about embracing your deepest desires and daring to follow them. “Whether they lead you into the underbelly of the Los Angeles crime scene or into finishing your debut feature or into a new place altogether.”
Aubrey Plaza also produces the movie and starts in the latest Guy Ritchie movie, Operation Fortune: Rue de Guerre, which is not out in the theaters yet. Theo Rossi is on the Netflix limited series True Story opposite Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes.
The rest of the cast includes Megalyn Echikunwoke and Gina Gershon.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen for a simple romantic comedy. They are high-end exes on a shared mission to stop their love-struck daughter from making the same mistake they once made—marrying too young with an established career.
Ol Parker directed Ticket to Paradise from his script with Daniel Pipski. Parker has also directed other upbeat films, such as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and scripted the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films.
Ticket to Paradise has a promotional line that says it’s a romantic comedy about the sweet surprise of second chances. The film sounds like we know the ending but must watch Roberts and Clooney go through the hoops to get there.
Kaitlyn Dever also stars as their daughter, who found her true love and plans to marry him unless her parents stop her.
Directed by Tom George, the story happens in London’s West End in the 1950s. There are plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play to come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal crew member ends up murdered.
When world-weary Inspector Stoppard, played by Sam Rockwell, and eager rookie Constable Stalker, played by Saoirse Ronan, take on the case, the two find themselves puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Of late, Ron Howard has directed a couple of documentaries and is now taking on a true story about a soccer team and their coach trapped in a Thailand cave. Some say the incident is the greatest rescue mission in history.
Watching the trailer shows how intensely Howard’s style comes through with two powerful actors, Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell. Joel Edgerton also brings a lot of strength to the movie.
Imagining what it took to film this movie in Thailand is fantastic. Included is a photo of Howard directing the boys. The climate looks grueling. What is Ron Howard drinking?
Thirteen Lives will play on Amazon Prime a week after it hits the theaters, so get ready to stream. As most moviegoers know, Amazon purchased MGM, and here is one of Amazon’s first releases from the buyout.
The film recounts the amazing true story of the tremendous global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who became trapped in the Tham Luang cave caused by an unexpected rainstorm. Faced with insurmountable odds, a team of the world’s most skilled divers can uniquely navigate the maze of flooded, narrow cave tunnels.
They join up with Thai forces and over 10,000 volunteers to attempt a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach. With impossibly high stakes and the entire world watching, the group embarks on their most challenging dive yet, showcasing the limitlessness of the human spirit.
