Disney calls the new Star Wars episodic a coming-of-age and science fiction story. Skeleton Crew stars Jude Law with four other kid actors. The kids play ordinary children with special features. After getting lost in the Star Wars galaxy, they search for their home planet.
Disclaimer is a gripping psychological thriller with seven chapters starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.
Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, it is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Blanchett, built her reputation by revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys her life and her relationships with her husband Robert, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and their son Nicholas, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee.
The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George and Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.
Other films directed by Cuaron:
Gravity
Children of Men
And Your Mother Too
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Bagman is a dark horror film written by John Hulme and directed by Colm McCarthy. The story follows a family trapped in a nightmare as an evil, mythical creature hunts them.
The horror film derives from the centuries-old story, and across cultures, parents have warned their children of the legendary Bagman, who snatches innocent children and stuffs them into his vile, rotting bag—never to be seen again.
Patrick McKee, played by Sam Claflin, narrowly escaped such an encounter as a boy, leaving him with lasting scars throughout adulthood. Patrick’s childhood tormentor has returned, threatening the safety of his wife Karina, played by Antonia Thomas, and son Jake, played by Caréll Vincent Rhoden.
The supporting cast includes Sharon D Clarke, Steven Cree, William Hope, Adelle Leonce, Peter McDonald, Henry Pettigrew, and Will Davis.
McCarthy is a self-taught filmmaker known for directing UK p
Based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel and enduring favorite, Bad Monkey, the series makes its global debut on Apple TV+. In the series, Vince Vaughn portrays Andrew Yancy, a character who got bounced from the Miami Police Department and now works as a Keys health inspector.
But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realizes that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in the police force. He must get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey.
James Mangold directs A Complete Unknown, a biographical drama based on Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! Mangold and Jay Cooks wrote the script.
Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 1960s, the film follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan, played by Timothée Chalamet. His meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts—his songs and charisma becoming a worldwide sensation—culminated in his groundbreaking electric performance in 1965.
Ellen Fanning plays Dylan’s girlfriend, Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez, and Ed Norton plays folk legend Pete Seeger.
Other movies directed by James Mangold:
Walk The Line
Cowboy Cartel is a four-part documentary series featuring the remarkable story of a rookie FBI agent. Scott Lawson cracked the case of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels, Los Zetas and the multimillion-dollar money laundering operation they ran through the heart of the American Quarter Horse racing industry.
The documentary is an unbelievable true story of an unlikely hero from rural Tennessee. Lawson’s investigation took down the Treviño brothers, the leaders of Los Zetas, one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. While the Treviños terrorized thousands in their pursuit of power, money and influence, Lawson risked his life on a hunch.
He tracked the brother’s racehorse transactions in the United States, infiltrating the deadly cartel and uncovering their international money laundering operations.
Cowboy Cartel features first-time interviews with FBI agent Scott Lawson, who broke the case; IRS agent Steve Pennington; Irving police officers Steve Junker, Brian Schutt and Kim Williams; Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner; Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Ginger Thompson; and Joe Tone, the author of “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream,” among many others.
Clearly, Apple TV continues to expand its nonfiction programming, adding Cowboy Cartel to the list, which includes The Dynasty New England Patriots, Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend and Stephen Curry: Underrated.
The upcoming second season of Pachinko is the award-winning and globally acclaimed sweeping drama series by creator/executive producer Soo Hugh. The eight-episode series plays to the audience in three languages—Korean, Japanese, and English.
The trailer debuts a new moving cover of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida by global superstar Rosé of the record-breaking K-pop group BlackPink. In addition to debuting as the series’ trailer anthem, Rosé’s cover is also featured in the Pachinko season two finale.
Based on The New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, Pachinko is a sweeping and deeply moving story of love and survival across four generations, told through the eyes of a remarkable matriarch, Sunja.
In season two, the parallel stories pick up in Osaka in 1945, where Sunja is forced to make dangerous decisions for her family’s survival during World War II, and in Tokyo in 1989, which finds Solomon exploring new, humble beginnings.
The first season received 11 international awards, including a Peabody Award, an American Film Institute Award, a Critics Choice Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award. Season two stars Lee Minho, Yuh-Jung Youn, Minha Kim, Jin Ha, Anna Sawai, Eunchae Jung, Soji Arai, Junwoo Han, and Sungkyu Kim.
Edward Berger directed Conclave, written for the screen by Peter Straughan, based on Robert Harris’s bestseller.
The story follows one of the most secretive and ancient events: the selection of a new Pope.
Cardinal Lawrence, played by Ralph Fiennes, has taken over the secretive process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. The Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders gather from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls. Here, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of the Church.
The stellar cast includes Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Carlos Diehz and Lucian Msamati.
Berger directed the highly acclaimed film All Quiet on the Western Front.
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen, played by Hunter Schafer, leaves her American home to live with her father, played by Marton Csokas, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family.
When they arrive at their future residence, Mr. König, played by Dan Stevens, Gretchen’s father’s boss, greets them and takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma.
Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Strange noises and bloody visions plague Gretchen until she discovers a shocking secret concerning her family.
German director Tilman Singer shot on 35 mm, creating a gritty, edgy film.
Other films directed by Singer:
Luz
El Fin Del Mundo
Mohit Ramchandani directed the City of Dreams, inspired by actual events. Traffickers transport Jesús, played by Ari Lopez, a young Mexican boy with dreams of becoming a soccer star, across the border and sell him to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles. There, it’s a sweatshop forcing him to make a fast fashion, shattering his dreams.
Thrust into a world of exploitation and despair, he’s forced to adhere to the grueling work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas.
Despite his hellish existence, Jesus finds solace in Elena, a girl who shares a similar experience of betrayal and slavery. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlito, suffers severe beatings, Jesus realizes he can only achieve freedom by making a daring escape.
The rest of the cast includes Jason Patric, Alfredo Castro, Samm Levine, Paulina Gaitan, Francisco Denis, and Diego Calva.