Co-written and directed by Lynn Shelton, Sword of Trust is a riotously funny, improv-based story about Cynthia, played by Jillian Bell, and Mary, played by Michaela Watkins, show up to collect Cynthia’s inheritance from her deceased grandfather.
The sole item she received is an antique sword that her grandfather believed to be proof that the South won the Civil War. Cynthia and Mary attempt to unload the object to a curmudgeonly pawnshop owner Mel, played by Marc Maron, and his man-child sidekick Nathaniel, played by Jon Bass.
Mel and Nathaniel discover there’s a black market for the relic. They reluctantly join forces to sell this rarefied ‘prover item’ to the highest bidder. The adventure that ensues takes the four of them on a wild journey into the depths of conspiracy theory and Southern disillusionment.
Maron also wrote and performed the music for the movie, and Mike O’Brien co-wrote the script with Shelton.
Also starring in the movie are Toby Huss and Dan Bakkedahl. Jillian Bell is busy these days and stars in the Sundance audience favorite Brittney Runs a Marathon.
Written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo and winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Brittany Runs a Marathon follows an unusually poignant portrait of a young woman, played by Jillian Bell, uncovering her long-buried potential.
Brittany Forgler is everybody’s best friend ― except maybe her own. At 27, her hard-partying ways, chronic underemployment, and toxic relationships are catching up with her, but when she stops by a new doctor’s office to try to score some Adderall, she gets slapped with a prescription she never wanted: Get healthy. Too broke for a gym and too proud to ask for help, Brit is at a loss, until her seemingly together neighbor Catherine pushes her to lace up her Converse sneakers and run one sweaty block. The next day, she runs two. And soon, after finishing her first mile, she sets an almost unthinkable goal: running in the New York City Marathon.
The movie is the winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.
The rest of the cast includes Michaela Watkins, Micah Stock, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Alice Lee, and Lil Rel Howery.
This movie could be the next sleeper hit.
Colaizzo won the Helen Hayes award for his playwrighting talent, and now, he is making his screenwriting and directorial debut with a slice of life movie. Brittany Runs a Marathon reminds me of Richard Curtis or Cameron Crowe storytelling.
The three movie clips show Brittany’s attitude before she starts changing her life around and getting in shape. The first clip is obscure, and its purpose of the scene is unconvincing.
The last clip is in the trailer but shows how Brittany managed to get by in life by lying. The doctor is smart and sits her on a path of redemption and a healthier lifestyle.
Written and co-directed by Jill Culton, Abominable is a DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio’s co-production. The story follows Yi, voiced by Chloe Bennet, as she encounters a young Yeti on her apartment building’s rooftop in Shanghai. Her impish friends Jin, voiced by Tenzing Norgay, and Peng, voiced by Albert Tsai, named the Yeti “Everest.”
They embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. The journey takes audiences on an epic 2,000-mile adventure from the streets of Shanghai to the breathtaking Himalayan snowscapes.
But the trio has to stay one step ahead of Burnish, voiced by Eddie Izzard. Eddie is a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti along with zoologist Dr. Zara, voiced by Sarah Paulson. If Yi and her friends can’t evade these two evildoers, they might not help Everest get home.
Culton’s directing credits include Open Season, Monsters, Inc., and Toy Story 2, and the movie is co-directed by Todd Wilderman, who directed Trolls and Crood.
The movie clip looks like a fun movie to see with the kids. It’s magical and spontaneous.
The movie clip explains more about the silliness and craziness that goes on with their newfound friend.
The featurette shows how the voice cast values the story, and it relates to their heritage.
The next installment of The Addams Family is an animated family.
Co-directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, The Addams Family, like the television series, the animated movie is silly and dorky. The infamous family once again arrives in a different version – animated.
The television show went from featured film to Broadway and now back as an animated feature film. The family’s trademark of snapping their fingers is being played up in the trailer.
The studio is calling the movie the “first animated comedy about this creepy and kooky clan.” The conflict that keeps the story the movie interesting is not revealed yet. We know the family is still weird, outlandish, bizarre, and keeping to the original Addams Family behavior from the television show.
The all-star voice cast includes Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Bette Midler, and Allison Janney.
Here is the Instagram version of the trailer. The difference is it’s shorter, and there are captions like a meme.
The next trailer tells us more about the story. Wednesday altering the class Science project by bringing the frogs back to life is hilarious.
The next movie clip shows what to expect from beginning to the end of the movie – intentional mishaps to and fro.
The next clip is for those diehard fans who watched the television series, Broadway show, and movies.
Directed by Michael Dowse, Stuber follows a level-headed Uber driver named Stu, played by Kumail Nanjiani. He picks up a passenger, played by Dave Bautista, who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer.
Stu in pushed into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life, and his five-star rating.
The movie also stars Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino, and Karen Gillan.
This is the second movie Bautista has coming out back to back with My Spy. The trailer is funny, no it’s hilarious.
The next movie trailer is red band, which means it is disgusting. The trailer is not for faint hearts or ears.
The next movie clip is similar to what we see in the trailers.
Another clip that shows the dangerous of being an Uber driver for a police officer.
The next movie clip is different from the other clips and trailers. The human heart aspect of the story starts in this clip.
Directed by Peter Segal with the screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber, My Spy introduces us to JJ, a hardened CIA operative, played by Dave Bautista. Recently demoted, he finds himself at the mercy of an exceptionally smart 9-year-old girl, named Sophie played by Chloe Coleman.
Working undercover and assigned to surveil Sophie’s family undercover, he wishes he did not have to do this job. She discovers his hidden cameras in their apartment and uses her sharp technical skills to locate where the surveillance operation originates.
Caught in the act and in exchange for not blowing JJ’s cover, Sophie connives him to spend time with her and teach her to be a spy. Despite his reluctance, JJ finds he is no match for Sophie’s unforgiving charm and wit.
Here is the new poster. It is not that much different from the earlier except for the “Amazon Original” at the top.
I was skeptical about this movie but then saw the trailer. It looks funny, and kids will laugh and be entertained.
The movie has ended up at Amazon, where it streams for Prime members and non-members. The new trailer below adds the Amazon titling to make it official.
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don’t Die takes place in a peaceful town of Centerville. The inhabitants find themselves battling an enormous amount of zombies as the dead rise from their graves.
Focus Featurettes is calling this more “the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled.” The all-star cast includes Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Selena Gomez, Carol Kane, and Tom Waits.
Jarmusch worked with both Murray and Driver in Broken Flowers and Paterson respectively.
Watching the trailer is so funny. I bellied laughed and laughed. The cast must have had a great time filming this movie. It’s hilarious.
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 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood goes back to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age in 1969, Los Angeles. A time when everything changed, as TV star Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt stroll their way around a magical business, they barely identify with anymore.
The below press junket is a marvel of information about movie making and how Tarantino makes his movies. The tone in itself expresses the joy of making a movie. It’s great to see Pitt so animated and happy. One of the best interviews on filmmaking I have seen in a long time.
Tarantino’s ninth movie with a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age. With David Heyman, Harry Potter franchise, producing along with Tarantino and Shannon McIntosh, the movie is in good hands.
The rest of the ensemble cast includes Dakota Fanning, Tim Roth, Emile Hirsch, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, and the late Luke Perry.
The first trailer is a mishmash of clips from the movie, but the focus is on DiCaprio and Pitt. Margot Robbie also stars, but we barely see her in the trailer but the full view in the above poster wearing go-go boots. Go-go boots arrived on the streets in the mid-60s, white with the low heel.
The next movie trailer tells us this is Tarantino’s ninth movie and a longer cast list, which includes Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell, plus the late Luke Perry. The music is ironic and appropriate for the scenes and situations. The story is more transparent now with Pitt’s character hooking up with a young woman, and DiCaprio deems himself a has been.
The other interview is a rarity. Pitt and DiCaprio have a joint interview. They talk together about Tarantino’s directing style, and how he helped them prepare for their roles.
Here are a couple of interviews with the director, Tarantino, who describes what he is achieving when he is directing a movie. Robbie sits with him and gives her impression of the screening of the film.
The other interview is a rarity. Pitt and DiCaprio have a joint meeting with the press. They talk together about Tarantino’s directing style, and how he helped them prepare for their roles.
The studio released another poster with a retro look of the 1960s. Each movie poster appears to be a retro look, but this one is more retro than the others. The poster shows all the characters in the movie. Who is the girl with the teddy bear? The daughter of one either DiCaprio’s or Pitt’s character?
You call this “a great scene acted by legends,” and Kurt Russell nails it.
The three featurettes are astounding and offer an insight into the making of this classic movie — one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time.
With a name like Gene Stupnitsky,Good Boys is a perfect movie for him to direct with movie actors producing – Lee Eisenberg and Seth Rogen.
The movie follows three grade-school boys who panic after being invited to his first kissing party, Max, played by Jacob Tremblay. He had never kissed a girl before, and his rites of passage had arrived.
In need of pointers on how to kiss a girl, Max and his best friends Thor and Lucas, played by Brady Noon and Keith L. Williams, come up with some bright ideas. They borrow Max’s dad’s drones to spy on a teenage couple making out next door.
But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace the drone, Max’s dad, played by Will Forte, gets home; the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of bad decisions. Their odyssey involves accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball, and running from both the cops and terrifying teenage girls, played by Molly Gordon and Midori Francis.
