Directed by Bong Joon-ho and based on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7, Mickey 17 follows Mickey Barnes, played by Robert Pattinson. He’s a disposable employee sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world of Nifheim.
After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated, and most of his memories are intact.
Other films directed by Bong Joon-ho:
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Mother
Coppola’s film explores love, power, greed, change, destiny and hope. It focuses on the obsession with perfection in a world far from flawless. The storyline follows Shakespeare’s themes, the political history of Catiline and Robert Moses’s biography of Robert Caro.
Megalopolis taps literary and historical references such as Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the spiritual journey of Siddhartha and Greek poet Sappho.
Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed Metropolis, a science fiction drama. Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, an artist whose ingenuity leaps him into a utopian, idealistic future. A genius student, he develops an innovative material called Magalon. He has plans to use it to build a utopian city called Megalopolis. But his ambitions do not go unnoticed with his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, played by Giancarlo Esposito.
Cicero is committed to a regressive status quo that perpetuates special interests, greed and partisan warfare. As new mayor, Cicero inherits a bankrupt administration and plans to orchestrate a casino complex to boost revenue and rectify modern New York City.
Nathalie Emmanuel plays Julia Cicero. She is romantically involved with Cesar, tearing her loyalty between her father’s scheme and Cesar’s hope for a better world. Such a rip causes a conflicting chasm, though her independent thinking may help her resolve their differences.
Principle photography took place in Georgia. Yet one scene showing an entrance to Ciero’s home looks like the front of Huntington Gardens Mansion.
However, the story is about a hierarchical society divided between achieving a better society and maintaining the status quo. Coppola compares the Catilinarian conspiracy to today’s America, which is at the beginning of the end.
The rest of the supporting cast includes Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman.
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.
Josh Cooley directed the latest Transformers movie, which is entirely animated and sure to draw kids’ attention for many years.
Transformers One is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies. Once, they were friends who bonded like brothers. They changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Transformers One features a well-known voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, with Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.
Fede Alvarez directed Alien: Romulus, a film about a group of young people from a distant world who come face-to-face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Dan O’Bannon, Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues wrote the script. Ridley Scott, the original director of the Alien franchise, produced the movie.
The first trailer is six seconds over one minute, so it doesn’t tell us much. We hear screaming and see a bloodbath and aliens. Alvarez reportedly said the story takes place between the Alien and Aliens movies.
Historically, Romulus was the creator and initial king of Rome. He’s also known for having a twin brother, Remus. Mythology surrounds Romain history at this time with unclear events and institutions.
The cast of Alien: Romulus includes Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux and David Jonsson.
Films directed by Fede Alvarez:
Evil Dead
Don’t Breathe
From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation: Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Wild Robot.
The epic adventure parallels Hayao Miyazaki’s storytelling without the Japanese filmmaker’s artistic, non-AI quality.
Chris Sanders wrote and directed the film, which follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short.
The robot crashes on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to its harsh surroundings. Gradually, he builds relationships with the island’s animals and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot stars Lupita Nyong’o as robot Roz, Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Catherine O’Hara as opossum Pinktail; Bill Nighy as goose Longneck; Kit Connor as gosling Brightbill and Stephanie Hsu as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
The film also features the voice talents of Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, and Ving Rhames.
It’s a powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things.
Other films directed by Sanders:
The Croods
How to Train Your Dragon
Lilo & Stitch
Created and written by Peter Harness, Michelle MacLaren directs the first episode, Constellation, which stars Noomi Rapace as Jo, an astronaut who returns to Earth after a disaster in space.
She discovers that critical pieces of her life seem to be missing.
This action-packed space adventure explores the dark edges of human psychology and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover all that she has lost.
George Miller continues his Mad Max franchise with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the lead role of Furiosa, which is also the movie’s name. Nick Lathouris and Miller wrote the screenplay Miller directed.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga follows the original story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in Fury Road. Mad Max fans are sure to get their fill in this latest installment.
Other cast members include Tom Burke, Angus Sampson, Daniel Webber and Nathan Jones.
Written and directed by Brian Duffield, No One Will Save You spends some time with Brynn, played by Kaitlyn Dever. Her comfy home becomes a battleground for an alien invasion.
Duffield cut his teeth writing screenplays for Love and Monsters, Underwater, The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The Babysitter.
The horror, science-fiction movie begins streaming on Hulu on September 22, 2023. The film will set you up for the latest horror movies to fill your time during Halloween.
Directed by Garth Davis with a screenplay by Iain Reid and Davis based on the book by Iain Reid, Foe stars Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, and Aaron Pierre.
Foe is a science-fiction thriller as a haunting exploration of marriage and identity with a setting in an uncertain world. Hen and Junior, played by Ronan and Mescal, farm a secluded piece of land that’s been in Junior’s family for generations.
An uninvited stranger, played by Pierre, throws their otherwise quiet life into turmoil. He shows up at their farm door with a startling proposal.
Davis helms a story through Foe’s mesmerizing imagery. He brings persistent questions to the surface. They concern the nature of humanity and artificial humanity. Davis draws attention to the not-too-distant future of a luminous life.
Davis is an Australian film and television director known for directing Lion (his debut feature) and Mary Magdalene. He also directed episodes for Top of the Lake, starring Elisabeth Moss, noted in a Vanity Fair.