Gareth Edwards directs The Creator, a science-fiction action thriller about a war against artificial intelligence. Chris Weitz and Edwards wrote the screenplay based on a story from Edwards. The film follows ex-Special Forces agent Joshua, played by John David Washington. He’s recruited to hunt down and eliminate the Creator, who designed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war or humankind.
Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson and Allison Janney star in the film.
Directed by Michael Chaves with the story by Akela Cooper, The Nun II follows Sister Irene, played by Taissa Farmiga. She once again faces a demonic force. France, in 1956, a priest is murdered, and evil spreads.
Bonnie Aarons, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell and Jonas Bloquet also star.
Written by Alejandro Monteverde and Rod Barr and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, Sound of Freedom stars Jim Caviezel, who plays a federal agent who quit his job and devoted his life to rescuing children around the world from human trafficking.
“This is the second most important film I’ve done behind Passion of The Christ,” declared Caviezel.
The Blu-ray is available on Amazon.
Michael Bay brings us 6 Underground based on the premise:
What’s the best part of being dead?
With Bay’s classic style, 6 Underground introduces a new action hero—six individuals, each the very best in their field, from around the globe.
The leader, Ryan Reynolds, hired them for their skill and desire to delete their pasts to change the future. The vigilante squad intends to ensure that they take down notorious criminals and evil dictators. While the leader and his fellow operatives are no longer remembered, their actions damn sure will be.
One is the leader, played by Reynolds. He’s a billionaire making his fortune through technology. He’s seeking redemption for former mistakes. Two, played by Melanie Laurent, is a former CIA operative. Three, played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, is a hitman. Four, played by Ben Hardy, is a parkour specialist. Five, played by Adria Arjona, is a doctor. Six, played by Dave Franco, is a driver and getaway expert.
Robert Rodriguez directs Ben Affleck in Hypnotic, a film about hypnosis altering Affleck’s mental perception. Watch the trailer, and the plot is hard to follow.
The film follows a detective, played by Affleck, who learns his missing daughter, played by Hala Finley, relates to a string of high-profile bank robberies.
He takes us on a mind-bending journey to find out the truth about his daughter. He joins Diana Cruz, played by Alice Braga, who opens his eyes to the hypnotic suggestions caused by a secret government agency.
We soon learn the madness associated with the sinister mystery man, played by William Fichtner.
Jesse Peretz directs The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Jennifer Garner. Based on Laura Dave’s novel, the movie follows Hannah Hall, played by Garner, whose husband Owen disappears without a trace.
He leaves a note with three words, “Protect Her. HH,” referring to her stepdaughter, Bailey.
Hannah soon discovers dark secrets that place both of their lives in danger.
Dave’s novel was a page-turner until the end, like a bullet hitting the water, disappointing. It’ll be interesting to see how Peretz ends the movie.
Produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Matt Ruskin, Boston Strangler stars Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon.
Knightley plays Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter who becomes the first person to connect the series of murders. She breaks the story of the Boston Strangler with Jean Cole. They challenge the sexism of the early 1960s by tirelessly reporting the city’s most notorious serial killer.
Also starring are Chris Cooper and Alessandro Nivola.
Fall is a nerve-shredding, knuckle-whitening, vertigo-inducing action thriller. Scott Mann and Johnathan Frank wrote the script about the terrifying tale of climbers Becky, played by Grace Caroline Currey, and Hunter, played by Virginia Gardner.
They ascend the abandoned 2,000-ft B67 TV Tower in the California desert as a means of moving on from the death of Becky’s husband Dan, played by Mason Gooding, in a climbing accident a year earlier.
But when the tower’s external ladder gives way, these best friends find themselves stuck on a platform at the top. Too high to use their cell phones to ring for help, the pair must find a way down — or die trying.
Fall began life as a short film idea hatched by Mann and Fran in response to a production company’s call for experiential shorts. “They were looking at experiential shorts, action thrillers, and we pitched this,” recalls Mann. “We got so excited about the idea of the fear of falling and the horror of heights, that it almost wrote itself for 25-30 pages. They wanted to make it, but then the whole thing shut down.”
The short film series ended up canceled, so Mann and Frank decided to expand their idea into a feature, and see if they could get it set up somewhere else. “We’ve written specs before, but this was the most fun to write because the two of us kind of lived it and acted it out as we went on, trying to think what we would do in the situation that the girls find themselves in,” continues Mann who built a paper version of the platform at the top of the tower so he and Frank could perch on it, “to figure out what to do and really play on the horror and tension. We wanted it to be the ultimate fear-of-height movie, so we looked at previous films and wrote the script accordingly.”
Mann ended up directing the thriller, which has a unique location, the very real 2,000-foot-high B67 TV tower, the fourth highest structure in the U.S. “What we found was there were a lot of internet videos of daredevils doing crazy stuff, but they were usually climbing things like cranes,” explains Mann. “So, we said, let’s find somewhere that would be the ultimate place to get stuck, and we came across this tower in California. When you’re at the bottom looking up, the tower seems to go out into infinity, into the clouds. It is a marvel of architecture. And being in the desert, made for a very barren, difficult place to survive in the first instance, let alone 2,000 feet up.”
Written by Kyle Warren and directed by Matt Sobel, Goodnight Mommy is an English-language remake of the Austrian film of the same title.
The story follows twin brothers, played by Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti. They arrive at their mother’s country home, played by Naomi Watts, to discover her face covered in bandages.
She explains she needs to wear the dressings with her recent cosmetic surgery.
They immediately sense that something doesn’t add up because of her odd behavior, doing things their loving mother would never do. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her.
As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds. They have a sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother.
In Warren and Sobel’s version of the film, the fundamental theme is “the human need to be either the victim or the hero of one’s own story — never the villain.”
Compared to the original Austrian film relies on aesthetics and tone, the English remake focuses on reimagining character and psychology, emphasizing the drama over the horror elements.
“Some of the specific changes we made were to put one of the twin boys, Elias, at the center of the story, whereas the original largely treats the three main characters democratically,” explains Sobel.
They wanted to bring the audience into Elias’ experience, so they dramatized his thought processes. Another change was to create the role of Mother as not a monster but a flawed human being whose actions take on new meaning once the movie reveals the story’s core mystery.
Sobel and Watts weaved her performance to specific behaviors that make it clear there’s more going on than meets the eye. They made those moments vivid enough that when the viewer reaches the film’s end, they don’t need to return to the beginning immediately to understand what happened.
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.