Plus three new 4K releases from the Criterion Collection.
Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu, Lior Raz, and Tovah Feldshuh star in director Daniel Roher’s first narrative feature.
Tatiana Maslany stars as a newly-divorced woman with child who gets caught up with blackmail and a murder mystery. Jake Johnson, Jessy Hodges, and Dolly De Leon also star.
We often call those artists, writers, and filmmakers whose work presents a possible future that turns out to be fairly accurate, prescient. But what is more true is that they look at the world around them, the patterns of history, the movement of social and political life, and can make an educated guess at a direction. Shu Lean Cheang’s Fresh Kill is one of those films. There are many genre and subgenre labels that can be attached to it: ecofeminist, ecoterrorism, cyberpunk, noir, thriller, erotica, though Cheang herself used the suffix ‘noia’. At 30 years old, it feels both set in its particular era of a world on the cusp of the world wide web, about to enter a frightening stage of late capitalism dystopia. And that…
Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald and Madeleine Madden star in Natalie Erika James’ psychological body horror.
Plus two documentaries by Barbara Kopple, and five by Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi.
Pedro Pascal, Brendan Wayne, and Lateef Crowder portray the titular bounty hunter, with Jeremy Allen White, Martin Scorsese, and Sigourney Weaver in support.
Allow me to take you into a bewitching world of animation styled by Laika. Laika is known for visually satisfying aesthetics with soft and comforting hues that haven’t been witnessed in any other animated films produced by several other studios. I am talking about the award-winning Laika Studios that gave us ParaNorman (2012), Coraline (2009), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). Its latest, Wildwood, is breaking records with trailer views reaching up to 85M views, even more than Dune 3 and The Odyssey trailer views combined! Wildwood is an adaptation of a children’s fantasy novel written by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists and illustrated by Carson Ellis, first published in 2011. Located in Portland, Oregon, U.S., Laika’s journey started 21 years ago and has…
Plus: ‘I Love Boosters,’ ‘Sick Puppy,’ ‘Blood Meat Feast 8,’ ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.’
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci star.