Author: Alex Billington

"Anything you can dream about here, you can make!" Let's build! Warner Bros has unveiled a teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie, the long-awaited Minecraft film that has been in the works for a while. Currently set to open in theaters April 2025. From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures and starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black, A Minecraft Movie, directed by Jared Hess, is the first-ever big screen, live-action adaptation of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. The story follows four misfits who are pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld - where they must team up with an expert crafter to figure out way to be creative and get back out of there. Also with Emma Myers, Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge. With production design by Grant Major, costumes by Amanda Neale, and cinematography by Enrique Chediak. This actually seems it should be tons of fun, better than I was expecting, though the cast does look over-the-top kooky. "Be There and Be Square." Here's the teaser trailer (+ poster) for Jared ...

Earlier in the year, when it was discovered that 2024 would be the year of not one but two brand new films made by the talented Luca Guadagnino, I made a prediction that Queer would be the real knock out next to the more forgettable Challengers. Now that I've seen both of the films it's time to admit - my prediction was wrong. It turns out its the other way around and Challengers is the winner. Luca Guadagnino's Queer is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in the Main Competition, the same festival where most of the Italian filmmaker's previous films Suspiria, Bones and All, I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, as well as his doc Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams premiered. He's back in Venice again with what has been described as his most personal work yet, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' very queer novel of the same name - which was originally written in the 1950s but never published until later in 1985. It turns out this adaptation is Guadagnino's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - ...

"This music within him - it's messy, it's chaotic, it's expressing the complexity of love." WB has debuted a quick music featurette for Joker: Folie à Deux, premiering this week at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. We already posted the official trailer a few months ago, and with this big moment about to happen, they're ramping up the final marketing blitz. Don't forget that Joker 2 is actually a musical! They've hidden this fact from the trailers for the most part, but this making of featurette offers a quick glimpse at a few musical numbers. This all-out sequel is being described as a "musical psychological thriller" set in Gotham City, with many songs being worked into the story featuring Lady Gaga appearing as Joker's new partner Harley Quinn. Joaquin Phoenix returns as Arthur, with Zazie Beetz and a cast including Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, Steve Coogan, Ken Leung, & Harry Lawtey. From all the early buzz and all the early looks, this looks like it's going to be an incredibly ambitious follow-up to Joker. Love or hate the ...

"If you don't have facts, you can't have truth." Neon has revealed a trailer for 2073, a compelling new doc about climate change and the destructive future we're headed towards. The film is the latest documentary creation from Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, known for his docs Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona, and others. 2073 is a hybrid doc - featuring a live-action sci-fi segment starring Samantha Morton living in a dystopian future ruined by climate change & authoritarianism (the year 2073); along with doc segments showing how we could get there, giving clear-eyed facts about the rise of right-wing authoritarianism and libertarianism worldwide – which won't stop climate change. "Through a genre-busting mix of archive and drama Ghost witnesses the terrifying threats facing us: a Democratic recession, the rise of neo-fascism, the Climate Disaster and the intrusion of surveillance technology. This is not science fiction. This is happening now." The film is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival this month, and there's no final release date set yet. Another potent film to jolt us into action and remind us we ...

"They said we weren't smart enough. They said we couldn't lead." Prime Video has revealed the full official trailer for a sports documentary series titled Evolution of the Black Quarterback, getting ready to drop soon with the next NFL season kicking off this month. It'll be streaming on Prime Video in a few weeks from now if anyone wants to watch. Produced by NFL Films in addition to SMAC Productions. The series follows retired NFL quarterback Michael Vick exploring the history of Black quarterbacks, celebrating progress and envisioning the future through interviews with influential Black QBs. Vick states: "I know that was a big step for us in society [when I got drafted]. I was always told that I revolutionized the quarterback position, but I also like to give credit to the ones who I idolized as a kid & paved the way like Randall Cunningham, Steve McNair and Donovan McNabb. When you look at the evolution of the Black quarterback, it's because of the people that came before us. And now, I'm thankful for the dual threat concept that ...

"How did one girl become hated in Japan and whip everyone into a frenzy?" Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for a streaming series called The Queen of Villains, about a Japanese pro-wrestler. Set for a global debut on Netflix later this month if anyone wants to rumble with her. Seems like a fun companion series to Glow. Follow the lives of girls who were once nobodies, witness the sheer excitement they sparked, and discover what these wrestlers, who fought with all their might through a bygone era, are asking us in the present day. The series introduces everyone to Dump Matsumoto – a professional wrestler who spurred the women's professional wrestling boom with her cult-like popularity and took Japan by storm in the 80s. One ordinary girl went on to captivate all of Japan. Now, the story of her viciously vile fight for survival is about to begin! Starring Yuriyan Retriever as Dump Matsumoto, with Erika Karata, Ayame Goriki, Nobuko Sendo, Takuma Otoo, Daisuke Kuroda, Takumi Saitoh, and Jun Murakami. This actually looks totally crazy, not as tame ...

"We have to raise our voices..." Dogwoof has unveiled an official UK trailer for the acclaimed, award-wining film titled No Other Land, made by a group of four filmmakers from Palestine & Israel. This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, where it won two major awards - then the filmmakers sadly ended up threatened and the festival didn't properly defend them which is a shame. I caught up with the doc at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this summer and I very moved and unsettled by its portrayal of life in West Bank. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who also wants to join his fight. There is no way anyone can watch this doc and not see, plain as day, what is really going on with Israel doing horrible things to Palestine and treating so many of these simple people so poorly. I'm glad films like this exist to show us ...

"Why did this astonishing man end his life exiled from the country he came to define?" Quite a question to ask. Greenwich Ent. has revealed an official US trailer for a UK documentary titled Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story, arriving in the US this October. (Mad About the Boy is also the title of the next Bridget Jones film due out in 2025.) It already opened in the UK last year and is just now making its way to the US for those curious about the story of this enigmatic man. It tells the story of the extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom performing on Broadway and beyond, keeping his queer sexuality a secret. "He defined an era & led an extraordinary life." Featuring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball as special guests. With narration by Alan Cumming + with Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward. Reviews praise the doc: "The tale of how a boy who left school at ...

There are moments as a film geek where right in the middle of a film festival screening you are overtaken by the overwhelming feeling that you are watching something that will go down as a major moment in cinema history. It's not often we are lucky enough to encounter such phenomenal filmmaking. It is not often that we are treated to the majesty of cinema that is so profound and powerful it shakes the very foundations of art as we know it. When these rare moments come along, it is vital to relish and speak out passionately about the power that truly majestic cinema can have over us. American filmmaker Brady Corbet's third feature film The Brutalist is one of these major moments in cinema. I sat in the cinema stunned, watching the credits scroll by, unable to say much or pick myself up. There were a few moments I was holding my breath, other scenes where my heart was racing. It may seem hyperbolic to write all of this, but everyone once in a while it really is accurate ...

"It felt like a piece of work that needed to be made now," Jude Law explained during the press conference for this film. "It's interesting looking back, but it’s always interesting finding a piece from the past that has some relationship to the present day." Indeed it is. Especially a film like this. The Order is the latest action thriller film made by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, director of The Snowtown Murders, Macbeth, Assassin's Creed, True History of the Kelly Gang, and Nitram previously. After making tons of a bunch of films about criminals in Australia, he's telling a story about a notorious American criminal - a man named Bob Mathews. The Order follows one grizzled, determined FBI agent, played by Jude Law, who is on the hunt for Bob after he realizes what's really going while investigating a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. It's a completely true story and most of the character are based on real people. This two-hour-long action thriller is a riveting, intense story about neo-Nazis in America - and is as ...