The family comedy Paddington 2 and the high school coming-of-age/coming out romantic comedy Love, Simon come to HBO cable and streaming services in November. Also making respective HBO debuts are Tomb Raider with Alicia Vikander, the giant robot sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, and an extended version of Fifty Shades Freed, the final film in the […]
Curiosity is a killer in The Midnight Meat Train (2008), adapted from the short story by Clive Barker (one of the first he wrote) and directed by Japanese style-bomber Ryuhei Kitamura in his American feature debut. Leon (Bradley Cooper), a street photographer who chases police calls for a living but prefers to document the underbelly […]
Sharp Objects, the new HBO miniseries starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson and based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, and the HBO Original documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind debut on all HBO platforms in July. Also arriving in July: the superhero blockbuster Justice League, Battle of the Sexes with Emma Stone and […]
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan called in his favors from Warner Bros., where made the hit Batman / Dark Knight trilogy as well as Inception and Interstellar, to make Dunkirk (2017), a big-budget World War II drama that would never have been financed on the scale Nolan envisioned without his clout behind it. Warner may have been […]
The HBO Original movie Fahrenheit 451, based on the novel by Ray Bradbury and starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon, and Christopher Nolan’s immersive World War I drama Dunkirk, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three for editing and sound, come to HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO On Demand in […]
Go back to the future on HBO in April: season two of the ambitious science fiction series Westworld, a smart and savvy reimagining of the 1970s movie, and War for the Planet of the Apes, the third film in the superb revival trilogy, offer radically different takes on our evolutionary course. Also coming in April […]
Lean, mean, swift, and sure, Atomic Blonde (2017) is the kind of action movie we need in the contemporary morass of CGIed to mush spectacle. That’s not to say it eschews digital effects but director David Leitch, a co-creator and uncredited co-director of John Wick and a veteran stuntman and stunt choreographer, uses digital manipulation […]
You may recall Prometheus with both awe and astonishment, a film with astounding moments of beauty and horror and brilliance bumping up against stupidity and sloppiness and half-baked ideas. Alien: Covenant (2017), the second film in the Alien prequel series, takes place a decade after the events of Prometheus (2012) and continues writing the xenomorph […]
It’s been a kick-ass year for women heroes on the screen and the most lethal kicks came from Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde. It arrives from theaters to HBO in March along with Sofia Coppola’s award-winning remake The Beguiled, My Cousin Rachel with Rachel Weisz, and Alien: Covenant with Michael Fassbender. HBO launches Barry, a new […]
Logan with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, arguably the most mature superhero movie to date, makes its HBO debut in December, and the HBO original miniseries Gunpowder, a historical drama about the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the British Parliament starring Kit Harington and Liv Tyler, begins in December. Other new films coming in […]
