Film

“You can’t change the past, you just have to live in the present.” Oscope Labs has unveiled an official trailer for an indie documentary creation called The Taste of Mango, made by a Sri Lankan-British filmmaker named Chloe Abrahams as her feature directorial debut. This premiered in 2023 at a few festivals including True/False, London, and Memphis and is finally getting a proper theatrical release in the US this December. The Taste of Mango, the debut feature from filmmaker and video artist Chloe Abrahams, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal…

“You never know what you’re gonna find!” Indeed. The latest Kim’s Video Collection experience video features the illustrious and superbly talented actress Aubrey Plaza perusing the shelves looking for sleazy films to chat about. The iconic NYC video rental shop collection known as Kim’s Video has been returned to Manhattan and can now be found in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Lower Manhattan. Drafthouse has launched their own video store video series about “Kim’s Video Collection” that’s an American version of the iconic Vidéo Club videos by Konbini. Plaza talks…

Taylor Sheridan’s newest drama — starring Billy Bob Thornton as an oilman fighting off bankers and feuding with family members — is like a rough draft of his usual antihero show, only worse

Still, you do get Eddie Redmayne as the world’s best assassin, Lashana Lynch in prime Bond mode, and some killer set pieces

“Did you kill him?” “No.” So then who did? And what is going on? Hulu has revealed the first official trailer for Paradise, a streaming series mystery thriller arriving to watch in January 2025. Nothing is as it seems in this series full of secrets and lies. Paradise is set in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquility explodes when a shocking murder of the President occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds. Sterling K. Brown stars as Xavier Collins, head…

FX/Hulu’s adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book about Northern Ireland’s fight for liberation struggles to balance multiple storylines and characters

“We deserve to have the house of our dreams!” Don’t we all… Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for a new comedy series called No Good Deed, made by TV creator Liz Feldman, also creator of the other series “One Big Happy” and “Dead to Me”. It tells the story of three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. Sounds like a very personal story turned into a comedy series. Netflix’s No Good Deed is a…

“Feeling seen! Feeling beautiful! That is powerful.” Roadside Attractions has unveiled an official trailer for The Last Showgirl, the triumphant return of actress Pamela Anderson. The film premiered to positive reviews at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival this fall, along with screenings at San Sebastian, Zurich, Denver, Miami, and many others. The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelley – a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Directed by Gia Coppola, The Last…

“It rocks! But it doesn’t rock too hard.” HBO has revealed the trailer for Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, premiering on Max later this month. Get ready for a voyage through soft rock history! It’s the next creation in HBO’s top notch Music Box series of docs about music history – there were 4 feature docs that debuted last year and this next one is part of the “season” coming up in 2024-2025. Yacht Rock chronicles the rise of the smooth West Coast sound pioneered by artists like Steely Dan, Toto,…

“I want to face my wife’s killers, look them in the eyes, and balance the scales.” Dark. 20th Century Studios has unveiled an official trailer for The Amateur, a thrilling new revenge movie from British director James Hawes (who also directed a bunch of episodes of that spy series “Slow Horses” if you want to get a sense of his cinematic style). The film follows a nerdy CIA cryptographer / software geek who manages to blackmail his own agency into training him to let him go after a group of…