If you haven’t heard, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro today, September 10, and that sucker is $700. That’s before you buy a disc drive and a vertical stand, which will run you another $110. The company is asking for nearly a grand to get the full experience, all in the name of a technical leap forward. But how…
If you haven’t heard, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro today, September 10, and that sucker is $700. That’s before you buy a disc drive and a vertical stand, which will run you another $110. The company is asking for nearly a grand to get the full experience, all in the name of a technical leap forward. But how…
Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) takes the lead in the horror thriller House of Spoils, which is coming to us from Blumhouse Television and Amazon‘s Prime Video. This one has the great Halloween season release date of October 3rd, and with that date right around the corner, a trailer has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.
The film has been written and directed by the duo of Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, whose previous credits include the 2019 film Blow the Man Down, episodes of the recent mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, and episodes of the AMC+ series Moonhaven.
Described as a “tense, psychological and sensuous” thriller, House of Spoils stars DeBose as an ambitious chef who opens her first restaurant—a farm-to-table affair on a remote estate—where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor, crushing self doubts… and the powerful spirit of the estate’s previous owner who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.
DeBose is joined in the cast by Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria), Marton Csokas (The Equalizer), Amara Karan (The Darjeeling Limited), and Arian Moayed (Succession).
Cole told Elle that the House of Spoils production put DeBose through the wringer: “This was a challenging shoot. It was like she’s in every scene. It’s dirty, it’s nasty. Some of these sets, we literally had her crawling in dirt over and over again one night and there was a lot we asked of her.” The movie seems interesting enough to me, so I will probably be including it in my October-long horror movie viewing spree. October is all about watching as many horror movies as possible.
House of Spoils was filmed in Hungary and produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Secret Engine’s Alex Scharfman, Lucas Joaquin, and Drew Houpt, and Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath. Blumhouse Television’s Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold serve as executive producers.
What did you think of the trailer for House of Spoils? Will you be watching this movie when it reaches Prime Video in October? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Plot: Writer-director Kevin Smith presents his most personal film to date with this coming-of-age story — set in the summer of 1986 — that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose, as a self-important theater manager and teen rivalries interfere with his best-laid plans.
Review: I have been a Kevin Smith fan since I saw Clerks in the mid-90s. Smith had a solid run over the early course of his career, but the 2010s were less kind from a critical standpoint. While I have stood by his projects even when the quality was less than I knew he was capable of, my gut told me that Kevin Smith had another great project in him. I am happy to say that The 4:30 Movie is Smith’s best film since Chasing Amy and ranks at the top of his filmography. A heartfelt ode to teenage life, The 4:30 Movie still boasts crude humor but is a far more nuanced and emotionally centered film than he has done in a very long time. At once a love letter to movies and the bygone 1980s, The 4:30 Movie is a lot like Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans but told in the way we have come to expect from the creator of Jay and Silent Bob.
The 4:30 Movie opens with Brian David (Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark‘s Austin Zajur) prepping a snack and calling his crush Melody Barnegat (Siena Agudong) to invite her to the movies. While Brian and Melody shared a kiss the year prior, it took him a long time to work up the courage to ask her out. They agree to meet at the local theater for the titular four-thirty showing when she says yes. Brian then spends the rest of the day with his best friends Burny (Nicholas Cirillo) and Belly (Reed Northrup), who plan to sneak into various movies throughout the day, leading to the R-rated comedy where Melody will join them. On their way, the trio faces theater honcho, Manager Mike (Ken Jeong), who wants nothing more than to ban them from his establishment. With the help of a hot usher (Genesis Rodriguez) and wrestling superstar Major Murder (Sam Richardson), Brian may finally get the girl of his dreams.
What makes The 4:30 Movie work as well as it does is that despite masturbation jokes, plentiful profanity, and some sexual content, the movie really has its heart in the right place. Nowhere near the crass humor of American Pie, Smith’s film is a lot closer to Fast Times at Ridgemont High and early John Hughes films rather than Mallrats or Dogma. There is no appearance from Jay or Silent Bob, though we do get cameos from Clerks veterans Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, and Jason Mewes. Many ViewAskew actors from prior Kevin Smith projects, including the director’s wife, Jennifer Schwalbach, daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Jason Lee, and more, pop up. While some Smith films have felt like favors called in by the director to pad the cast with famous faces, this cast is predominantly cameo-free outside of the aforementioned mainstays from prior productions. At a brisk eighty-eight-minute running time, Smith keeps the narrative focused on Brian’s quest to reach his date with Melody, but there is still plenty of time for side plots and pop culture references.
Brian David is clearly based on Smith himself, right down to his encyclopedic knowledge of movies and television, but Zajur does not try to impersonate the director. Like The Fabelmans, this is a fictionalized story rooted in the director’s memories and experiences but changed for dramatic and comedic effect. Smith also uses the movie theater location to include some fake trailers, such as those created by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, along with other filmmakers for Grindhouse. The trailers range from a slasher to a Ghoulies/Critters-esque monster movie to the nunsploitation Sister Sugar Walls featured in the theatrical trailer for The 4:30 Movie. The trailers are entirely shown, while scenes from the Flash Gordon-esque movie that the teens sneak into have clips featuring Diedrich Bader and rapper Logic. While Smith includes callouts for some real franchises like Jaws and Poltergeist, the posters and movies featured on screen are all original creations, adding a nice little easter egg dimension to the film.
Filmed during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strike, The 4:30 Movie was shot on location at Smodcastle Cinemas, a theater co-owned by Smith. By keeping the film local, Kevin Smith emulates the indie feel of his early films while paying homage to the movies that defined his teenage years. Kevin Smith movies have always worn their hearts on their sleeves, with Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy each having an emotional center that grounded the otherwise ridiculous comedic moments. But The 4:30 Movie may be the most honest film that Smith has made since Chasing Amy and is all the more sincere as it is rooted in his own experiences. Sure, some of the jokes fall flat and may be familiar to those of us who grew up with the same cinematic interests, but they all feel genuine and get a boost thanks to the youthful cast instead of Smith’s repertory players who have all aged out of leading movies like this.
The 4:30 Movie is Kevin Smith’s most genuine film of his career as a director and perfectly aligns with the classic teen-centric films of the 1980s. Full of reverence and homage for the movies of that decade and a soundtrack of classic tunes, this movie serves as a refreshing change of pace from Smith’s run of Jay and Silent Bob movies and Clerks sequels. As much as I want to see more of those characters and still await the long-in-development Mallrats sequel, The 4:30 Movie is the best thing Smith has made in almost thirty years. Stay tuned through to the film’s end for a nice little easter egg moment, and enjoy this ode to denim jackets and non-existent social media through the humor of one of the more distinct pop culture filmmakers.
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The new season of the spy-thriller series from the Russo brothers has just released a new trailer. Citadel: Diana, another chapter of the Citadel franchise, will be streaming on Prime Video starting October 10 and Amazon MGM Studios has dropped a new look that shows the lead actress, Matilda De Angelis, get into multiple scuffles while taking on the world of the independent global spy agency. The final episode of Citadel included a post-credits teaser trailer for Citadel: Diana. Citadel: Diana was created, produced, and filmed in Italy.
The official synopsis reads,
“Diana is set in Milan in 2030, where eight years ago, spy agency Citadel was destroyed by the powerful enemy syndicate, Manticore. Since then, Diana Cavalieri (De Angelis), an undercover Citadel agent, is alone, trapped behind enemy lines as a mole in Manticore. When she finally sees a way out and the chance to disappear forever, the only way to do so is trusting the most unexpected ally, Edo Zani (Lorenzo Cervasio), the heir of Manticore Italy and son of the head of the Italian organization, Ettore Zani (Maurizio Lombardi), who’s vying for leadership against the other European families.”
Citadel: Diana was directed by Arnaldo Catinari and developed by Alessandro Fabbri, who also serves as head writer and penned the series with Ilaria Bernardini, Laura Colella, Gianluca Bernardini, and Giordana Mari. In addition to Matilda De Angelis, the cast of Citadel: Diana also includes Lorenzo Cervasio, Maurizio Lombardi, Julia Piaton, Thekla Reuten, Giordana Faggiano, Daniele Paoloni, Bernhard Schütz, and Filippo Nigro.
Right from the beginning, Citadel was set up as an “Avengers-style spy show” where each of the spies could be featured in their own projects. Assuming audiences are hungry for more, Citadel: Diana won’t be the last spinoff in the Citadel Spyverse. Production on the second season of Citadel will begin later this year, with Joe Russo serving as director. Citadel: Diana is produced by Italian-based Cattleya, who is known for projects like Gomorrah, which is part of ITV Studios, and Amazon MGM Studios. The show is executive produced by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO. Gina Gardini, whose credits include Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero, serves here as the showrunner.
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With the premiere of The Penguin just about a week away, some are already ready for the announcement of the second season. Really, it wouldn’t be terribly surprising to hear about the greenlight this month, as so often happens after the first episode airs. But, as it turns out, Colin Farrell himself isn’t even sure if he would return for The Penguin, saying the character took a toll on him.
Colin Farrell of course is reprising the role of Penguin from 2022’s The Batman but a third outing may not be in his deck. As he told Total Film, “Don’t get me wrong – I loved it – but it got in on me a little bit. By the end of it, I was bitching and moaning to anyone who would listen to me that I f*cking wanted it to be finished. I tried to remind them that I had ‘grumpy gratitude.’ I was still grateful, and still honored – I grew up watching Burgess Meredith, and then Danny DeVito was my Penguin – so being a part of the lineage of that storytelling, I really did feel privileged. But by the end of it…”
That’s not a guaranteed no but Colin Farrell’s hesitation at this point to return for a second season of The Penguin isn’t looking good. Thankfully, he at least wasn’t constantly taking the character home with him or getting involved to the point where he started embodying Oz. “It’s not like I didn’t know who I was and I was going out and burning cars and shit, but…if you take what Matt Reeves created and then what Lauren [LeFranc, showrunner] did and what Mike [Marino, prosthetics and make-up designer] did and put them all together, it was a really powerful experience.”
Obviously much of the success of The Penguin – and if it even gets the go-ahead for season two – relies on Colin Farrell. Matt Reeves has already stated that you shouldn’t expect to see the likes of Bruce Wayne or Riddler to help carry the load, as their stories have been told. So if Colin Farrell is already talking about waddling away, that could spell immediate doom for the show before it even debuts on September 19th.
Will you be checking out The Penguin when it premieres next week?
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When you think of John Woo, you think of action. With movies such as The Killer, Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2, and more, the director has delivered some of the greatest action in the history of cinema, but his next project will be a big departure. While speaking with Empire, John Woo confirmed that his next movie will be a “half-musical” made in collaboration with Sparks, the pop and rock duo formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael.
“My next project is actually a half-musical,” Woo said. “I’m going to be working with the Sparks Brothers, who wrote the script and songs — we are just starting work on some changes to the script.” The director then joked that this “will be my first movie where I don’t need to hire a stuntman.” Woo has wanted to tackle a musical for some time, even coming close to helming an adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera starring John Travolta in the ’90s. Sparks recently posted a photo with John Woo, teasing the project.
The hashtag mentions X Crucior, a project announced by Focus Features two years ago, which has merely been described as a “musical epic.” I’m intrigued.
Woo’s latest film was an English-language remake of his own 1989 action classic: The Killer. The new version stars Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee, a mysterious assassin known as the Queen of the Dead. When she refuses to kill a young blind woman (Diana Silvers) on the orders of her handler, Finn (Sam Worthington), her world implodes, and she finds herself on the run, attracting the attention of police investigator Sy (Omar Sy). Unfortunately (and perhaps predictably), the remake has received mixed reviews, including one from our own Alex Maidy.
“As evidenced by Silent Night, John Woo still has something in the tank, but The Killer is a total misfire in every sense,” Maidy wrote. “While seeing how a filmmaker can realize a concept in two completely different ways is interesting, The Killer may be the most unnecessary remake since Gus Van Sant’s Psycho. The Killer is the worst thing an action movie can be: boring. Avoid this movie at all costs unless you are a John Woo completist, and even then, you will be disappointed that you waited over thirty years for this.” You can check out the rest of Maidy’s review right here.
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We will soon be thrust back into the Gotham City underworld with The Penguin, the upcoming HBO series starring Colin Farrell as the titular mobster. However, the big question has been will Batman make an appearance in the series? According to Matt Reeves, who executive produces the series, neither Batman nor Bruce Wayne will appear in The Penguin, but they did consider it.
“I’m a point-of-view filmmaker,” Reeves told Total Film. “When I’m doing a Batman story, Batman and Bruce is going to be the main point of view. To explore the rogues gallery, they could never get the real estate we can do in a series. So Batman is in this [show] only as a sense that he’s a presence. You’re aware that all of these events began because of the Riddler, but the Riddler doesn’t appear and Batman doesn’t appear.“
Just in case anyone was still in doubt, Reeves doubled down. “Rob [Pattinson] is not going to be in the show,” Reeves said. “I’d rather take the Band-Aid off now. We did talk about all that but we felt the best way to do this was to go on a grand exploration of a guy grabbing for power in this moment.“
Taking place after the events of The Batman, The Penguin will find Oswald Cobblepot taking advantage of the power vacuum created by the death of Carmine Falcone. In addition to Farrell, the series stars Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone, daughter of the late Carmine, Rhenzy Feliz as Victor Aguilar, Oswald’s driver, Michael Kelly as Johnny Vity, Falcone family underboss, and Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, a rival gangster. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Michael Zegen, Carmen Ejogo, and Theo Rossi also star in the series.
The Penguin was originally developed by Max, but it has since moved to HBO alongside several other shows that were initially announced for Max. The series will debut on HBO on September 19th. As for The Batman Part II, we’ve got quite a wait in store as the film has been delayed by an entire year and will now hit theaters on October 2, 2026.
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We’re accustomed to trilogies saving their biggest and best for the final installment (to varying effect), but if you’re expecting Dune 3 to be an action-packed finale to the Dune trilogy, you might be disappointed. While speaking on Vanity Fair’s Little Gold Men podcast, director Denis Villeneuve made sure to note that he doesn’t view Dune 3 as the completion of a trilogy.
“First, it’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych,” Villeneuve said. “It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do something that feels different and has its own identity.“
Dune 3 will be based on Dune Messiah, which puts more of a focus on conspiracy and political maneuvering. Although it continues the story set up in the first two Dune movies, it is a different beast. Villeneuve was able to accomplish something remarkable with the Dune movies, so I’m eager to witness the next stage of this story. It does sound as though Dune Messiah will be the director’s last journey to Arrakis, but he added that he’s more than fine with another director (or directors) continuing the saga.
“Listen, if ‘Dune: Messiah’ happens, it will have been many years for me on Arrakis, and I would love to do something else,” he said. “I think that it would be a good idea for me to make sure that, in ‘Messiah,’ there are the seeds in the project if someone wants to do something else afterwards, because they are beautiful books. They are more difficult to adapt. They become more and more esoteric. It’s a bit more tricky to adapt, but I’m not closing the door. I will not do it myself, but it could happen with someone else.“
While we patiently await Dune Messiah, we do have another Dune project to look forward to with Dune: Prophecy. The six-episode series will be set “10,000 years prior to the events of Dune and follows the Harkonnen Sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.” It will be “told through the eyes of a mysterious order of women known as the Bene Gesserit. Given extraordinary abilities by their mastery of the body and the mind, the Bene Gesserit expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their own that will ultimately lead them to the enigmatic planet Arrakis, known to its inhabitants as Dune.“
The series stars Emily Watson as Valya Harkonnen, leader of the sisterhood, Olivia Williams as Tula Harkonnen, Valya’s sister, Jodhi May as Empress Natalya, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina as Princess Ynez, Shalom Brune-Franklin as Mikaela, Faoileann Cunningham as Sister Jen, Aoife Hinds as Sister Emeline, Chloe Lea as Lila, Travis Fimmel as Desmond Hart, Mark Strong as Emperor Javicco Corrino, Jade Anouka as Sister Theodosia, and Chris Manson as Keiran Atreides. Dune: Prophecy will debut on Max and HBO in November 2024.
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Curb your enthusiasm, but Larry David is hitting the road, announcing a 10-date tour titled, simply enough, “A Conversation with Larry David”. We can safely assume that Elmo will not be his opening act…
In an indifferent Instagram post, Larry David gave it about as much energy as you’d expect, giving the option for his fans to come see him live or not. “So listen, there are some tickets going on sale for this thing I’m doing. It’s really nothing, it’ll be a total waste of your time. There’s not that many things to do at night, so I guess if you have nothing to do…But, you could consider bowling, it’s not a terrible idea. I haven’t done it in 15 years but now that I mention it, I think I might hit the lanes soon…” He concluded his promotion with, “If you wanna go, you go. If you don’t, you don’t. Not a big deal either way.”
Those who do see it as a big deal can snag tickets on the tour’s official website when they go up for presale on Thursday, September 12th (with general hitting the web the following day). Here are the tour dates for “A Conversation with Larry David”:
Sept. 20 – Denver, Colorado – Paramount Theatre
Oct. 4 – Seattle, Washington. – Benaroya Hall
Oct. 14 – San Francisco, California – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Oct. 22 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark
Oct. 24 – Atlanta, Georgia – Fox Theatre
Nov. 8 – Chicago, Illinois – The Chicago Theatre
Nov. 21 – Portland, Oregon – Theater of the Clouds
Nov. 22 – Phoenix, Arizona – Arizona Financial Theatre
Dec. 4 – Austin, Texas – Bass Concert Hall
Dec. 5 – Hollywood, Florida – Hard Rock Live
This tour announcement is a huge moment for fans of Larry David, as we all know he would probably just rather stay at home and away from crowds now that Curb Your Enthusiasm has ended. But if that’s not enough for the curious, each of the 10 shows will feature a mystery moderator. The only one who has been announced prior to the tour is Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning, who will kick it off in Denver.
Larry David’s tour does seem prettaaayyy prettaaayyy prettaayy good, so I might find myself getting a ticket for the closest show.
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