Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed again. The open-world stealth game was set to arrive in February following its initial delay in September 2024, but now it won’t launch until March 20.
Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed again. The open-world stealth game was set to arrive in February following its initial delay in September 2024, but now it won’t launch until March 20.
People tend to have a sixth sense when they’re standinginside a building that they know is not very robust. And it’s a sense that is leaned upon more and more regularly in a world where fast and cheap is the order of the day when it comes to urban planning and construction. Victor Kossakovsky’s new, sensually-inclined documentary, Architecton, takes aim at the modern age’s fetish for all things concrete and its embrace of the ephemeral, but in a way that prefers to show rather than tell. His camera glides across the mighty edifices of stone monuments from the days of antiquity, still standing after centuries of wear and tear. These images are juxtaposed with concrete monstrosities that tumble like matchstick sculptures at the lightest bruising from the wrecking ball (or, more pertinently, long range enemy missiles).
The Italian architect Michele De Lucchi is on hand to expound on theories for such widespread architectural degradation as he ignores the driving rain to build a stone folly in his back garden. The film’s thesis is often a little obvious, yearning for a return to a brand of architecture whose half-life isn’t so slim, but ignoring the arduous and exploitative construction methods that were used to produce those grandiose structures of yore. Yet there’s much ASMR pleasure to be gleaned from the ambient long shots of machinery layering up long, perfect lines of concrete for some upcoming blight on the landscape.
ANTICIPATION.
We had a good time with Kossakovsky’s 2020 piggy-themed doc, Gunda.
4
ENJOYMENT.
A little bit of screensaver energy to the visuals, but taps into the short-order nature of modern construction.
3
IN RETROSPECT.
By the end of the film, its whole thesis feels a tad underwhelming.
3
Directed by
Victor Kossakovsky
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Ten years ago, writer/director Jason Krawczyk brought the world the horror comedy He Never Died, which introduced viewers to a badass immortal character named Jack (played by Henry Rollins), who had been around for thousands of years. The follow-ups planned for that film haven’t made it into production, but now, Krawczyk is back with the action comedy Don’t Mess with Grandma (which was filmed under the title Sunset Superman), starring Michael Jai White. I had the chance to watch the movie several months ago and had a lot of fun with it (you can read my 8/10 review at THIS LINK), and a larger audience will have the opportunity to enjoy it when it reaches the free streaming service Tubi on January 24th!
Don’t Mess with Grandma shows us what happens when a drunk Army ranger must fight off the vicious robbers who plan to loot the cabin belonging to his sweet, oblivious grandmother. This is a project that grew out of Krawczyk’s frustration over the He Never Died franchise he envisioned not gaining traction. To deal with that heartbreak, he decided to make a movie that would allow him and other viewers to watch Michael Jai White punch as many people as possible in 80 minutes. The result is quite entertaining.
Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite) is joined in the cast by Jackie Richardson (Miracle in Motor City), Billy Zane (Dead Calm), Miles Faber (The Christmas Dance), Ess Hödlmoser (Motherland: Fort Salem), Rebecca Auerbach (Riley Rocket), Evan Stern (The Void), Emily Alatalo (Workin’ Moms), Brandon Knox (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), Darryl Scheelar (Peacemaker), and Rob O’Dwyer (Empire of Sin).
Justin Kelly and Katisha Shaw produced Don’t Mess with Grandma, with Krawczyk serving as an executive producer alongside J.C. Davidson, Ben Farella, Mark Gingras, Matthew Helderman, Thomas Mann, and Luke Taylor. Tig Fong, Wil Andrews, Cheyenne Byng, Alex Champagne, and Ross Clyde were co-producers.
Are you interested in Don’t Mess with Grandma, and will you be watching this Michael Jai White action comedy when it reaches the Tubi streaming service later this month? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Some friendships are precious and can stand the test of time. In director Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and the circumstances of life separated them. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
We enjoyed speaking with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore about their roles and how real life informed their performances. The Room Next Door’s story goes to intimate and powerful places, asking audiences to contemplate death and how they’ll meet it. Who will hold your hand when the lights dim? What will you say before your last breath?
Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, The Room Next Door is a highly anticipated title going into this year’s fall festival season, with the film set to screen at Venice, Toronto, and as the Centerpiece selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival. This release marks Almodóvar’s 15th New York Film Festival selection and 9th gala presentation, having premiered numerous Sony Pictures Classics titles there since 1988, including Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Bad Education, Volver, Talk to Her, Pain and Glory and Parallel Mothers, among others.
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While we wait to see whether or not Warner Bros. is going to give Lethal Weapon franchise star Mel Gibson the chance to direct Lethal Weapon 5, Lionsgate is preparing to give the Gibson-directed action thriller Flight Risk a theatrical release on January 24th – and with that date right around the corner, we have gotten our hands on a batch of EXCLUSIVE behind the scenes images, which you can check out at the bottom of this article. Lionsgate has also unveiled a featurette, and you can watch that in the embed above.
Scripted by Jared Rosenberg, Flight Risk has the following synopsis: In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg (Actor in a Supporting Role, 2006 – The Departed) plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
Gibson produced the film alongside John Davis, John Fox, and Bruce Davey, with Alex Lebovici, Jenny Hinkey, Ryan D. Smith, Natasha Stassen, Allen Cheney, Christopher Woodrow, K. Blaine Johnston, Christian Mercuri, Petr Jákl, Vicki Christianson, Nick Guerra, Russell Hollander, Jon Huddle, Patrick Josten, Walter Josten, and Jordan Wagner serving as executive producers. The film is coming our way from Lionsgate, in association with Media Capital Technologies / Hammerstone Studios. It’s an Icon production and a Davis Entertainment Company production.
This one looks like a good time to me, so I will definitely be taking the first opportunity to watch it. Here’s hoping Flight Risk will be received well enough that Gibson will be given the greenlight to make Lethal Weapon 5. He has said, “I’m going to direct the fifth film in the Lethal Weapon series. You know, Richard Donner, who did the other four, sadly passed away. He was a good friend, and he kind of tasked me with carrying the flag home on that one. It’ll be an honor for me to do that. He [Richard Donner] had gotten a fair way into the screenplay, so we’ve used what was there, and we kept poking at it, working at it a little. I’m pretty happy with it, it’s good, I had a lot of fun doing it.“
Are you looking forward to Flight Risk, and will you be catching the movie on the big screen later this month? Take a look at the exclusive behind-the-scenes images below, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
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We’ll probably never get a true sequel to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or experience just how it and its predecessor would have connected up with the original Deus Ex, released all the way back in 2000. But there was a plan to wrap things up and connect all the dots, and it sounds like it would have been pretty dang cool.
We’ll probably never get a true sequel to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or experience just how it and its predecessor would have connected up with the original Deus Ex, released all the way back in 2000. But there was a plan to wrap things up and connect all the dots, and it sounds like it would have been pretty dang cool.
28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have finally reunited to make a sequel to their zombie movie classic. As we reported earlier last year, this sequel, which is set up at Sony, is going to be called 28 Years Later – and it’s meant to launch a whole trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. The theatrical release date is June 20… and it has been said that 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy returns for this film “in a surprising way.”
As the trailer dropped, there was a quick shot of an emaciated zombie that caused many viewers to double-take. Commenters online wondered if Cillian Murphy would have some sort of surprising appearance as an infected person. A debate began online on whether that infected person in that quick clip was actually Murphy. Empire Magazine has now revealed a new look at 28 Years Later with their cover featuring a good look at the field zombie. Empire posted on their social media, “The rage has only just begun. Danny Boyle is back with #28YearsLater – unleashing a new era of the flesh-eating saga. Empire enters the apocalypse with Boyle, Alex Garland, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and more. On sale Thurs 16 January.”
The cast of 28 Years Later also includes Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), and Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). In the original film, Murphy played bicycle courier Jim, who wakes up from a coma to find himself in an apocalyptic England that’s overrun by people who have been infected by a rage virus.
Garland also wrote the screenplay for the sequel that will come after 28 Years Later. Of the two 28 Years Later projects currently in the works, Boyle only planned to direct the first one. For the second film, he has passed the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta – and that sequel, titled 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple, has already wrapped production.
When 28 Years Later came up during an interview with IndieWire, Fiennes decided to go ahead and tell us all about it: “Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities. And it centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother. He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain. But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good.“
Thanks to their deal with Sony, each of these new films will be receiving a theatrical release and will have budgets in the $60 million range. 28 Years Later has a budget of $75 million.
Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, original producer Andrew Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the head of Fox Searchlight Pictures when that company backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is executive producing.
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Marvel Rivals’ Fantastic Four-centric season officially begins tomorrow, January 10. However, some streamers and content creators have early access to the new heroes and maps, so breakdowns of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman’s kits, as well as footage of the upcoming New York-based maps, are already out there.…