New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June
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Clockwise, from top: Da 5 Bloods (Photo: David Lee/Netflix), The King Of Staten Island (Photo: Mary Cybulski/Universal Pictures), Becky (Photo: Keri Anderson) Graphic: Natalie Peeples
Normally, The A.V. Club uses this space to preview all the major films coming to a theater near you. But with the world in the grips of a pandemic, nothing’s coming to a theater near you; theaters have closed their doors, and studios have pushed back their releases. So for the time being, we’ll instead be previewing movies going straight to VOD and streaming services. We’ll also note the films that definitely won’t be, as they’ve been officially postponed. These days, we’re all watching movies at home. Consider this now a source of the new releases coming to a living room near you.
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I would complain about the slideshow format once again, but I clicked on and read the damn article (on my work PC with the window reduced to tablet size), so I guess I might be a hypocrite.A few thoughts: —I’d like to call Pontypool underrated, but I think it actually might be exactly rated. It’s an interesting premise and competent performances, but the execution reads as “radio play adapted as movie”. It’s a good watch, but don’t expect to get blown away.—Man, I hate waiting for Candyman, but at least the current possible release date puts it close to both Halloween and my birthday.
After my friends and a few horror movie blogs gushed about it, Pontypool ended up feeling overrated for me, but your take on it is very accurate. It’s a perfectly fine flick, but it feels a bit like a pretty cool horror anthology episode that was stretched out with some padding to fit the running time required for a feature length movie.
I agree with you about Pontypool. 2 random things though make me like it more:1. My cottage is really close to the real Pontypool village2. I was living overseas when the movie came out and went to this pub quiz for Halloween, where one of the questions showed stills from horror movies and had you name which horror movies were shown. One was from Pontypool which i knew and the guy running the packed bar couldn’t believe someone got it. Still my finest trivia moment to this day 🙂
I can’t believe I may want to see a movie featuring Pete Davidson, but I suppose these are strange times.And I too feel guilt over clicking through one of these fucking slideshows.
Any German speakers here who can give us any idea of how natural Joseph Gordon-Levitt sounds speaking the language? Based on his “French” accent in The Walk, I don’t have high hopes for him here, but maybe he just naturally gives off a more Teutonic vibe.
From what I heard of Gordon-Levitt in the trailers for The Walk, he sounded EXACTLY like the real person he was playing, who basically talked like Pepe Le Pew. I suspect the problem wasn’t that JGL did a bad job imitating Philippe Petit, it’s that he did it too well. He went Full Frenchman.
First off – FUCK SLIDE SHOWSSecond, Are those really Pete Davidson tattoos? Wow those are really really shitty.
Those are apparently his real tattoos. I like tattoos, but I’m not a fan of the hodge-podge style he’s got going on.
Personally I am not a big fan of tattoos because so many of them are that hodge-podge design. I have a feeling more then half of his(maybe all) were done when he was not sober and people do stupid shit when drunk or high
Seriously! I’m so over GMO trying to “make ‘fetch’ happen” with bringing back slideshows to increase perceived clicks. Didn’t we drum slideshows off the internet back in like 1998 or 2005?
Old man yelling at clouds here, but in my opinion most tattoos are… Poor. They’re less paint on a canvas and more graffiti on a temple’s walls. Very few tattoos make me reconsider, and none of them are on Pete Davidson.
Came here to say fuck slide shows.
Jon Stewart should have maybe googled Irrestible before recycling that title.
Hey, speaking of new movies – did anyone catch the one about the guy who really likes this slide show format? No? Me neither.
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ve noticed that everyone hates slideshows, and they’ll be replacing the format soon.They’ll be replacing them with auto-playing videos (that reset to full volume every time).But to reach the auto-playing videos, you will first have to click through a splash page.
this slideshow is whiter than Whole Foods in a snowstorm.1 black movie? Black Lives may matter to AVC on their IG-profiles, but I guess Black Movies don’t?
FUCK THE SLIDESHOWS THANK YOU!Also, I am not at all in the Nicholas Sparks/Teens Dying Romance demographic, but I am very solidly in the Ben Mendelsohn/Essie Davis demographic. So kind of think I’ll put up with the stupid teen shit to see that pairing.
Essie was amazing in The Babadook. The movie is dark AF, but it’s one of my all-time favorites
I just read the title and came straight to the comments. I can’t imagine how long it would take me to find the “page”/movie any given commenter is referencing. I guess searching for all of them would gin up a ton of clicks though.
Da 5 Bloods looks really good, and I’m just learning about it. Hoping it lives up to the trailer.
I would like someone to paste me a list of the movies from the slide show as I skipped through to come and see if one is here. Maybe I will have to go to my phone since fortunately the format doesnt come up on the mobile. I know it doesn’t mean anything, and my complaints here wont change the corporate roll-out of our slideshow dystopia. I just refuse to read through on that format out of stubbornness and implore everyone to do the same… minus the person who will read through and list the movies featured!
A contrary opinion: this terror of seeming ‘self-important’ is exactly the problem with most American political comedies (oh, heavens forfend that politics should be portrayed as serious business!). Because they don’t want to seem self-important, they soft-focus the politics into a reassuring, morally upright blur, and lack teeth. [and it’s difficult to do the American comedic character style – inoffensive, larger than life, confident – alongside soft-focus politics]
If you watch British political comedies like – decades apart in time and style – Yes (Prime) Minister or The Thick of It (or indeed HIGNFY in its classic era, or Brass Eye, or…), they take themselves extremely seriously (sometimes, at least): they deal with serious topics, they have largely realistic (and petty, and bitter, and inadequate) characters, and they have serious intentions to at the very least expose political reality and ideally improve it (both YM and TTOI took many of their plots from actual events leaked by government sources). Because they take it seriously, they cut much closer to the bone, and hence are funnier, as well as politically more powerful.EDIT: as another example, I just saw again (thanks, National Theatre and Youtube!) “This House”, a funny and moving play that works by taking parliamentay procedure in Westminster in the 1970s as a matter of life and death (which at times it was).
Nothing is more upsetting on this list than that abortion of the Artemis Fowl books. Hope that shit bombs.