This November serves up Eternals, Ghostbusters, and Paul Thomas Anderson
Plus: Spencer, King Richard, and a new Resident Evil movie, all before Thanksgiving
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Clockwise from top left: Eternals ((Photo: Marvel/Disney); C’mon C’mon (Photo: A24); Spencer (Photo: Neon); House Of Gucci (Photo: MGM); Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Photo: Sony Pictures); King Richard (Photo: Warner Bros.) Graphic: Natalie Peeples
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. Will Smith as Richard Williams. A bunch of famous actors, some in elaborate prosthetics, as the Gucci family. This November is filthy with famous people playing famous people—a hallmark of any awards season, of course. It’s also plenty heavy on less explicitly biographical Oscar fare, including new movies from Jane Campion, Mike Mills, and Paul Thomas Anderson. More of a blockbuster fan? Hollywood’s got you covered with more Marvel, more Ghostbusters, and more Resident Evil. Keep reading to find out everything that’s coming to theaters and a living room near you in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.
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I can’t be bothered to click through all the slides. The new PT Anderson movie is Clifford, right?
It’s a companion of sorts to Boogie Nights. Clifford has to deal with the craziness of the 80s porn scene and the pressure that comes with getting top billing as “Clifford the Big Red Dick”.
I can’t be bothered to click through all the slides.
You’d think they’d give it up by now considering most engagement on slides these days is “f**k slides.”
Yeah, it’s a sequel with the same name to the Martin Short “Clifford” movie but this time Clifford has grown up and is in the Charles Grodin role.
Fun fact: Martin Short referred to Paul Thomas Anderson exclusively as “my friend Maya’s husband” for the entire shoot.
Close – Paul Thomas Anderson is directing the new Resident Evil movie.
This is a bit off-topic, but the link to that review of “Aferim!” and recently reading about Frank Herbert’s inspiration via 19th century conflict in the Caucusus* got me thinking again: are there any good films about the expansion of Tsarist Russia? The “Osterns” I’m aware of take place during/after the Russian revolution & civil war, after the heyday of American westerns.
* https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/
Man, I hope the new PTA isn’t as normal as it looks. All bets are still off, as what appeared to be a high-brow period piece in Phantom Thread very suddenly turned into some kind of emetofeliac kink-fest by the end.
I remain skeptical that Belfast is a huge Best Picture frontrunner. It’ll get nominated for sure, but it seems like the buzz comes from what people expect a BP frontrunner to look like than anything else.
I know people are like whatever, but I am really excited for eternals to flop. I hope it does dogshit numbers and is the chink in the armor of these superhero movies being the forefront of culture. I dont think that they need to go away totally but hopefully they become a James bond style thing rather than the constant emphasis on their importance and significance and how marvel is the new greek cannon or whatever. I would love for something new, or if we are going to have a return to a an older style of filmmaking lets just got back to 2007 that year rocked for movies’.
If there’s anything we really need from the tightly-contested, landscape-altering election of 2020, it’s a documentary about the guy who finished 87th
It was hard keeping track of the crowded field of Dem nominees – I didn’t even know that Clifford ran!
I’m interested in reading the review of the new Ghostbusters. I have no interest in seeing it, but I’m curious to hear how it turned out.
Same, very much not going out of my way to see it. But interested in the reviews and discourse.
Annndddd… One again, AppleTV+ affirms that it’s “Dad TV”, buying another Tom Hanks slow-moving “action” film that’s really a character piece with a few mild action scenes.
Season 3 of TED LASSO has Tom Hanks show up as a retired American Tech Billionaire who, inspired by his daughter’s love of soccer, looks to hire away some of AFC Richmond’s players to start The American Global Football League. Most of the season consists of him and Jason Sudeikis being incredibly decent and engaging to each other….
DadTV is for those iPhone users who will never NEVER get off the couch to try Android.
Lots of documentaries and docudramas, a Clifford the Big Red Dog movie with a generic IP adaptation supervillain (who thankfully we don’t see at all in the trailer, which is kind of adorable — but we do see John Cleese which is…problematic these days), a Sir Chuckles Branagh Oscar-Bait movie, an EggsBenedict EnglishMuffin Oscar-Bait movie complete with dodgy American accent, a Sandra Bullock Oscar-Bait movie, a HOME ALONE reboot with a British kid so unappealing you’d rather see present-day Macauley Culkin take the part (to say nothing of WTF are all those Americans doing in London, anyway?)…and the surprisingly-somber GHOSTBUSTER reboot.
I could have sworn that Tom Hanks cutesy apocalypse movie came and went already and was just completely disregarded. I guess we have to wait another month for it to come and go and be completely disregarded.