New Trailers! Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, The Testament of Ann Lee & The Wrecking Crew

Let’s face it, the longer term seems fairly grim. Worse but, it feels type of hopeless. It’s exhausting to not suppose there’s in all probability nothing we will do that would truly change the quick end result. So why hassle, proper? Well, earlier than all of us begin screaming into the void and ready for our inevitable doom, know this: there’s a hero on the market who’s come from the longer term to scare us straight. He’s not taking no for a solution, and he ensures there’s nonetheless time to alter course earlier than it’s too late.

There’s only one teensy drawback: this would-be savior of ours seems like a stark-raving homeless man, and we’ve simply acquired to take his phrase for it. But hey, his message to us is fairly easy: Good Luck, Have Fun… and no matter you do, Don’t Die!

A matted, bearded Sam Rockwell stars on this offbeat sci-fi comedy, enjoying a person from the longer term who’s traveled again to the current to forestall an imminent AI takeover of the world. As he barges right into a late-night diner, he screams out a warning that ought to have each patron sitting up and paying consideration, by no means realizing that his first main impediment can be convincing anybody to imagine a phrase he’s saying — or, for that matter, getting individuals to even care.

Directed by visionary filmmaker Gore Verbinski (of the primary three Pirates of the Caribbean movies), Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die additionally stars Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple as a number of the few individuals prepared to take Rockwell’s mysterious time traveler critically — even when they’re not fully satisfied he’s telling the reality, or that saving the world is even attainable.

Penned by Love and Monsters scribe Matthew Robinson, the upcoming movie is coming off a well-received debut ultimately yr’s Fantastic Fest, incomes rave critiques from critics. And from the seems of this new trailer, it definitely appears poised to reside as much as the hype.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is about to open in theaters February thirteenth. So, get able to query whether or not the hopes of the longer term are actually resting within the arms of the final particular person you’d ever count on.

Looking to attempt one thing totally different on the motion pictures? Well, possibly you give this era musical a attempt, because it’s much less buttoned-up spectacle and extra sweat, grime, and uncooked emotion. That’s precisely the place The Testament of Ann Lee crops its flag as one of many buzziest titles this awards season—however it additionally feels distinctively unrefined, emotionally feral, and tired of enjoying by the same old prestige-drama guidelines.

Marking a daring pivot for Mona Fastvold, who steps totally behind the digicam after co-writing 2024’s Oscar-winning The Brutalist together with her husband and longtime collaborator Brady Corbet, this visually uncooked interval drama is impressed by the true story of Ann Lee, the 18th-century founding father of the Shaker motion.

The Shakers believed in communal residing, pacifism, and gender equality—all radical concepts that made them outsiders even in their very own time. They additionally believed in strict celibacy… which, unsurprisingly, turned one of many fundamental causes the motion steadily declined in numbers, regardless of the fervent devotion of its followers and the rising mystique surrounding Lee herself.

While incomes a number of the finest critiques of her profession, Amanda Seyfried takes on the function of Ann Lee, a forward-thinking, religious lady preaching equality and devotion in an period that was constructed to silence her. Since the movie’s standout premiere on the Venice Film Festival again in September, Oscar buzz has adopted shut behind, with critics praising Seyfried’s uncooked, unvarnished efficiency. She’s joined by a wonderful ensemble together with Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Stacy Martin, Christopher Abbott, and Tim Blake Nelson.

Featuring reimagined Shaker hymns with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall and an authentic rating from Oscar winner Daniel Blumberg, this unconventional musical goals to get to the center of Shaker worship—which concerned acts of ecstatic singing and trembling dances so intense they in the end impressed the sect’s famed “Shaker” title.

Oscar nominee Brady Corbet can also be on board as co-writer and co-producer alongside his spouse, however that is very a lot Fastvold’s imaginative and prescient: stripped-down, non secular, and quietly radical. Shot in placing 70mm with lengthy, large compositions, the movie is already being tipped as an early awards contender, with all eyes on Seyfried.

The Testament of Ann Lee is presently enjoying in choose theaters and is scheduled to open nationwide on January twenty third.

Have you heard good cop, unhealthy cop? Well, that is swole cop and even swoler cop.

Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista star as a pair of bickering detectives within the new Hawaii-set motion comedy The Wrecking Crew, the place muscle groups are large, tempers are quick, teamwork is non-compulsory… however the surroundings is postcard-perfect. Much like Lethal Weapon’s Riggs and Murtaugh, these two can’t assist however conflict at each flip, turning even the only investigation right into a testosterone-fueled battle of egos, property harm, and barely contained chaos.

Directed by Angel Manuel Soto, the filmmaker behind DC’s Blue Beetle, Momoa and Bautista play two estranged half-brothers compelled to hitch forces to analyze the mysterious loss of life of their father. Even although they’re each cops— with Momoa’s Jonny hailing from the mainland whereas Bautista’s James is an area Hawaii detective —these two couldn’t have extra totally different approaches to the job, the badge, or one another.

Jonny likes to work quick and unfastened, whereas James has a extra by-the-book, no-nonsense technique. And like oil and vinegar, they don’t combine effectively. But collectively, they handle to wreck nearly every thing of their path as they kick off a full-blown road conflict with the Yakuza, who’re muscling their manner into Hawaii’s prison underworld.

But guess what? The Yakuza can’t simply muscle their manner out of this one when these guys convey twice the muscle and 0 persistence. And to resolve their father’s loss of life, all of Hawaii is about to really feel the fallout.

Joining Momoa and Bautista within the solid are Barry’s Stephen Root as their perpetually annoyed police chief, Spider-Man’s Jacob Batalon, Deadpool’s Morena Baccarin, together with Claes Bang and Temuera Morrison rounding out the ensemble.

Penned by Banshee and Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper, The Wrecking Crew will stream solely on Prime Video starting Wednesday, January twenty eighth.

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