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In this week’s Screen Gab, we recommend a doc about the man behind the Polaroid camera, a hilarious British competition series and Season 2 of ‘Love Island USA.’
Ana de Armas takes center stage in a John Wick prequel about a dancing orphan’s quest for vengeance. The plot flails, but the creative carnage gets an ovation.
Stephen King and Mike Flanagan (“Doctor Sleep”) are back for a mystical, ambitious tale with a dying (and dancing) Tom Hiddleston and a third act that needs CPR.
New horror whiz kids Danny and Michael Philippou follow up their A24 success “Talk to Me” with another dynamic and brutal take on grief — they throw a great wake.
Benicio del Toro is marvelous in Anderson’s fast-talking, star-studded comic caper about a 1950s tycoon whose moral balance sheet doesn’t quite add up.
Our expectations were set sky high and still we left with an even 10 titles that floored us, including new work from Lynne Ramsay, Jafar Panahi and Nadav Lapid.
Kristen Stewart’s directing debut got the cold shoulder while Mubi, the distributor behind ‘The Substance,’ ponied up for ‘Die, My Love,’ starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
On the Croisette, Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ with Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal and a strong directing debut by ‘Babygirl’ star Harris Dickinson grab attention.
The season looks strong, loaded with the kind of big Hollywood swings, smart indie alternatives and a fair amount of delicious-looking dumb, necessary in every summer diet.
Underwater and high in the sky, Tom Cruise’s stunts are fantastic, but Cannes we get past the running exposition? A rapturous French premiere says that mission is quite possible.
