Jim Jarmusch crafts an undeadpan comedy of apocalyptic proportions with The Dead Don’t Die, a Night of the Living Dead riff played for bleak satire. While Moss doesn’t hold back in depicting Becky’s ugliness, she taps into the underlying hurt and vulnerability fueling her firestorm heart, peaking with a heart-rending single-take piano rendition of Bryan Adams’ “Heaven.” There’s a vicarious thrill to watching this rocker spiral into the abyss, and then pull herself back out. Split into five chapters that are interlaced with flashback home videos of happier early times, Perry’s tale traces Becky’s journey from apocalyptic drugged-out collapse to cautious resurrection, his handheld camera exactingly attuned to his protagonist’s scattershot headspace. A mid-‘90s Courtney Love type who resides in the center of a tornado of her own making, Moss’ Becky Something leaves only chaos in her wake, much to the chagrin of her bandmates (Agyness Deyn and Gayle Rankin), ex (Dan Stevens), young daughter (Daisy Pugh-Weiss), mother (Virginia Madsen), collaborators/rivals (including Amber Heard and Cara Delevingne) and heroically loyal manager (Eric Stoltz). Everyone's a suspect - Ransom (Chris Evans), Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), Joni (Toni Collette), Morris (Don Johnson), Walt (Michael Shannon), Meg (Katherine Langford), Jacob (Jaeden Martell), and Donna (Riki Lindhome) - and no one is safe from the hot seat of interrogation.Elisabeth Moss gets her riot-grrrl on in Her Smell, delivering a tour-de-force performance of rampant egomania and self-destruction that galvanizes Alex Ross Perry’s film. Enter Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who arrives at Thrombey's mansion and begins investigating his death, which he believes was a murder carried out by his own flesh and blood. surrounded by members of his highly dysfunctional family whom he hoped would finally get along at the celebration. Described as a "whodunnit like no one has ever dunnit," Knives Out zeroes in on the mysterious death of well-off crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), who died during his 85th birthday party. Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson will show us a new side of himself with Knives Out, an eccentric murder mystery that features a cast so bright, you'd be wise to wear sunglasses while reading the roster. Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker Taika Waititi, Jurassic World star Bryce Dallas Howard, Dope helmer Rick Famuyiwa, and Jessica Jones director Deborah Chow will all get behind the camera and make some Star Wars magic with The Mandalorian. However, Disney and Lucasfilm did confirm a sterling slate of stars who are attached to direct an episode of the new series. The Favreau-penned series actually takes place after Boba and his "father" Jango's prime, "after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order," when a new so-called "warrior" steps into the spotlight. That warrior-gunfighter, the eponymous Mandalorian, is played by Game of Thrones favorite Pedro Pascal.īeyond the details Favreau offered when the project was first announced, not much is known about the plot and the characters of The Mandalorian. Though one could easily assume that, due to its title and its gun-toting central character, The Mandalorian will follow the badass bounty hunter Boba Fett, they would be sorely mistaken.
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