First published September 10th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.
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One of the best films of the year is the intimate and gently funny Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Emma Thompson gives...
Don’t spend hours scrolling the menus at Netflix, Prime Video, and other movie services. I point you to the best new films and hidden gems to stream.
Movies included here may be available on services other than those mentioned, and in other regions, too. JustWatch and Reelgood are great for finding which films are on what streamers; you can customize each site so that it shows you only those services you have access to.
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One of the best films of the year is the intimate and gently funny Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Emma Thompson gives...
- 10/11/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Horror fans are well catered to in this month’s slimmed-down selection of film premieres on Sky Cinema, with serial killer body-swap comedy Freaky, The Forever Purge, and Ben Wheatley’s pandemic weird-fest In the Earth. Joining those is the latest from Steven Soderbergh, whose Contagion enjoyed a surge of interest early on in the pandemic. His new feature is Kimi, a thriller starring Zoe Kravitz set during the time of Covid-19.
For half-term viewing with the kids off school, there’s Space Jam: A New Legacy and Dream Horse, as well as the many archive titles already available. Speaking of which, save Book of Love, there doesn’t seem to be a big Valentine’s night-in premiere this year, so perhaps look out one of our picks.
And here’s what else is coming to Sky Cinema in the UK this February.
Movie Premieres and Sky Originals
Freaky – 4th...
For half-term viewing with the kids off school, there’s Space Jam: A New Legacy and Dream Horse, as well as the many archive titles already available. Speaking of which, save Book of Love, there doesn’t seem to be a big Valentine’s night-in premiere this year, so perhaps look out one of our picks.
And here’s what else is coming to Sky Cinema in the UK this February.
Movie Premieres and Sky Originals
Freaky – 4th...
- 1/31/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Stars: Andrew Jessop, Dan Flannery, Alex Stein, Grace Melon, Charlie Lind | Written by Kevin Koppes | Directed by Tim Connery
Death to Metal tells us what we’re getting right from the start. In a black and white prologue, a trio of metalheads torments a little boy and graphicly pisses on his bible. This segues to a couple of rednecks dumping toxic waste into a creek and then to Father Kilborn (Andrew Jessop) railing against rock music in his sermon, something that gets him suspended from his duties by Father Brennan.
Elsewhere, Zane (Alex Stein) is having an equally bad day as he finds out he’s been replaced by both his band, Withered Christ, and his girlfriend. As he’s pouring his heart out to Mariah (Grace Melon), Father Kilborn is driving into the river, yes the one we saw at the film’s start.
Writer Kevin Koppes and director...
Death to Metal tells us what we’re getting right from the start. In a black and white prologue, a trio of metalheads torments a little boy and graphicly pisses on his bible. This segues to a couple of rednecks dumping toxic waste into a creek and then to Father Kilborn (Andrew Jessop) railing against rock music in his sermon, something that gets him suspended from his duties by Father Brennan.
Elsewhere, Zane (Alex Stein) is having an equally bad day as he finds out he’s been replaced by both his band, Withered Christ, and his girlfriend. As he’s pouring his heart out to Mariah (Grace Melon), Father Kilborn is driving into the river, yes the one we saw at the film’s start.
Writer Kevin Koppes and director...
- 12/14/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Inside a makeshift cafe set at Hong Kong’s luxurious Rosewood Hotel, local actor-producer Josie Ho sits across from British actor Julian Sands. Both are giving director Mike Figgis their full attention as he explains the scene that they are going to film.
What was said could not be heard from afar, despite the set being unusually quiet. Dolled up multi-racial extras and other crew members who were busy preparing the next shot whispered to each other. Everyone was patiently waiting for the director’s cue.
“I normally have a very quiet set,” Figgis (director of “Leaving Las Vegas” and “Internal Affairs”) told Variety on location with “Mother Tongue,” an arthouse mystery thriller that is among the latest efforts from 852 Films, a production company co-headed by Ho and husband Conroy Chan. “I asked for silence a lot. My whole technique is based on silence, based on talking quietly and intimately to actors.
What was said could not be heard from afar, despite the set being unusually quiet. Dolled up multi-racial extras and other crew members who were busy preparing the next shot whispered to each other. Everyone was patiently waiting for the director’s cue.
“I normally have a very quiet set,” Figgis (director of “Leaving Las Vegas” and “Internal Affairs”) told Variety on location with “Mother Tongue,” an arthouse mystery thriller that is among the latest efforts from 852 Films, a production company co-headed by Ho and husband Conroy Chan. “I asked for silence a lot. My whole technique is based on silence, based on talking quietly and intimately to actors.
- 4/28/2021
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Gwyneth Paltrow played patient zero in Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 viral thriller that, in some ways, foreshadowed aspects of life during the Covid-19 pandemic. But here’s a storyline nobody saw coming: Paltrow revealed in a Goop blog post that she battled coronavirus “early on” and it left her with “some long-tail fatigue and brain fog.”
Though there were rumblings that Paltrow held off on confirming her illness due to Contagion comparisons, she tells The Hollywood Reporter that’s not true. “I got it so early that there weren’t Covid tests available,” she told THR of the illness,...
Though there were rumblings that Paltrow held off on confirming her illness due to Contagion comparisons, she tells The Hollywood Reporter that’s not true. “I got it so early that there weren’t Covid tests available,” she told THR of the illness,...
- 3/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gwyneth Paltrow played patient zero in Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 viral thriller that, in some ways, foreshadowed aspects of life during the Covid-19 pandemic. But here’s a storyline nobody saw coming: Paltrow revealed in a Goop blog post that she battled coronavirus “early on” and it left her with “some long-tail fatigue and brain fog.”
Though there were rumblings that Paltrow held off on confirming her illness due to Contagion comparisons, she tells The Hollywood Reporter that’s not true. “I got it so early that there weren’t Covid tests available,” she told THR of the illness,...
Though there were rumblings that Paltrow held off on confirming her illness due to Contagion comparisons, she tells The Hollywood Reporter that’s not true. “I got it so early that there weren’t Covid tests available,” she told THR of the illness,...
- 3/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Glossy Hollywood thrillers should never be treated as a window into the real world, but Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion turned out to be unfortunately prescient in a number of respects. The star-studded ensemble piece was a decent sized hit at the box office when it first reached theaters, raking in over $136 million on a $50 million budget and garnering solid reviews in the process, but it found a whole new lease of life at the turn of this year.
Sales began to spike at the end of January as the Chinese city of Wuhan locked itself down to prevent a new strain of virus from spreading, but nobody could have predicted that eleven months later, the Coronavirus pandemic would have changed life as we knew it. Indeed, if Contagion was making people feel uneasy at the beginning of 2020, it was sending them into a full-blown panic by the time it became...
Sales began to spike at the end of January as the Chinese city of Wuhan locked itself down to prevent a new strain of virus from spreading, but nobody could have predicted that eleven months later, the Coronavirus pandemic would have changed life as we knew it. Indeed, if Contagion was making people feel uneasy at the beginning of 2020, it was sending them into a full-blown panic by the time it became...
- 12/29/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
Last week, the first episode of the brand-new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand premiered on CBS All Access, and to mark the occasion, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with one of the series’ co-creators, Benjamin Cavell. During our interview, Cavell discussed the decision to restructure the storytelling approach for this new nine-episode limited series event, and the challenges that came with taking on The Stand in the first place. Cavell also chatted about the involvement of Whoopi Goldberg for this iteration of The Stand, and why it was necessary to update not only her character, Mother Abagail, but also Tom Cullen as well, for modern audiences.
New episodes of The Stand (2020) debut every Thursday, exclusively on CBS All Access.
Great to speak with you today, Ben. With this series, you're coming into something so huge in terms of this world and these characters, and it's Stephen King,...
New episodes of The Stand (2020) debut every Thursday, exclusively on CBS All Access.
Great to speak with you today, Ben. With this series, you're coming into something so huge in terms of this world and these characters, and it's Stephen King,...
- 12/21/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Editor’s note: Michael Shamberg is a tenured film and TV producer whose credits include Contagion, Get Shorty, The Big Chill, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, Pulp Fiction, A Fish Called Wanda and many others.
With the Warner Bros announcement that all its 2021 films will premiere online at the same time as in theaters, it’s likely moviegoing is changed forever. The industry leader Disney, which has 40% of the U.S. box office, now calls movies in theaters a “legacy” medium, which really means before Netflix came along. But the tradition of “cinema” as an art form won’t survive if it isn’t updated to speak to the 140 million millennials and Gen Zers who are growing up watching movies on their cell phones, laptops and big-screen TVs.
I was one of the producers of Contagion, a realistic film about an imaginary global pandemic. Ironically, nine years after its release in theaters,...
With the Warner Bros announcement that all its 2021 films will premiere online at the same time as in theaters, it’s likely moviegoing is changed forever. The industry leader Disney, which has 40% of the U.S. box office, now calls movies in theaters a “legacy” medium, which really means before Netflix came along. But the tradition of “cinema” as an art form won’t survive if it isn’t updated to speak to the 140 million millennials and Gen Zers who are growing up watching movies on their cell phones, laptops and big-screen TVs.
I was one of the producers of Contagion, a realistic film about an imaginary global pandemic. Ironically, nine years after its release in theaters,...
- 12/8/2020
- by Michael Shamberg
- Deadline Film + TV
What usually follows an epidemic which is infinitely more terrifying than the disease itself is public panic and Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 movie Contagion has turned out to be a prophetic study amid the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
The Covid-19 continues to haunt worldwide communities and there’s a growing concern that the infectious virus is already spreading in different regions across the United States. 67 countries are currently fighting the disease and more than 88,000 cases have been confirmed. While the mortality rate remains low (approximately 3% of those infected), health officials warn that the spread could spiral out of control in the coming weeks.
Inevitably, some people are drawing parallels between the coronavirus outbreak and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, a movie with an eerily similar premise to what we’ve been witnessing in the past couple of weeks. Much like the director’s other credits, the film took advantage of...
The Covid-19 continues to haunt worldwide communities and there’s a growing concern that the infectious virus is already spreading in different regions across the United States. 67 countries are currently fighting the disease and more than 88,000 cases have been confirmed. While the mortality rate remains low (approximately 3% of those infected), health officials warn that the spread could spiral out of control in the coming weeks.
Inevitably, some people are drawing parallels between the coronavirus outbreak and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, a movie with an eerily similar premise to what we’ve been witnessing in the past couple of weeks. Much like the director’s other credits, the film took advantage of...
- 3/1/2020
- by Jonathan Wright
- We Got This Covered
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