A24 has released the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated upcoming film Zola, which premiered in the Before Times at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to significant buzz and largely positive reviews. The film is based on a series of tweets by a woman named A’Ziah King, which began with: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” This is exactly how the film begins, and what follows is an uproarious, surprising, thrilling and sharply funny journey chronicling an insane 48-hour …
If you’ve ever wondered what goes into converting a 2D-shot film into 3D, and what changes have to be made to the film to make it work in 3D, then you must read this recent Twitter thread from filmmaker David F. Sandberg. The director behind Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation took the helm of the DC movie Shazam! most recently, and in tackling a major blockbuster Sandberg was also presented with the need to convert his movie into 3D. As it turns out, the process requires more changes than you might think. 3D was all the rage after …
Zola is why I love movies. I love it when movies take me to places I would never go. This is what we expect from great storytelling, but when telling stories set in the real world, especially stories focused on people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, there’s a concern about using other people’s misery for our entertainment. Director and co-writer Janicza Bravo masterfully threads the needle by taking us on a wild journey through the underbelly of Tampa while never losing empathy for her imperiled characters. The film’s biggest failing that it may take …
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Courtship is a curious affair, but it’s never more peculiar than when shared between two psychopaths. Such is the set up for writer-director Nicolas Pesce’s unexpected The Eyes of My Mother followup, Piercing, which pits two misaligned misanthropes against each other in a seduction to the death. Christopher Abbott stars as Reed, a businessman with a loving family who just wants to kill somebody. He hovers above his baby’s crib, ice pick in hand, pondering the inconceivable when his doting wife (Laia Costa) unknowingly interjects and soothes him, at least for a second, until the baby …