It feels like we'd never reach this point, but we finally have a poster for Lionsgate's Chaos Walking. It's been more than three years since filming on Chaos Walking began, with a relatively standard production process extending into years of additional work — primarily reshoots — so Patrick Ness's science fiction novel The Knife of Never Letting Go could finally come to the big screen. Chaos Walking is directed by Doug Liman and stars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. (Both actors filmed the movie pre-Spider-Man: Far from Home and pre-Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, …
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Emma Roberts is a young woman trapped in a deceptively beautiful cage in director Alice Waddington's upcoming film Paradise Hills. The trailer for Roberts' upcoming film arrived this week. Paradise Hills goes big on the visuals, promising to take viewers into a dystopian world unlike they've never seen before — and probably won't want to leave. But alas, this is a dark sci-fi tale, as the trailer quickly reveals. The trailer sticks closely to the film's protagonist, Uma (Roberts). It opens with Uma waking up in a room painted to mimic the outdoors. Unsure of how …
If Paradise Hills put half the effort into its story that it does into costumes and production design, it would be a decent sci-fi film. Instead, Alice Waddington’s movie is content to crib from The Prisoner, The Stepford Wives, and The Hunger Games without bothering to understand or engage with the subtext of those stories. Paradise Hills wants to create a disturbing dystopia, but without any sense of danger or fear. Instead, it relies on weak twists that range from dull to laughably nonsensical. At some point in the future or in an alternate reality (it’s never …