The Movies To Catch This Winter
Tenet
July 30th
Ready for more Christopher Nolan mind bender faff? Tenet is for you.
It’s a thriller espionage film where BlacKkKlansman’s John David Washington must deal with time shenanigans that are threatening to kick off World War III. But not time travel in a way you’ve ever seen it before.
Nolan is doing his best to push the boat out in terms of the audiences understanding of the spy genre. “It’s a film of great ambition and great scale that takes a genre, namely the spy film, and tries to take it into some new territory, and tries to take the audience on a ride they might not have had before, and might not be expecting.”
Don’t expect to get all the answers explicitly after finishing the film. This is going to be one fans are going to be arguing about for years. It has the gritty action of Dark Knight and the grand overtones of Dunkirk. This is a must see!
Bill & Ted Face The Music
Aug 27th
While their affectations haven’t changed one bit since 1991, their circumstances have. Bill and Ted are down on their luck dads whose aspirations of a killer band and world peace haven’t worked out the way the future initially portrayed. This movie isn’t about thinking too much. Maybe that’s exactly what we need right now.
The New Mutants
Aug 27th
It’s a miracle this movie is releasing at all. After numerous pushbacks, Fox/Disney Mergers, a death of the X-Men franchise after Dark Pheonix, and Covid, The New Mutants is FINALLY coming out. Shot in the same institute as the one from Shutter Island, The New Mutants follows exactly that, a new group in an X-Men movie which has distinct horror vibes, tainted somewhat by Young Adult undertones.
Gladiator Sequels That Never Made It
The Ridley Scott epic, Gladiator resurrected the swords and sandals genre for a good couple years, but up until now, it has failed to resurrect itself.
In fairness, Russel Crowe’s Maximus had a bad case of getting stabbed to death at the end, but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood writers from rubbing their hands at the thought of wringing some more money out of the name.
The Godfather of Gladiator
On the DVD, Executive producer, Walter Parkes suggested a “multi-generational drama about Maximus and the Aureleans and this chapter of Rome” as a followup, a bit like The Godfather Part II.
Lucious
This version centers on a scandal of Lucious, that little kid from the film, actually being the lovechild of Maximus and Lucilla. This take on Gladiator would be more intrigue and corruption than chariots with wicked cool swords on the wheels.
Nick Cave’s Immortal
In 2009, a script by Nick Cave surfaced online which saw Maximus getting reincarnated throughout the ages to fight the good fight in WWII and Vietnam before getting a deskjob at the Pentagon. Because it’s not his wife he always wanted to get back to, it was a decent healthplan he was after.
Actually Happening?
Earlier this year, a sequel actually got confirmed. Parkes confirmed “We’re working with Ridley Scott, that’s one we wouldn’t touch unless we felt in a way to do it was legitimate. We’re working with an amazing writer as well, Peter Craig. It picks up the story 30 years later… 25 years later.”
The storyline is reportedly going back to the original idea of following a grown up Lucious, long after the events of the first film.
