Upcoming movies #2

Deeply anticipated

Dune: Part Two - Dune/Ferguson/Zendaya/Chalamet/Walken!??/Pugh/Feyd-Rautha - The presence of Dune lore is a powerful force in my life. It continues to colonize further and further on. I might start Dune Messiah. Seeing the Villeneuve slowness on a massive wall of cinema is going to work 

The Sweet East - Indie/Pinkerton/Simon Rex - It will be interesting to see what a Pinkerton script is like Hayat - Zeki - I suppose he'll dare discuss modern life? 

Indian 2 - Shankar/Kamal - I've never seen a Shankar film in the cinema. 2.0 is a big regret. I hope this comes out this year--and it better be 3 hours long 

Game Changer - Ram Charan/Shankar/Kiara Advani 

Juror No. 2 - Clint - I've been away from Clint for awhile; the courtroom is a great place to lay things to rest 

Anticipated

The Zone of Interest - Auschwitz - I didn't like Under the Skin, but I can't deny interest in someone who makes a film that way. And the premise of ordinary life at Auschwitz is hard to top 

Evil Does Not Exist - Hamaguchi - Can't believe Drive My Car was 2019--five years ago... 

The Practice - Rejtman - Is this part of me dead? No way. I'll get it back... 

Viduthalai: Part II - Vetri Maaran - I want to splat in the black hole 

Spaceman - Sandler - There's an overbearing critical distress to this one already. I'll stand by it though

Civil War - Modern life 

Thangalaan - Ranjith/Malavika Mohanan - Ranjith has bought infinite equity 

Megalopolis - Coppola - What is this about? 

Hit Man - Linklater/Arjona - Linklater has earned substantial grace. In the last decade: BH, EWS, and WYGB 

Somewhat anticipated
Challengers - Zendaya/Luca/Wimbledon 

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver - Snyder/Rebel Moon/Boutella - I liked the first one but it was mostly just a sketch. The look, though, is what people imagined modern cinema would be decades ago. Desperately awaiting Snyder's cut here 

Abigail - Barrera - I'm in the trash zone automatically if something includes Barrera and is horror

Borderlands - Roth - The source material is befuddling. But I believe in Roth 

Non-negligibly anticipated

Ballerina - ADA - I wonder what the Reaves role will be? Cameo or shepherd 

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 - Costner 

Pushpa 2: The Rule - Rashmika

Kalki 2898 AD - Deepika - Idk big budget Telugu

Edit: formatting 2024-05-16

Short Stories #2: Raymond Carver

I am done with Carver. It was another classic bait-and-switch. He excels at creating images and the broad strokes he takes is an interesting basis. But I can't reflect the words into anything as I'm reading. It's too bare. 

Really the only interesting thing I found was in the first story I read. As a child there is the particular psychology to lying to your parents that he nails--this boy manages to stay at home from school. I also observe that Carver has a strange fascination with fishing; tbh I can't quite absorb. 

What do the abrupt endings serve? I admit my frustration is more of a reflection of the product as a whole. It's notable, though, that when you give these words to a troop of great actors (as in Birdman) we end up with animation.

"Nobody said anything"

"The Student's wife"

"Little things"

"What we talk about when we talk about love"