Film: Fall Arts Preview 2024
metroweekly.comRed One.They’re hoping to keep the box office humming with Oscar bets and big stars: Tom Hanks re-teaming with Gump guide Robert Zemeckis for Here, Denzel Washington brushing off his period English in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga terrorizing Gotham in Joker: Folie à Deux.Big names aren’t the only draw, as big-time sensuality seeps through so many offerings this year.
Erstwhile secret agent Daniel Craig leads the sexy charge this fall as a writer undone by his attraction to a younger man in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy Queer.
And Nicole Kidman is a CEO who can’t keep her hands off intern Harris Dickinson in Babygirl.Where stars and skin don’t do the trick, there’s always depth and originality to draw us to the movie theater, which we hope to find in the aforementioned films, and intriguing entries like Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, the lyrical drama Nickel Boys from RaMell Ross, and Robert Eggers’ reimagining of the vampire chiller Nosferatu.
We may be a divided nation, but can’t we all agree that there’s always room for more good vampire movies?Never Let Go — Horror-meister Alexandre Aja (Crawl) directs Halle Berry as a rugged mom in Bird Box mode shepherding her two boys alone after the end of the world.
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