"Artificial," the Luca Guadagnino drama about the few days when Sam Altman was ousted from OpenAI, has found distribution after being dropped by Amazon MGM. The nearly finished film was apparently insufficiently sympathetic to Altman, whose company recently entered a strategic partnership with Amazon. NEON has now picked up the movie, which stars Andrew Garfield as the antihero, and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. Here's @AVClub's take.

https://www.avclub.com/neon-might-release-artificial-amazon-mgm-luca-guadagnino

#Movies #Amazon #SamAltman

The host Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) is a bit obnoxious, a bit dismissive and seemingly uninterested in the topic of this visibly surface-level documentary about grimdark.

It doesn’t help that two of the producers of the movie, Eric Michael Robertson and Cody Taylor are founders of Buer Games which produces a game that is heavily featured in the movie without being disclosed.

It was really cool to see all the models and art featured in the movie. Grimdark looks very cool and I will need to explore more, I wish this movie went deeper.

The interview with John Blanche was intriguing.

Rated 3 out of 10.

Streamed on Tubi.

#movies #grimdark #art #documentary #warhammer #warhammer40k

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A human standing in front of a statue of a Warhammer 40k space marine

The convenience of streaming is never worth it. Buy physical media — which usually comes with a code for a streaming version too.

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013

#movies #dvd #bluray #4kbluray #streaming

"At least he's not a book burner you nazi cow." - Annie Kinsella as played by Amy Madigan in the film "Field of Dreams" based on the novel "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella.

#pn_film #Movies

Today's movie was Supergirl (2026). I'm not sure why there's so much hate for this movie, I really enjoyed it -- it's nice to see a Kryptonian that is not all about hope and is not perfect, yet is still good.

Strangely the movie's main character arc really doesn't belong to Supergirl.

This movie differentiates Superman from Supergirl: Whereas Superman is Hope, Supergirl is Cynicism.

Rated 7 out of 10.

My full review is here: https://ultramookie.com/movies/supergirl/

#movies #supergirl #superman #dc

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Milly Alcock dressed as Supergirl with sunglasses on in front of the Kryptonian Hope symbol.

A BBC story about the Teochew movie I posted about recently.

Teochew is my mother tongue and I hate that I have rarely / never been able to listen to or watch media in it, because of Mandarin hegemony everywhere.

This story has more context: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzv23g75eo

#Teochew #Chinese #Languages #Singapore #TootSea #Movies #DearYou

It seems the filmmakers weren't even trying based on how this actor's (double) gun sights are configured. How does that even work?

#movies #scifi #alien #predator

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A human holding a rifle that has a sight behind a sight that's not even lined up.

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A human holding a rifle that has a sight behind a sight that's not even lined up.

Chekov's Knife.

Rated 6 out of 10.

Streamed on Disney+.

#movies #horror #comedy

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Movie poster for Send Help with Rachel McAdams looking completely insane.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is an action, sci-fi and family drama film and it is one of the best movies I have seen in years. Visually stunning, all original and a perfectly balanced movie that straddles so many genres. Everything Everywhere All at Once had me laughing and crying. It is exceedingly funny, yet heartbreaking and touching. I highly recommended Everything Everywhere All at Once.

This movie is a masterpiece.

The Googly Eye is the inverse of the Everything Bagel.

My longer review of the film can be found here:
https://ultramookie.com/movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/

#movies #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #scifi #action #drama #family

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Movie poster for Everything Everywhere All at Once with the cast draw in art form.

this scene from Road to Perdition could have been a 17c dutch realist painting

#film #movies #art #painting #artHistory

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A static shot from the film Road to Perdition. The frame is split roughly in half, bisected by an adjoining wall. The left is a hallway and entryway to a home. The right side is a deep field shot of a boy sitting in a room on a bed, facing the camera. The scene is lit coldly, with an almost foggy, ethereal mood. It gives you the feeling that the boy has been waiting in this room a long time for someone to walk through the door on the left.

incredible article, now 25 years old, on the lighting and cinematography of Conrad Hall & Sam Mendes' Road To Perdition.

"The palette for the movie was very muted," Mendes says. "Very early on, Conrad and I talked about creating a sense of great contrast within images by using hard light from the side and chiaroscuro. We wanted dark backgrounds and dark sets with dark, muted greens and grays.

"For example, he'll use black silk for daylight exteriors because it cuts a perfect amount of light to make a scene look as though it's in the shade. White silk makes light flare, but black silk doesn't bring all that flare back and doesn't fill the whole scene up with fill light. On this film, we never shot in harsh sunlight; we always used black silks to dim down the scene and then relit it the way Conrad wanted it to look. He also uses different papers and double softs, and mixes hard and soft light almost constantly."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230606072340/https://theasc.com/magazine/aug02/perdition/index.html

source: American Cinematographer - Emotional Triggers (August, 2002)

#movies #cinematography #film #art

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A scene from the climax of Road to Perdition, showing tom hanks walking towards the camera holding a tommy gun. The scene is filmed in the pouring rain, with a sepia tone. The scene is lit warmly, from a light source above, making tom hanks a silhouette.

#movies #music #IndianaJones

#movies #IndianaJones

#movies #IndianaJones

#movies #IndianaJones

Mayhem follows Derek Cho (Steven Yeun) who works his way up, passionlessly, through the corporate ladder as a lawyer in a corrupt firm. During a normal workday he runs in to Melanie Cross (Samara Weaving) who is trying to stop the foreclosure of her house, but unable to get anyone in "the firm" to speak with.

Unforutnately, a virus named ID-7 ("Red Eye") spreaks throughout the workplace. ID-7 causes people to lose their morals and revert to their base instincts -- most becoming angry and violent.

Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving are fun to watch onscreen and have genuine screen chemistry. The cast of bosses are also very easy to hate and the actors all are fantastic in their roles: Steve Brand as the big boss, Caroline Chikezie as a bootlicker and Kerry Fox as a board member.

Mayhem is a fun energetic movie, ultra violent, bloody and gory movie. But having said that, given the premise of the movie, it didn't go as far as it could have. Surprisingly through all the violence and humor, it is able to slide in some social-economical commentary -- and it doesn't feel forced or shoved down the audience's throat. The movie is less than 90 minutes and a rush to watch because of the energy and editting. As a random watch, Mayhem was a surprise for me.

Rated 7 out of 10.

Streamed on Plex

#movies #horror #action

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Mayhem movie poster with Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving. Yeun is wearing black pants, white undershirt and white shirt -- all of it bloody. He's holding a pistol. Weaving is standing behind him a red shirt, tan skirt and pink sunglasses. She's holding a nail gun.

https://youtu.be/BjBt9O0wd3k

#movies #physicalmedia #dvd #bluray

"There is no Geneva Convention up here [in space]."

Oh my goodness Incoming is boring -- how can they make a movie starring Scott Adkins boring? Talk, talk, talk is how. This movie is 89 minutes long, the action doesn't happen until 69 minutes of non-stop terrible dialogue have passed including winning lines like "Don't fuck with America." And what action there was, even with Adkins trying his best, is a snooze-fest that is badly shot.

While I often like low-budget films, this one just didn't work at all and it's a crime they wasted the talents of Scott Adkins in the movie.

Rated 1 out of 10.

Streamed on Tubi.

#movies #scifi #action

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Scott Adkins in space looking very serious and about to kick some ass.

The script by David Koepp starts the audience mid-action and for a while treats the audinece as intelligent and does a lot to show instead of tell. But, as the movie progresses, there is a lot more telling and not showing -- which is unfortuante. The script aimed for the events of the movie to be profound, but it never reached that level.

Janusz Kamiński's cinematography was beautifully naturalistic and that worked well for the mulitple oners that were done in the movie -- including a four-minute oner with Emily Blunt that was very well executed.

John Williams' score works for the film while it was running, but it was a bit forgettable without any themes that I can remember after the credits rolled.

There are a few nits that I have about the film, the biggest being the ultimate lack of impact of a bag full of data.

Disclosure Day is worth a watch, but there are better movies tackling these themes. A better film dealing with aliens and religion is Contact. A better Spielberg film dealing with aliens is Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Rated 7 out of 10.

#movies #DisclosureDay #SciFi

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Emily Blunt in a red dress standing in front of a weather forecast screen.

My review of Spielberg's newest alien conspiracy thriller, Disclosure Day, is up!

https://takeemtothemoviesaustin.reviews/disclosure-day/?ref=mastodon

#movies #MovieReview

"Persuading the Roses to let the crew shoot in — and drive a car through — their bespoke glass-and-steel home felt to Coker like a hard sell."

Jason Klamm in Chicago Magazine: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/june-july-2026/inside-ferris-buellers-iconic-ferrari-crash-scene/

#Longreads #Books #Chicago #Cars #Film #Cinema #Movies #FerrisBueller #Architecture

#Movies . . .

Here's a list of all 35 of #StevenSpielberg's movies ranked in order of preference by the publication's staff.

The only movie of his that I haven't seen yet is #Disclosure which just opened at the theaters & it's the only movie that I've wanted to see at the theater since #DevilWearsPrada2 was released.

I don't agree with the ranking of the list -- who would? -- & it will take me awhile to decide what all of my rankings will be but there's no question that #1 for me is #Jaws.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/06/12/steven-spielberg-movies-ranked/90496077007/

https://youtu.be/g6YvkbqAhAY

#movies #streaming #netflix #amazon #disney

I came for martial arts, I walked out more than satisfied and even wowed. The Furious is an action movie through-and-through, the filmmakers knew what they were aiming to make and they made it.

The fight scenes are well choreographed, but never feel overly choreographed. What makes them awesome is that they are so well shot that I was able to keep track of everything that was happening -- even when there are five people, split into three motivations fighting each other. It is brilliant.

It helps that the actors all martial artists and can do their own fighting on screen.

The story is simple enough to be the connective tissue for the action scenes. A journalist, Navin (Joe Taslim) is searching for his missing wife Matia (Jeeja Yanin). She was researching a child smuggling ring. A mute father Wang (Xie Miao) is searching for his kidnapped daughter Rainy (Yang Enyou). There are an assortment of baddies, the most memorable being Ho (Brian Le) who portrays a giant henchman.

I highly recommend The Furious. Come for the martial art and you won't be disappointed.

Rated 10 out of 10.

#movies

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The Furious movie poster with four of the stars on it. It's black and white in a painted style.

#Movies #TheMatrix #Film

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off just turned 40 today. happy 40th birthday to this classic film!
https://www.today.com/popculture/movies/ferris-buellers-day-40-year-anniversary-matthew-broderick-alan-ruck-rcna348084

#saveferris #FerrisBuellersDayOff #FerrisBueller #80s #1980s #80smovies #movies

The Wind and the Lion | Full Movie with Sean Connery
https://youtu.be/D-In3mEfBxg

This movie was filmed before the normalization of brainless Hollywood portrayals of all foreigners as mindless drones. It showed an era of mutual respect and honor codes between adversaries instead of jingoistic 'light of the world' self-worship.

No spoilers. It is too good for that.

#WorthIt #SeanConnery #ClassicFilm #FullMovie #Movies #Film #Cinema #History #TeddyRoosevelt #Berbers

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @movies@a.gup.pe @classics@a.gup.pe @film@a.gup.pe

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Bearded Berber Sultan with black and red head dress, portrayed by Sean Conner in the movie, The Wind and the Lion.