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Gotta give it to the marketing people at Neon. I'm sufficiently teased and am going to avoid further trailers until I've seen the film. Definitely checking in.

Juliette Lewis is a chair. By Design, from Amanda Kramer (Ladyworld, Give Me Pity!)

Wasn't this sort of the premise of Michel Gondry's awful short in Tokyo?

I think it also happens in a Peter Gabriel music video

Also: The Jimmy Stewart Story, starring the guy from Riverdale, Jason Alexander, and Max Casella as Frank Capra. Actual Pynchon joke

While waiting for No Other Choice in Imax, the EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert trailer immediately followed the Nirvanna trailer.

Jeff Bezos' $40 million documentary on Melania opens Jan. 30.

Ana Urushadze's Supporting Role

Big fan of her debut, Scary Mother, so very much looking forward to this.

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 6:36 pm I think it also happens in a Peter Gabriel music video

And most recently the chair-man thing occurs in Suzume.

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 6:36 pm I think it also happens in a Peter Gabriel music video

If you can cope with more anthropomorphic animals after the new Animal Farm, The Sheep Detectives looks as if it might be interesting (dark 'n moody version of a classic song ahoy!), and appears to be one-upping both Aardman's Shaun The Sheep and Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchises!

I missed the trailer for Animal Farm, wasn't aware of it at all. My son came into my office a few minutes ago and told me I had to watch it with this huge grin on his face because he knew what my reaction was going to be.

What. In. The. Actual. Fuck?? There's no way that's real. But apparently it is.

Jesse McLean's experimental documentary Light Needs

Ready or Not, but not: Kirill Sokolov's They Will Kill You (very NSFW). Starring Zazie Beetz, pun probably intended.

brundlefly wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 5:32 pm Ready or Not, but not: Kirill Sokolov's They Will Kill You (very NSFW). Starring Zazie Beetz, pun probably intended.

Am I alone in feeling this is an odd kind of film to have 87Eleven style action in?

The Death of Robin Hood from Michael Sarnoski (Pig). With Hugh Jackman, because Logan.

A24 teases Ian Tuason's The Undertone.

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 6:23 pmA24 teases Ian Tuason's The Undertone.

Full trailer.

This is a movie that needs to be seen in a theatre or with a sophisticated home sound system. A lot of the story is communicated by the intricate sound design.

I only noticed this after going back to see things in the theater and sitting through many trailers,
but when did trailers become so formulaic in using a legacy pop/rock song from the 70s or 80s (usually a cover):
starting with a snippet of the vocal in the beginning & repeating with more substantial snippets towards the end
(but never actually playing a complete portion of the actual song)? It's the new "In Another World...."

Now we have "Fly Like An Eagle" in Mercy, which makes the film look like a dystopian cliche and probably wouldn't spark much enthusiasm if it weren't for the use of the song.

Could be worse for giving stuff away but yeah, the best course is to go in blind (which is of course box office death for something with so little recognition value to so much of the American populace). They show one of the two gags I’d be most adamant about leaving a surprise, at least it’s the less important of the two.

Another one-day only Imax screening (January 21):
Kokuho

diamonds wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 3:42 pm Pascal Bonitzer's Maigret and the Dead Lover

Quite a different physicality in Podalydes from Gabin and Depardieu!

Another video game to film adaptation is coming with The Mortuary Assistant which is based on a rather unnerving game popular with YouTubers a few years ago (and yes, I am ignoring the obvious figure of Markiplier to go for showcasing less screamy and more entertaining Let's Players - "ManlyBadassHero" is perhaps the most veteran figure on YouTube for looking at all of these weird, little known indie horror games, having started off tackling extremely niche RPGmaker created games over a decade ago), where the player had to perform an extensive checklist of various embalming tasks whilst ignoring ghostly jumpscares, which eventually turns into also having to do a spot-the-demon guessing game of which body to immediately have to cremate.

Max Keegan's The Shepherd and the Bear.