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Hard to see how the central plot could work outside the legal peculiarities of serfhood in Tsarist Russia, but making the story a western is kinda ingenious.

Adam Meeks' Union County.

American Doctor gets August release.

Ronan Corrigan's Lifehack, which brings the heist film to the wave of desktop-set movies. (It comes from the producer of Unfriended, Searching, and Missing.) Curious why Don Hertzfeldt's name flashes on the screen in a search engine.

Teasing Tony Gilroy's Behemoth.

Game Night directors Daley and Goldstein follow their D&D film with Mayday for Apple. Thinking it may depend on which direction the Ryan Reynolds-Kenneth Branagh dynamic tips.

brundlefly wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2026 4:36 pm Ronan Corrigan's Lifehack, which brings the heist film to the wave of desktop-set movies. (It comes from the producer of Unfriended, Searching, and Missing.) Curious why Don Hertzfeldt's name flashes on the screen in a search engine.

The name of the character in the film being searched is "Don Herd"; when you begin typing that name into a search engine, Hertzfeldt's name will appear as the top option - an adherence to realism that the rest of the trailer discards. Now, was the character name chosen just so Hertzfeldt would get a shoutout?

Roger Ryan wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2026 11:55 am Now, was the character name chosen just so Hertzfeldt would get a shoutout?

or it's based on the past search history of whoever the computer belonged to.

Rafael Manuel's Filipiñana.

Mr Sausage wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 1:20 am Hard to see how the central plot could work outside the legal peculiarities of serfhood in Tsarist Russia, but making the story a western is kinda ingenious.

This is a very good point. I can think of no American 19th-century analogue to the Tsarist taxation and census system. It'll be interesting to see how he gets around that, since it is key to the story. My mind went to slaves, but that doesn't work within the book's context. And, the 3/5th clause doesn't work either.

La Bola Negra (short)

La Bola Negra (long)

Lowry_Sam wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2026 6:22 pm La Bola Negra (short)

La Bola Negra (long)

Yeah this looks as incredible as everyone is saying it is. Julio Torres is always a plus.

There seems to be no shortage of Penelope Cruz or Javier Bardem this year.

Bunker

The Beloved

Dune 3

Because we haven't had enough horror films or Pinocchio adaptations lately why not combine the 2?

Pinocchio Unstrung

Rob Savage's Other Mommy starring Jessica Chastain, produced by James Wan.

This movie could be awful, but this is an incredible trailer.

Matt wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 1:31 am This movie could be awful, but this is an incredible trailer.

Yeah, incredible in curing my insomnia

okay

Matt wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 1:31 am This movie could be awful, but this is an incredible trailer.

I thought it gave away too much. It should have stopped before the father enters the kitchen, but it didn't look good even before then.
In fact all the trailers that the Youtube algorhythms sent me today looked bad.

All Night Wrong

The Withering

Son Of Sara

The Fix

The Stunt Driver

The Sun Never Sets

and one decent trailer of a film that probably isn't good:

Motor City

Ti West's Ebenezer.

"The story you don't know" and it's literally scenes that have been in every adaptation of A Christmas Carol. But whatever, could be decent entertainment for families that go to the movies on Thanksgiving day.

Mubi's documentary on Pulp opens in September: Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?

Cookie Queens looks like it could either be a clever takedown of American capitalism or an unapologetic feel-good plug for the Girl Scouts.

Exorcist II fans, your future DVD extra is coming to theaters: Boorman and the Devil.

The latest Shinya Tsukamoto film is going to be a Vietnam War veteran one, with Rodney Hicks, Lily Franky and Geoffrey Rush(!): Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?