It's not really breaking news as people have heard about it for a while now, but LucasFilm has announced the new project with a release date for May 28, 2027. Ryan Gosling will star in a new standalone Star Wars adventure. This looks to be a slight pivot away from what has made Star Wars fans so angry of late -- is there any way to say it other...

You can subscribe to the Buzzmeter here. There are many rumblings around about the so-called "Un-Wokening" of Hollywood. The most recent is by Ana Marie Cox at the New Republic.  You can read it if you want. It's very long. The audio version is 45 minutes. I did not have time to read it all. But knowing the work of Ana Marie Cox (an OG blogger from the very...

David Mamet has turned his play, Henry Johnson, into a feature film starring Shia LaBeouf. It is under embargo at the moment, so mums the word but check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5u0INUpDBU Because Hollywood is a climate of fear ruled by hysteria, this movie won't be getting any kind of a wide release. There won't be many chances to see it -- and you all still somehow see yourselves...

There is nothing funnier than watching Olivia Colman snap on film. She is brilliant when it comes to playing a woman losing her shit. That's only part of the reason I'm looking forward to The Roses. It also looks funny. We could use funny, couldn't we? Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgMaS5gbaA The jokes land and now we know how far it goes - all the way to a gun...

Searchlight posted on Instagram some stills from the upcoming film The Roses, a remake of The War of the Roses. "It’s Cumberbatch vs. Colman in THE ROSES, a marriage story from the director of Meet the Parents and the writer of Poor Things." Directed by Jay Cocks, in theaters August 29.

A24 dropped a teaser for Ari Aster's Eddington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlrAIL8S74 There is a great movie to be made about the year 2020 and everything that happened that year. But I do not trust Hollywood to tell that story, at least not now. I can only hope Ari Aster is slightly more wise than that. The synopsis sounds promising: A couple, Lindsay and Marc, are driving through New Mexico on their...

April 10th was quite a day for film news. The lineup for the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, headlined by Juliette Binoche, was announced. Though it has been bizarrely quiet for the past few weeks, with little to no coverage or news regarding what would be going, all the information came out this week, with rumors of a few more additions to what is already a stacked lineup likely...