We are ready to have them this weekend. If you are too and if your fun is watching the latest and greatest movies and TV shows, playing new games or even listening to the album that all your friends will be talking about in a few months, then ” I want to check out our weekend guide below, which will help you get ready to do all your free time in mid-August.
While The white lotus finished his bustling race last week and Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings won’t be out for a couple more weeks, there’s still a lot of new stuff, at least vaguely interesting, to talk about this weekend, from the final appearance of Chadwick Boseman in the Marvel Movie Universe in Hugh Jackman’s new science fiction film Reminiscent. Let’s get started.
The movie “Let’s go to a theater and see something new” to see: Reminiscent
The aforementioned Reminiscent is the new studio release this weekend. This weekend is on HBO Max and in theatersbut honestly, the footage from this movie is one of the most interesting things about it, so if you’re vaccinated and want to get out of the house and sit in some air conditioning, you could make it worse than this movie. film. Our critics gave it a B-, which isn’t great, but isn’t it nasty either?
“In intriguing and convoluted dystopian black Reminiscent, the future is not so bright. In fact, it is so sad — a wet tomorrow of climate change and post-traumatic stress — that everyone pays the privilege of escaping their buried memories of better times. On the outskirts of a perpetually flooded Miami, the lonely and damaged one sinks into a small warehouse. Here, they glide over an electronic halo, settle into a bed of shallow water, and remain in a posthypnotic state of remembrance; they become like the precogs of Minority report, except that they are not premonitions of what is to come, but living lightnings of what they already have going through their heads and projecting themselves in a holographic way while they sleep, a small spectacle for their conjurer conjurer of lost experiences. This is, of course, the ultimate metaphor for cinema in itself. What are movies but a weaver of collective memory? It is a connection that is made clear long before the film discovers an earlier version of the technology, sending these visions of the past to a white wall like a flashing projector, in black and white, no more and no less. [A.A. Dowd]
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The “movie people talk about” to see: CODA
This year’s big winner of Sundance, CODA follows a deaf adult child as he pursues his musical dreams. It hit theaters and Apple TV + last weekend and has since been constantly creating online buzz, with more and more critics and viewers singing its praises and acclaiming its interpretation of the breadth. of the deaf community. It currently holds 96 percent new Rotten Tomatoes, and our own critic gave it a fairly solid B.
“The best and worst of the dramatic drama of the writer-director Siân Heder CODA are shown during the first 15 minutes of the film. At first, Heder overly stacks up the fight against his high school heroine, Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones). The popular girls in Ruby’s class look at her desperately because she dresses fashionably and often smells like fish, a byproduct of waking up early in the morning to work on her family’s trawler. In their neighborhood of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Rossis have long been figures of curiosity and pity, in part because of Ruby’s parents, Jackie (Marlee Matlin) and Frank (Troy Kotsur), and their brother, Leo (Daniel). During), they are deaf, and partly because they often behave eccentrically in public, without worrying about what people think about them ”. [Noel Murray]
What to watch on TV: Marvel’s What if …?
An animated show with an intriguing premise, What if … is the latest Marvel project to air on Disney +. Although not Loki, continues to draw viewers and spark debate, especially around this week’s episode, which features one of Chadwick Boseman’s latest performances. The episode, “What if … Did T’Challa become a lord of the stars?”, Follows exactly this premise. As our reviewer summed up: “We got the Ravagers to kidnap T’Challa in the 1980s, Yondu turned him into a space outlaw, and finally T’Challa became Star-Lord.” It’s a multi-verse chaos at its most glorious and the episode is full of Marvel treats and guest voices. It’s worth taking a look, especially if you’re just bitten by a good old-fashioned superhero.
“Yes, this is the episode of ‘Chadwick Boseman is Star-Lord T’Challa’ What if …?, and is somehow even more fun than that would mean. The episode begins as Guardians of the galaxy, with Star-Lord on a desolate planet trying to retrieve a metal ball that Marvel fans know contains one of the infinite stones. As he grabs it, he is interrupted by a squad of thugs led by Djath Hounsou’s Korath. Instead of waiting for Star-Lord to show up and get the big “Who?” however, Korath immediately recognizes his celebrity idol. It turns out that T’Challa’s Star-Lord is not an aspirant to Han Solo like Peter Quill; he is a much-loved figure of the Robin Hood type who has reformed only the Ravagers into a team of space heroes. ” [Sam Barsanti]
What to listen to this weekend: Lord’s Solar energy
We won’t have any reviews of Lorde’s Solar energy until next week: the album has been released pre-release lock completely understandable“But it’s definitely the most anticipated new release.” As Gwen Ihnat wrote in our August music preview:
“The first singles from Lorde’s long-awaited third album Solar energy reveal a more dreamy and ethereal songbook than we are used to: the unstoppable momentum of a song like “Green Light” has been replaced by the bloody strings and the “most beautiful Jesus” of the fantastic title song, aided by a collaborator Jack Antonoff. Not to fear that Lorde is too sunny now, thankfully, the damn ballad “Stoned In The Nail Salon” has also come out, which successfully puts its best voices and wise lyrics beyond its years: “Because you’ll come out of all the music you loved at 16 / And every time they change, everything will come out “.
Hell, yes. Let’s do this, Lord.
The articles to read The AV Club:
If you’re looking to catch up on what’s new this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Our most popular story of the week, “Ryan Reynolds says Disney has collected enough coins or rings or whatever to get another Free man” speculates on the possible sequel to one of the most popular films this summer. This week also saw some amazing new trailers for two upcoming epics: Marvel’s Eternals i the long-awaited Apple TV + series Foundation, starring Lee Pace as a ruthless space leader, so needless to say we’re on board.
If you’re looking to delve into something a little more meaty and you’re done The white lotus, our interview with Jake Lacy sheds some light on why Shane, recently married, is a damn idiot. On the reverse of the cock head sphere, our long Random Roles interview with Mike O’Malley covers the full scope of his career, from the mainstay of Nickelodeon to Heels showrunner.
We also have stories about why are dollar stores such a big scam?, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law are great Gattaca, i the continued saga of Mike Richards, a scandalThe price is right producer i now host of Danger!
All in all, a real cornucopia of greating content to consume this weekend. You don’t even have to go outside if you don’t want to! Now you just have to step back and enjoy Lizzo’s latest theme.