This week I have been catching up little by little Dark Matter; I've been there for about 20 hours Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on the switch; and I'm still trying to fit a trip to the movies into my schedule to see Beetle juice Beetle juice.
In other words, I'm behind! And this week's trailers added a lot more to my pile of things I need to see, from the upcoming Marvel MCU movie, Good heavensto the funny and strange black comedy Rumors, to Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuarón's new series for Apple TV Plus. That's not to mention all the game trailers from Sony's State of Play event this week.
Check out some of my favorite previews from this week below.
Good heavens
Marvel hasn't said much about Good heavenswhich sees David Harbor's Red Guardian and his daughter, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in a new outing that concludes Phase 5 of the MCU in May next year.
They are joined by Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and John Walker (Wyatt Russell), with Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) as their apparent ring leader. There is also a mysterious character named Bob (Lewis Pullman) who, like The edge's Charles Pulliam-Moore hinted at earlier this week – and Polygon went straight – is probably Sentry, a Marvel version of Superm—er, a bulletproof flying guy with superhuman strength, speed, and agility.
Rumors
I'm trying to think of the best to compare. Rumors to. The large, sans-serif, shadowed fonts scream 1970s exploitation movies, as does its backlit fog and sometimes pink tint, making it look a bit like an aged film copy.
The trailer has notes of Wes Anderson's deliberate blocking and framing, mixed with Quentin Dupieux's absurdity. Eraser. Is there a gigantic brain? And some zombies. And the leaders of the G7 nations, stuck in the woods with all that. Whatever it is, Rumorsa dark comedy from co-directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson looks set to be a hoot when it hits theaters on October 18.
sinners
sinners sees one of director Ryan Coogler's lead actors, Michael B. Jordan, playing 1930s twin brothers who return to their hometown to start over, only to face an unknown horror.
The name and trailer point to a religious theme. (“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he will follow you home.”) But shadowy figures outside a music venue and a boy entering a church with fresh claw marks on his face hint at more. Maybe it's a murderous sect, maybe the city is besieged by real demons. What's really happening is a total mystery and will hopefully remain that way until its theatrical release on March 7.
Alfonso Cuarón's new Apple TV series, Disclaimer, is a seven-part psychological thriller that begins streaming October 11. Cate Blanchett plays a journalist named Catherine Ravenscroft, whose dark secrets are revealed in an anonymously written novel sent to her.
Apparently the secrets are bad enough to threaten her relationship with her husband, Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen), and her son, Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The series also stars Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George and Hoyeon, and is narrated by Indira Varma.
