![]() ![]() It’s supposedly a love letter to the New Yorker of yore, but while The French Dispatch features Anderson’s familiar aesthetic style, it’s often a distant omnibus that might appeal only to his most ardent fans. And yet this is the director’s least digestible work. Anderson’s penchant for dry comedy used to explain grief, the inner workings of dysfunctional people, and children experiencing the loss of innocence comes to the forefront once again. As is often the case with anthology-style films, some sections work better than others. The film is divided into five separate vignettes, each a reported column belonging to a specific newspaper section, written by one of the journalists. How does The French Dispatch compare to his previous work? From our review, Anderson’s proclivity for fastidiously detailed set, bright colors, irreverent deadpan humor, and quirky characters has won him both acclaim and criticism throughout his career. ![]() Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch is a self-proclaimed “love letter to journalists,” and a comedy anthology following the misadventures of a group of hapless columnists working for the eccentric editor of an American newspaper in the fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé (Boredom-upon-Apathy). ![]() Where to watch: Available to stream on HBO Max Image: Searchlight Pictures To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch with the click of a button this weekend. There’s plenty more in the way of streaming releases as Netflix’s The Hand of God, Hulu’s Mother/Android, and Apple TV Plus’ Swan Song all premiere this weekend as well. Venom: Let There Be Carnage finally lands on VOD this weekend along with Wes Anderson’s latest comedy anthology The French Dispatch. Not feeling up to going out this weekend? No problem, there’s still tons of great movies and no shortage of superheroics to enjoy on VOD and streaming from the comfort of your home. Maybe, just maybe, the problem with The Suicide Squad and Snake Eyes were, at least commercially speaking, at least partially about The Suicide Squad and Snake Eyes.This weekend, the long-awaited Spider-Man: No Way Home finally swings on to theater screens, in addition to Guillermo del Toro’s psychological thriller Nightmare Alley starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. Venom: Let There Be Carnage will now open in conventional, PLF and IMAX theaters on October 1. ![]() Oh, and for what it’s worth, it also means that Shang-Chi has one less week to be the only game in town in terms of four-quadrant tentpole thrills, but that’s the price of success.Īnyway, that’s the news. Halloween Kills is opening mostly unopposed on October 15, and No Time to Die will have a little competition a little sooner when it opens overseas in late September and in North America on October 8. That said, it means that Dune won’t be dealing with a “just came out” Venom sequel while Jackass Forever just fled to February 2022. The first film cost $90 million, so if this one didn’t break the bank than that would still be okay.Īs far as release date musical chairs, this means that I guess Dune won’t be shifting back to October 1, even with mixed-positive festival buzz/reviews and strong Oscar talk at least in the technical categories. While folks did like the first film (so I’m not worried about a Tomb Raider Trap) and the marketing for this one has been aces (my kids are psyched), there was/is a danger of the whole “folks were only curious the first time” variable.Īnd with Covid, climate change and everything else at play, we could still see a scenario where Venom 2 “only” earns about as much worldwide (say, $350-$450 million) as we all thought Venom would three years ago. I won’t pretend that Venom: Let There Be Carnage was a sure thing to match Venom’s $214 million domestic, $269 million Chinese and $854 million global totals even in a non-Covid timeline. And even with a darker, scarier villain in Carnage, that seems to be how Venom 2 is being sold. ![]()
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