This week I slowly caught up Dark Matter; I'm at it for about 20 hours Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Gate at the counter; and I'm still trying to fit a trip to the cinema into my schedule to see it Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
In other words: I'm behind! And this week's trailers have added so much more to my must-have pile from the next Marvel MCU film, Lightningto the amusing, bizarre black comedy Rumors, To Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuarón's new Apple TV Plus series. Not to mention all the game trailers from Sony's State of Play event this week.
Check out some of my favorite trailers from this week below.
Lightning
Marvel hasn't said much about it Lightningwhich stars David Harbour's Red Guardian and his daughter Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in a new appearance that concludes the fifth phase 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 leader. There is also a mysterious character named Bob (Lewis Pullman) who appears as The edgeCharles Pulliam-Moore hinted at it earlier this week – and Polygon attacked head-on – is probably Sentry, a Marvel version of Superm – er, a flying, bulletproof guy with superhuman strength, speed and agility.
Rumors
I'm trying to think of the best comparison object Rumors To. The large, sans-serif fonts with drop shadows are reminiscent of 1970s exploitation films, as are the backlit fog and sometimes pink tint that make it look a bit like an aged film print.
The trailer contains hints of Wes Anderson's deliberate blocking and framing mixed with the absurdity of Quentin Dupieux rubber. There is a huge brain? And a few zombies. And the leaders of the G7 countries are stuck in the woods with all this. Whatever it is, Rumorsa black comedy from co-directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, looks to be a blast when it hits theaters on October 18th.
sinner
sinner Directed by Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers from the 1930s who return to their hometown to start over and are confronted with an unknown horror.
The name and trailer indicate a religious theme. (“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he'll follow you home.”) But shadowy figures outside a music venue and a little boy entering a church with fresh scratches on his face suggest more. Maybe it's a murderous cult, maybe the city is haunted by real demons. What's really going on is a complete mystery, and hopefully it will remain that way until the movie hits theaters on March 7th.
Alfonso Cuarón's new Apple TV series, disclaimer, is a seven-part psychological thriller that begins streaming on October 11th. Cate Blanchett plays a journalist named Catherine Ravenscroft, whose dark secrets are revealed in an anonymously written novel sent to her.
The secrets are apparently bad enough to jeopardize her relationship with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The series also stars Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George and Hoyeon and is narrator by Indira Varma.