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As the years goes screaming up, its calendar days begging to be filled with content, there’s absolutely no risk we’ll run out of things to watch.
While the writers’ strike of 2023 may yet create some kind of short-term content storage, for now there’s more than enough to watch … all we need is a lot more time to watch them!
While we work out that particular near-insolvable quandary, here’s four movies that will, soon enough, fill whatever viewing void you may miraculously have …
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Warner Bros. Pictures presents a new experience in the world of M. Night Shayamalan — a thriller titled Trap — featuring performances by rising music star Saleka Shyamalan. A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. Trap is written and directed by American filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, director of the movies Praying with Anger, Wide Awake, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender, After Earth, The Visit, Split, Glass, Old, and Knock at the Cabin previously, as well as the TV series Servant. It’s produced by Ashwin Rajan, Marc Bienstock and M. Night Shyamalan. (courtesy First Showing)
Trap opens 8 August in Australia and 9 August in U.S.A.
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Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful woman named Madison (Adria Arjona). As she falls for one of Gary’s hit man personas — the mysteriously sexy Ron — their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and higher stakes. Hit Man is directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Richard Linklater, director of many great films including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise & Sunset & Midnight, SubUrbia, The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, School of Rock, Bad News Bears, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Me and Orson Welles, Bernie, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!!, Last Flag Flying, Where’d You Go Bernadette, and Apollo 10½ previously. The screenplay is written by Richard Linklater & Glen Powell; based on the Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth. (courtesy First Showing)
Hit Man premieres on Netflix on 7 June.
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I Used To Be Funny is a dark dramedy that follows Sam Cowell (Rachel Sennott), an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for Brooke (Olga Petsa), a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. The story exists between the present, where Sam tries to recover from her trauma and get back on stage, and the past, where memories of Brooke make it harder and harder to ignore the troubled teen’s sudden disappearance. I Used to be Funny is written and directed by American indie filmmaker Ally Pankiw, making her feature directorial debut after many other short films and music videos previously. Produced by Jason Aita, Breann Smordin, and James Weyman. This initially premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival last year. (courtesy First Showing)
I Used to be Funny opens in U.S on 7 June in select cinemas before opening wide on 18 June.
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From visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. Kinds of Kindness is directed by by acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the movies My Best Friend, Kinetta, Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite, and 2023’s Poor Things. The screenplay is written by Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s produced by Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Kasia Malipan. This is expected to premiere at Cannes 2024. (courtesy First Showing)
Kinds of Kindness opens in U.S. on 21 June and in Australia on 11 July.