Netflix has released the first trailer for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Rian Johnson’s murder mystery sequel that sees Daniel Craig’s beloved Cajun detective cracking another case. And his second outing is set to be even starrier than his debut, with a cast that includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. The original “Knives Out” was one of the unlikeliest blockbusters in years....

“God’s Country” is directed Julian Higgins, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shay Ogbonna. Jeremy Bobb, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White, Kai Lennox, and Tanaya Beatty also star. The film first at 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and is produced by Miranda Bailey, Halee Bernard, Julian Higgins, and Amanda Marshall. Executive producers include Jason Beck and Anthony Ciardelli. Director Higgins said in a press statement that he and co-writer Ogbonna opted to reimagine the lead character from Burke’s “Winter Light” as a Black woman to “respond to the deep-rooted racism, sexism, and misogyny reflected by the [2016] election results....

The “Squid Game” actor stars as Park Pyong-ho, KCIA Foreign Unit chief who is tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy known as Donglim, with the help of Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-Sung) after a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth....

Newcomer Emma Galbraith stars as Angie Chen, a teen artist who is secretly hooking up with popular jock Liam (William Magnuson). While Angie starts having sex — and endures the awkwardness of losing her virginity — Liam starts flirting with her classmates. Angie vlogs diary entries to get through her parents’ divorce and grapple with the fact that there are few things in her control. Throwing another wrench into Angie’s problems is the fact that her Chinese father starts to date a Chinese woman with the “perfect” archetypal Chinese-American daughter, someone that Angie feels like she can never be since she is half white....

As was the case with Morissette’s big break, these moments come care of heightened emotion, like a series of magazine headlines that juxtapose “angry” with “hot” with a startling, queasy regularity. If nothing else, “Jagged” makes one thing clear: Morissette was angry, but she was also happy and joyful and inspired and tough and driven, and if anger was the thing people latched on to, so be it. At least it was honest....

“They made him look like Richard Williams, it was straight-up shocking,” Green said of the makeup team, which applied prosthetics to Smith’s nose and cheeks to reshape his face so it would look more like Richard Williams. “I was like, ‘Look, you guys did an incredible job, but I don’t want that.’ Will has his acting coach who has been with him for 30 movies, he had a dialect coach so he could speak similar to Richard, we have so much....

Indeed, the sci-fi anthology, produced by Blur Studio for Netflix, so impressed the TV Academy that it was awarded four juried prizes on Wednesday: Robert Valley, production designer (“Ice”); Patricio Betteo, background artist (“Ice”); Dan Gill, stop-motion animator (“All Through the House”); and Laurent Nicholas, character designer (“Automated Customer Service”). “We tried to elevate the stories further and to give deeper explorations of some of these adult themes,” said supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (“The Darkest Minds” and the “Kung Fu Panda”sequels)....

“I think one episode of this show was [the same cost as] maybe five of ‘Underground,’” Green said during HBO’s virtual “Lovecraft Country” panel, held during the CTAM Press Tour. “The playground you can play in is incredible. Our production designer said we had 162 sets. The VFX houses we’ve been working with, the makeup special effects places we’ve been working with — they’re some of the biggest. They make ‘Star Wars’ movies....

But even with Qualley’s early accomplishments, she admits to feeling like she doesn’t fit into the mold of other performers. The actress said she hasn’t had much exposure to awards season, but what she has experienced so far has been just plain fun. Qualley jokes it’s something she should probably talk about in therapy, but she has a tendency to lower her expectations so she’ll never be disappointed — even when she ended up Emmy-nominated for her role as Ann Reinking in the FX limited series “Fosse/Verdon....

Anyone who missed out on the marketing campaign may be taken aback by the shift in focus. After all, when Aziz Ansari’s Emmy-winning Netflix series last aired, Ansari was still front and center as Dev, the curious actor, foodie, and romantic. Now, Dev only pops in for a few short visits, and Ansari is behind the camera on every episode, directing solo and co-writing with Waithe. The haute visual aesthetic and casual, sporadically amusing conversations remain, though both have also progressed along with the show’s core artistic ambition — to gain insight into romantic relationships through patient observance, empathetic character-building, and modern attitudes toward coupling up....

Given the film’s bent toward the most literal of cinematic tropes and tricks — Steve tries to dream his way out of his horrible predicament by frequently pretending it’s all just a screenplay he’s writing in his head — it’s not the most shocking of choices, but it’s certainly a blunt one. While that storytelling conceit likely made more sense in the story’s original form, as a well-regarded 1999 novel by Walter Myers that was partially written as an actual screenplay, on the screen, it feels like yet another cheap way through a story demanding much more nuance....

The stunt in question is featured prominently in the “No Time to Die” trailers and finds Bond riding a motorcycle off a jump and over a wall to land on the cobblestone streets of Matera. Morrison said the specifics of the stunt had Craig’s stunt double motorcycle rider Paul Edwards riding off a 25ft ramp at 60mph. To secure Edwards’ safety, Coca-Cola was sprayed all over the cobblestone street so the surface would become sticky and help prevent any motorcycle slides and accidents....

That viral influencer and alleged scammer Caroline Calloway appears in Quinn Shephard’s hilarious internet satire “Not Okay” isn’t a surprise: The figuratively canceled Instagram personality (and literally canceled author) repeatedly touted her involvement in the Hulu film with tweets and retweets (of course!) for all manner of marketing materials, including the trailer that features Calloway appearing as, well, herself. Given the subject matter of the film, it’s canny casting defined....

After dwelling on these quandaries for nearly five years — amid sporadic bursts of momentum (a shocking death here, a narrow escape there) — we’ve arrived: the final season. Playing out over a super-sized 14 episodes and split into two parts, “Ozark” is ending its elaborate money laundering empire in Season 4, and it’s boiled down its broad themes into one basic “will they or won’t they,” summed up nicely by Bateman himself: “Are they going to get away with it, or are they going to pay a bill?...

But is it getting better? The show is a guilty pleasure, and being a guilty pleasure is perfectly OK. But if it’s going to compete for Emmys, showrunner Courtney Kemp and company will need to give the franchise a makeover to become more than just screen candy. For now, sadly, “Power Book IV: Force” is strictly for loyalists. But if anything, they are consistent. It’s been a while since Egan was last on our TV screens....

“It is very much about the process to curate yourself and put some image of yourself out there,” said Smith, who was inspired by “E.T.” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” among others. “Like many kids who feel inadequate, they’re the ones that haven’t actually really cracked friendship. And the joy of Ron is that he is a complete tabula rasa, who’s only got four percent of his programs downloaded....

The third act musical extravaganza represents Illumination’s most ambitious work to date in terms of design, costumes, animation, choreography, playlist, and performance. The theme of breaking artistic barriers was also personal to director Garth Jennings, since the “Sing” sequel marked only his second animated feature. “The whole movie, when you break it down into its parts, is incredibly simple and relatable,” Jennings said. “The Clay story and his grief is the emotional soul of the film....

The thought-provoking seven-part anthology series will “explore the deeper meaning of human connection through the lens of the individual,” according to Deadline. “‘Solos’ will tell unique character-driven stories, each from a different perspective and moment in time, that illuminate that even during our most seemingly isolated moments, in the most disparate of circumstances, we are all connected through the human experience.” Related ‘Riches’ Imagines a ‘Succession’ Scenario Where Big Business Is Good Mark Burnett Exits MGM Worldwide Television Related Guillermo del Toro’s Favorite Movies: 45 Films the Director Wants You to See Martin Scorsese’s Favorite Movies: 53 Films the Director Wants You to See Each 30-minute episode will blend theatrical elements with science fiction, with these accomplished actors digging into their respective monologues....

Jeffrey Wright, who plays Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon in Matt Reeves’ film, told The Hollywood Reporter that he eventually watched several previous Batman movies during a COVID-induced quarantine toward the end of filming but wasn’t particularly interested in other actors who played Commissioner Gordon, most recently Gary Oldman. Wright preferred to read comic books to learn his character’s history and then looked to prominent, real-world Black police figures to find inspiration....

Too much Italian beef can be bad for your heart, and probably so is Episode 7 of FX’s “The Bear” on Hulu. The frantic 20-minute episode was filmed in one shot (the cast did four or five takes of it, we’re told) on the FX production’s soundstage (only the show’s pilot was filmed in a real restaurant), spanning the front and back of the fictitious — and tight on space — Original Beef of Chicagoland....