We get bombarded with teasers, trailers and promotional clips relentlessly – each weekend Steve Newall sorts through the best of the week for you to check out and get excited about.
Get to know your fellow guests… This season you’ll meet three women on a girls’ trip (Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan) and an older man/younger woman couple with a two-decade age gap (Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood). Elsewhere, there’s a wealthy businessman and his wife (Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey) holidaying with their kids, and behind-the-scenes drama with the resort staff (including the perhaps unexpected return of season one’s spa manager Belinda).
The full trailer’s out for musician/producer/filmmaker Flying Lotus’s upcoming sci-fi flick starring Eiza González, Aaron Paul and Iko Uwais. Shot in Aotearoa New Zealand, it’s a trippy-looking mix of space exploration, both cosmic and body horror, and survival thriller.
Director Ryan Coogler reteams with Creed himself, Michael B Jordan for this period horror flick, with Jordan doing double duty—starring alongside himself as brothers Smoke and Stack. There’s more than a little From Dusk Till Dawn in how the trailer switches gears from 1930s-set Southern drama to… well, something that finds even more teeth…=
A road trip across Aotearoa in an old Ford Falcon anchors this tale of the unlikely friendship that forms between Māori elder Hamo (Hinetu Dell) and local delinquent Jo (Darneen Christian) in this new drama. The first feature film shot in the original dialect of Ngāti Porou and centring a Māori world view, writer-director Kath Akuhata-Brown describes Kōkā “a journey of dignity, heart and of mana in the face of a landscape that is constantly shifting.”
Netflix has given us a sneak peek at the Russo brothers’ new pic, a sci-fi adventure comedy-drama (got it?). Pairing Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown, it’s set in an alternate retro-futuristic 1990s after a failed animatronic robot uprising. Look familiar? That’s cos it’s based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag (Tales from the Loop).
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Remember when Questlove won an Oscar for 2021’s Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). It happened immediately in the aftermath of “the slap” so was slightly overshadowed (if extremely deserved). There’s no one better to document the life, career, and legacy of Sly and the Family Stone, with all the big names (D’Angelo, Andre 3000, Clive Davis) you’d want. Betting big on this one.
Kate Hudson leads this upcoming family workplace comedy (though it’s NSFW for both kids and co-workers). When her brother resigns amid a scandal, Isla (Hudson) takes his place running a professional men’s basketball team in Los Angeles. Can she turn around the family business?
Speaking of family businesses, arguably the funniest comedy on TV returns for its fourth (and allegedly final) season. Danny McBride’s show about a world-famous televangelist family has gone from strength to strength, and according to the official synopsis: “this season, the family’s codependence is tested as they attempt to move forward without letting go of their storied past.” Clears everything right up, praise Jesus!
