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In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight.
Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.
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I am so hyped for this movie and Chris Pratt list of films now include dinosaurs, Star Lord and the Guardians and battling aliens to save the Earth, ala an ID4 vibe.
Amazon Studios will exclusively release THE TOMORROW WAR globally on Prime Video July 2nd, 2021
Watch Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander as Gloria Steinem in the brand new trailer for THE GLORIAS.
The film will be On Digital and Streaming Exclusively on Prime Video September 30.
Journalist, fighter, and feminist Gloria Steinem is an indelible icon known for her world-shaping activism, guidance of the revolutionary women’s movement, and writing that has impacted generations. In this nontraditional biopic, Julie Taymor crafts a complex tapestry of one of the most inspirational and legendary figures of modern history, based on Steinem’s own biographical book ‘My Life on the Road.’
THE GLORIAS (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominence—from her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.
THE GLORIAS includes a number of iconic women who made profound contributions to the women’s movement, including Dorothy Pitman Hughes (Janelle Monáe), Flo Kennedy (Lorraine Toussaint), Bella Abzug (Bette Midler), Dolores Huerta (Monica Sanchez) and Wilma Mankiller (Kimberly Guerrero).
Alicia Vikander (as Gloria Steinem) and Janelle Monáe (as Dorothy Pitman Hughes) in THE GLORIAS Courtesy of LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions Download
Taymor gives us her singular take on that rare genre- the Female Road Picture, one in which the female leads do not die in the end, and where the “narrative” is not driven by romance or a bad marriage, or unrequited love or, for that matter, men. Gloria’s road story is about her “Meetings With Remarkable Women”. And that is a love story in itself.
When Steinem was asked how she feels about the movie:
I hope this story will inspire viewers to tell their own stories. After all, our brains are not organized by facts and statistics, but by narrative. As the famous quote by Muriel Rokeyser goes, “The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.” We have been sitting around campfires for all of human history, learning from each other in this way, and movies are a current campfire.
THE ART
OF RACING IN THE RAIN is the third film I’ve seen theatrically so far this year
narrated by a dog. A DOG’S JOURNEY and its cheesy-but-sweet knockoff A DOG’S
WAY HOME showed that a dogs-eye view of the world can make for funny, refreshing
and insightful cinema. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN starts out well, but the
story quickly turns sad, then morose, then unsavory, then unbearably dull, falling
into one predictable cliché after another.
Though it comes with a stronger pedigree than the other two films (it was based
on an acclaimed novel by Garth Stein), it’s easily the worst of the three.
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN begins with an old, dying golden retriever (voiced by Kevin Costner) reflecting on the highlights of his life and that of the beloved human who’d adopted him, amateur Formula One driver Denny Swift (a bland Milo Ventimiglia). He’s named Enzo after Italian motor racing legend Enzo Ferrari. Soon after getting Enzo, Denny falls hard for a pretty teacher named Eve (Amanda Seyfried). Though Eve’s wealthy parents Maxwell (Martin Donovan) and Trish (Kathy Baker) don’t approve of Denny’s risky profession, they marry and have a daughter, Zoë, who’s born when Denny is away racing in Daytona. Except for the loneliness that Enzo feels because Denny is spending more time pursuing his racing career, everything goes well for the young family in the early years. But tragedies happen in quick succession. Eve becomes ill with brain cancer (Enzo smells it early on) and moves in with her protective parents, taking Zoe with her. Then after about an hour of cancer drama, Eve dies and a battle ensues between Denny and his hateful in-laws who are so cruel they serve Denny with custody papers for little Zoë the day he buries his wife (though of course they are redeemed at the end). Through the ensuing tumultuous time, Enzo remains Denny’s steadfast friend, and a rambling witness to wrongs perpetrated against his human.
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN has a pulse during the race track scenes but those are few and far between. The problem with the film (and it’s a big one) is that the middle 85 minutes (of a 110 minute film) is a cheap series of dramas little better than a daily soap opera that focus on cancer, death, child custody issues, bankruptcy, an auto accident, and a lame courtroom battle. Enzo occasionally comments on the melodrama with his less-than-insightful narration, but the story’s never really about him. The whole racing theme only exists so metaphors can be shoved down the audience’s throat with platitudes like “your car goes where your eyes go”.
As Enzo,
a gravelly voiced Kevin Costner sounds like a highly educated adult male bemoaning his inability to speak
and his lack of opposable thumbs. I assume this dialog must have worked better in
the novel (his favorite word seems to be ‘manifest’). Enzo claims he’s so wise
because he watches TV and has educated himself to go off on these philosophical
rants and is ready to go
to the next life reborn as a human. This is another area where A DOG’S JOURNEY
got it right. The dog’s voice in that was Josh Gad, who seemed to speaking in
that excitable “I’ve-just-met-you-and-now-I-love-you” tone
and saying dumb things I hope an actual dog might say if one could talk rather
than the tiresome and preachy new age bromides here.
I’m not saying THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN lacks emotion. It’s a tear-jerker of the highest order, blatantly tugging hard at the heart strings but there is nothing truly thoughtful or novel here. You’ve got a sweet little girl, a young mother suffering from cancer, and a devoted dog that grows old and dies. With these hard-to-resist elements it’s easy to wring tears out of an audience. There seemed to be plenty of sniffles in the screening I attended, but I wasn’t buying it this time. I usually enjoy a bit of sentimentality, but, especially with its treacly score and maudlin songs on the soundtrack, THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN produces more eye-rolling than tears.
