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A girl frightened terribly, seated in her bed, makes up this effective poster for Leigh Whannell's Insidious: Chapter 3
A father and his teenage daughter and son are recovering from their loss of their wife and mother to cancer. But the girl's attempts at contacting their lost kin in the afterlife invites a demon close to them.
Insidious: Chapter 3 is written and directed by debuting Leigh Whannell (Wolf Man (2025)), who also co-stars in his returning role as one of the demon hunters. It is the 3rd film in the Insidious franchise (2010; 2013), a prequel to the two first films.
A meticulously told story with a good performance by Stefanie Scott (Beautiful Boy (2018)) as the main character girl once again succeeds in making an Insidious movie that carves out a place of creeping fright and scary moments. Lin Shaye (Waffle Hut (2021, TV movie)) as a psychic demon hunter is again a major asset for the series.
[Insidious: Chapter 3 was released 28 May (Denmark, Slovakia) and runs 98 minutes. Shooting took place from July - August 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The film opened #3, behind fellow new release Spy and holdover hit San Andreas, to a 22.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent one more weekend in the top 4 (#4), grossing 52.2 mil. $ (46.2 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 6.1 mil. $ (5.4 %) and Russia with 5.8 mil. $ (5.1 %). The franchise returned with Insidious: The Last Key (2018). Whannell returned with Upgrade (2018). Dermot Mulroney (August: Osage County (2013)) returned in Extant (2015, TV-series)) and theatrically in Truth (2015); Scott in Hayley Kioko: Girls Like Girls (2015, music video) and theatrically in Jem and the Holograms (2015). Insidious: Chapter 3 is rotten at 56 % with a 5.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
The dimensions of a man swimming behind a massive whale are astonishing on this poster for Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea
Herman Melville comes to Nantucket, New England in 1850 and pressures a local to relate to him the story of how the whaling ship the Essex suffered a cruel fate on a mission thirty years prior.
In the Heart of the Sea is written by Charles Leavitt (The Mighty (1998)), with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), both) contributing story elements, adapting the same-titled 1999 non-fiction book by Nathaniel Philbrick (Abram's Eyes (1998)), and co-produced and directed by great Oklahoman filmmaker Ron Howard (Grand Theft Auto (1977)).
Not an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick (1851), rather this is about the true-story genesis of his novel. In the Heart of the Sea attracts with its colorful seafaring adventure. Whaling, to most people, is about as exotic as it can get. The film succeeds rather well in portraying this fascinating activity, no doubt with enormous practical difficulties, not least because the activity is so hard to imagine doing.
But good maritime scenes cannot cover the many egregious choices made by the filmmakers: The film is about Melville, - but then not really. It is about first mate Owen Chase's (Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Ragnarok (2017))) marriage, - but then not really. And there's a fair argument to be made that Hemsworth is not enough of a dramatic actor to carry the part. It is about Chase's rivalry with the ship's stubborn captain, - but then not really. Finally the film is about the young Thomas, who sees everything through a big kid's eyes: SPOILER Tom Holland (Avengers: Endgame (2019)) is too cute for this part, and when as a grown man he has become Brendan Gleeson (The Village (2004)) it is impossible to see how and when the two could have possible morphed.
Maybe Howard was too unfocused during the making of the film, (he was tweeting and instagraming during shooting), or perhaps not personally invested enough. In any case, In the Heart of the Sea rumbles along hither and dither without much luck.
[In the Heart of the Sea premiered 2 December (London) and runs 122 minutes. 10 companies cooperated in the financing and production of the film. Shooting took place from September 2013 in Spain and England, including in London. The film opened #2, behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, to an 11 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it left the top 5 in its 2nd weekend and grossed 25 mil. $ (26.5 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Mexico with 6.3 mil. $ (6.7 %) and South Korea with 5.7 mil. $ (6 %). The film made an estimated 8.6 mil. $ additionally on the domestic home video market. Howard returned with The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016, documentary) and theatrically with Inferno (2016). Hemsworth returned in The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016). In the Heart of the Sea is rotten at 42 % with a 5.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
The Danish and American flags melt together on this tension-establishing poster for Christina Rosendahl's The Idealist
A radio journalist in Eastern Jutland, Denmark in 1988 latches himself onto a story, which will henceforth define his career: The crash of a US B52 airplane carrying four thermonuclear bombs in Greenland back in 1968, - at a time in which the enormous Northern territory was supposed to be free of nuclear weapons, and the secret aftermath of the affair, in which a large groups of Danes cleaned up the mess and got seriously ill.
The Idealist is written by Lars Kristian Andersen (Flame & Citron/Flammen & Citronen (2008)), Simon Pasternak (Sex, Drugs & Taxation/Spies & Glistrup (2013)), Birgitte Stærmose (Camino (2023)) and great Danish filmmaker, co-writer/director Christina Rosendahl (Supervoksen (2006)). It is based on the actual Thule base scandal.
Rosendahl and Co. have weaved together a surprisingly good and very debate-opening Cold War film here, a journalistic drama with grand political and principal perspectives more so than a thriller perhaps, but it is terrifically thrilling nevertheless, especially for Danes and Greenlanders. But really the conflict here with a giant allied super power in a bind in relation to basically a lilliput nation has much wider relevance, and the lies and weapons race during the Cold War has frightening perspectives and consequences the world over.
Peter Plaugborg (Ditte & Louise (2015-16)) is excellent as Brink, the energetic, idealistic and naive journalist protagonist; and so is Søren Malling (The Promised Land/Bastarden (2023)) as the leader of the clean-up workers, who collaborates with him. Smaller parts are also handled with the foremost professionalism by both Danes and Americans. The story is very large, and it goes around the Greenlanders' position in the matter. In the same way, it remains unclear how Brink in the first case gets onto the scandalous story. The Idealist is still impressively made and exceedingly well edited.
= Box office disaster (returned 0.12 times its cost)
[The Idealist premiered 19 March (Nuuk, Greenland) and runs 114 minutes. The film disappointed at the Danish box office, selling only 39,661 tickets, coming to 372k $. The film was also released in Norway, Brazil and Argentina, likely with tiny results, as these are not reported at Box Office Mojo, where the Danish result figures. The film won 1/10 Robert award nominations, (Denmark's Oscar). Rosendahl returned with Vold i Kærlighedens Navn (2017, documentary) and theatrically with Vores Mand i Amerika (2020). Plaugborg and Malling both returned in The Shamer's Daughter/Skammerens Datter (2015). 1.6k+ IMDb users have given The Idealist a 6.9/10 average rating.]
Title star Mads Mikkelsen lures from an ominous dark alley on this suggestive poster for Bryan Fuller's Hannibal - season 3
Hannibal - season 3 is created by Bryan Fuller (Heroes (2006-09)), based on Thomas Harris' (Carri Mora (2019)) novels Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal (1999)) and Hannibal Rising (2006).
The following contains SPOILERS.
The season opens very confusingly in Paris, and then in Florence, as psychologist/cannibal Hannibal Lecter has mysteriously moved his own psychologist Bedelia in to live with him there. The status and whereabouts of Will Graham, the FBI agent on his tail, is uncertain.
Lecter continues to play husband and wife with Bedelia in Italy, with the precise reason for her accommodating him eluding illumination. FBI Behavioral Unit leader Jack Crawford turns up, as Hannibal has claimed another victim and beats him up. He attacks back and is put in jail.
Now Francis 'the Tooth Fairy' Dollarhyde murders an entire family back in the US and befriends a blind woman, and Jack and Will turn to Hannibal for advise on catching him. Instead of helping, Hannibal turns Dollarhyde onto Will's family.
More carnage ensues, and Will releases Hannibal in order to catch Dollarhyde, but this also results in a blood bath and death.
The previously compelling show comes apart in what is likely its most literarily focused season. The central Dollarhyde/Red Dragon story line reminds us that both Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986) and Brett Ratner's Red Dragon (2002) told this menacing story better.
Obfuscation defines large parts of season 3, which also outwears its welcome with more or less pretentious, spacey, high-brow artsy sequences that come across as lethargic nonsense (and snooze-worthy.) Gloomy dark visuals and extended use of near whispered dialog doom the show, despite gory details and an intense, dream-like score (by Brian Reitzell (Relic (2020))). A sub-plot about real-life, never-caught Italian serial killer 'Il Mostro' surely flies over most audiences' heads in episode 2. Thematically, the series turns around the delicious vs the revolting and delves into the mind's disintegration into madness.
The last season of Hannibal is macabre but long, unengaging and sleep-inducing. Its strange allure may lend it a hypnotizing quality, but not in a good way.
[Hannibal season 3 was first shows from 4 June - 29 August on NBC and runs 13
episodes of on average 44 minutes, coming to approximately 572 minutes. Shooting
took place from around October 2014 in Toronto, Ontario and in Italy. The
season's highest rating came on episode 1 (2.57 mil.), but the ratings
then slipped, and the lowest rating came on episode 12 (0.79 mil.
). The loss of viewers led to NBC canceling the show. IMDb's users have rated the film in at #236 on the site's TV Top
250 list, sitting between Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal (1999, miniseries) and The Rehearsal (2022-).The season was nominated for an Emmy. Fuller returned with American Gods (2017-21). In 2015 Mikkelsen also starred in Men & Chicken/Mænd og Høns (2015) and in Rihanna: Bitch Better Have My Money (2015, music video), returning theatrically in Doctor Strange (2016). Hannibal season 3 is certified fresh at 98 % at Rotten Tomatoes.]
Star Kevin James seemingly runs atop the roof of a major Las Vegas hotel on this chuckle-worthy poster for Andy Fickman's Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Blart is regaining his footing after a very quick divorce, when he gets invited to a mall cop conference in Las Vegas, - and of course he elects to bring his daughter along.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is written by co-writer/co-producer/star Kevin James (Zookeeper (2011)) and Nick Bakay (Mom (2013-21)) and directed by Andy Fickman (She's the Man (2006)). It is the sequel to Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) by Steve Carr.
- Turns out there are some mean types in Vegas, who are after some art in the major hotel Wynn Las Vegas, - and it is all naturally enormously silly. At times the connections between events here are almost completely lost, but at the same time Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is an irresistible low-brow comedy, and James' physical brand of comedy is particularly fun here. Gary Valentine (Jack and Jill (2011)) also amuses as a veteran mall cop, and Neal McDonough (Apex (2021)) deserves praise for an altogether ludicrous villain's performance here that's hysterical. Raini Rodriguez (Rekindling Christmas (2020)) as Blart's daughter is also cute.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is intellectually low-ceilinged to be sure but damned charming and funnier than you think!
Watch a trailer for the movie here
Cost: Reportedly 38 mil. $ (different accounts)
Box office: 107.5 mil. $
= Box office success (returned 2.82 times its cost)
[Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 was released 9 April (Germany) and runs 94 minutes. Shooting took place from April - June 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada and in Florida. The film was the first to attain Nevada's film tax rebate, reportedly netting it 4.3 mil. $ returned. James reportedly accepted a pay cut to reduce the budget size. The film opened #2, behind holdover hit Furious 7, to a 23.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another 3 weekends (#2-#4-#5), grossing 71 mil. $ (66 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 6.1 mil. $ (5.7 %) and Mexico with 5.6 mil. $ (5.2 %). The film additionally made an estimated 12.4 mil. $ on the North-American home video market alone. Talks of another sequel haven't yet come to fruition. Fickman returned with 7 TV credits prior to his theatrical return Playing with Fire (2019). James returned in Liv and Maddie (2015, TV-series) and theatrically in Pixels (2015). Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is rotten at 6 % with a 3/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
Glamorous stars assemble on this kaleidoscopic poster for Ben Wheatley's High-Rise
A new resident in a 1970s high-rise attempts to find his place in its closed, class-divided inner society.
High-Rise is written by Amy Jump (A Field in England (2013)), adapting High Rise (1975) by J.G. Ballard (The Burning World (1964)), and directed by great English filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace (2009)).
The film feels like the fevered deliriums of a deranged Brit about 1970s class society and its people. The pace is strangely uneasy, rushed from the get-go, but this is no great narrative that sets an agenda.
For periods the strange film is nightmarish, but more often it is just remote and unengaging as it tumbles along and feels oddly archaic, as if what 40 years ago was a terse work is now - here - for inscrutable reasons staged in its original 1970s period, but completely without context. The unreality is mixed with a feeling of pretentious indulgence, when the characters of the almost incomprehensible film continue to abide in violence and smoking in ridiculous numbers of shots. Not unlike the recent Filth (2013), High-Rise is a late adaptation of an English work of dark and acerbic grain, which loses millions as a commercial product in itself and is a solid bummer.
[High-Rise premiered 13 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 119 minutes. Shooting took place from June - August (2014) in Northern Ireland, including in Belfast. The film opened #39 to a 79k $ first weekend in 79 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #37 and never grew in theater count, grossing 346k $ (6.5 % of the total gross). The film's biggest markets were the UK with 2.8 mil. $ (52.8 %), Portugal with 1 mil. $ (18.9 %) and Russia with 645k $ (12.2 %). Wheatley returned with Free Fire (2016). Tom Hiddleston (Thor: Ragnarok (2017)) returned in Crimson Peak (2015). High-Rise is fresh at 60 % with a 6.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
The Underwoods are leaving Air Force One on a red carpet against an ominous grey sky on this poster for the third season of Beau Willimon's House of Cards
House of Cards - season 3 is created by Beau Willimon (The Ides of March (2011)), based on the BBC miniseries of the same name from 1990, which in turn was based on the same-titled 1989 novel by Michael Dobbs (Winston's War (2002)).
The following season summary contains SPOILERS:
Frank has become US President, and his wife, First Lady Claire Underwood also seeks active service as American UN ambassador. Frank's approval ratings are low, and he wants to improve them by stimulating job growth. His former Chief of Staff Doug Stamper meanwhile is trying to overcome a personal downfall.
Stamper, desperate to get back in the game, accepts helping Claire out with her candidacy. Frank faces opposition from within his own party in his road towards securing their nomination as presidential candidate 1½ years hence.
While the Underwoods' favorite personal NSA bodyguard Meechum has gone missing, the Russian President Petrov visits the White House, and Frank boldly decides against appeasing him, when he appears not to be willing to give them any concessions.
Frank's bluff of outwardly saying that he is not interested in running for president gets called by a promising opposing candidate. Claire has become UN ambassador and faces problems dealing with the Russians in the Middle East. Another shocking page is written on Frank's monstrous hidden side, when he spits at a Jesus statue and breaks it on the floor during a church visit.
Frank spends a large sum from an emergency fund to make jobs (and regain popularity), and he helps Claire with a troop deployment in Jordan. Doug courts opposing Democratic presidential candidate Dunbar.
Frank and Claire head to Russia on a visit that does not go smoothly. The release of an American gay rights activist is botched, and the man commits suicide, while they are in the country, leading to scandal and marital strife.
Realizing that the rift is unbearable for both, Frank and Claire renew their wedding vows.
The ghost writer Tom, who is working on Frank's autobiography with him, and a keen political journalist Kate, who is describing Frank as a tyrant in an opinion piece, start a relationship. A hurricane ends Frank's AmWorks cashflow, and he decides it is time to announce his candidacy for President.
Trouble brews in the Jordan valley, and Doug finally finds proof that the potentially dangerous ex-prostitute that he followed in previous seasons, has died a violent death. He gets hammered and then presents Frank with the evidence, which he instructs Meechum, back on the force, to burn.
Petrov demands withdrawal from the Jordan valley, and Frank travels there and instead secures Russian withdrawal - against a promise that Claire will give up her UN job.
Chief of Staff Remy Danton leaves the office in regret, as the Democratic Presidential race begins with an Iowa debate, in which Frank alienates opposing candidate Jackie Sharp (Danton's ex-lover) the the point where she soon after the debate bows out and offers her support for Dunbar. Doug's 60 days of sobriety are over.
Claire is a good trooper for Frank's candidacy, as Dunbar threatens to release damaging details from her old diary, which Doug attains and destroys, securing himself back the position as Chief-of-Staff. Tom loses his girlfriend over his dedication to the job of writing the autobiography.
The mysterious prostitute who was thought dead turns up alive again in rural Des Moines, where Doug murders and buries her in the wilderness. Claire's anger over their marital problems and her professional breakdown comes to a head, when she notifies Frank that she wants to leave him, and that she implicitly has presidential dreams of her own.
Likely the best season up to this point, season 3 sees House of Cards climb to the highest level of quality TV drama, as the show now more or less halfway is really about a marriage under extraordinary pressure, - a stress that Kevin Spacey (Rebel in the Rye (2017)) and Robin Wright (Wonder Woman (2017)) portray with intense vigor. His final inability to tame her anger and ambitions in their negotiation-based sham of a marriage develops to a turbulent climax. The other half of the show is a wicked good political thriller of men (and women) who either stab each other's backs or help wash each other's hands clean.
The political maneuvers, if heightened, are narratively valid, relatively realistic and insightful in their devious machinations. Lars Mikkelsen (Headhunter (2009)) is outstanding as Petrov, a character loaded with Putin connotations. The development of the Underwood partnership also mirrors recent real-world politics, the Clintons, namely. Kim Dickens (Gone Girl (2014)) is another strong new cast addition as journalist Kate; and Paul Sparks (Waco (2018, miniseries)) is excellent as ghost writer Tom, whose polemic writings on the Underwoods cause him to be cast out of their home in episode 12. Although Michael Kelly (Chronicle (2012)) is fascinating as the eerie, plagued Doug Stamper character, the storyline involving Stamper, a hacker and the potentially damaging prostitute is continually mysterious and not the show's strongest in season 3, though over-all it is a very strong season.
Best episodes:
Episode 3: Chapter 29 - Written by Frank Pugliese (Shot in the Heart (2001, TV movie)), Laura Eason (Here and Now (2018)), Willimon; directed by Tucker Gates (Ray Donovan (2013-19))
Doug is working to secure a return to Frank's inner circle. Russian president Petrov visits the Underwoods at the White House for the first time.
Episode 5: Chapter 31 - Written by Kenneth Lin (My America (2012, TV-series)), Eason, Willimon; directed by James Foley (The Corruptor (1999))
Frank regains popularity around the 4th of July with his AmericaWorks initiative. Claire as new UN ambassador faces Russian intimidation.
Episode 6: Chapter 32 - Written by Melissa James Gibson (The Americans (2013-14)), Eason, Willimon; directed by Foley
The Underwoods travel to Russia, but the visit goes anything but smoothly.
[House of Cards
- season 3 was released in full on 27 February on Netflix and runs
approximately 663 minutes (13 episodes of around 51 minutes each).
Shooting took place in from June - December 2014 in Maryland, including
in Baltimore, New Mexico and in Washington DC. The third season reportedly cost
55 mil. $ to produce. Netflix regrettably do not report viewership
numbers.
The season was won 1/7 Emmy nominations and was nominated for a Golden Globe. IMDb's users have rated the TV-series
in at #108 on the site's TV Top 250, sitting between Friday Night Lights (2006) and Berserk (1997). House of Cards returned with season 4 in 2016, also Willimon's return as writer/producer. In 2014 Kevin Spacey did not appear elsewhere prior to season 4; Wright in 2015 also starred in Everest. House of Cards - season 3 is certified fresh at 73 % with a 7.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
A fearsome bunch of gun-carrying characters appear to be headed towards the same cabin through a blizzard on this exciting poster for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight
A bounty hunter with a wanted woman in his wagon runs upon an old acquaintance in a blizzard en route to Wyoming and brings him along with them; but soon the little company meet trouble at Minnie's Haberdashery.
The Hateful Eight is written and directed by Tennessean master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs (1992)), whose 10th feature it is.
Tarantino's second western, The Hateful Eight takes place in the same somewhat unreal Tarantino world as the preceding Django Unchained (2012). (The feeling is only enforced by Tarantino narrating the film himself.) Robert Richardson's (Breathe (2017)) exceptional 65 mm images and Ennio Morricone's (Days of Heaven (1978)) wily score make this tale of hoodlums easy to take.
In the cast Walton Goggins (The Crow: Salvation (2000)) stands out along with Jennifer Jason Leigh (The First Time (1982, TV movie)), the latter throwing herself head-first into a both frightening and pitiful character. The basic idea is to take a group of diverse, villainous characters and let them fight out their grievances in a cabin during a storm. A lot of sulfurous dialog and blood splatters predictably result, but without the shadow of a hero, it is hard not to feel that The Hateful Eight is somewhat overlong. We recognize some of Tarantino's tricks from past films, and curiously enough for this major wide format revival, he keeps his The Hateful Eight almost entirely indoors.
Some of Tarantino's trademark speechifying is just filler, - and I think it a shame that we don't get more wingspan to the film location-wise. SPOILER - What is one to think of the master filmmaker's career now, as the film ends with two men hanging a woman in a cabin to their great mirthful laughter, whereupon it ends? It feels a bit sad. For a newcomer I'd instead advice to watch Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Jackie Brown (1997).
= Box office success or a big hit (returned somewhere between 2.51-3.54 times its cost)
[The Hateful Eight premiered 7 December (Los Angeles) and runs 168 minutes (long roadshow version runs 187 minutes.) Originally thought as a Django sequel, Tarantino changed it up for his first draft, which leaked online in 2014, upsetting Tarantino to the point of naming the few trusted colleagues he had apparently shared it with and scrapping actually filming it. He instead held a reading with many of the stars present in 2014 and finally deciding to go ahead and film it anyway. Shooting took place from December 2014 - April 2015 in Colorado and Los Angeles, California. The state of Colorado contributed 5 mil. $ to the production. Kurt Russell (Touchback (2011)) accidentally smashed an antic 1870s Martin guitar during shooting, resulting in the Martin Guitar Museum no longer lending guitars out as props in movies anymore. The film was shot on 3 types of 65 mm cameras and transferred to 70 mm film, the widest 70 mm release since Far and Away (1992). The film opened #3, behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Daddy's Home, to a 15.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America after getting released as a longer roadshow version for its first week in only 70 mm equipped theaters, making 4.6 mil. $ for a final gross of 54.1 mil. $ (33.6 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 13.2 mil. $ (8.2 %) and France with 12.3 mil. $ (7.6 %). The film's Box Office Mojo site is flawed, listing the film's 5.4 mil. $ Australian gross twice, both in 2015 and in 2021. The film was nominated for 3 Oscars, winning for Best Score (Morricone's first and only Oscar). It lost Best Supporting Actress (Leigh) to Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl and Cinematography to Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant. It also won 1/3 BAFTA nominations, 1/3 Golden Globe nominations, was nominated for 2 Grammys and won 3 National Board of Review awards, among many other honors. Tarantino returned with Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019). Samuel L. Jackson (Common Grounds (1990, miniseries)) returned in Cell (2016); Russell in Deepwater Horizon (2016); and Leigh in Morgan (2016). The Hateful Eight is certified fresh at 74 % with a 7.30/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
