Vital Thrills recently attended the early press day for Pixar’s Luca, and we got a chance to talk to Academy Award-nominated director Enrico Casarosa (La Luna) and producer Andrea Warren (Lava, Cars 3). We’ve also got the brand-new trailer and poster for you, so don’t miss those below the interview! Pixar’s Luca will hit the Disney+ streaming…
In Warner Bros.’ new Mortal Kombat movie, we follow a new character named Cole Young (Lewis Tan). He’s a washed-up MMA fighter with a wife and daughter. He’s had a dragon marking from birth, and he assumes it’s just a birthmark. What it actually is will change his life as he’s pulled into a battle…
If ten years ago, I had made a list of sentences I would never write in a review, surely ”enjoying a Bob Odenkirk action movie” would have to have been one of them. And yet that reality has come to pass and mostly successfully, if somehow both broad and shallow. Odenkirk’s reinvention as a solid…
Vital Thrills recently got a chance to talk to the Coming 2 America cast via a virtual press conference for the anticipated sequel. Coming 2 America will launch on Prime Video in over 240 countries on March 5, 2021. Original cast favorites returning from Coming to America include King Akeem (Eddie Murphy), Semmi (Arsenio Hall), King Jaffe…
The biopic is a surprisingly elastic storytelling tool. In theory, it exists to present an overview of a life. But what is life? It can be tragic, uplifting, or enthralling, and often, all of those together within the same span of years. By the same token, the biopic can be a tragedy, a warning, a…
With Flora & Ulysses launching on Disney+ on February 19, Vital Thrills got a chance to participate in the press conference for the film. Joining the chat were Matilda Lawler, Alyson Hannigan, Ben Schwartz, Danny Pudi, book author Kate DiCamillo, and director Lena Khan. The film is based on the Newbery Award-winning book Flora & Ulysses:…
Beautiful, sad, and distant, Land is like the mountainous horizon. Would-be woodswoman Edee (Robin Wright) spends much of her time gazing at a picture-perfect artifice that may be full of significance but is just as likely a mere empty view. On the surface, it is an elegantly paced tone poem of reflection, juxtaposing the uncaring…
Vital Thrills got to participate in an early press day for Raya and the Last Dragon last week and we learned all about the anticipated Walt Disney Animation Studios film. Joining the event were directors Don Hall and Carlos Lopez Estrada, producer Osnat Shurer, and writers Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim. We got a chance to check out some footage from…
It would be very easy to write The Marksman off as an empty action thriller playing around with evil émigré tropes like a child with a hand grenade because that’s mostly what it is. A low-key chase film built on the personal salvation of a child in trouble, it plays with stereotypes in a way…
Vital Thrills participated in Netflix‘s virtual roundtable interviews with the Pieces of a Woman cast and crew. Joining Pieces of a Woman cast members Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn were director Kornél Mundruczó and writer Kata Wéber. In the movie, Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of…
Last year was rough for so many people in the world. Although theaters were mostly closed and live events were put on hold, the 2020 movies and TV shows got folks through the difficult times while they were stuck at home. Like many, the Vital Thrills writers stayed at home and have now shared what…
Pixar films, at their best, are wildly imaginative, speaking to children and adults alike. On paper, most Pixar films have basic scenarios with complex themes – toys that come to life or the monsters under the bed become surrogates for parenthood; a family of superheroes gives way to themes of isolation, self-worth, and our place…
Promising Young Woman is a hard film to discuss. It’s one of those films that is going to have you debating after you see it. You’ll be thinking about it for a long time. It’s a gut punch of a film, and it’s probably going to cause arguments in your house and friend group. That’s…
Promising Young Woman is a dive into the deep end of cynicism. That is not a pejorative or a negative. It is simply a statement of the reality viewed by its writer/director and the scores of individuals she is speaking for. A world where painful, life-changing events are passed off as ‘youthful indiscretions’ that a…
If Hollywood is our guide, great natural disasters have no greater purpose than to focus on a long-standing interpersonal conflict (usually a married couple) and give the participants one big chance to clear it up. Mother Nature isn’t just the personification of our system of physical laws making sure the world works the way it…
We’re surrounded by so much news these days, mountains of it at our fingertips, that we forget not only how difficult it once was to receive it but the power it actually had. The news wasn’t (and isn’t) just words, it’s proof of civilization. That the world exists, that people beyond our immediate experience exist…
Vital Thrills recently attended a virtual roundtable discussion with the cast of Disney’s Godmothered. The film will begin streaming on Disney+ on December 4. Joining the discussion were Jillian Bell, Isla Fisher, Jane Curtin, Jillian Spaeder, Willa Skye, Santiago Cabrera, Artemis Pebdani, and Utkarsh Ambudkar. You can check out a video of the discussion with…
The time has now come. With all options for the ’80s and ’90s nostalgia used up, we must now look to the 2000s and early 2010s to re-feed us our youthful reminisces. Actually, that’s far too cynical. There’s nothing nostalgic about this seven-years-later sequel. The Croods: A New Age is a simple matter of an…
I saw the original Star Wars Holiday Special on television. I remember seeing it; I remember as a nine-year-old kid sitting down and enjoying it — being nine years old, my taste in what was good or bad was pretty fluid — and then wondering why it never played again. As I grew older, the…
Millie doesn’t have a lot going for her. She’s unpopular at school. She’s bullied by other girls as well as her teacher. Her mother is an alcoholic. And as the school mascot, even the football players pick on her. Her only comforts are her friends Nyla and Josh. As if things weren’t bad enough, there’s a serial…