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 …
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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 …