It's the Trailer Round-Up
Disney/Pixar's "Luca," Apple Tv+ "Lisey’s Story," Amazon Studios "Val," PBS "The Neutral Ground," Greenwich Entertainment "The Phantom" & "All the Streets Are Silent," and Starz’s "With Drawn Arms"
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Here are the latest teasers and trailers for your unadulterated cinematic delight.
🎥 Disney and Pixar’s Luca
If you’ve yet to see the darling calamari by your name, you’re long overdue. While we playfully jest about the title, Luca is an endearing film about the wholesome summer days of making them count as kids. Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s Luca is a coming-of-age story about friendship.
Luca (Jacob Tremblay) shares amazing adventures with his friend Alberto Scorfano (Dylan Grazer). Except, a deeply held secret soon threatens their summer fun: they’re sea monsters from a world below the water’s surface. It’s a heartwarming tale of friendship set in the beautiful technicolor world of animation that stuns. Anyone who speaks down on animation is truly missing out. My nephew, Atticus, is willfully reactive, and his verdict (along with mine): watch/stream Luca on Disney+/theaters now. For fans of The Goonies and Now and Then.
🎥 Apple Tv+’s Lisey’s Story
Lisey’s Story is based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel and adapted and written by the author himself. Starring Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore and Academy Award-nominee Clive Owen.
A deeply personal and reflective thriller, centering around Lisey Landon (Julianne Moore) two years after the death of her husband, famous novelist Scott Landon (Clive Owen). A series of unsettling events causes Lisey to face memories of her marriage to Scott that she has deliberately blocked out of her mind. Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Ron Cephas Jones, and Sung Kang also star alongside Moore and Owen.
Directed by Pablo Larraín, Lisey’s Story hails from J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. King, Moore, and Larraín executive produce alongside Abrams, Ben Stephenson, and Juan de Dios Larraín. The eight-episode series releases new episodes every Friday only on Apple Tv+. Lisey’s Story had me with Julianne Moore and kept me written by Stephen King; I’ll be binge-watching this series this weekend.
🎥 Amazon Studios’ Val
Amazon Studios has debuted the official trailer for Val ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Focused on actor Val Kilmer (also executive producer) from directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo, Val tells the story of actor Val Kilmer through home videos he shot over four decades.
The official Val synopsis from Amazon Studios reads: “For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like ‘Top Gun,’ ‘The Doors,’ ‘Tombstone,’ and ‘Batman Forever.’ This raw, wildly original, and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.”
Most intriguing will be to see the intimate on-set videos that Kilmer recorded during the making of his most famous films.
Val will be in theaters on July 23rd, with the documentary streaming on August 6th on Amazon Prime Video.
🎥 PBS’ The Neutral Ground
In 2015, director Cj Hunt began filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four Confederate monuments, although with plans for removal came the death threats, halting any plants. Hunt sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America.
The Neutral Ground result is a sharp yet bitterly funny look at America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. The documentary explores race in America— and his own racial identity as African American and Filipino American. With the timely upcoming removal of the Teddy Roosevelt statue at New York City’Museum of Natural History— and other symbols of racism throughout the country being taken down, this film is an important reminder to keep the dialogue and conversation going, no matter how uncomfortable with the possibility of creating an end to racism.
The Neutral Ground currently has its world broadcast television premiere on PBS/POV with streaming starting on the same day at PBS.ORG through August 4th.
🎥 Greenwich Entertainment The Phantom
The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A documentary of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large.
This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption, and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets of a Texas oil town nearly thirty years ago.
Currently, The Phantom is showing in a limited theatrical release and is available on-demand nationwide now.
🎥 Greenwich Entertainment All the Streets are Silent
In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the streets of downtown Manhattan were the site of a collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop.
All the Streets Are Silent brings to life the magic of the time and the convergence that created a style and visual language with an outsized and enduring cultural effect. From the DJ booths and dance floors of the Mars nightclub to the founding of brands like Supreme, this convergence would lay the foundation for modern street style. Said to be between Paris Is Burning meets Larry Clark’s KIDS, All the Streets Are Silent is a love letter to New York— examining race, society, fashion, and street culture. Narrated by Zoo York co-founder Eli Gesner with an original score by legendary hip-hop producer Large Professor (Nas, A Tribe Called Quest), the documentary will have a limited theatrical release opening July 23rd.
🎥 Starz’s With Drawn Arms
A groundbreaking documentary and intimate conversation of reflection helped define a movement with the activist and Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith.
Tommie gained notoriety because of his rightful act of protest; the Olympian famously raised his gloved fist alongside John Carlos during the medal ceremony at the ’68 games in protest against racial inequity.
With Drawn Arms, Glenn Kaino and Afshin Shahidi, co-executive produced by Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams, and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend.
This week I’ll be watching more screeners sitting real cute in my inbox and excitedly re-watching a screener for the highly anticipated [REDACTED]—we can’t wait to dish. Until then, catch us online.
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