Author: The DHK

The final trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” has materialized, and it has us somewhat intrigued. The teaser was a mere imagery salad of noiresque carnival imagery. This latest trailer gives us a bit more of a look at the cast and two of our main players.  Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, Bradley Cooper stars as Stanton Carlisle. In this final trailer he’s a self purported true medium. It seems he will get drawn into a web of intrigue by Cate Blanchett’s Lilith Ritter. The novel has already been adapted once for the screen in 1947.…

MCU and “Fresh Off the Boat” star Randall Park has joined a new Netflix project. “Blockbuster” is set inside the last Blockbuster Video store in America. The series comes from Vanessa Ramos who has served on a writer on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Superstore.” She was also a writer/ producer for the HBO comedy series “Crashing.” Park has most recently been playing Agent Jimmy Woo (last seen in “WandaVision”) and a version of himself in Dwayne Johnson’s semi-autobiographical show, “Young Rock.” Not afraid of superhero franchise double dipping, he is currently filming “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.”  Blockbuster Video was founded…

Boots and cats and red pandas come to the new trailer for Pixar’s “Turning Red.” The animation studio has dropped their latest trailer for the Domee Shi-directed film. The film centers on Meilin Lee, a self confident, Chinese-Canadian, music obsessed kid.  In addition to the usual perils of growing up, Meilin also happens to suffer from a family curse that turns her into a giant red panda when she experiences strong emotions. Think a fuzzy adorable Incredible Hulk in a style only Pixar can do. Meilin and her friends are infatuated with fictional boy band 4*Town. We can only assume…

The new film “Red Notice” professes to be an original, but there’s unfortunately nothing unique about it and star power can’t save it. In spite of featuring three of arguably the biggest movie stars in the world right now- Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot- the movie relies too much on our affection for them as personalities and not enough on bothering to tell a compelling story. “Red Notice” ends up being a pretty much paint by numbers crime caper. Johnson plays John Hartley, an FBI profiler on the case of the world’s top two art thieves. Reynolds plays…

Music legend and vaccine angel Dolly Parton will be guest starring in the final season of Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie.” The prolific performer will reunite with “9 to 5” costars Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. The trio appeared in the classic workplace satire back in 1980. This will be their first time reuniting (at least in fictional roles, they reunited as themselves to present at the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards). Netflix is keeping specifics of Parton’s performance under wraps for now. Season 7 is sadly the last for “Grace and Frankie.” The first four episodes of the season premiered as…

Apple TV+ has premiered “Dr. Brain” their first Korean language drama and we watched it all! The six episode series is from filmmaker Kim Jee-woon (“I Saw the Devil,” “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”). It stars Lee Sun-kyun who audiences may be familiar with from “Parasite” where he plays the father of the well off family. OR you may know him from “Coffee Prince” (fans of the show know what’s up).  Lee Sun-kyun plays brain scientist Sewon who is doing cutting edge research on “brain syncs.” After his own family suffers a horrific tragedy, he must rely on his…

Daniel Dae Kim (more like Daniel Bae Kim…) is joining Netflix’s live action take on “Avatar: The Last Airbender” as Fire Lord Ozai. The dangerously handsome thespian will portray the ruthless leader of the fire nation. Dallas Liu has previously been announced as Prince Zuko. Zuko is Ozai’s son and the two have a contentious relationship to say the least. Ozai is driven by a need to conquer the world in the name of the Fire Nation in order to fulfill his family’s destiny. Gordon Corimer will be playing Aang, the titular last Airbender. Kiawentiio will be playing Katara the…

Carole Baskin’s cool cats and kittens will return in “Tiger King 2.” The feline fanatic had filed suit against Netflix for the upcoming release of the sequel docuseries. She and her husband claimed they agreed to the use of their likeness in an “initial documentary motion picture,” which to them would NOT include a follow up. “Tiger King” swept the cultural zeitgeist in mid 2020. Focusing on the “woes” of Joe Exotic, his horrifying big cat zoo, and his near obsessive hatred for Carole Baskin. There were also major implications that Baskin may have had something to do with the…

Legendary director John Woo has announced his first film in 4 years, “Silent Night” starring Joel Kinnaman. Woo has only directed a handful of western films. He took the helm of 2000’s “Mission Impossible 2” and of course 1997’s “Face / Off.”  Kinnaman most recently starred in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” as Colonel Rick Flag. Kinnaman continues to star in Apple TV+s “For All Mankind” which was renewed for a third season. You can read our interview with him here. He also stared in Netflix’s “Altered Carbon.” Language barriers shouldn’t be an issue for the film as apparently the “loud…

Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, and Emily Blunt are boarding Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”. Cillian Murphy has already been announced in the titular role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. It was announced Blunt joined the project in October. She’ll be playing Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Announced today, Downey Jr. and Damon join the cast.  Oppenheimer is one of the theoretical physicists credited as the father of the atomic bomb. His contributions to the field led to mass death and destruction. Eventually this led Oppenheimer to advocating for the banning of nuclear weapons. Downey Jr. is playing Lewis Strauss. Strauss was the…