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Mike Schulz discusses all things movie with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. The haul promises to be pretty light in the forthcoming weeks, as today’s catch shows. Levora marvels over Inside Out 2 having become the best-selling animated film of all time, with $1.465 billion (and counting) on a $200 million budget. We’re still halfway through the year, though, so who knows if IO2 will close out 2024 as the top dog.
The films he’s seen:
- Twisters (dir Lee Isaac Chung, starr Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane). The film takes us back to 1996 for its thrills, with the sobering reality that tornadoes are increasingly becoming more and more common in our world. “Not a great movie, but had a great time,” Schulz says.
- The Irish paranormal horror film Oddity (dir Damian McCarthy, starr Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney). Oddity won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section of this year’s South by Southwest Film Fest, and commands a 95% favorability index on Rotten Tomatoes. In his determination to understand the phenomenon, Schulz has written about independent horror films that are really good. Is it because such films have to work harder to grab their audiences where they live, and therefore take more chances in trusting them to be intelligent and alert?
As for previews:
- Deadpool and Wolverine (dir Shawn Levy, starr Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Stanford, and Matthew Macfadyen). As tired as Schulz is with the super-hero genre, he’s game to see whether this one will toss the rulebook out of the proceedings. Will it?
- The Fabulous Four (dir Jocelyn Moorhouse, starr Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Bruce Greenwood, Timothy V Murphy, and Michael Bolton). Another aging female buddy film, a lá Book Club, a lá 80 for Brady, albeit with a compelling cast. It’s Bette Midler Goes to Key West.