Writer and director Ari Aster has quickly developed a consistent motif, at least across his two feature-length movies so far (Hereditary, and now, Midsommar): grief, and the destructive ways that people deal with it. But Midsommar is far from a re-hashing of the story in Hereditary, even if it brushes many of the same themes and subjects--tragedy, family, inevitability, cults, and beyond.
Where Hereditary was often almost unbearably dark, Midsommar is the opposite: unbelievably bright, almost always lit in full sunlight thanks to Sweden's midnight sun, the villagers' breezy white cotton frocks and vibrant wildflowers contrasting with flashes of dark memories and gruesome, undisguised violence. If anything, it makes Midsommar just as unsettling as Hereditary was, if not moreso.
Like its predecessor, Midsommar begins with tragedy. But the loss that Dani (Florence Pugh) experiences doesn't stay in the story's forefront for long, as her one-sided relationship with Christian (Jack Reynor) forces her to bury her feelings in constant subservience to his selfish needs. Their toxic relationship is highly relatable; he wants out, but feels obligated to stay with her, while her constant worry about losing him makes her feel pathetic. It's easy to root for her, although Christian isn't without sympathy too (some might argue with this, but what's his crime really? Being wishy-washy?).
Midsommar is a slow burn. The opening act follows Dani and Christian, along with Christian's friends Mark (Will Poulter), Josh (William Jackson Harper), and Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), as they plan a trip to Pelle's home village in remote Sweden. Dani eventually becomes attached to said trip, mainly out of pity, which presents a potent recipe for resentment.
Things turn more and more sinister as the midsummer festival in Pelle's village progresses through its 9-day celebration. It's a predictable horror movie structure, but in this case, it's to the movie's benefit, as that predictability is what keeps us anchored during the film's long-feeling 140-minute runtime. Midsommar spends exhausting amounts of time simply observing the cult's alien customs and rituals; as the audience, you'll feel as trapped among all the feasts and sermons as the village's foreign visitors do. There is beauty to much of it, but that beauty only makes the horror more terrifying as it seeps in and eventually grows to dominate the film.
Midsommar also has a strong psychedelic element; in many ways, it's like one extremely long, inescapable bad trip. If you've ever taken too many shrooms and freaked out for a few hours, you'll understand how Dani and Christian feel as they're repeatedly fed hallucinogenics while events get stranger and stranger. Visually, the movie marks their tripping perceptions with the pulsing and twisting of the natural world around them; trees and grasses beat like hearts, while flowers grow and shrink like they're taking breaths. It all adds to a sense of uneasy unreality that pervades the movie, along with incongruously beautiful music that builds and swells as gruesome acts play out onscreen.
Pugh ably portrays a character who's so starved for empathy that she effectively becomes helpless, a person you want to shake awake. As Christian, Reynor barely disguises his Irish accent, although it's not too distracting--and he does a fantastic job walking the line between a flawed protagonist and a total dickhead. Midsommar is often funny, though always with a threatening subtext; Poulter is the comic relief, but the kind who pisses on a ceremonial tree and then wonders what the big deal is. You cringe, you laugh, and then you dread what's going to happen next. William Jackson Harper, well known for his role as Chidi on The Good Place, is underused, his character unfortunately relegated to the sidelines.
Midsommar has a strong running throughline about reflection--on one's self, in one's surroundings, and beyond. Watch for mirrors throughout the movie, from the opening scene to the very end. Many shots are cleverly framed so that characters appear in reflections, and there's reciprocity in nearly every scene, from the way actors are arrayed to the quick cuts that serve to contrast two disparate events or scenes. Like Hereditary, Midsommar begs for repeat viewings.
It will also be fascinating to learn what kind of research went into the movie. The remote Swedish village doesn't appear to be a real place, but the cultists' iconography, beliefs, and rituals seem so fleshed out that they must be based somewhere in reality. These rituals go to some truly disturbing places, and like its predecessor, the violence Midsommar presents is undisguised by familiar movie magic like obfuscatory editing or over-the-top special effects. Aster's realistic onscreen portrayals of stark brutality and death will make you squirm in a way that few horror movies these days do. A strong throughline of body horror, from limbs growing roots during mushroom-fueled hallucinations to the dissections hinted at in trailers, adds further to the discomfort and terror pervading this movie.
Midsommar is an incredibly strong follow-up to Hereditary, and together, these two auteristic, art-house horror films cement Ari Aster as one of the most talented filmmakers currently working in the genre. Midsommar won't be for everyone--it's not exactly the commercial-minded horror blockbuster we're used to seeing in the middle of summer. But for those who don't mind a strange and terrifying trip, Midsommar is a movie to watch again and again and again.
Toy Story 4 hits theaters this week, and box office predictions suggest that it's going to be one of the biggest movies in the studio's history. But while anticipation for this sequel is high, the studio also continues to make original movies. The animated fantasy Onward has already been confirmed for a release next March, and Pixar has now announced another movie for 2020, titled Soul.
News of this latest Pixar movie was revealed via Twitter alongside a logo and the release date of June 19, 2020. The tweet also states that Soul "will take you on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to discover the answers to life's most important questions." Check it out below.
One year from today, @Pixar Animation Studios will take you on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to discover the answers to life's most important questions. Disney & Pixar's "Soul" arrives in theaters on June 19, 2020. pic.twitter.com/YvHsrIQ3ga
Soul will be directed by Pete Docter, who previously helmed Pixar's highly acclaimed Up and Inside Out. No further details have been revealed yet, but expect casting news to follow in the coming months.
Onward will arrive on March 6, 2020. The movie features Spider-Man star Tom Holland and Guardians of the Galaxy's Chris Pratt as teenage elf brothers who embark on a magical quest--check out the first trailer, which was released last month.
After months of anticipation, Nintendo finally pulled back the curtain on its new Animal Crossing game for Switch--now dubbed Animal Crossing: New Horizons--at E3 2019. Since the company's E3 Direct, more details about the title have begun to emerge, and one of the new tidbits we've learned is that it won't support cloud saves.
In an interview with French website Gamekult (via US Gamer), game producer Higashi Nogami confirmed that, unlike most Switch titles, New Horizons will not allow players to back up their save data to the cloud. The reason for this, according to Nogami, is to prevent players from manipulating time in the game, thereby cheating.
This news doesn't come as much of a surprise, particularly if you've been following the series. Each installment to date has taken measures to prevent players from cheating; in the past, if you quit the game without saving, the irritable mole Mr. Resetti would pop up the next time you loaded your file and scold you (although he'll be out of a job in New Horizons thanks to the game's auto-save feature). Mr. Resetti was optional in Animal Crossing: New Leaf for 3DS, but that title similarly didn't allow you to back up saves.
Cloud saves are one of the perks you get for subscribing to the Nintendo Switch Online service. While New Horizons won't support that feature, the game does require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription in order to play online with others. As we learned during a Treehouse Live demo, New Horizons will support up to eight players online and locally. Nintendo also confirmed the game will feature couch co-op for the first time in the series.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons launches for Nintendo Switch on March 20, 2020. We learned a lot of other details about the game during E3. This time around, players will be establishing their own village on a deserted island, and they'll be able to use materials they gather from rocks and trees to craft tools and furniture. The game also makes some welcome quality-of-life improvements, like giving you more control over where other animals move in. You can read more in our Animal Crossing: New Horizons pre-order guide.
To call the MCU "cagey" about protecting its secrets and reveals would be putting it lightly. Since the superhero boom, the people at Marvel Studios have been doing everything they can to obfuscate and deflect the truth about their movies from the general public before their release--and sometimes, even from the actors themselves. Most recently, some of Avengers: Endgame's biggest stars opened up about being told they were "filming a wedding" rather than a funeral for Tony Stark in the final moments of the movie. Other cast members have spoken up about only being given parts of scenes or "dummy" scripts, and the directors themselves have sparked social media campaigns begging fans not to spoil the movie's secrets.
Of course, some of these claims may just be for show, or at the very least be playfully exaggerated--especially in the case of "notorious" spoiler-ers like Mark Ruffalo and Tom Holland who have made names for themselves by unintentionally (or, sometimes, very intentionally) letting secrets about their various movies slip well before they're supposed to. Marvel's secrecy has become a meme unto itself, which really begs the question: How do you make a movie like Spider-Man: Far From Home that deals directly with the fallout of the most secretive Marvel movie of all time if you don't actually know what happens in the most secretive Marvel movie of all time?
The answer: You don't, apparently. For all that Endgame has garnered a reputation for being kept under complete lock-and-key from just about everyone, it turns out the cast and crew of Spider-Man: Far From Home was in on the whole thing from the very beginning. Yes, even infamous secret-spiller Tom Holland.
GameSpot sat down with Ned Leeds himself, Jacob Batalon, and Far From Home director Jon Watts to talk about the secret keeping of a post-Endgame movie--and it turns out, security on spoilers was way less strict than we could have anticipated.
"We read the full thing. We read the full script. Nothing was redacted or anything like that. That was like a big secret that we couldn't talk about ever," Batalon admitted. "Even, for some reason, while we were filming we were pretending like it never happened. [...] We made sure that no one ever brought it up. I mean, we'd bring it up as far as story-wise goes, as far as making the scenes and everything, but it was never really a thing discussed. It wasn't a big deal."
And somehow, miraculously, that approach seemed to be successful--at least, so far. Endgame may have avoided major leaks by keeping the actors as in the dark as possible, but Tom Holland would have been in the loop thanks to Far From Home's filming schedule--and it all worked out!
Nice work, Tom!
Watts confirmed--and added that, despite knowing the secrets of Endgame well in advance, Marvel Studios took a relatively hands-off approach to Far From Home's story. "I was one of the lucky few who knew the secret a long, long, long time ago," Watts laughed. "It was more just with that in mind, we were cut loose to develop our movie and to answer a lot of those unanswered questions in Endgame and figure out a way to use that as a jumping-off point."
Watts continued, "It was just like we know where those movies end, and that's where you start, and then where are you going to go from there."
So, where do they go from there? You can find out when Spider-Man: Far From Home hits theaters on July 2 to officially wrap up Phase 3 and to kick off the mysterious Phase 4.
With the smashing success of the John Wick franchise, and with a fourth installment slated for a May 2021 release, action badboy Keanu Reeves (47 Ronin, The Matrix) is back in full force. Everyone's loving him, from developer CD Projekt Red to the whole of the Internet. Even Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige admits to looking for "the right way" to include the Canadian-American actor in the MCU.
Feige was interviewed by Comic Book, who asked if the studio was in talks with Reeves. Feige said Marvel talks to Reeves for every movie the company makes. This led to Feige confirming that he wants Reeves in the MCU. "I don't know when, if, or ever he'll join the MCU, but we very much want to figure out the right way to do it." Feige believes the situation with Reeves could play out similarly to Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code, Southpaw), who has been approached "multiple times" until "the right way" appeared. Gyllenhaal plays Quentin Beck/Mysterio in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home, which is scheduled to debut on July 2.
Reeves is everywhere these days. The prolific action star plays himself in Netflix romcom Always Be My Maybe and lends his voice to Toy Story 4. Reeves also returns to Ted "Theodore" Logan in Bill & Ted Face the Music and plays "key" character and "legendary rockerboy" Johnny Silverhand in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077.
During E3 2019 we learned that CD Projekt Red approached Reeves about a year ago or so and called the meeting a "match made in heaven." Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on April 16, 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Microsoft announced the next few weeks of Xbox game Pass games coming to PC and console, but a few are rotating out as well. You have just over a week to play the games slated for rotation.
If you want to keep any of these games in your library permanently, your Game Pass subscription grants you a 20% discount on game purchases, as long as you make those purchases while the games are still part of the Game Pass service. Otherwise, just get your time in while you can.
Game Pass costs $10 per month for a standard subscription on PC or Xbox One, but Microsoft recently introduced a new Game Pass Ultimate that bundles both along with Xbox Live Gold for $15 per month. You can try the Ultimate version of the service for $1 for your first month, or take advantage of a little loophole to upgrade your current Gold or Game Pass time on the cheap.
The month of July is a huge one for Netflix. Aside from the streaming service dropping its usual slew of movies and TV series, some of Netflix's most popular shows return this month for brand-new seasons. Make sure to plan out your month now because it's going to be packed.
On July 4, the most anticipated streaming series returns for a third season. That's right, the kids from Stranger Things are back and probably dealing with some more horrible monsters from the Upside Down. Hitting on more '80s nostalgia, this season heads to a mall, the place where all the cool kids hung out and worked during the summer. While we don't know too much about the plot, the latest posters for the new season did reveal some new characters and some behind-the-scenes photos gave us some clues to this season's story.
The two other returning series to keep your eye on are Season 4 of Queer Eye, coming on July 19. Like previous seasons, the cast remakes someone's life in order to better themselves through cleaning up their house, giving the target a makeover, and giving them the confidence to move forward in their lives. If you need something uplifting that will bring a tear to your eye, this is a must watch for you. On July 26, Orange is the New Black returns for Season 7. This will be the final season of the prison dramedy, so maybe we'll see some of the cast finally get released--or shived. This is prison, after all. If you're wondering about Netflix's other big series, Glow, that isn't releasing until August. Be patient.
As far as non-Netflix originals go, there are plenty of movies coming, mainly on July 1. The classic Martin Scorsese movie, Taxi Driver, arrives that day, following Robert DeNiro's character, a war veteran on the verge of a breakdown as he works as a New York City cab driver at night. On the comedic side of things, the sports comedy Caddyshack arrives. The movie follows an elite golf club which has a gopher problem. It's one of the few times golf is fun in a movie.
While there are plenty of things arriving in July, Netflix has also announced many things are leaving as well. On the first of the month, all the Mummy movies are saying goodbye to the streaming service. Also, Wedding Crashers and the first two Austin Powers movies are leaving as well, so watch them all before the first of the month hits.
Below, you'll find everything coming to Netflix in July. If you're interested in more steaming news, check out what Hulu has planned for July.
Coming To Netflix In July
July 1
Designated Survivor: 60 days -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Astro Boy
Caddyshack
Caddyshack 2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke
Cloverfield
Disney's Race to Witch Mountain
Frozen River
Inkheart
Kill the Irishman
Lady in the Water
Little Monsters
Mean Dreams
Mean Streets
Megamind
Nights in Rodanthe
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Philadelphia
Rain Man
Road House
Room on the Broom
Scream 3
Starsky & Hutch
Swiped
Swordfish
Taxi Driver
The Accountant of Auschwitz
The American
The Book of Eli
The Brothers Grimm
The Hangover
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther 2
War Against Women
Who's That Knocking at My Door?
July 2
Bangkok Love Stories: Objects of Affection -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Bangkok Love Stories: Plead -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Good Witch: Season 4
July 3
The Last Czars -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Yummy Mummies: Season 2 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 4
Kakegurui: Season 2
Stranger Things 3 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 5
In The Dark: Season 1
July 6
Free Rein: Season 3 -- NETFLIX FAMILY
The Iron Lady
Sicilian Ghost Story
July 9
Disney's Mary Poppins Returns
Kinky
July 10
Family Reunion -- NETFLIX FAMILY
Grand Designs: Season 10
Grand Designs: Season 15
Parchís: El documental -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 11
Cities of Last Things -- NETFLIX FILM
July 12
3Below: Tales of Arcadia: Part 2 -- NETFLIX FAMILY
4 latas -- NETFLIX FILM
Blown Away -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Bonus Family: Season 3 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Extreme Engagement -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Kidnapping Stella -- NETFLIX FILM
Luis Miguel - The Series: Season 1
Point Blank -- NETFLIX FILM
Smart People
Taco Chronicles -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
True Tunes: Songs -- NETFLIX FAMILY
July 13
Sorry Angel
July 16
The Break-Up
Disney's The Princess and the Frog
Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Wynonna Earp: Season 3
July 17
Pinky Malinky: Part 3 -- NETFLIX FAMILY
July 18
Secret Obsession -- NETFLIX FILM
July 19
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: New 2019: Freshly Brewed -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Season 3 -- NETFLIX FAMILY
La casa de papel: Part 3 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Last Chance U: INDY: Part 2 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Queer Eye: Season 4 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac -- NETFLIX ANIME
Typewriter -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 22
Inglourious Basterds
July 24
The Great Hack -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 25
Another Life -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Workin' Moms: Season 2 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 26
Boi -- NETFLIX FILM
The Exception
Girls With Balls -- NETFLIX FILM
My First First Love: Season 2 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Orange Is the New Black: Season 7 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Son -- NETFLIX FILM
Sugar Rush: Season 2 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Worst Witch: Season 3 -- NETFLIX FAMILY
July 29
The Croods
July 30
Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It? -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
July 31
Kengan Ashura: Part l -- NETFLIX ANIME
The Letdown: Season 2 -- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Red Sea Diving Resort -- NETFLIX FILM
Wentworth: Season 7
Leaving Netflix In July
July 1
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Blood Diamond
Body of Lies
Bull Durham
Chasing Amy
Cool Hand Luke
Definitely, Maybe
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Doctor Zhivago
Dolphin Tale
Dumb and Dumber
East of Eden
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Season 1
It Takes Two
Malibu's Most Wanted
Monster-in-Law
Pan's Labyrinth
Punch-Drunk Love
Silence of the Lambs
The Boondock Saints
The Interview
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The Terminator
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
The Wild Bunch
Turner and Hooch
Valkyrie
Wedding Crashers
July 2
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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In just a few weeks we'll be entirely up-to-date with the Marvel Cinematic Universe release schedule. Spider-Man: Far From Home hits theatres on July 5, and no further MCU films have been officially announced. But this could change later next month, as it has been reported that the studio is set to make its return to San Diego Comic-Con.
According to Deadline, Marvel is planning to appear in Hall H at this year's SDCC, which takes place on the weekend of July 19-21. Hall H is traditionally the location of the convention's biggest panels and announcements. Marvel did not appear at all at SDCC 2018, with studio boss Kevin Feige having previously made it clear that no more movies would be announced until after Avengers: Endgame was in theaters. But with Endgame released back in April and Far From Home about to arrive, Marvel is expected to reveal the schedule for the next batch of films soon.
Marvel's potential return to Hall H is also notable because rivals DC won't be at SDCC at all this year. While parent company Warner is set to showcase upcoming horror releases such as It: Chapter 2 and Doctor Sleep at the opening night event ScareDiego, DC won't be making any announcements. Unlike Marvel, it already has a packed slate of upcoming movies due over the next two years, including Joker, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman 1984, and The Batman.
The continued rollout of new game releases on the Xbox Game Pass service continues. Following a large set of new releases earlier in June, Microsoft has announced more games coming for players on both Xbox One and PC. Game Pass is now available on the two platforms, but with their own independent libraries--although there is some crossover in these new releases.
First, on June 20, Xbox One players can get Resident Evil: Revelations and Rare Replay. The latter is a compilation of Rare's work over decades, which includes retro games from the ZX Spectrum to games that appeared on the N64 like Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark to 360 games like Viva Pinata. It's quite a bit of bang for your Game Pass buck.
All of this follows the exciting Game Pass lineup that was unveiled during E3 earlier this month. That brought games like Metro Exodus, Hollow Knight, and many more to the service; you can play all of those right now.
As Microsoft notes, each of these games is available through individual Game Pass subscriptions for PC or console, but all of them together can be had with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. That includes both the PC and console Game Pass subscriptions and Xbox Live Gold. It usually costs $15 per month, up from the $10 that the standard Game Pass costs, but you can get Game Pass Ultimate for cheap for a limited time.
Best Buy is offering a 24-hour flash sale that includes some big savings on gaming PCs and other hardware. You have to be a My Best Buy member in order to participate, but signing up for that is free, and frequently nets you $5-10 discounts on games, among other perks. On top of the immediate savings, you'll also get a $10 promotional reward certificate with any flash sale purchase. The gift certificate will be added to your account by July 7 and is valid from 7/7/19 to 7/28/19. The sale ends tonight at 10:00 PM PT / 1:00 AM ET on June 20, so get in there quickly if you want to take advantage.
If you go for any of the desktops, you'll need a monitor to display all those crisp visuals. Alienware's 25" LED monitor refreshes at 240 Hz at 1080p, allowing for fast and smooth gaming at almost half of the full price. There are also options for a living room setup as well, with 4K UHD smart TVs from Hisense, LG, and TCL all available for at least $200 off. There are also good deals available on a Switch-compatible memory card from SanDisk that's over half off and an 8TB external hard drive for all your deep storage needs.
Of course you'll need something to play on that new rig once you have it set up. You can spend the included gift card on Arkane's fantastic immersive sim, Prey, which is already $10 on PC (making it free!). You can also drop it on some hotly-anticipated pre-orders, such as Jedi: Fallen Order and Doom Eternal. Check out all the sale highlights below.
Update: It has been confirmed that the re-release of Avengers: Endgame will feature new post-credit footage rather than scenes edited into the movie. Marvel boss Kevin Feige told Screenrant that "there'll be a deleted scene, a little tribute, and a few surprises." This version of Endgame releases on June 28. The movie previously did not have any after-credits scene of note, which is unusual for a Marvel movie. However, in the weeks after its release, a trailer for the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home--which deals directly with the fallout of Endgame--was tacked onto the conclusion of the film.
Avengers: Endgame isn't just the most financially successful Marvel film of all the time--it's also the longest. The final running time of Endgame is 181 minutes, 32 minutes longer than Avengers: Infinity War. But superhero fans who feel that even that wasn't enough are in luck--Marvel boss Kevin Feige has revealed that the movie is set to return to theaters with even more footage.
In an interview with comicbook.com, Feige confirmed that an even longer version of the movie would arrive very soon. "We are doing that," he said. "I don't know if it's been announced. And I don't know how much [new footage]... Yeah, we're doing it next weekend."
Obviously, Feige is light on details, and an official announcement about an extended Endgame is yet to be made. But a rerelease could be what the movie needs to overtake James Cameron's Avatar to become the most successful film of all time. Avatar made $2.78 billion at the worldwide box office back in 2009, with Endgame having made $2.74 billion to date.
While we don't know what the extra footage will contain, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have previously spoken about some of the material that was cut from the final edit. These include an awkward exchange between Thor and Valkyrie and an appearance from 13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford as the grown-up version of Tony Stark's daughter Morgan. In addition, there are a few moments in the movie's trailers that didn't make it to the version of Endgame seen in theaters.
When is Naughty Dog's The Last of Us: Part II releasing? That's one of the biggest questions in gaming right now. Beyond the fact that it's still coming to PS4, we don't have any idea of just when it's releasing, and now game director Neil Druckmann is having some fun with the discussion.
He joked on Twitter that The Last of Us: Part II is delayed by five minutes every time someone asks for the release date. Naturally, people responded to his tweet by asking for the release date.
FYI... every time someone asks for the release date, the game gets pushed back by five minutes. 😈
Officially, no release date--or even a release window--has been announced yet for The Last of Us: Part II. The parody website The Onion recently posted a silly story that said the game would launch in 2019, and Naughty Dog responded by saying it would share more information when it's ready. For more on the much-awaited PS4 game, check out everything we know about The Last of Us: Part II.
Director Ari Aster's 2018 feature film debut Hereditary starring Toni Collette put the director on the map, and now he's back with another spooky movie titled Midsommar. Reviews and reactions have started to appear for Midsommar ahead of its theatrical release, and appears Aster hasn't suffered a sophomore slump but instead put together another excellent horror film.
Midsommar was screened at a premiere tonight, and reactions have poured in remarking that it's a terrifying and unique film based on Aster's own life and specifically was inspired by a break-up he went through. We've collected a series of Twitter reactions that you can see below.
Writer-director Jordan Peele, known for his own disturbing movies like Get Out and Us, saw a very early cut of Midsommar and remarked in the Fangoria magazine that it's set to become the "most iconic pagan movie" ever.
Midsommar opens in theaters on July 3. It stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, and William Jackson Harper.
I'm extremely envious of everyone who gets to see MIDSOMMAR for the first time ... because you are in for one incredibly mondo-fucked up experience.
MIDSOMMAR will do for Swedish pagan solstice rituals what Psycho did for showers. a psychedelic fairy tale about ridding oneself of fear and pain — absolutely delightful from its nightmare of an opening to its floral purge of a finale. 💐🌞💐
Had about an hour to process #Midsommar and Ari Aster sure likes to analyze grief. He can also shoot the hell out of a movie — can't remember a recent movie that was as beautiful as this one. Complete mind fuck.
MIDSOMMAR: a wickedly funny romp with Ugly Americans and Freaky Swedes in the woods, a premium cut of one of my favorite subgenres (daytime horror), and just so confidently made. Ari Aster takes the very idea of a sophmore slump and sets it ablaze
MIDSOMMAR: Psychologically fragile tourists meet a full blast of Swedish folk horror, mounted by Ari Aster at the peak of his atmospheric powers. No director in horror is working at his level of choreography, the daring of his alienating moments. What a weird spell this is.
Things that are great about MIDSOMMAR: 1. Florence Pugh. 2. Henrik Svensson's next-level production design. 3. Pawel Pogorzelski's slow, steady camera that lulls you into a state of calm. 4. Ari Aster meditating intensely about trauma and loss in the most fucked up ways.
May I just say? Midsommar will easily be one of my favorite films of 2019. @AriAster is not only skilled as a horror filmmaker but in this film emerges as an American answer to Von Trier or Haneke. I had a blast Q&Aing tonight. Thx @A24!! https://t.co/KsMWqjbkQ7
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