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From Here to Eternity Review

05 Aug 1953

118 minutes

From Here to Eternity

This big best‑seller‑type movie (from James Jones's novel) about life and love on a US Army base scooped an armload of Oscars in 1953. Director Fred Zinneman stages a few scenes so well that they are still imitated or parodied and, if the 'adult' themes ‑ blunted by a censorship requirement that the army not be offended by a depiction of military sloppiness, hypocrisy, homosexuality or brutality ‑ are less daring than they once were, it has more than enough iconic moments to make it endlessly rewatchable.

Montgomery Clift is the sensitive soul who'd rather play the trumpet than box and goes AWOL only to become a martyr-hero during the attack on Pearl, Frank Sinatra is the cocky soldier who suffers appalling abuse from bullying military policeman Ernest Borgnine (The Godfather presents a scurrilous theory about how the crooner won this plum role) and Donna Reed is the most decorous, sweet-tempered hooker in the cinema.

The spectacular last-reel recreation of the bombing makes this, Michael Bay notwithstanding, the Pearl Harbor film to beat, but the unquestioned highlight is the famous on‑the‑beach adultery scene between virile sergeant Lancaster and an unusually unladylike Kerr, with the waves crashing around them to symbolise their unrestrained passions. Hard to take all that seriously these days, but always entertaining as gutsy soap opera. It was remade as a TV miniseries in 1979, with William Devane, Natalie Wood, Don Johnson and Kim Basinger.

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Classic characters fight, drink, smoke, and have affairs.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

This film sets high standards for loyalty, courage

Military personnel range from evil to divine and t

Several intense fist fights, a struggle using a kn

Though this 1953 film contains perhaps the most fa

There are a number of ethnic slurs: “wop&rdq

Multiple scenes of drinking and drunkenness. The s

Positive Messages

This film sets high standards for loyalty, courage, and patriotism. The people who live up to those standards are deemed heroic and noble.

Positive Role Models

Military personnel range from evil to divine and touch on everyone in between. Typical to the period, women are portrayed only as subsidiary, romantic partners used to move the male stories forward.

Violence & Scariness

Several intense fist fights, a struggle using a knife and a broken bottle, and a second knife fight during which one of the combatants is killed off camera. Another character dies after a severe off-camera beating. Given the scope of the action, relatively little blood is spilled and severe injuries are not shown. Scenes, including some newsreel footage, of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is limited in scope and takes up only the last 10 minutes of the film: machine guns and rifles are fired; airplanes strafe the military compound, bombs drop, and some bodies fall to the ground.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Though this 1953 film contains perhaps the most famous screen kiss of all time -– Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a passionate embrace on a sandy beach as the tide rolls over them- – it’s actually tame by today’s standards. The kiss lasts a few seconds and then the camera cuts away. Two intensely romantic relationships build strongly and result in scenes of ardent kissing. Everything else, including adultery, is hinted at or discussed, but not seen.

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There are a number of ethnic slurs: “wop” and “Japs.” No swearing or obscenities.

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Multiple scenes of drinking and drunkenness. The soldiers drink heavily while not on duty and most of the major characters bond while inebriated. Cigarette smoking is pervasive.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that by modern standards of sexuality, language, and violence, this classic film would not be considered objectionable, however, it still contains highly intense situations, including the mistreatment and death of some of its strongest and most likeable characters. There are multiple scenes of bullying, fist fights, and knife fights, though none is bloody or gory. Even the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is only moderately violent. Airplanes strafe the military compound in wide shots; rifles, machine guns and artillery are used to fight back, but very little in the way of "hits" or aftermath is seen. Sexuality is limited to passionate kissing, embracing and references to adulterous behavior. There is a great deal of drinking, drunkenness, and smoking throughout; in almost all instances it is seen as acceptable behavior given the time (1941) and place (a military compound in Hawaii). To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

War is hell. Being stationed in Hawaii directly before a war, however, is not hell. If FROM HERE TO ETERNITY is remotely accurate, Hawaii in the 1940s was a pretty hot scene -- the drinks were cold, the passions were high, and the ladies were at least as lovely as the scenery. The star-studded ensemble piece follows several plots. Frank Sinatra plays the rebellious Pvt. Angelo Maggio. Montgomery Clift plays Pvt. Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt, a former bugler who romances Alma Burk ( Donna Reed ) and undergoes hazing as his peers try to force him into a boxing match. Deborah Kerr gives an icy hot performance as Karen Holmes, neglected wife of Capt. Dana "Dynamite" Holmes ( Philip Ober ).

Is It Any Good?

This film is not a work of feel-good boosterism; instead it's a collection of human dramas set against the backdrop of a Hawaiian U.S. Army base in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. As the characters fight, drink, smoke, begin and end affairs, they act in ways that are familiar and easy to relate to.

The direction of Fred Zinnemann helped sculpt the movie, which won eight Oscars, many for the exceptionally talented cast. This is one of those movies that everyone should see, even if it's not their preferred style or genre, simply because the film is so heavily referenced in mass culture. A steamy scene of Karen Holmes kissing Milton Warden on the beach is particularly resonant. And, though the pacing of the movie might be difficult for younger viewers, From Here to Eternity is overall captivating.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about issues of class raised by the officer/enlisted man hierarchy as well as Alma's story of being romantically rejected because she wasn't a "proper" wife. How are issues of class visible in the military setting? How do these issues affect romances and other plot lines?

Another topic for discussion is Prewitt's refusal to box. Prewitt explains his refusal to the other men, but they refuse to listen. Did Prewitt have any better options for addressing this issue?

What do you notice about the difference between modern movies and classics like this one? How have times changed? How are cultural changes reflected in film?

Movie Details

In theaters : October 15, 1953
On DVD or streaming : October 23, 2001
Cast : Burt Lancaster , Deborah Kerr , Montgomery Clift
Director : Fred Zinnemann
Inclusion Information : Gay actors
Studio : A&E Home Video
Genre : Drama
Character Strengths : Courage
Run time : 118 minutes
MPAA rating : NR
Last updated : December 22, 2022

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Intense Moments in Skylight’s ‘From Here to Eternity’

by Russ Bickerstaff

Apr. 15, 2024

Photo Courtesy of Skylight Music Theatre

'From Here to Eternity'

There’s a clean brutality to military life onstage in From Here to Eternity. Projections onstage across the cast suggests a tarnished, old newsreel from the early 1940s, but the proceedings are clean and orderly as US servicemen in Hawaii go about their lives in the lead-up to the devastating bombing of Pearl Harbor. The drama offers an unflinching look at the nature of life as a solider on the brink of wartime.

As the story opens, Jonathan Wainwright casts a calmly authoritative presence over the stage as an officer investigating a troubling incident in G Company in Hawaii. Ian Ward is respectably heroic as a soldier who refuses to give-in to the demands of his superior officers. Director Brett Smock does an admirable job of launching the stage right into the center of the drama circulating around a U.S. military installation in the Pacific at the dawn of the 1940s. Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson cleverly texture the story with engaging music that articulates well with the drama.

The hard rock sound backing-up much of the plot feels at odds with the World War II era of the story. A darkened, shadowy take on the rich pop music tapestry of the 1940s would have been a lot more stylistically interesting than Brayson and Rice’s work, which still manages some truly powerful moments. The bombing of Pearl Harbor onstage with the Skylight is one of the more intense experiences available on the Milwaukee stage this season. The constant video project of thematic scenic elements in the background makes for a very stylish and immersive theatrical amplification of history.

Skylight Music Theatre’s production of From Here to Eternity runs through May 5 at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. For ticket reservations and more, visit the Skylight online .

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From here to eternity.

US Release Date: 08-05-1953

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann

Starring ▸ ▾

Burt Lancaster , as
1st Sgt. Milton Warden
Montgomery Clift , as
Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt
Deborah Kerr , as
Karen Holmes
Donna Reed , as
Alma Burke (Lorene)
Frank Sinatra , as
Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Philip Ober , as
Capt. Dana Holmes
Ernest Borgnine , as
Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson
Jack Warden , as
Cpl. Buckley
Mickey Shaughnessy , as
Corporal Leva
George Reeves , as
Sergeant Maylon Stark
Claude Akins as
Sergeant 'Baldy' Dhom

Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity .

Set at Schofield army base in Hawaii in the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, From Here to Eternity is both a romantic soap opera and a psychological character study. The nineteen-fifties may be remembered as a 'Golden Age' of American innocence but as far as cinema was concerned it was the decade when Hollywood finally started overcoming the restrictions of the Hays Code. Just as wide-screen movies shot in Technicolor were being used to lure people away from their tiny black and white sets, a more cynical and adult attitude began creeping into theaters in an effort to compete with the squeaky clean programming on television. From Here to Eternity , although filmed in black and white, reflects some of these changes.

The all-star cast boasts Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, and Frank Sinatra - in a comeback role as the tragic Maggio for which he received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

Based on the novel by James Jones, Eternity is most famous for the shot of Lancaster and Kerr making love on the beach and in the serf as waves crash romantically over them. The movie is actually far darker than this iconic moment suggests. In fact there isn't a happy or contented person in sight.

The 1st Sergeant is a career man. He's not looking for love, but he finds it anyway, in the arms of his Company Commander's wife. She's a woman with a reputation, and a story for those who will listen. Private Prewitt has been transferred to the company at the captain's special request. You see he longs to win the boxing title and 'Prew' just happens to be dynamite with his fists. As fate would have it though, Prewitt has given up his gloves due to an unfortunate incident in which he caused another fighter to go blind. Nearly the entire company gives Prew 'the business' in order to force him to fight. Except for Maggio that is. He's just about the only guy that doesn't put the screws on. Unfortunately Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade sergeant, while Prew begins falling in love with ambitious social club employee Lorene – whose real name turns out to be Alma.

Then the bombs start dropping.

From Here to Eternity takes perhaps THE pivotal moment of the twentieth century and humanizes it. Forget about the awful Pearl Harbor or the over long Tora! Tora! Tora! . For my money this remains the best movie on the subject ever made.

Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity .

From Here to Eternity is one of the greatest ensemble cast movies ever made. It has several plots going on at once. Their lives slightly touch each other until the attack when all are united in a common bond.

Each character is hopelessly flawed. There is the philandering couple, the prostitute with a lofty ego, the party boy and the hard head. You will root for one or all of these people to find happiness. But history has already told you how the movie is going to end. Like Gone With the Wind before it and Titanic afterward, From Here to Eternity is a story of tragic characters set against an historical tragedy.

This movies biggest flaw is that it was not filmed in color. It was filmed on location in Hawaii. Why did they not take advantage of that scenery? I believe that if this movie had been filmed in color it would be even better remembered today than it is.

The melodrama is as thick as pea soup.

I disagree Eric. Sure, filming in color might have made some of the Hawaiian scenery more beautiful, but I don't think it would have improved the movie and could even have damaged it. This movie is pure melodrama and being in black and white fits that style of drama better than color. Color makes things more realistic and the style of acting and the dialogue is not like that at all. The black and white also makes the action seem more intimate.

The biggest problem with this movie is the soap opera storyline. There's some very good acting from a great cast but the drama is very over the top. Take the famous scene on the beach for example. The music swells and they say lines like, “I never knew it could be like this! Nobody ever kissed me the way you do.” I don't watch nearly as many old movies as either of you two and so it took me a while to get into the swing of this movie and the rhythm of the way they spoke in this old dramas.

Sinatra delivers the most natural performance of the cast and he provides both comic relief and a breath of fresh air from all the drama. Out of everyone, he's the one I most wanted to see have a happy ending. The rest of them seem doomed from the start.

I also don't like the ending. I don't mean the attack on Pearl Harbor. That's handled well, but Prewitt's ending, while it fits the dark mood of the story, it is very much a downer and left me feeling, I watched two hours of this movie and that's how they end it?

I do like that this movie was able to be a bit more explicit compared to the more innocent films of the 1940s. I just wish they could have toned down the melodrama as well.

Photos © Copyright Columbia Pictures (1953)

From Here to Eternity (United States, 1953)

Although Lancaster received top billing, the character with the most screen time is Clift’s Prewitt. Newly transferred to a rifle company on Oahu, Prewitt arrives with baggage – he is a top bugler and was once a promising middleweight boxer. However, despite a plea from his new commander, Captain Dana Holmes (Philip Ober), to join the regimental boxing team, Prewitt remains firm in his resolution not to return to the sport. This earns him the ire of several others, although he is reunited with his old friend Maggio and forms a bond of mutual respect with his sergeant, Warden. Pressure, in the form of hazing, mounts on Prewitt to relent but he digs in his heels. One night, while at a social club, he meets an attractive “hostess” named Lorene (Donna Reed). The two fall in love but find it difficult to arrange time together. He doesn’t get many furloughs and she is part of Hawaii’s busy night scene.

Meanwhile, Warden has romantic issues of his own. He becomes involved with Karen Holmes, the neglected wife of his captain. She has a reputation for bedding and discarding men and this makes him wary but when she opens up to him about the reason for her promiscuity, he understands. This results in the kiss on the beach and subsequent conversations about commitment and the difficulty of their situation with her being married to his commanding officer.

From Here to Eternity ’s director, Fred Zinnermann, came to the project during the most fruitful period of his 50-year career. Between 1948 and 1953, Zinnermann made three highly-regarded films for which he personally was Oscar-nominated ( The Search and High Noon were the other two). From Here to Eternity earned him his first of two wins (the other was for 1967’s A Man for All Seasons which, like From Here to Eternity , also won Best Picture). Zinnermann’s fingerprints are all over From Here to Eternity . The horizontal beach cinch was his idea – as written, it was standing up. He also fought for (and won) the battle to shoot in black-and-white using the 1.33:1 aspect ratio (rather than one of the widescreen options that were coming into vogue). Zinnermann fought with Columbia’s head Harry Cohn over the casting of Montgomery Clift – the director threatened to quit if his preferred actor wasn’t hired.

Speaking of Clift, From Here to Eternity represented a career peak for him. The intense actor, whose popularity plateaued during the late 1940s and early 1950s, was referred in some circles as being only one of two performers who was both good-looking and talented. (The other was Marlon Brando.) Clift was nominated three times for Best Actor – also for 1951’s A Place in the Sun and 1948’s The Search (working with Zinnemann). It is widely suspected that he missed out on winning the Oscar in 1954 because he split the vote with fellow nominee Burt Lancaster, thereby opening the door for William Holden. By the time he made From Here to Eternity , Clift was already an alcoholic. In several scenes where Prewitt is drunk, Clift wasn’t acting.

Many in Hollywood thought James Jones’ novel was “unfilmable.” Numerous cuts and compromises had to be made to reduce the 800-page tome to a reasonable length. (Cohn demanded that Zinnemann turn in a final cut no longer than two hours.) The book’s profanity was eliminated and the prostitutes at a brothel were transformed into “hostesses” at a “social club” (although, reading between the lines, it’s clear what they really are).

Although From Here to Eternity ’s portrayal of the military isn’t as negative and cynical as what developed during the post-Vietnam film period, the armed forces aren’t lionized. Petty aspects of the army’s culture are highlighted and, although the ending shows instances of heroism, the film also highlights darker elements, such as Captain Holmes’ selfishness and Sgt. Judson’s brutality. The film tells a compelling story with many of the elements that audiences find appealing. However, 65 years later, there’s little about From Here to Eternity to differentiate it from other well-made productions of its era.

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From Here to Eternity

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From Here to Eternity (1953) Classic Movie Review 112

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Today’s movie is From Here to Eternity (1953). This is a war film but there is very little fighting in this movie. It is a love story, but it is all secondary to being a soldier. Burt Lancaster stars as a top sergeant that gets involved with Deborah Kerr’s character. Lancaster’s character tries to take care of Montgomery Clift character as he falls for a prostitute played by Donna Reed.

The title of the film is taken from a Rudyard Kipling poem title “Gentlemen-Rankers” and the lines are: Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, A gentleman ranker is an enlisted soldier who may have been a former officer or a gentleman qualified through education and background to be a commissioned officer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman_ranker Singer Billy Bragg echoes this in his song “Island of No Return” I wish Kipling and the Captain were here To record our pursuits for posterity Me and the Corporal out on a spree Damned from here to eternity So, it all fits in with the movie. This movie was directed by Fred Zinnemann. It is based on a novel by James Jones and the book is red hot and full of salty language. The movie was cooled down a bit using water as a metaphor. This film was nominated for 13 Oscars and won 8, including Best Picture, Best Director and both the male and female supporting roles. The film is currently rated 52 on the American Film Institute ( AFI ) list of America’s 100 Greatest Movies. Roger Ebert places the beach scene in his 100 Great Movie Moments . The characters are very well developed and the four mains are supported by Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine. So, let’ jump right into the actors, many of whom of show veterans.

Actors – From Here to Eternity (1953)

Burt Lancaster played tougher than nails top Sgt. Milton Warden. The great Burt Lancaster was covered in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Cast against type, Donna Reed played Alma, the clip girl, aka Lorene. Reed was first covered in It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). Willis Bouchey acted in a small role as an uncredited Army Lieutenant Colonel. Bouchey was covered in The Violent Men (1955). Ernest Borgnine played the aptly named Sgt. ‘Fatso’ Judson The Vikings (1958). Claude Akins played Sgt. ‘Baldy’ Dhom and was one of the unit’s boxers. This movie was Akins first. Akins was covered in The Caine Mutiny (1954).

Montgomery Clift played one of the main roles as Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt. The man’s name is Clift. At some point during this show, I will say Cliff. Try to ignore it. Clift was born in Nebraska in 1920. He started on Broadway very early at the age of 13. He stayed in New York for a decade before being lured to Hollywood. His extensive theater training made him a very disciplined and accomplished actor. His first film was Red River (1948) where he shared almost equal screen time with John Wayne . This movie was followed by a number of great roles such as The Search (1948), A Place in the Sun (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), where he nailed the role of the lonely complex soldier, and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) where Clift was so great when playing a victim of the Nazis, that you feel great sorry for him. Clift had to hide his homosexuality and did this fairly well with the help of the studio. By 1950, Clift was plagued with colitis and pill addiction. In 1956, Clift and Elizabeth Taylor were filming Raintree County (1957) and a drunken Clift crashed into a tree. He had to have facial reconstruction. Even after he recovered, he continued to take drugs. Finally, he moved to New York and settled down somewhat. Clift was set to star with Taylor in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) but died suddenly in 1966 at the age of 45. The cause was coronary disease. Famous acting teacher Robert Lewis said from the crash in 1956 until his death in 1966 was the “longest suicide in history.” Deborah Kerr played Karen Holmes, the wife of Captain Holmes. Kerr took this role to break her prim and proper reputation. Kerr was born in Scotland in 1921. By the time Kerr was a teenager, her aunt had some stage work. This led to roles in English films such as Major Barbara (1941), Love on the Dole (1941), and Black Narcissus (1947). In 1947, Kerr moved to America and went to work for MGM. Initially, she was cast as a prudish English woman in films like The Hucksters (1947), Edward, My Son (1949), and Quo Vadis (1951). To get away from these roles, she took the role of an adulteress in From Here to Eternity (1953). Kerr was great in The King and I (1956) with Yul Brynner. However, I thought she was fantastic as a nun trapped on an enemy island with a marine played by Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mrs. Allison (1957). Other great performances include An Affair to Remember (1957), with Cary Grant, Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960) another of my favorites where she and Robert Mitchum played Australian itinerant workers, as she dreamed of a home, The Innocents (1961), and The Night of the Iguana (1964). Deborah Kerr, about the famous beach scene In 1968, she walked away from films, being disgusted with the changing morals. She did some television and returned for two films in the late 1980s. Kerr holds the record for the most Oscar nominations without a win, six. In 1994, she was given an honorary Oscar for her body of work. Kerr passed away in 2007 at the age of 86.

Frank Sinatra played the ethnic role of Angelo Maggio, AKA Maggio the Wop. Sinatra’s career was at an all-time low, and he was hired at a discount. Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915. He grew up on the tough street of the Jersey town, but he had a voice. He began singing and worked his way up working for Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey. With the help of his agent and first wife, Sinatra crafted his image into that of a tough street guy and began a solo singing career in 1942. Sinatra started making small appearances in movies and then moved to the big time with Anchors Aweigh (1945) co-starting dancer/actor Gene Kelly. Sinatra was in a couple more musicals with Kelly, On the Town (1949) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). In the early 1950s, vocal cord hemorrhage, a public affair with Ava Gardner, and divorce hurt his career. However, Sinatra came back with a vengeance playing Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953), a role that won him a best-supporting actor Oscar. He won an Oscar for best supporting actor. Sinatra played a heroin-addicted card dealer in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). He won the best actor Oscar for this role. Sinatra continued to make movies through the late 50s and early 60s with films such as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958), Ocean’s 11 (1960), and Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Sinatra roared back in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which many believe is his best film. As the 1960s rolled to an end, Sinatra kept busy with a spate of war movies that include None But the Brave (1965), about enemy soldiers trapped on an island, Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), about the birth of the nation of Israel, and Von Ryan’s Express (1965). He made a few more detective films, but Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) put his acting on a decade-long hiatus. Sinatra played a detective in The First Deadly Sin (1980), had a cameo in Cannonball Run II (1984), and his last acting was on television’s “Magnum, P.I.” 1980. Sinatra died at the age of 82 in 1998. I always imagined that Frank Sinatra with the Johnny Fontaine character from The Godfather (1972) and the role the Don got for him with the horse head was From Here to Eternity (1953). Of course, I have no evidence for this, I just always thought. A quick internet search tells me that many people have also had this idea.

Story – From Here to Eternity (1953)

In Hawaii, in 1941, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) transfers to a rifle company from a cushy job in the Bugle Corp at Fort Shafter. He had to give up his corporal stripes to transfer because prior to World War II enlisted ranks stayed with the unit. His new company is at Schofield Barracks on Oahu. As Prewitt approaches the orderly room, he sees his old buddy Private Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra) outside. Maggio cannot understand why his friend would leave the easy job. First Sergeant Milton Warden ( Burt Lancaster ) starts processing him in when the company commander Captain Dana “Dynamite Holmes (Phil Ober) arrives and takes over the Prewitt’s reporting. The Captain demands to know why he left the Bugle Corp. Under duress, Prewitt talks the Captain and 1st Sgt Warden, that he was removed as first-bulger because his old 1st Sgt. had a friend that was not as good placed in that position. Neither man can really believe he is that stubborn. The Captain finally gets around to asking Prewitt to join his boxing team, saying with a good middleweight, they can will the Division championship on December 15th. He says all of the boxers in the company are None Commissioned Officers. Prewitt flatly refuses and refers to a sparring accident where he hurt his friend. Holmes leaves for the day and Warden processes him in.

About this time, Captain Holmes’ wife Karen (Deborah Kerr). The supply sergeant says she has been known to fool around. Warden and Karen verbally spar before she leaves. Back at her home, the Captain comes in and soon becomes clear that their marriage is broken, and she does not inquire into his actions as per her agreement. The cause of the trouble is not told at this time. Holmes has the sergeants on the boxing team start riding Prewitt. Prewitt tells his friend Maggio that he can handle anything these guys can throw at him.The sergeant (Claude Akins, John Dennis) put the press on Prewitt while he plays pool and makes a triple ball shot. Prewitt says he can handle anything these guys can throw at him.That night Corporal Buckley (Jack Warden) tells him that the top sergeant will be fair to him and that he served in the Boxer revolution in China. He has to run punishment for allegedly being out of step and other small infractions. When Maggie stands up for his friend, he has to run punishment as well. The Captain tells Warden that he will be staying out all night. Warden uses this opportunity to get out more as advised by his commander, to go see Karen Holmes. He makes an excuse to get inside and then she decides she wants him to stay. She talks about not having a child. They kiss and it shows the rain so you figure out the rest. Finally, payday comes and the men get a chance to go into town. Maggio gives his friend a nice Hawaiian shirt to wear. After they get a snoot full, they head to a private club that Maggio is a member of. He vouches for Prewitt and he is allowed to join as well. Prewitt only has eyes for Lorene (Donna Reed) who has her hair dyed black for this role. As Warden gets ready to go out to secretly meet Karen Sgt. Stark (George Reeves) says he has been with her himself and something is wrong with her. Warden and Karen meet far away from the base. At first, she is very passive-aggressive and tries to run Warden off. At one point, Warden says your “….acting like Lady Nancy Astor’s horse…”. This means something like you are over-dressed or feel very self-important. He calms her down and they both say they have bathing suits on under their clothes. Sgt. ‘Fatso’ Judson (Ernest Borgnine) is banging on the piano like a sign language ape that has been hit in the head with a rock. Prewitt starts talking to Lorene but has to leave when Maggio and Fatso get into a fight over the piano playing. Fatso runs the stockade and is a bad person to have as an enemy. When Prewitt gets back to Alma another man has moved in. The two men do some verbal sparring before Alma and the new guy leaves for another room. Lorene comes back later and Prewitt tells her he is not like the rest. She takes him to the VIP room. Back at the beach Warden and Karen go swimming and then have that iconic scene of the wave crashing over them as they kiss on the beach. I think it took about 8 hours to get this scene made. After that lovely scene, Warden starts giving her grief about the other men she has had affairs with. Karen digs in and tells the story of her husband’s cheating and how he failed to bring a doctor when she was giving birth and the baby died. Also, she can’t have any children. In the book, he gave her a social disease. Not like social media. Warden feels bad and they kiss again. Maggie comes up to the VIP room to collect his buddy and share his whiskey. Maggio leaves and says the treatment starts again tomorrow. He tells Alma the story of sparring with his friend Dixie Wales and accidentally putting him into a coma that resulted in him losing his eyesight. Training starts again in the morning and Corporal Buckley tells him the boxing sergeants are going to start riding him full force. They make him crawl through water and did and fill pits. One day in the boxing ring Prewitt is cleaning the floor and the Captain tells Sgt. Galovich to kick the spit bucket over. He demands Prewitt clean the mess. However, Prewitt refuses. The Captain orders Prewitt to hike with a full pack up to the top of the mountain and back before returning to see the Captain. When Prewitt returns, he refuses to apologize, and they make him do it again. The Captain tells Warden to prepare court-martial papers. Warden seems to goes along but tricks the Captain into giving him double punishment instead. Prewitt is on extra duty for a month, and he handles everything. Warden goes in to try and talk him into boxing because it’s the smart play. Prewitt says I ain’t smart. Warden admires the toughness in the man even though he tries to break him. Warden goes to a bar named Choy’s, and Maggio and Prewitt are there as well. Prewitt picks up a bugle and shows how good he really is. Maggio has a picture of his family. Fatso comes in and looks at the picture of Maggio’s sister and says something tasteless to Prewitt about her. Maggio clubs him over the head with a stool, and Fatso pulls a knife. Warden steps in, saying it would be too much paperwork if Maggio was killed. Fatso then comes after Warden, who breaks a beer bottle in half. Fatso decides not to try it. Burt Lancaster is so cool. But he warns Maggio that one day he will end up in the stockade. Prewitt picks up Fatso’s knife. Warden tells Prewitt he can have a weekend pass.

That weekend Maggio is getting ready to go out, and Sgt. Galovich grabs him for guard duty. Lorene is kind of hard on Prewitt as she is busy at the club. She tells him that her name is really Alma. Prewitt goes to another club, and Alma finally joins him. He tells her he loves the Army. When she says the Army doesn’t love him back. He tells her that just because you love something doesn’t mean it has to love you back. He also tells her that he played bugle in front of the president at Arlington Cemetery. Maggio shows up drunk and finally tells him that he has gone AWOL from guard duty. Alma accepts Prewitt going to look after his friend. In this scene, Maggio grabs two olives and throws them along the bar pretending to shot craps. He yells snake-eyes, the story of his life. This was all ad-libbed by Sinatra and was shot as his audition. Sinatra was thought of so low at the time they made him pay for his own audition expenses, flying from Africa, where his wife Ava Gardner was filming Mogambo (1953), to Hawaii. The relationship between Sinatra and Gardner was so bad during the African film that she may have had an abortion, a story relayed by a friend. Good friend. The scene in which Maggio meets Prew and Lorene in the bar after he walks off guard duty was actually Frank Sinatra’s screen test for the part of Maggio. To impress director Fred Zinnemann, he did an ad-lib using olives as dice and pretending to shoot craps. The entire sequence was kept as is and used in the picture. Prewitt finds Maggio naked and goes to get a cab. Two military policemen come and arrest him before Prewitt gets back. Finally, they get word that Maggio has been given 6 months in the stockade. When Maggio gets to the stockade, Fatso is waiting for him. Things ease up for Prewitt, and he and Alma are dating regularly, and she even gives him a key to her house. Warden and Karen are still seeing each other. Every time they see soldiers, they have to hide. Tired of hiding, Karen proposes that Warden becomes an officer so she can divorce her husband and marry him. He finally agrees. Prewitt asks Alma to marry him. He says he will box to get his stripes back. Alma says she wants to go back home in style and marry a proper man. Karen tells the Captain she is seeing someone and wants a divorce. Prewitt finds out that Fatso is beating Maggio. Maggio, like Prewitt won’t complain. Prewitt is pulling grass, and Sgt. Galovich comes and steps on his hand. Galovich starts hitting Prewitt, but Prewitt won’t fight back. The detail sergeant goes to Holmes and Warden for help. Holmes says he will take care of it. Prewitt finally starts hitting Galovich in the midsection. Holmes just watches as Prewitt is knocked to the ground. Prewitt gets up and destroys Galovich. The base commander and a Major see Captain Holmes not stopping the fight. With Galovich being beaten, Holmes stops in to stop the fight. Galovich says Prewitt started the fight. All the men, including some of the boxers, say Galovich started the fight. Holmes says that the matter will be forgotten since his man was at fault. The other boxers now respect Prewitt. Prewitt and his friends are drinking and singing. Warden is nearby and drunk as a skunk. Prewitt heads for Choy’s. On the way, he runs into Warden and they share a bottle. Warden is proud of Prewitt but knows he will be broken one day. Maggio staggers back through the dark. He tells of the beatings he has taken and the fall he took while escaping. Maggio dies in his arms. Later, a tearful Prewitt plays taps for his dead friend. Back in town Prewitt waits outside the New Congress Club until Fatso comes out. They go into the alley and Fatso pulls a knife. Prewitt pulls out the one Fatso left from his first fight with Maggio. During the scuffle, Prewitt kills Fatso but is wounded in the gut himself. Prewitt goes to Alma’s house to hide out. Warden reads about the killing and carries Prewitt as present for duty when he was AWOL. Since the fight was witnessed by the base commander, an investigation was conducted. They pull Holmes in and tell him he is going to be court-martialed. Holmes asks if there is any other way and the commander tells him to resign immediately. Captain Ross takes over the company and says no man will earn his stripes through boxing. He has Galovich demoted to private and put in charge of cleaning the latrines. About this time, Karen calls Warden and says she needs to see him right away. The calendar on the wall shows that it is December 6th, 1941. Karen and Warden meet and she says she has to ship back to the states with her husband. Warden admits that he has not put in the paperwork to become an office. Karen now knows that the two will never be together. Warden is more concerned with finding Prewitt than being with her. Prewitt is getting better but he is drinking and kind of snotty. Before 8 am on Sunday morning the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Warden takes charge of the men as Prewitt lays in a fever. Warden tells the Sergeants to get Browning Automatic Rifles and take ammo to the roof. He tells the other enlisted men to get ready and wait by their bunks. He grabs a cook and says make a pot of coffee, no make a barrel of coffee. Even with planes attacking the corporal refuses to issue ammo. Warden has the men break down the door. Warden and the other Sergeants go to the roof to shoot at Japanese planes. They bring down at least one. Warden is hip firing a 50-caliber with his hand on the barrel. There are some nice cuts of the real attack on Pearl Harbor cut in. That night Prewitt gets dressed and heads back to the base, even though there is a curfew, a blackout, and martial law. The guards are really nervous expecting a land attack to follow. As Prewitt runs across a golf course, a guard calls for him to halt and then fires. He is shot and falls dead into the sand trap. We Warden finds out he says Prewitt was a good soldier. Warden looks at Prewitt’s bugle mouthpiece and laments about him being a hard head and not boxing. Because of the attack, the boxing tournament will be canceled anyway. Some weeks later Alma and Karen meet on a ship leaving for the states. Karen throws two leis in the water. She says if they float inland you will return to the islands. Alma says she will never come back. Karen then says her fiancé was in the Army Air Corps and was killed during the attack. She says his Silver Star went to his mother and they were very fine southern folks. When she says the name Robert E. Lee Prewitt, Karen makes the connection and knows Alma is lying. She doesn’t say anything as Alma holds Prewitt’s bugle mouthpiece.

The book really had to be sanitized of homosexuality and language before they could get the Army’s support to make this movie. Also, the cat houses had to be changed to gentlemen’s clubs. Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Studios wanted Aldo Ray for Prewitt, Robert Mitchum or Edmond O’Brien for Warden, Rita Hayworth for Karen, Julie Harris for Lorene, and Eli Wallach to play Maggio. That would be awesome. Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift were both nominated for the best actor Oscar, but how could you decide. So, William Holden > won for his great performance in Stalag 17 (1953). His wife said this was a prize for not winning for Sunset Blvd. (1950) when he deserved it. Ouch. World-Famous Short Summary – soldiers, and hookers, and jailers, oh my or two drunken soldiers try to find happiness with prostitutes and broken women I hope you enjoyed today’s show. I am on just about all of the social media’s but Twitter is my main place. You can find the links in the show notes. Remember this show is completely free and independent. All I ask is that you jump over to iTunes and give me a review. It really helps the show get found. Beware the moors

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Movie Review: Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt deserve more than Netflix's ‘Mother of the Bride’

In “Mother of the Bride,” Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt play a pair of college exes who accidentally reunite at a resort in Thailand two decades later

Romantic comedies are in a destination wedding rut. Perhaps it’s a collective post-COVID wanderlust kicking in, or, more cynically, some combination of tax credits and a place producers want to spend time. But between “ Ticket to Paradise,” “Anyone But You,” “ Shotgun Wedding ” and now Netflix’s “ Mother of the Bride,” the conceit is starting to curdle.

The problem is bigger than the setting, of course. There’s only so much heavy lifting a picturesque location, photogenic bodies and enviable resort outfits can do to make up for a lame story. Also, the appeal of an out-of-reach travelogue is limited in this age of influencers living wildly extravagant lifestyles around the clock on Instagram and TikTok (not to mention the sharp ways “White Lotus” has skewered and luxuriated in those worlds).

“Mother of the Bride,” now streaming on Netflix, wonders what might happen if you find out a few days before the wedding that your kid (Miranda Cosgrove) is marrying the offspring of the guy who broke your heart. That’s what happens to Brooke Shields’ Lana. She arrives in Phuket, Thailand, for her daughter’s wedding, meets the groom (Sean Teale), turns around and sees that his father is her college ex, Will (Benjamin Bratt). Barely a minute passes before they both fall into a pond.

Later, she’ll walk in on him emerging from the shower, hit him in a sensitive spot playing pickleball and, after they’ve made some progress, overhear the wrong conversation at the wrong time. This is a movie that is adhering to some kind of romantic comedy checklist, but whose ingredients add up to very little in the end.

Our tolerance for a silly set-up in a romantic comedy is usually pretty generous if we’re given a clever, charming script and authentic emotions. Just think of how ridiculous so many of the greats sound on paper, from “Sabrina” to “Sleepless in Seattle”? Is it fair to compare “Mother of the Bride” to Nora Ephron and Billy Wilder? Maybe not, but it never hurts to be aware of a North Star, which veterans like screenwriter Robin Bernheim Burger and director Mark Waters no doubt are. Just look at the title. This movie even has a romantic foil in a younger doctor (Chad Michael Murray) who is smitten with Lana, which can’t help but remind of Keanu Reeves in Nancy Meyers' “Something’s Gotta Give.”

But this is so wildly contrived from the start that you never get to that moment where you’re enjoying it enough to stop asking questions, like did Lana never google Will in the 20 years they’ve been apart and find out that he’s a wildly rich and successful businessman? Or why would a major corporation offer an intern who has a barely maintained lifestyle Instagram that she started freshman year of college “six figures” to help promote their luxury hotels? Why are we supposed to root for these young people with seemingly infinite resources (one of their wedding presents in a multimillion Tribeca loft) who agree to get married in a month because a brand asks them to? Maybe more fundamentally, did the kids and a wedding have to be involved in this story at all? Does it make the idea of Will and Lana getting back together too weird to be fun? Couldn’t they have simply run into one another at a resort?

I won’t go so far as to say that “Mother of the Bride” feels like an AI creation but it does feel at least a little stitched together from pieces of other romantic comedies of varying quality. Why cast a capable comedian like Rachel Harris as the best friend only to have her say lines like “Is he on the menu”? Or give Wilson Cruz so little to do as Will’s brother?

And it’s a shame, too, because Shields and Bratt came ready to play, to fall in the pond and be minimally clothed for comedy’s sake. There must be a new generation of romantic comedy writers and directors who grew up on Ephron and Meyers out there and are ready to give us something that’s commercial and glossy but also smart and fun to revisit (ahem, remember “Set It Up”?). Maybe they just need to be given a shot.

“Mother of the Bride,” a Netflix release streaming Thursday, is rated TV-PG. Running time: 90 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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Summer Movie Guide 2024: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from now to Labor Day

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some movies this summer ? There’s action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day. You just have to know where to look.

Things kick off in theaters in May with a new installment in the Apes series, “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (May 10), followed by Jane Shoenbrun’s buzzy thriller “I Saw the TV Glow” (May 17) and closing out with the Mad Max prequel “Furiosa.” June brings “Hit Man” to Netflix and “Bad Boys 4″ to theaters, as well as “Inside Out 2,” “The Bikeriders” and the first part of Kevin Costner’s Civil War-era Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga.”

And while July might not have another " Barbenheimer” showdown, but there’s plenty to be excited for including the space race rom-com “Fly Me To the Moon,” “Twisters” and, of course, “Deadpool & Wolverine.” August has some gems too, including chapter two of “Horizon,” a new Alien movie (“Alien: Romulus”) and some thrillers like “Cuckoo” and “Trap.”

Here’s your guide to what’s coming to theaters and streaming services this summer.

MAY MOVIE RELEASES

“Mother of the Bride” (Netflix, streaming): Brooke Shields plays mother to Miranda Cosgrove in this romantic comedy about her daughter’s engagement to the son of the man who broke her heart.

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Studios, theaters): Generations after Caesar, apes have become the dominant species in this new installment directed by “Maze Runner” alum Wes Ball. Owen Teague stars as the young ape Noa whose world us upended when an intelligent human (”The Witcher’s Freya Allan) arrives.

“Gasoline Rainbow” (MUBI, theaters): Filmmakers Bill and Turner Ross direct this largely improvised road trip film about teenagers in Oregon searching for The Party At The End Of The World.

“Lazareth” (Vertical, theaters and VOD): Ashley Judd stars in this thriller about a woman who adopts her nieces and raises them isolated in the woods.

“Poolman” (Vertical, theaters): Chris Pine’s directorial debut, in which he plays a normal Los Angeles guy who’s asked to do some sleuthing around a shady business deal, got some scathing reviews out of the Toronto International Film Festival but now’s your chance to judge for yourself. Annette Bening, Danny DeVito and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star.

“Force of Nature: The Dry 2″ (IFC Films, theaters and VOD): Eric Bana is a federal agent investigating a missing corporate whistleblower.

“The Image of You” (Republic Pictures, theaters and VOD): Based on a bestselling thriller about identical twins pulled apart by a new love, with Sasha Pieterse and Mira Sorvino.

“Power” (Netflix, theaters; Streaming May 17): Yance Ford (“Strong Island”) studies the evolution of policing in America in this riveting documentary.

" IF " (Paramount, theaters): This family film about a girl (Cailey Fleming) and her upstairs neighbor (Ryan Reynolds) who can see all the imaginary friends (aka IFs) who have been left behind was written and directed by John Krasinski. IF voices include Steve Carell, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Matt Damon and the late Louis Gossett Jr.

" Thelma the Unicorn " (Netflix, streaming): This animated film about a pony whose dreams of becoming a pop star come true was written by “Napoleon Dynamite” duo Jared and Jerusha Hess.

" The Blue Angels " (Amazon/MGM, limited theatrical): If you’re looking for some “Top Gun” spectacle at the movies this summer, there’s a new documentary shot with IMAX cameras about the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron that was filmed over a year. It’s getting a week-long IMAX run before hitting Prime Video on May 23. It was directed by Paul Crowder and produced by J.J. Abrams and Glen Powell.

" Back to Black " (Focus Features, theaters): Marisa Abela plays Amy Winehouse in this biographical drama about the “Rehab” singer who died at 27 in 2011. Sam Taylor-Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) directs.

" Babes " (Neon, theaters): “Broad City’s” Ilana Glazer co-wrote and stars in this raucous comedy about an accidental pregnancy (and friendship and growing up and body stuff) that got rave reviews out of SXSW.

" The Strangers: Chapter 1 " (Lionsgate, theaters): Masked strangers terrorize a young couple, Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez, who have to spend a night in a remote cabin after their car breaks down in this horror.

“I Saw the TV Glow,” (A24, theaters, wide on May 17): In Jane Schoenbrun’s second feature , a Sundance breakout, realities blur for two teenagers (Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine) watching a mysterious late-night television show. ( Read AP’s review here .)

“North By Northwest” 65th Anniversary re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” 40th Anniversary re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Castle in the Sky” re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Darkness of Man” (Saban Films, VOD): Jean Claude Van Damme plays a former Interpol operative.

" Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga " (Warner Bros., theaters): Buckle up, George Miller is back with another high-octane Mad Max tale focusing this time on a young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy , and a warlord named Dementus (Chris Hemsworth).

" The Garfield Movie " (Sony, theaters): Chris Pratt voices another classic character in this animated film about the feline lasagna enthusiast.

" Atlas " (Netflix, streaming): Jennifer Lopez is a skeptical data analyst who must learn to trust artificial intelligence to save humanity in this Brad Peyton-directed flick.

" Sight " (Angel Studios, theaters): From the studio behind “Sound of Freedom,” the inspirational drama “Sight” is about an eye surgeon who wants to restore a blind child’s vision. It stars Terry Chen and Greg Kinnear.

“The Keeper” (Lama Entertainment, theaters): Based on the true story of Army vet George Eshleman, who endeavors to raise awareness about military suicides by hiking the Appalachian trail.

“The Commandant’s Shadow” (Warner Bros./Fathom, theaters): The son of Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss (also the subject of the Oscar-winning “The Zone of Interest” ) reckons with his family’s past in this documentary.

" Robot Dreams " (Neon, NY theaters; LA on June 7): This Oscar nominated animated charmer, about a dog who builds himself a robot companion, is finally getting a proper theatrical release in the U.S.

" Young Woman and the Sea " (Disney, theaters): Daisy Ridley plays the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Trudy Ederle, who won gold at the Olympics in 1924 and who finished the 21-mile trek in 1926. The inspirational drama arrives just in time for the Summer Olympics.

“Jim Henson: Idea Man” (Disney+, streaming): Ron Howard takes us inside the mind of the man behind “The Muppet Show,” and countless other entertainments, in a new documentary.

" Ezra " (Bleecker Street, theaters): A story about a down on his luck father (Bobby Cannavale) fighting to protect his young autistic son (William A. Fitzgerald). Robert De Niro and Whoopi Goldberg co-star in this drama from Tony Goldwyn.

“The Dead Don’t Hurt” (Shout! Studios, theaters): Vicky Krieps and Viggo Mortensen play star-crossed lovers in the 1860s American West, divided and fractured when he enlists to fight for the Union and she is left behind to defend herself in a corrupt frontier town.

“Summer Camp” (Roadside Attractions, theaters): Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard are childhood friends who meet again at a camp reunion.

“HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle” (Sony Pictures/Crunchyroll, theaters): Already a hit in Japan, this installment in the anime volleyball series finds old nemesis teaming up to defeat a rival high school team.

“Backspot” (XYZ Films, theaters): Devery Jacobs is an ambitious cheerleader and Evan Rachel Woods is her demanding head coach.

“PROTOCOL 7″ (Abramorama, theaters): A corporate thriller based on real events about a group who goes up against a pharmaceutical company.

“In a Violent Nature” (IFC, theaters): An undead golem pursues teens on vacation in this horror.

“Flipside” (Oscilliscope, theaters): A documentary about a filmmaker’s attempt to revive the New Jersey record store he worked in as a teen.

“Invisible Nation” (Abramorama, theaters): A documentary about Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan.

JUNE MOVIE RELEASES

“The Muppet Movie” 45th Anniversary re-release (Fathom Events, theaters)

" Hit Man " (Netflix, streaming): Armed with glowing reviews from the fall festivals, Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” starring Glen Powell is finally coming to Netflix.

" Bad Boys: Ride or Die " (Sony, theaters): Will Smith, in the first major movie he’s made since slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars (”Emancipation had already been filmed by then), reunites with Martin Lawrence for the fourth installment in the “Bad Boys” franchise, which started in 1995.

" The Watchers " (Warner Bros., theaters): Dakota Fanning plays an artist who gets stranded in a forest in western Ireland where mysterious creatures lurk in the night in this film from Ishana Night Shyamalan.

“I Used to be Funny” (Utopia, theaters and VOD): “Bottoms” star Rachel Sennott plays an aspiring stand-up comic in Ally Pankiw’s debut.

“The Secret World of Arrietty” re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“When Marnie Was There” 10th Anniversary re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

" Inside Out 2″ (Disney, theaters): Riley is a teenager now and some new emotions are coming onto the scene to join Joy (Amy Poehler) and the gang, including Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).

“Treasure” (Bleecker Street, theaters): Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry play father and daughter in this 1990s road-trip movie about a Holocaust survivor on a journey back to his homeland, Poland.

“Ultraman: Rising” (Netflix, streaming): Animator Shannon Tindle (“Kubo and the Two Strings”) directs this animated action film about a baseball star/superhero who has to raise the offspring of a foe.

“Tuesday” (A24, theaters): Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a mother to a teenage daughter who meets death in the form of a talking bird in this fairy tale-esque debut from Daina O. Pusić.

“The Grab” (Magnolia, theaters): A documentary investigation into the run on natural resources by governments, financial investors and private security forces.

“Summer Solstice” (Cartilage Films, theaters): Friends go away for a weekend for the first time after one has transitioned.

" The Bikeriders " (Focus Features, theaters): Jeff Nichols captures the spirit of a Midwestern motorcycle club in the 1960s in this exciting drama starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Mike Faist . It’s inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1967 photo-book about the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

“Thelma” (Magnolia, theaters): June Squibb goes on a “Mission: Impossible” style adventure across Los Angeles with Richard Roundtree to try to reclaim her money from a phone scammer in this delightful comedy.

“Janet Planet” (A24, theaters, wide on June 28): Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her film debut with this dreamy tale of an 11-year-old girl and her mother in western Massachusetts one summer.

“Kinds of Kindness” (Searchlight Pictures, theaters): Emma Stone’s “Poor Things” Oscar is barely in the rearview mirror and she’s already back with another Yorgos Lanthimos film, described as a triptych fable. Also starring Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer.

“Green Border” (Kino Lorber, theaters): Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland takes audiences to the area between Belarus and Poland where refugees from Africa and the Middle East are trying to reach the European Union.

“Fancy Dance” (Apple, theaters, streaming on June 28): Lily Gladstone stars in this gem about a woman caring for her niece on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma, the search for her missing sister and the plight of Indigenous women.

“What Remains” (VMI, theaters and VOD): Andrea Riseborough and Stellan Skarsgård star in this movie about an alleged serial killer, his therapist and a detective attempting to solve a cold case.

“She Rises Up” (Abramorama, theaters): This documentary about economic opportunities for women follows subjects in Sri Lanka, Peru and Senegal.

“Bread & Roses” (Apple TV+, streaming): This Jennifer Lawrence-produced documentary sheds light on Afghan women since Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021.

“South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut” 25th Anniversary sing-a-long (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge” (Hulu, streaming): The story of the mogul behind the iconic wrap dress, including interviews with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Marc Jacobs and Hillary Clinton.

“I Am: Celine Dion” (Amazon/MGM, streaming): A behind the scenes look at Celine Dion life now, living with the rare neurological disorder stiff person syndrome.

“A Quiet Place: Day One” (Paramount, theaters): “Pig” helmer Michael Sarnoski takes over directing duties for Krasinski in this prequel about the invasion, set in New York City. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and “Stranger Things’” Joseph Quinn.

“Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter I” (Warner Bros., theaters): Kevin Costner’s two-part Western epic focuses on the westward expansion during the American Civil War. He co-wrote, directed and stars alongside the likes of Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington and Jena Malone.

“A Family Affair” (Netflix, streaming): Nicole Kidman, Joey King and Zac Efron star in this film about a mother and daughter, a movie star boss and an unexpected romance with comic consequences.

“Last Summer” (Sideshow and Janus Films, theaters): Anne and Pierre’s life is lovely in Paris with their daughters, 6 and 8, until her stepson Theo moves in and begins an affair with her in this Catherine Breillat film.

“BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE-EPISIDE NAGI” (Crunchyroll/Sony Pictures): Based on an anime that has sold more than 30 million copies, this feature is set around soccer.

“Daddio” (Sony Pictures Classics, theaters): Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn star in this two-hander about a woman and her taxi driver one night in New York.

JULY MOVIE RELEASES

“Despicable Me 4″ (Universal, theaters): Gru and the minions are back, with a new baby in the mix.

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” (Netflix, streaming): Forty years after Axel Foley crossed jurisdictions to investigate a crime, Eddie Murphy is back for a fourth film, alongside Judge Reinhold and Paul Reiser.

“MaXXXine” (A24, theaters): After “X” and “Pearl,” Ti West concludes his unlikely trilogy by bringing Mia Goth’s aspiring star Maxine to Los Angeles in 1985 in this highly stylized slasher.

“Touch” (Focus, theaters): Baltasar Kormákur directs a thrilling romance about a widower’s search for his first love 50 years after she disappeared.

" Kill " (Roadside Attractions, theaters): Set on the Rajdhani Express to New Delhi, this bloody action thriller stars Lakshya as an army commando who takes on a gang of violent thieves terrorizing passengers while on his way to derail his true love’s (Tanya Maniktala) arranged marriage.

“Possum Trot” (Angel Studios, theaters): Based on a true story about 22 families in a small East Texas town who adopt 77 difficult to place children out of the foster system.

“Space Cadet” (Prime Video, streaming): Emma Roberts plays a woman who embellishes an application and lands in NASA’s astronaut training program.

“Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black” (Prime Video, streaming): Meagan Good stars in this new Tyler Perry joint about a woman realizing the ugly truth about her husband.

“Fly Me to the Moon” (Sony/Apple TV+, theaters): Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in this romantic comedy from Greg Berlanti about a marketing executive hired by NASA to fake the moon landing…just in case.

“Sing Sing” (A24, theaters): Colman Domingo stars in this movie about a few incarcerated men who begin acting in a theater group. This fall festival breakout is based on “The Sing Sing Follies” by John H. Richardson and “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code” by Brent Buell and co-stars Paul Raci as well as several former prisoners.

“Longlegs” (Neon, theaters): Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe lead this thriller about an FBI agent assigned to an unsolved case involving a serial killer.

“National Anthem” (Variance Films and LD Entertainment, theaters): Photographer Luke Gilford’s directorial debut, about queer rodeo subculture, starring Charlie Plummer.

“Princes Mononoke” re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Twisters” (Universal, theaters): Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos lead a new band of storm chasers in this standalone sequel to the 1996 blockbuster directed by Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari,” “The Mandalorian”) and produced by Steven Spielberg.

“Skywalkers: A Love Story” (Netflix, streaming): An adventurous couple dream of climbing the world’s “last super skyscraper” and performing an acrobatic stunt on top.

“The NeverEnding Story” 40th Anniversary re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

July 23 and 25

“The Good Half” (Utopia/Fathom, theaters): Nick Jonas stars in this tragicomedy about a writer going home after the death of his mother in this film from Robert Schwartzman.

“Deadpool & Wolverine” (Disney, theaters): The Merc with a Mouth (Ryan Reynolds) and the previously dead X-Man (Hugh Jackman) find their way to one another at last , and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in this Shawn Levy-directed film. There are more rumors than confirmations about what it’s even about, and who will be making a cameo, but two things are certain: It’s rated R and it’s going to be one of the summer’s biggest hits.

“Dìdi” (Focus, theaters): This coming-of-age pic from Sean Wang about a 13-year-old Taiwanese-American kid (Izaac Wang) in the Bay Area on his last summer before high school in 2008 won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival.

“The Fabulous Four” (Bleecker Street, theaters): Lifelong friends (Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph) go to Key West for a wedding (college pal, played by Bette Midler).

AUGUST MOVIE RELEASES

“The Instigators” (Apple TV+, theaters; Streaming on Aug. 9): Doug Liman directs this comedic heist movie starring Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Hong Chau.

“Harold and the Purple Crayon” (Sony, theaters): Many years after Spike Jonze was supposed to adapt the classic 1955 children’s book, and several delays with this iteration, the family fantasy film is finally making it to theaters. Starring Zachary Levi as Harold and Lil Rel Howery, it blends animation and live action.

“Kneecap” (Sony Pictures Classics, theaters): Naoise Ó Cairealláin aka “Móglaí Bap”, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh aka “Mo Chara”, JJ Ó Dochartaigh aka “DJ Provaí”, all playing themselves in this film about the titular rap trio from Belfast.

“Cuckoo” (Neon, theaters): Hunter Schaefer stars in this unnerving, blood-soaked thriller set in the German Alps. Dan Stevens plays her father’s creepy boss.

“Ponyo” re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Trap” (Warner Bros., theaters): Josh Hartnett stars in an original thriller from M. Night Shyamalan about a murderer at large inside a massive arena concert.

“It Ends With Us” (Sony, theaters): Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni star in this adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel about romantic love and childhood trauma.

“The Fire Inside” (Amazon/MGM, theaters): Ryan Destiny plays professional boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields in this biographical sports drama from Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison, in her feature debut.

“Borderlands” (Lionsgate, theaters): After a few years of delays, Eli Roth’s colorful action-adventure “Borderlands,” based on the video game, is barreling to theaters starring Cate Blanchett, Ariana Greenblatt and Kevin Hart.

“My Penguin Friend” (Roadside Attractions, theaters): Based on a true story, a fisherman (Jean Reno) finds hope in a penguin rescued from an oil spill.

“Good One” (Metrograph Pictures, theaters): A 17-year-old (Lily Collias) goes on a backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad (James Le Gros) and his oldest friend in this poignant coming-of-age drama. India Donaldson’s debut was a Sundance breakout.

“Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2″ (Warner Bros., theaters): Costner continues the story of the American West with this second chapter, exclusively in movie theaters.

" Alien: Romulus " (20th Century Studios, theaters): The director of “Don’t Breathe” helms this terrifying new installment in the Alien series, starring Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced and David Jonsson.

“The Union” (Netflix, streaming): Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg are former high school sweethearts turned spies in this action-comedy-romance.

“Close to You” (Greenwich Entertainment, theaters): Elliot Page plays Sam, who goes to his hometown for the first time since his transition for his father’s birthday.

" Blink Twice " (Amazon/MGM, theaters): Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut, with Channing Tatum starring as a tech billionaire who invites a waitress (Naomi Ackie) to his private island where odd things start happening.

" The Crow " (Lionsgate, theaters): Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs and Danny Huston star in director Rupert Sanders’ reboot of the comic-based series about a dead musician resurrected to avenge his and his fiance’s deaths.

" Between the Temples " (Sony Pictures Classics, theaters): Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane develop an unlikely friendship while she studies to get a late-in-life bat mitzvah.

“Slingshot” (Bleecker Street, theaters): Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne star in this sci-fi thriller about an astronaut whose grasp on reality starts to dwindle on a dangerous mission.

“Place of Bones” (The Avenue, theaters and VOD): Heather Graham plays a mother who gets an unexpected visitor at her isolated ranch in a bloodied bank robber.

August 25-28

“Rear Window” 70th Anniversary re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“Whisper of the Heart” re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“The Cat Returns” re-release (Fathom Events, theaters).

“They Listen” (Sony, theaters): A mysterious Blumhouse horror from writer-director Chris Weitz, starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston.

“Reagan” (ShowBiz Direct, theaters): Dennis Quaid plays Ronald Reagan in this childhood to White House biopic, the first full-length film about the 40th U.S. President.

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'Twisters': Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything We Know So Far About the Sequel to the 1996 Classic

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Hold on to your seats, storm chasers! A sequel to the epic disaster movie Twister is in the works, and it's sure to bring a whirlwind of excitement. The upcoming film, titled Twisters , promises to be a new chapter in the adrenaline-fueled universe of storm chasing. With rumors swirling about the plot and casting choices, fans of the original movie are eagerly anticipating what's in store.

Twister , the iconic 1996 disaster film, has been a cult classic for years, and for good reason. This action-packed movie has it all: epic tornadoes, a thrilling love story, and a cast of talented actors who bring the drama to life. With its intense visuals, heart-pumping soundtrack, and unforgettable scenes, Twister has been a favorite of moviegoers for decades. But it's not just the film's intense thrills and emotional moments that made it a fan favorite. Twister also had a major impact on pop culture, inspiring everything from merchandise to amusement park rides. Who could forget the classic line, "We've got cows!" or the iconic scene of a tornado tearing through a cornfield? Twister 's legacy has endured for over two decades, making it a staple of '90s cinema and beyond.

Since the announcement of its long-awaited sequel, fans are eagerly anticipating what's in store for Twisters and the thrilling ride it promises to take them on. So, grab your weatherproof gear, get ready to brave the elements, and let's take a closer look at what we know so far about Twisters !

Editor's Note: This piece was updated on May 8, 2024.

Get ready to be swept off your feet! The much-awaited Twisters movie is coming to town on July 19, 2024 . The movie will be opening amidst a crowded summer month of blockbusters that also includes Marvel Studios' Deadpool & Wolverine and Illumination's Despicable Me 4 .

The movie is currently locked in for a theatrical release. At the moment, there isn’t much information on the film's streaming release, but it will likely get a streaming release at some point after the theatrical run. Since the film is being distributed by Universal in North America, chances are that it will be available to stream on Peacock around 90 days after its theatrical release.

The first official trailer for Twisters was released by Universal Pictures during Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024. The first look at the film introduces us to the main trio of storm chasers and the twin cyclones that will be terrorizing the small town in the film.

The second trailer for Twisters was released online by Universal Pictures on May 8, 2024, after being shown exclusively before screenings of The Fall Guy and a re-release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace .

The cast for Twisters features some talented actors who are sure to raise the bar for the franchise, with Glen Powell , Daisy Edgar-Jones , and Anthony Ramos starring in the leading roles of the highly anticipated film. Powell, known for his roles in Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You , will play a character named Tyler Owens, a charismatic influencer and thrill-seeker nicknamed "the Tornado Wrangler" who has amassed a large group of followers. Meanwhile, Edgar-Jones, who captured our hearts in the hit series Normal People and the movie Where the Crawdads Sing , will bring her natural charm and talent to the role of Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser who had a traumatic encounter with a tornado in college and now spends her days in New York City studying storm patterns on computer screens. Ramos, who has been making waves with his performances in Hamilton and In the Heights , will star as Javi, Kate's friend who lures her back into the world of storm chasing to test a new tracking system.

Sasha Lane ( American Hone y) stars as Lily, who is one of Tyler's storm-chasing partners. Other cast members on board for the sequel include Brandon Perea ( Nope ), Daryl McCormack ( Peaky Blinders ), Maura Tierney ( NewsRadio ), Harry Hadden-Paton ( The Crown ), Kiernan Shipka ( Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ), Nik Dodani ( Atypical ), David Corenswet ( Superman ), Tunde Adebimpe ( Spider-Man: Homecoming ), Katy O'Brian ( The Mandalorian ), and Paul Scheer ( Black Monday ).

In the original Twister movie, Helen Hunt played the fearless and determined Dr. Jo Harding, who leads the charge in developing a tornado data-gathering device. Her estranged husband, Bill, was portrayed by the charming and witty late actor Bill Paxton, who joins the team for one last mission to test their invention. And let's not forget about Cary Elwes , who played the sleazy and competitive Dr. Jonas Miller, who tries to steal the team's technology and beat them to the punch.

The sequel to the classic 1996 movie has been in development since 2020 and Universal has stated that it will be a "new chapter" in the franchise's world. However, it was initially reported that the film is expected to center around the daughter of the iconic characters played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton , who's carrying on the family tradition of chasing storms. This would later be debunked by the film's screenwriter Mark L. Smith in an interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub . Smith, when talking about working on the film with Lee Isaac Chung , going on to say:

"It's a lot of fun. He did his own thing to the script a little bit because that's what they do, so I don't know about some of the changes exactly. So, I don’t know the details, but it's a separate story. It's not a continuation of the original. But it's just a real wild ride with some good, fun characters. Hopefully, we can tap into what the original had because that thing is just iconic. But it's so cool to have a director like Isaac taking on something like this. It's just so out of his norm, and I think he's having fun. I was texting with him a couple days ago, and it's just all craziness of it."

Smith also revealed that the subject of climate change will play a major role in the film, saying:

"I talked to so many storm experts, tornado experts, storm chasers, and rode around with some. Even the tornado season itself, because of climate change, what used to be tornado alley going through a certain stretch. It now extends so further east, and it's moving across, and the dates are wider, and the numbers are higher, and the storms themselves are more violent. So we did use elements of that just to shine a light on it, as well, the causes and effects of climate change."

The official synopsis for Twisters reads:

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better. As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Lee Isaac Chung the Oscar-nominated director of the critically acclaimed movie Minari , is directing Twisters . This would mark Chung's first foray into big-budget, action-packed tentpoles. Top Gun: Maverick filmmaker Joseph Kosinski was initially set to direct the film , but left due to a scheduling conflict with his upcoming F1 movie starring Brad Pitt .

Mark L. Smith, the screenwriter behind The Boys in the Boat , has been signed on to write the script, while Frank Marshall from the Kennedy/Marshall Company will be producing the film. Smith has a track record of working with Hollywood heavy-hitter George Clooney , having penned the script for the Netflix movie Midnight Sky , which Clooney directed and starred in. Patrick Crowley , most known for producing the Jurassic and Bourne franchises, will also be producing the disaster flick. Twisters will also be co-financed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The studio execs overseeing the production are Sara Scott and Jacqueline Garell from Universal and Ashley Jay Sandberg from Kennedy/Marshall.

One person not involved in the sequel is the 1996 film's director Jan de Bont who revealed in an interview that nobody reached out to him to consult on the film .

Twisters began principal photography in Oklahoma City in May 2023 with additional locations including Chickasha, Orkarche, El Reno, Spencer, and Cashion.

The original 1996 Twister was an instant hit, raking in over $494 million globally. The film's incredible success was due in large part to its brilliant special effects, the likes of which had never been seen before. Jan de Bont , the mastermind behind the hit movie Speed , directed the film, and the legendary Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. The screenplay was penned by none other than Michael Crichton , the author behind Jurassic Park . In the now-iconic blockbuster, we follow the story of Dr. Jo Harding, a brilliant university professor, and her team of daring students as they prepare to face one of the most powerful storms in decades.

With their state-of-the-art tornado data-gathering device, Dorothy, developed by Jo's estranged husband, Bill, the team is poised to take on the elements like never before. But when they discover that their arch-nemesis, Dr. Jonas Miller, has stolen their technology and built his own device, the stakes are raised, and the pressure is on. Bill comes out of retirement to help Jo and the team on one final mission to collect the critical data needed to save lives.

Twister is a must-watch movie that delivers a thrilling experience filled with drama and action. And with the sequel Twisters in the works, we can only hope that it lives up to its predecessor's legacy, if not exceed it.

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25 Best Movies New to Streaming in May: ‘The Iron Claw,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘The Idea of You,’ ‘Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ and More

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The summer movie season kicks off in theaters this month with “The Fall Guy,” “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” “Furiosa” and more big budget studio tentpoles. Streaming platforms are also going big with buzzy originals (from Prime Video’s “The Idea of You,” starring Anne Hathaway, to Netflix’s star-studded comedy “Unfrosted”) as well as some of the best movies of 2023 (Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” and Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”) making their debuts on platforms such as Netflix, Max, Hulu and more.

While certainly not classified under “best,” Sony’s comic book flop “Madame Web” is also making its streaming premiere this month on Netflix. Cast member Sydney Sweeney said after the film struggled to get to the $100 million mark worldwide that she accepted a role in the tentpole as a business decision to get her foot in the door at Sony, where she was able to make her box office hit “Anyone but You” (which is now streaming on Netflix).

“To me, that film was a building block, it’s what allowed me to build a relationship with Sony,” Sweeney told GQ U.K . “Without doing ‘Madame Web’ I wouldn’t have a relationship with the decision-makers over there. Everything in my career I do not just for that story, but strategic business decisions. Because I did that, I was able to sell ‘Anyone but You.’ I was able to get ‘Barbarella.’”

“Madame Web” became such so infamous on social media upon its theatrical release that it won’t be surprising to see the movie head to the top of the Netflix charts this months as curious viewers tune in to see what all the fuss was about. Check out a full rundown below of the biggest movies new to streaming in May.

The Iron Claw (May 10 on Max)

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Zac Efron’s career-redefining turn in Sean Durkin’s family wrestling drama “The Iron Claw” was a highlight among last year’s movie offerings. The film tells the story of the Von Erich family, a dynasty of wrestlers from Texas who won championships and found enormous popularity all while battling a so-called family “curse,” a heartbreaking run of personal catastrophes.

From Variety ’s review : “Efron has undergone a physical transformation nearly as dramatic as De Niro’s in ‘Raging Bull.’ We’ve seen dozens of actors pump themselves up, but Kevin’s body is a mass of steroidal muscle he wears like a second skin, and under his choppy bangs he’s both handsome and slugged. Efron, with heavy-lidded eyes, resembles David Cassidy crossed with the Hulk.”

The Idea of You (May 2 on Prime Video)

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Anne Hathaway kicks off Prime Video’s summer movie season in style with the highly-anticipated romance movie “The Idea of You,” based on Robinne Lee’s popular novel of the same name. The Oscar winner plays a 40-year-old single mother who falls in love with the 24-year-old lead singer (Nicholas Galitzine) of the world’s hottest boy band. Variety film critic Peter Debruge called their romance “one for the ages” in his review, adding: “The chemistry between Hathaway and Galitzine feels real. She subtly conveys signals that show she’s lost faith in romance. For his part, Galitzine plays Hayes as instantly interested, but emotionally cautious as well.”

Ferrari (May 24 on Hulu)

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Variety ’s Owen Gleiberman named Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” the third best movie of 2023: “Mann brings off a masterful piece of supple ’70s storytelling in this thrilling, humane, high-stakes biographical drama about three months in the life of Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), the legendary Italian automaker…Driver gives Ferrari a coiled authority, and Cruz is Lady Macbeth fierce as his wife and business partner, who must subsume her rage when she learns that her husband not only has a mistress (Shailene Woodley, good despite a thin accent) but a secret second family.”

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (May 14 on Starz)

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“The Hunger Games” franchise roared back to life last year with the prequel movie “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” which earned $337 million at the worldwide box office. Set decades before the rise of Katniss Everdeen, the prequel tells the story of a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as he mentors a tribute named Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) in the 10th Hunger Games.

Variety film critic Peter Deburge called the movie a “bold prequel” in his review , adding: “It impressively expands the canon while honoring its key themes [and] feels like a natural extension of the saga, balancing blood sport, endangered young love and a heightened level of political commentary that respects the intelligence of young audiences as only [author Suzanne] Collins can.” The film hits streaming this month via Starz and will be available for Hulu and Prime Video subscribers who have the Starz add-on tier.

Madame Web (May 14 on Netflix)

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OK, so “Madame Web” definitely isn’t going to go down as one of the best movies of the year. But it’s certainly the biggest studio tentpole from 2024 arriving in streaming this May. Dakota Johnson plays a clairvoyant who must protect three girls (one of whom is played by Sydney Sweeney) in this Marvel movie set in Sony’s “Spider-Man” universe. The film was panned by critics in February and flopped at the box office with just $100 million worldwide. Anyone curious what all the (mostly negative) fuss was about will get their chance to stream “Madame Web” on Netflix this month.

Unfrosted (May 3 on Netflix)

UNFROSTED, (aka UNFROSTED: THE POP-TART STORY), from left: Jerry Seinfeld, Adrian Martinez, Jack McBrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, James Marsden, 2024. ph: John P. Johnson / © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection

Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut with the star-studded Netflix comedy “Unfrosted,” which puts a fictional spin on the origin story of the Pop Tart and the very real rivalry that existed between cereal giants Kellogg’s and Post during the early 1960s. Seinfeld’s ensemble cast includes Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Sarah Cooper, Bill Burr and more. Netflix’s synopsis reads: “Battle Creek, Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever.”

American Fiction (May 14 on Prime Video)

AMERICAN FICTION, Jeffrey Wright, 2023. ph: Claire Folger / © MGM / Courtesy Everett Collection

“Promising first-time director Cord Jefferson uses a 22-year-old book to poke fun at how Hollywood and others attempt to commercialize the African American experience,” reads Variety ’s review of “American Fiction,” which won Jefferson the Oscar for best adapted screenplay earlier this year. Jeffrey Wright plays a disgruntled novelist who begrudgingly writes a book about the Black experience because that’s all white readers are interested in. The book ends up being a massive success, much to his annoyance. Wright was nominated for best actor, while Sterling K. Brown picked up a nomination for supporting actor.

The Blue Angels (May 23 on Prime Video)

From producers Glen Powell and J.J. Abrams comes “The Blue Angels,” a documentary about the eponymous flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy. Amazon MGM and is opening the movie in Imax theaters this month as well as on Prime Video for those who can’t make it out to the theater. Filmed for Imax, the immersive footage in the film puts viewers in the cockpit for a firsthand view of the Blue Angels’ precision flying. The studio says: “The film is a fitting tribute to the extraordinary teamwork, passion and pride of the hundreds of outstanding men and women of the Navy and Marine Corps who have had the honor to serve in the Blue Angels squadron…past, present and future.”

The Boys in the Boat (May 28 on Prime Video)

THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, from left: Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Callum Turner, Jack Mulhern, 2023. ph: Laurie Sparham / © MGM / Courtesy Everett Collection

George Clooney’s “The Boys in the Boat” was a box office hit for Amazon MGM Studios over the Christmas holiday with $55 million worldwide. Now the movie comes to Prime Video at no extra cost to subscribers. The film follows the University of Washington’s rowing team during their quest to compete in the 1936 Summer Olympics. The cast includes Joel Edgerton as coach Al Ulbrickson Sr. and Callum Turner as rower Joe Rantz. From Variety’s review : “Callum Turner exudes star power” in an “old-fashioned movie daydream…Turner, who is British, has the dark-eyed, purse-lipped, lock-jawed scowl of Springsteen the working-class prince.”

Mother of the Bride (May 10 on Netflix)

MOTHER OF THE BRIDE, Brooke Shields, 2024. ph: Sasidas Sasisakulporn / © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection

Brooke Shields headlines Netflix’s romantic comedy “Mother of the Bride,” which is hitting the streaming platform just in time for Mother’s Day weekend. The supermodel and actor plays Lana, a single mother who is shocked when her daughter announces she’s getting married in Thailand with just one month’s notice. Shenanigans ensue when Lana discovers her daughter’s soon-to-be father-in-law is the man who broke Lana’s heart many years ago. Will their kids’ wedding be enough to rekindle an old flame? Probably. The film’s supporting cast includes Miranda Cosgrove, Sean Teale, Chad Michael Murray, Rachael Harris and Benjamin Bratt.

Thelma the Unicorn (May 17 on Netflix)

THELMA THE UNICORN, Thelma (voice: Brittany Howard), 2024. © Netflix/ Courtesy Everett Collection

From directors Jared Hess and Lynn Wang comes “Thelma the Unicorn,” which Netflix is surely hoping becomes the top choice for family audiences this month. The official synopsis from the streaming giant reads: “Thelma is a small-time pony who dreams of becoming a glamorous music star. In a pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma is transformed into a unicorn and instantly rises to global stardom. But this new life of fame comes at a cost.” The movie’s voice cast includes Brittany Howard, Will Forte, Jemaine Clement, Edi Patterson, Maliaka Mitchell, Ally Dixon, Fred Armisen, Zach Galifianakis and Jon Heder.

Atlas (May 24 on Netflix)

ATLAS, Jennifer Lopez, 2024. ph: Ana Carballosa / © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection

Jennifer Lopez delivered Netflix one of its most-watched original movies with “The Mother.” Can she do it again with the upcoming “Atlas”? She stars in the science-fiction action tentpole as Atlas Shepherd, a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence. Atlas joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past, but plans quickly go awry and force her to befriend an AI robot if she wants to survive and save humanity from a deadly future. The supporting cast includes Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla and Mark Strong.

Let It Be (May 8 on Disney+)

For decades, the attitude toward the documentary “Let It Be” in the Beatles‘ camp seemed to be: Let it rest in peace. But the film is finally going to be seen again. A restored version of the 1970 movie is coming to Disney+ this month. The streamer debuted Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” in 2021, which was created using outtakes from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg‘s original film. Not only has the 1970 film been dusted off, but it’s been restored by Jackson’s Park Road Post Production using the same technology employed to make the vintage footage in “The Beatles: Get Back” look and sound as revitalized as it did.

The Beach Boys (May 24 on Disney+)

The Beatles aren’t the only iconic band getting the Disney+ documentary treatment this May. Enter “The Beach Boys,” a documentary which is being billed as “a celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, captivating fans for generations and generations to come.” From directors Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, “The Beach Boys” will include never-before-seen footage and new interviews with band members Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston, as well as music stars like Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe, Ryan Tedder and Don Was.

Jim Henson Idea Man (May 31 on Disney+)

Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog, 1988. ph: ©Jim Henson Productions/courtesy Everett Collection

Disney+ is going all in on documentaries this May. In addition to movies about the Beatles and the Beach Boys, “Sesame Street” co-creator Jim Henson is getting his own documentary on the streamer courtesy of Ron Howard. “Jim Henson Idea Man” chronicles the life and legacy of the visionary puppeteer through some of his most iconic creations, from classic Muppets like Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy to Sesame Street residents Big Bird, Grover, Cookie Monster, and Bert and Ernie. Henson also directed beloved fantasy films like “The Dark Crystal” and “Labyrinth.” Howard directed the documentary with the cooperation of the Henson family and used never-before-seen personal archival home movies, photographs, sketches and Henson’s personal diaries to bring his story to life.

Stop Making Sense (May 3 on Max)

STOP MAKING SENSE, David Byrne, 1984, (c)Cinecom International/courtesy Everett Collection

A24’s restoration of Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads concert documentary “Stop Making Sense” was a box office hit last year, and now it’s coming to streaming via the indie studio’s new partnership with Max. The film is widely considered one of the greatest concert films of all time and was shot over three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983. A24 re-released the concert film in theaters last fall. It collected $5 million at the box office, surpassing the film’s entire initial 41-week run ($4.95 million) in 1984. “Stop Making Sense” also became Imax‘s highest-grossing live event, earning $640,839 and selling out 25 screens across 165 Imax locations in North America, according to the studio.

Moviepass, Movie Crash (May 29 on Max)

From producer Mark Wahlberg comes the Max original documentary about the rise and fall of MoviePass. From Max’s official synopsis: “‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ chronicles the origin story, meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the theatrical movie subscription app, MoviePass, as told through the eyes of the visionary co-founders. The film details the unique challenges they faced in building the pop culture phenomenon, only to eventually find themselves cast aside, watching from the sidelines, as new executives seized control and havoc ensued.”

Prom Dates (May 3 on Hulu)

PROM DATES, from left: Julia Lester, Antonia Gentry, 2024. ph: Brett Roedel / © Hulu / Courtesy Everett Collection

“The Other Two” and “Never Have I Ever” director Kim O. Nguyen is behind the camera for Hulu’s original comedy “Prom Dates,” starring Julia Lester (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”) and Antonia Gentry (“Ginny & Georgia”). The official synopsis reads: “The film follows best friends Jess and Hannah, who made a pact at 13 to have the perfect senior prom. Despite the impending changes that college will bring over the next four years, the two are committed to honoring their prom pact. But with only 24 hours left before the big event, everything falls apart when they break up with each of their dates. Jess and Hannah are left with one night to find new dates and live out their middle-school fantasies.”

Eileen (May 10 on Hulu)

EILEEN, from left: Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, 2023. © Neon / Courtesy Everett Collection

Anne Hathaway has one of the buzziest streaming originals of May thanks to her Prime Video romance “The Idea of You,” but any cinephile looking for an added dose of the Oscar winner should check out her overlooked psychological thriller “Eileen.” The 1960s tale centers on a relationship forged by two women (Thomasin McKenzie and Hathaway) who work at a juvenile detention facility. Hathaway’s sexy and hypnotic supporting turn is a knockout. The film was named a Variety Critic’s Pick : “It might prove an off-putting cocktail in some quarters, but the weirdos among us will find ‘Eileen’s’ sheer chutzpah, couched as it is in classy, clever filmmaking, curiously exhilarating and addictive.”

Biosphere (May 10 on Hulu)

BIOSPHERE, from left: Mark Duplass, Sterling K. Brown, 2022. © IFC Films / Courtesy Everett Collection

Mel Eslyn’s directorial debut “Biosphere” pairs Sterling K. Brown with Mark Duplass in the story of two best friends who become the only survivors of a global apocalypse. From Variety ’s review : “The performers are winning enough, and the ideas in the ambiguous story intriguing enough, to achieve an end result of successful charm and substance…‘Biosphere’ is hardly the most sophisticated exploration of masculinity, homophobia and other issues that have become hot buttons in our era. Yet there is something endearing about the way it probes them by means that are pleasantly silly, without being trivializing. Duplass’ performance gradually acquires more ballast as Brown’s becomes more playful, and their rapport has a relaxed, lived-in quality that helps us swallow the whimsical premise.”

Birth/Rebirth (May 17 on Hulu)

BIRTH/REBIRTH, Marin Ireland, 2023. © Shudder / courtesy Everett Collection

“Actors Marin Ireland and Judy Reyes breathe new life into a literary touchstone in director Laura Moss’ drolly disturbing biological horror,” reads Variety ’s review of “Birth/Rebirth,” a twisted horror movie about a morgue technician who needs to harvest biological materials from pregnant women after she successfully reanimates the body of a young girl. “The superbly performed, enjoyably queasy ‘Birth/Rebirth’ proves just how well the classic tale of scientific hubris and the desire to conquer death maps onto a gory maternity morality play, reanimating the truism that there’s little more (un)deadly than a mother’s love…the triumph of Moss’ impressive first feature, with its mathematically ratcheting moral stakes and its coolly controlled style, is that it makes its dubiously scientific high concept feel horribly plausible.”

The Sweet East (May 17 on Hulu)

THE SWEET EAST, Talia Ryder, 2023. © Utopia / Courtesy Everett Collection

Sean William Price’s feature directorial debut “The Sweet East” stars “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” breakout Talia Ryder as a high school senior from South Carolina who gets separated from her schoolmates during a class trip to Washington D.C. and finds herself on a strange road trip across America. The film, which debuted at Cannes last year, co-stars Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris and Jacob Elordi.

Variety called it a “promising feature debut” in its review , adding: “The film is intriguingly anthropological in its take on America as a subject, viewed less through the prism of what American might signify as a nation, than how America might feel as an experience — there’s a sense of disintegration and incipient violence seeping through everything, which occasionally explodes to entertaining effect, but there’s clearly deep affection there too.”

He Went That Way (May 17 on Hulu)

HE WENT THAT WAY, Jacob Elordi, 2023. © Vertical Entertainment /Courtesy Everett Collection

Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto join forces in “He Went Thay Way,” which is based on the true crime story of celebrity animal trainer Dave Pitts and his fateful three-day encounter with the serial killer Larry Lee Ranes. The film is inspired by Conrad Hilberry’s book “Luke Karamazov” and the real-life account from Dave Pitts, the sole survivor of Ranes’ killing spree, and follows the trio as they set off on a crazy three-day road trip down Route 66 together. Elordi portrays serial killer Bobby Falls, based on Ranes, and Quinto portrays Jim Goodwin, based on Pitts. Jeffrey Darling, renowned for his commercials and music videos (“Crowded House: Instinct”), makes his feature directorial debut.

The Promised Land (May 30 on Hulu)

THE PROMISED LAND, (aka BASTARDEN), Mads Mikkelsen, 2023. © Magnolia Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

Mads Mikkelsen earned critical acclaim for his performance in Nikolaj Arcel’s historical epic “The Promised Land,” which centers on an impoverished Danish officer in the 1750s who hopes to strike it rich through land cultivation. From Variety ’s review: “A commoner-turned-captain is locked in a grisly land battle with a dastardly nobleman in this entertaining, broad-brush epic, lent weight by its ever-reliable star…Were it not for the hysterically deranged lord across the moor sporadically tormenting the good farmer and slaughtering his help, ‘The Promised Land’ would almost play out as a kind of Scandi ‘Little House on the Präirie,’ with affecting everyday concerns of health, hearth and home countered by an escalating blood feud of far more outlandish fictional proportions.”

Sympathy of the Devil (May 31 on Hulu)

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, Nicolas Cage, 2023. © RLJE Films / Courtesy Everett Collection

Nicolas Cage is in full manic mode in “Sympathy for the Devil,” which stars Joel Kinnaman as an expectant father who picks up a stranger on the way to the hospital where his wife is in labor. The stranger is Cage’s crooked criminal, who forces the driver to engage in a twisted cat-and-mouse game. With spiky dyed flame-red hair, goatee and lounge-lizard smoking jacket, Cage only needs a pair of plastic horns to look the complete costume-party Satan. And given the jokey way he treats the character for a long time, we do wonder if he’s meant to be a literal Beelzebub come to claim a sinner for eternal damnation.

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