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> NEW YORK—Calling the current rate of theatrical releases starring the actress “unsustainable,” top analysts warned Wednesday that the U.S. economy was becoming overly dependent on Anne Hathaway. “Between Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, The End Of Oak Street, and the upcoming Verity, not to mention the whole other slate of projects she has in preproduction, we estimate that Anne Hathaway films currently account for a staggering 63% of all U.S. exports,” said Jason Nadu, head of leading-lady analytics at Bloomberg, who urged industry leaders to begin diversifying into other mid-career actresses immediately to prevent the nation from collapsing into an economic depression.

> While it’s great we’re experiencing a boom, we need to prepare for the eventual bust. We cannot bury our heads in the sand and pretend a Devil Wears Prada 3 or Interstellar 2 is coming. Like it or not, Anne Hathaway will not be around forever. And then what?” Nadu went on to add that the remaining 37% of U.S. exports were Robert Pattinson and Zendaya films.

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Obviously Iron Man is a stellar movie in most aspects (performance, direction, script), I feel like the under discussed parts of why this movie works are the design of the Iron Man suit and the quality of graphics making it happen.

While I'm not exactly the biggest comic book reader, I am familiar with a lot of the Iron Man suit designs, in both comics, animation, and the live action suits which followed the first movie. And a lot of times, the Iron Man suit looks kinda goofy, which makes the reader/watcher not take the character as seriously as you'd want.

But the Mark III suit which Stark develops in the movie is by far one of the best suits designed (across mediums).

I think the main things which the suit nails are the helmet itself, which looks menacing, and using the color gold instead of a brighter yellow. The decision to make the eyes white lights, instead of being slits that Stark can actually see through is also a solid choice.

The movie's decision to present the reveal of the Mark III in the Afghanistan scene is by far one of the best reveals of a superhero character suit in movies. Like compare this to the full reveal of Batman in Batman Begins (a movie that I love and consider of comparable quality to Iron Man). While the scene is well constructed, I feel the final reveal where Batman breaks through the car and says "I'm Batman!" to Falcone is kinda goofy in retrospect, and despite me thinking the Batman suit of the TDK series works well for what's its trying to achieve, I cannot in good faith suggest that this scene is anywhere close to the Afghanistan scene of Iron Man (Bale's Batman voice also does not help, in this comparison)

Basically what I'm trying to say is that no matter how well written Iron Man had been, no matter how good RDJ, Paltrow and Bridges might have been in their roles, this movie fundamentally would not have worked if the suit design and the graphics making it work didn't work as well as intended.

I think a similar thing happens in Transformers 2007, where the design of Transformers worked well in favor of the movie. Now I know that the Bayformers designs are not as universally liked as the Mark III armor, and a lot of fans would prefer a design closer to G1, but I think we can all agree that for a modern design attempting to ensure the size of the robot matches that of the vehicle they transform into, it does well enough to make them believable

Maybe this is a stupid example and I'm overthinking it, but rewatching Air Force One and when the hijackers take over the plane, the officer carrying the nuclear football is killed. The President (Harrison Ford) yells "The Football!" since now all of the America's nuclear launch codes were in the hands of terrorists. 5 minutes later, back at the White House, some aide approaches the VP and says "all codes have been changed" and he's cuffed to a briefcase. It is never addressed afterwards.

Obviously, this would probably happen real world, but it seemed like the football was supposed to play a bigger role and then halfway through Wolfgang said fuck it and cut it.

Any other examples?

I’ve been unemployed for quite some time so I have watched a lot of the movies I wanted to on streaming.

That said, I finally got a job offer that starts in 2 weeks, so I want to end my free time on a high note.

I prefer CIA/Espionage and War type movies, but I also can’t pass up a good horror/thriller or comedy, snd true crime shit is also in my wheelhouse, so this is pretty open ended. Just want to find some hidden gems I may have missed.

Thanks!

Hi everyone. I haven’t posted here before, but my girlfriend and myself are both long-time lovers of movies and so is her dad. We’ve been spending a lot of time at her dad’s place since her mother’s unexpected passing a week ago and it seems so many movies include sudden death, especially that of women or mothers.

I’m coming to this subreddit because I assume you all would know the best recs for movies that won’t make this week of adjustment and shock any harder than it has to be. I know movies can help some process, but I want to have some good suggestions under my sleeve if she or her dad want a chill comfort movie.

Triggers would be maternal or spousal death, phone calls about deaths, imagery of corpses or dying, and grief in general right now. Thank you everybody.

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

Summary

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. When she visits the original movie's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Director Jane Schoenbrun

Writer Jane Schoenbrun

Cast

• Gillian Anderson as Billy
• Hannah Einbinder as Kris
• Jack Haven as Little Death
• Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mari
• Zach Cherry as Will
• Amanda Fix as Young Billy
• Eva Victor as DJ Ella Giastic
• Sarah Sherman as Kris' Agent
• Kevin McDonald as Anthony / Country Sheriff

Rotten Tomatoes: 98%

Metacritic: 91

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What movie quote has stuck with you the most lately?

Mine recently is Alejandro’s line to Kate at the end of Sicario:

“You should move to a small town, where the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.”

It really stuck with me, I’m not sure even why.

What’s yours?

I’m looking for movie recommendations. What I’m looking for is very specific: a non-human protagonist who has to pretend to be human. If there is any movie that meets those criteria, please recommend it.I don't know, something about an alien or a monster would be cool.

Ideally, it should be live-action with a male protagonist.

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Tony (2026)

Summary

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

Director Matt Johnson

Writer Todd Bartels Lou Howe Matt Johnson

Cast

• Dominic Sessa as Tony
• Antonio Banderas
• Emilia Jones
• Leo Woodall
• Stavros Halkias
• Dagmara Domińczyk
• Rich Sommer
• Monica Raymund

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 71

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I was reflecting on Jim Carrey's run of roles in the 90's (touching on the early 00's). The Mask, Ace Ventura, The Grinch, The Riddler, etc.

I found myself specifically thinking about just how much of the comedy in those performances wasn't simply the way lines were written or spoken, but was in the *physical* performances he put on. Facial expressions and body movements and whatnot.

So this clearly led to me trying to think of what other actors are out there in the modern scene who... aren't "comparable" (nobody can really match up to Carrey in that way), but *fit that same role.*

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I analyzed all 403 Criterion Closet Picks videos, 2010 to last month, and counted what guests actually took: 423 people, 3,312 choices, against the 1,718 films that were on the shelves to take.

The part that changed the whole thing was box sets. 240 of the 403 visits take at least one, and counting only single films throws out 438 of the 3,312 choices, not at random either. Agnès Varda has been picked once as a single film and 23 more times inside a box set. Tati and Rohmer have never been picked as single films at all.

So, some results:

• Most-picked item: John Cassavetes: Five Films, 30 visits. Most-picked singlefilm: Do the Right Thing, 19. Then All That Jazz 18, 8 1/2 17, La Strada 16.
• Directors, counted by how many visits reached for them at all: Fellini 56, Cassavetes 55, Bergman 48, Kurosawa 46.
• 1,264 of the 1,718 films have left the shelf at least once, 73.6%. The other 454 never have. That includes Spine 1, Grand Illusion.
• 93 of the guests are directors with films in the collection. 528 times a guest has taken a film made by another guest. It has never once gone both ways.
• Guests pick a little above the shelf average on IMDb, 7.54 against 7.26, which is smaller than I expected given how much of the collection is canon already.

Everything is at closet-picks.com if you want to poke at it. Each page says how the number was made and where it breaks: one box set is out of print so nobody knows what's in it, 32 films have no TMDB match, and a 2025 spine has had fewer visits in which to be picked than a 2005 one.

Kinda like Mr. Right, The lost city, Baby driver, American Ultra and some more. I've watched alot and I fear im running out lol.

Movies that have some funny dialogue or scenes while bullets are flying past their heads, type of action, or like in baby driver where the dude get the girl at the end.

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Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)

Summary

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house where she grew up, discovers that she can travel into the Further. But her unusual ability comes with a terrifying consequence: she can bring the entities living there back into the real world.

Director Jacob Chase

Writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick Leigh Whannell Jacob Chase

Cast

• Amelia Eve as Gemma
• Brandon Perea
• Lin Shaye
• Sam Spruell
• Maisie Richardson-Sellers
• Joseph Lopez
• Laura Gordon
• Julie Nihill

Rotten Tomatoes: N/A

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