A Real Pain premiered at Sundance earlier this year (read Sara’s review here), and we’ve been looking forward to it ever since. It stars writer/director Jesse Eisenberg (Fleishman Is In Trouble) and Kieran Culkin (Succession) as cousins who take a pilgrimage to Poland in honor of their deceased grandmother.
I need someone to stage a revival of The Odd Couple with these two in it, stat.
A Real Pain also stars Will Sharpe (White Lotus), Jennifer Grey (Red Dawn), Kurt Egyiawan (Beasts Of No Nation), Liza Sadovy, and Daniel Oreskes (Only Murders In The Building). It opens in limited US theaters on November 1st.
Luca Guadagnino’s follow-up to Call Me By Your Name is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ “unfilmable” book Queer. Jason reviewed it as part of our NY Film Festival coverage earlier this year.
Queer stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey (Outer Banks), Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris), and Jason Schwartzman. It will be released in limited US theaters on November 1st.
I’m not much for romance stories but I do love food stories so I begrudgingly read around the drippy romance of the novel and rolled my eyes at some parts of the movie version of Like Water For Chocolate.
I thought it was a pretty good film overall. So I’m not sure why we need a series (why must everything be a series?) But I saw Producer Salma Hayek Pinault interviewed on The Today Show earlier this week and she said something like “I have a good track record! It shouldn’t have taken me six years to get this project made. People should listen to me sooner!” And when she’s right, she’s right. So I’ll probably be watching this.
The six-episode series stars Irene Azuela, Azul Guaita, Ana Valeria Becerril, and Andrea Chaparro. It will begin streaming on MAX on November 3rd.
For today’s lagniappe we mourn the end of Spooky Season (Official) but are reminded that it can always be Spooky Season in our hearts. Come for the blunt title, stay for Sean Astin. OK maybe not so much “spooky” as “ridiculous” but it looks like fun either way.