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Keira Knightley Tries An American Accent And Owen Wilson Channels Bob Ross In Two Unrelated Trailers

By Jen Maravegias | Film | February 21, 2023 |

By Jen Maravegias | Film | February 21, 2023 |


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True Crime fans, gird your loins for Hulu’s upcoming thriller about the journalists who broke the 1960’s Boston Strangler case. Oscar nominee Keira Knightley plays Loretta McLaughlin and Carrie Coon plays her colleague, Jean Cole, at the Record-American newspaper in this film from writer/director Matt Ruskin (Crown Heights).

It also stars Alessandro Nivola (Amsterdam), David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad), Morgan Spector (Homeland), Bill Camp (Joker), and Chris Cooper (Irresistable).

Boston Strangler begins streaming on Hulu on March 17th.

And from the other end of New England, here’s something… completely different. I had to watch this trailer a few times before I was convinced that it wasn’t Funny Or Die trying to punk us. But yes, IFC is releasing a movie that is not a Bob Ross documentary where Owen Wilson looks and sounds an awful lot like Bob Ross.

Paint is the story of Carl Nargle, Vermont’s top (fictional) TV painter who has everything going for him — the perm, the fans, and the van — until a younger artist takes his spotlight.

I don’t know about this. I really like this cast, which includes Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), Michaela Watkins (Wanderlust, Thanks for Sharing), Ciara Renée (The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Lusia Strus (50 First Dates), and Stephen Root (Barry, Office Space). But I don’t understand what tone it’s going for. Is it a mockumentary like Weird: The Al Yankovic Story? Or is it going for something more serious?

We’ll find out when Paint hits theaters on April 7th.