Three Trailers: Jeff Goldblum Is a God

By Jen Maravegias | Film | August 23, 2024 |

The Show Biz gene is strong in The Washington Family. Denzel’s son, Malcolm, is making his directorial debut working with his brother, John David, on Netflix’s adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-prize-winning play The Piano Lesson. In the film John David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson reprise their roles from the recent Broadway production directed by Samuel L’s wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson. It’s a family affair! August Wilson would approve.

The Piano Lesson also stars Ray Fisher, Michael Potts (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Jerrika Hinton (Hunters), Gail Bean (Snowfall), Danielle Deadwyler (The Harder They Fall), and Corey Hawkins (The Color Purple).

It premieres on Netflix on November 22nd.

David Tennant is entirely too likable. It’s about time for him to be cast against type in the upcoming Hulu series, Rivals. It’s based on Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles and set against the backdrop of 1980s England. Georgia Tennant, David’s wife, narrated the audiobook.

The eight-episode series also stars Aidan Turner (The Hobbit trilogy), Katherine Parkinson (Humans, The IT Crowd), Danny Dyer (EastEnders), Oliver Chris (My Lady Jane), Luke Pasqualino, Victoria Smurfit, and Claire Rushbrook (Sherwood).

Rivals begins streaming on Hulu on October 18th

In Kaos, Jeff Goldblum will star as a disaffected Zeus struggling with his fellow Gods and the humans who should be worshipping him. I’m not entirely sold. Miracle Workers tried something like this with their first season and it was probably the show’s weakest season. But Jeff Goldblum being violent and unhinged means I will absolutely check this out.

Kaos also stars Aurora Perrineau (Prodigal Son), Debi Mazar, Fady Elsayed (Gangs Of London), Sam Buttery, Amanda Douge, Layo-Christina Akinlude, and Shila Ommi. It will begin streaming on Netflix next Friday, August 29th.

This is not the trailer I was planning to use for this week’s lagniappe. But sometimes The Algorithm gives me a gift that cannot be ignored. Back in 2021, we were feeling the vibe director Steven Kostanski was throwing down with PG: Psycho Gorman. We were also in the deep throes of a pandemic so our vibe-meters may have been compromised.

Kostanski’s got a new movie hitting theaters this October (Really? THIS gets a theatrical run? Ohkaaaay.) It looks like a movie that escaped from the shelves of the corner video store where I used to rent copies of Ghoulies, Puppet Master, and Troll. So it will probably be a new favorite.