Redneck Orlando Bloom, Evil Andie McDowell, and Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior Topline Three Trailers

By Jen Maravegias | Film | January 19, 2024 |

By Jen Maravegias | Film | January 19, 2024 |

Legolas-era Orlando Bloom was peak Orlando Bloom, and I will take no questions. The violent, redneck Orlando Bloom, in the Red Right Hand trailer just isn’t doing it for me (shirtless pullup scene notwithstanding.) He looks like at least a half dozen other actors I could name off the top of my head while simultaneously looking like a guy I would cross the street to avoid. No thanks. I am into evil Andie MacDowell, though. And I’ve always got time for Garret Dillahunt.

Red Right Hand opens in theaters on February 23rd.

South Korean horror is, in general, extremely F’d up. While I’m not overly familiar with director Heo Myeong Haeng’s previous work, I am familiar with Chan Wook Park, Bong Joon Ho, and several deeply disturbing South Korean series that Netflix has brought to our screens. Now the streamer is adding Badland Hunters, a promising post-apocalypse zombie movie starring Don Lee (Train To Busan) to its library.

Badland Hunters premieres on Netflix on January 26th.

The New Look is for our fashion junkies. Ben Mendelsohn stars as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel in this lavish Apple TV+ series set in Nazi-occupied Paris. Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones), John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer (Relic), and Claes Bang (BBC’s Dracula series) also star in this story about Dior’s rises to prominence in the fashion world toppling Coco Chanel’s reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer.

Ben Mendelsohn in this kind of costume/textile porn is someone’s wet dream come true. The New Look begins on Apple TV+ on February 14th.

Sometimes I like to stop and think about the number of times The Devil’s plan to bring about Armageddon has been thwarted in Hollywood. Every time he’s got some great idea for the birth of the Anti-Christ, someone comes along and ruins all of his plans. He got close in The Omen franchise when, in Omen III: The Final Conflict, grown-up Damien (played by Sam Neill) is killed just before accomplishing his grand finale. But before that, the Devil had other plans that I assume failed spectacularly otherwise he wouldn’t have needed Damien at all, now would he?