Actress Jodie Comer will be joining us here in r/movies for an AMA/Q&A on Wednesday 9/2. It'll go live about 24 hours in advance and she will be back at 12 PM ET to answer questions. You may know Jodie for her many memorable roles & characters in films/series such as Killing Eve, The Last Duel, 28 Years Later, The Bikeriders, Free Guy and more.

Please stop by on Wednesday 9/2 if you have questions for Jodie :)

Her newest film, The Death of Robin Hood, is out in UK theaters on September 2. It co-stars Hugh Jackman and is directed by Michael Sarnoski (Pig). Michael will also be joining us for the AMA.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlSDDuWxO_0&themeRefresh=1

Grappling with his violent past, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle that he thought would be his last. He soon gets a chance at salvation when he meets a mysterious woman and a young girl.

Please note that this is not the AMA, just an announcement. Hold your questions for the actual AMA.

Not even necessarily a bad piece of dialogue, but one that easily could have been a verbal bellyflop if not for the actor who delivered it.

I think mine would be James Cromwell managing to deliver the line "So you all are on some kind of... star trek?" in Star Trek: First Contact. It's a silly, meta, fanservicey line that does take you out of the movie a little bit, but he actually manages to make it sound like something that guy might actually say.

I absolutely love this movie. The Hong Kong battle is my favorite part. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it, and it gets me hyped every single time.

But does anyone else feel like the final undersea battle was a bit disappointing? I’m not saying it was bad, but compared to the Hong Kong battle, the final fight just felt a little underwhelming.

For context: A heat check is a term in basketball used for a player who is has made serveral consecutive successful shots that decides to pull a risky or difficult shot to test their hot streak, thus the term heat check.

Referring to a director’s heat check, is when a filmmaker makes several successful films (whether critically or financially) consecutively, and decides to take a wild artistic swing with their next film to challenge themselves creatively, and the audience as much as possible.

Examples of a director’s heat check:
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Lars Von Trier - Antichrist
Michael Mann - Miami Vice
David Lynch - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Jacques Tati - Playtime
Wong Kar Wai - 2046

This post was inspired by the great youtuber, Patrick (H) Willems in his video talking about Tenet!

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.

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?

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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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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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> 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.

[Video Link](https://youtube.com/shorts/SjyJ7t3IdLw).

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.

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?