Ahead of the 2024 awards season, anyone who stayed away from the theatrical release of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon can finally catch it on Apple TV+. Likewise, Richard Linklater’s stupidly entertaining Longlegs will find an audience via streaming. And, finally, a new sequel from the Mad Max film series has arrived. You may find out hd movies here.
Mad Max: Fury Road-HD Movies
Thirty years after the last film in the series and thirty-six since the 1979 original that started it all, George Miller returns to his apocalyptic vision of a future where humanity is on the brink of extinction with Fury Road. The fourth and final installment, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, is a high-octane bombast of action. But it’s not action for its own sake, and it’s never mindless or aimless. The action is perfectly-executed exposition in service of the telling of a great story.
The film’s core rebellion is driven by women, and while a male protagonist may give the picture its title, it’s Imperator Furiosa (played by Theron) who embodies its spirit of resistance. She’s a badass sharpshooter and an unapologetic hero who takes on the brutal patriarch Immortan Joe and liberates his tortured wives in the name of freedom. Theron is at her best here, and she’s ably supported by Hardy and co-stars Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz and Nicholas Hoult.
The ‘Black & Chrome’ Blu-ray presents an impressive transfer that shows off the handcrafted death and destruction. But this is no easy ride, and the perilous journey of Max and Furiosa is full of hazards and mishaps that could easily cause the pair to resign themselves to a life on the sidelines watching others fight their battles.
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One takes a different approach than its predecessors, and that’s a good thing. Writer-director Michael Sarnoski — the choice hand-picked by John Krasinski to direct this spinoff — doesn’t just recycle the monster moments and jump scares from the first two movies; instead, he creates a moodier, more existential look at apocalyptic life in a densely populated urban jungle.
Sarnoski’s guiding hand is strong, but the movie belongs to Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn, who bring depth to their characters almost exclusively through their facial expressions and physical performances. Their interaction is the beating heart of the film, as they forge a real connection while facing an impossible, treacherous journey together.
Early on, terminal cancer patient Sam (Nyong’o) is sceptical of a one-man marionette show in Manhattan that a group from her hospice has dragged her to. But she soon discovers that the delicate artistry of the puppet dancing is actually soothing to her nerves and nearly brings her to tears.
A Quiet Place: Day One isn’t the most thrilling movie of 2024, but it is a powerfully moving one. And its apocalyptic world is one that we want to explore more, thanks to Sarnoski’s skill in creating a sense of dread while also focusing on the people who live within it. With a strong script, superb acting and a suffocatingly atmospheric sense of tension, this sideways entry in the franchise finds fresh notes of fright amid the silence.
A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown will see Timothee Chalamet take on legendary folk singer Bob Dylan in a film directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, Ford v Ferrari). The trailer, which dropped last month, features the actor singing Dylan’s song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall while wandering the streets of 1960s New York City. Mangold and Jay Cocks wrote the script based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!
The teaser opens with a shot of the Newport Folk Festival, and then cuts to 19-year-old Minnesota musician Dylan arriving in New York in 1961. It follows his rise through the influential New York music scene, from coffee houses and clubs to concert halls, culminating in a transformative electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
Mangold previously directed a musical biopic in 2005, Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter. The movie has since become a touchstone for music biopics and set many of the tropes that the genre now embraces.
Besides Chalamet, A Complete Unknown stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, a fictitious character inspired by Dylan’s past girlfriend artist Suze Rotolo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, Dan Folger as manager Albert Grossman and Norbert Leo Butz as Alan Lomax. Production began in March this year, and the movie is slated for release in December by Searchlight Pictures.
His Three Daughters
With Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen starring in the film, His Three Daughters is a compelling, heart-wrenching drama about family dynamics during grief. The movie, which is in theaters before launching on Netflix September 20, explores the ways death can either tear a family apart or bind them together. The chemistry among the sisters is so believable and the performances are so strong that His Three Daughters could easily work on the stage as a play.
While the movie takes place in a cramped apartment, the story never feels claustrophobic or stifling. Jacobs makes excellent use of the limited locations, creating an intricate, yet detailed picture of each sister’s life and their relationship with each other. She also makes great use of sound design, from the dingy hospital-like beeping of machines keeping their father alive to the regular return of the NYC train in the background.
Jacobs captures the chaos, confusion, exhaustion, and beauty of “pre-mourning” a loved one as their health declines. His Three Daughters is a powerful, heartfelt drama that is sure to get plenty of awards season buzz this fall. It is a must-see.