'Known or suspected terrorist'

'The cleanest possible voter rolls'

How can you not love Saquon Barkley?

'Bureaucratic drag'

'Does not know anything about policing'

'It stinks'

'We are probably on the brink of a reliability crisis'

'Your appearance before the Committee is now compelled'

News Yorgos Lanthimos The Teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia Is Maybe Even Weirder Than Expected The director’s latest film is the Halloween treat we didn’t know we needed. By Molly Templeton | Published on June 26, 2025 Screenshot: Focus Features Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Focus Features One simply does not expect normalcy from a Yorgos Lanthimos film. The director of Dogtooth, The Favourite, and Poor Things has a new movie coming later this year: Bugonia, his remake of the Korean film Save the Green Planet. And the first teaser is as unnerving and off-kilter as any Lanthimos fan might expect. Maybe even more so. The synopsis for this one says only, “Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.” The film stars frequent Lanthimos collaborator Emma Stone; Jesse Plemons (who was in the director’s Kinds of Kindness alongside Stone); Aidan Delbis (whose only other film is something called My Movie Starring Paul Dano); Stavros Halkias (Netflix’s Tires); and Alicia Silverstone (who needs no introduction). The tonal shift halfway through this teaser—from Plemons’ very serious dialogue about bees to Green Day’s “Basket Case”—is fantastic; one certainly hopes the whole film revels in this kind of see-saw of tones. The remake script is by Will Tracy, who wrote The Menu and also several episodes of Succession. (Save the Green Planet was written and directed by Jang Joon-hwan.) Lanthimos made a small splash in the US with his 2010 film Dogtooth, but garnered a lot more attention once he started making films in English (Dogtooth is in his native Greek), beginning with 2016’s The Lobster. The Favourite, released in 2018, was nominated for nine Oscars, and Olivia Colman won for Best Actress. Bugonia comes to select theaters on October 24th, and opens wide on October 31st.[end-mark] The post The Teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos’ <i>Bugonia</i> Is Maybe Even Weirder Than Expected appeared first on Reactor.

News Anima The Sci-Fi Road Trip Anima Picks Up a Great Supporting Cast Who wouldn’t want to go on a road trip with Lili Taylor? By Molly Templeton | Published on June 26, 2025 Screenshot: Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Prime Video Anima is the narrative feature debut of writer-director Brian Tetsuro Ivie, a documentarian, and it has a fascinating pair of stars: Alien Earth’s Sydney Chandler and Shōgun’s Takehiro Hira. But now it’s added a quartet of actors who make this film seem even more intriguing. The synopsis for Anima, according to Deadline, is this: “The film tells the story of an impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man who launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip. Their mission: to preserve his failing consciousness via an experimental memory‑upload procedure at a cutting‑edge facility.” Presumably Chandler is the impulsive young woman and Hira the reclusive older man. Now joining the road trip are Tom McCarthy (The Wire), Lili Taylor (Outer Range, pictured above), Marin Ireland (The Umbrella Academy), and Maria Dizzia (Agatha All Along). In a statement, director Ivie said, “When I was writing Anima, I would often come back to films like The Station Agent and Say Anything to remind myself of a tone I’d always loved. And now to work with Tom McCarthy and Lili Taylor, two of the geniuses behind those films, is incredible to me. Marin Ireland and Maria Dizzia have also been giants of the indie space for so many years. I really can’t wait for the world to see what we’ve created together.” No release date has been announced for Anima.[end-mark] The post The Sci-Fi Road Trip <i>Anima</i> Picks Up a Great Supporting Cast appeared first on Reactor.