#873: Summer Preview - 2022
ADAM
Could it be true - could TOP GUN: MAVERICK (May 24) actually be great?
How does one possibly follow up Mad Max: Fury Road (THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING, Aug. 31)?
What’s it like when Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas star in a movie together - that isn’t ‘un film de Almodóvar’? aka Seriously, before OFFICIAL COMPETITION (June 17), Cruz and Banderas never appeared in an Almodóvar film together?!
If you die doing what you love most, with the person you love the most, was it all worth it (FIRE OF LOVE)?
Will Martin McDonagh’s brother, John Michael, heal our brotherly battle over “Three Billboards” with THE FORGIVEN (July 1)?
JOSH
With NOPE (July 22), will the M. Night Shyamalan comparisons for Jordan Peele come true?
AFTER HUSTLE (June 8), will we have to officially retire the Adam Sandler/Netflix joke for Filmspotting Madness?
Will PERSUASION (July 15) add fire to the great Jane Austen adaptation debate?
Will A24’s impressive horror run continue with BODIES BODIES BODIES (Aug. 5)?
Will we reach a low point of reheatery with LIGHTYEAR (June 17)?