Watch Soldiers Fight Time to Keep Troops Alive in Trailer for World War I Drama 1917

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Two British soldiers are tasked with carrying a fateful message across enemy lines to an imperiled battalion in the chilling new trailer for Sam Mendes World War I film, 1917.

1917 stars George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman as Schofield and Blake, the two soldiers handed the harrowing mission by a commanding officer played by Colin Firth. In the trailer, Firths character warns the pair that a battalion is in danger of being massacred if they go ahead with a planned attack, and the only way to save them is if Blake and Schofield are able to deliver the warning message in time. Complicating matters, Blakes own brother is one of the soldiers at risk of being slaughtered.

The clip goes on to capture Schofield and Blakes frantic race against time as they tear through trenches and swamps filled with dead bodies, and streak across battlefields while bombs explode just behind them. As Benedict Cumberbatchs character gravely warns, There is only way this war ends last man standing.

1917 will also star Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden and Claire Duburcq. Mendes wrote the script with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.

Watch Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe Go Stir Crazy By the Sea in New Trailer for The Lighthouse

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After making a big splash at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, Robert Eggers new film The Lighthouse finally has its first official trailer. The nautical psychodrama arrives in theaters October 18th.

The film, shot on 35mm black-and-white film and presented in Academy (square) ratio, stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a lighthouse keeper and his apprentice, who are stationed on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Naturally, the two men start to experience hallucinations, lunacy and psychological turmoil during their prolonged isolation. And yes, there are plenty of sea shanties, dancing jigs and pirate accents from both Dafoe and Pattinson, if thats what floats your boat.

The Lighthouse is the second feature to be written and directed byEggers, who previously made the 2015 period horror film The Witch (set in 1630s New England). Eggers co-wrote the script forThe Lighthouse with his brother, Max Eggers.

At Cannes, the film was met with wide acclaim and was named the best movie at the festivals Critics Week and Directors Fortnight by the International Federation of Film Critics.

The Nightingale Review: Aussie Revenge Tale Pulls No Punches

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Its instructive to point out that The Nightingale is not for the faint of heart. Theres horrific violence abound; at one point early on, a rapist violates his victim while her baby screams in his ear. But in no way is this powerhouse another treatment of male violence filtered through an exploitaive male gaze. In her second film, after 2014s haunting The Babadook, Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent creates a womans revenge tale fueled by a righteous anger at the evil men do. Theres not a whit of audience coddling. Youve been warned.

Set in the harsh 1825 Tasmanian Outback, the film stars Aisling Franciosi the Italian-Irish actress best known as Game of Thrones Lyanna Stark as Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict. Shes been sent to this remote penal colony of Van Diemens Land and enslaved by Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), a British officer and boot-and-polish sadist. His slow rise in the ranks is a consistent sore point. So he takes out his frustration by brutalizing those in his charge, from underlings to prisoners. That most definitely includes Claire.

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At first, Hawkins is content to make the young woman his personal songbird, given that Clare sings like a nightingale while she serves him food and drink. And then the screaming starts. Claflin, the blond dreamboat Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games series, plays this colonial monster without dropping his charm and good looks, which makes him doubly scary. Its a bold gamble of a performance that pays off. Hawkins wears a surface sanity in public; he desperately wants that promotion. And its Clares hope that the pressure will persuade him to set her free, along with her husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby), a fellow convict, and their infant daughter.

When her dream of liberation is brutally squashed, Clare vows revenge. Thats when Kent and the splendid cinematographer Radek Ladczuk (shooting in the square-shaped, old-school Academy ratio) build a historical story of vengeance that shakes you to your core. The Nightingale extends from the tale of one woman in pursuit of a male predator to a broad condemnation of a system that exploits women and the indigenous people of Tasmania, all the while detailing how their world becomes one.

Clare chases Hawkins into the wilderness on her husbands unsteady horse, her trauma often reducing her to a fevered dream state that tests her survival at every turn. As a guide, she hires an Aboriginal tracker, Billy (a superb Baykali Ganambarr), who is reluctant to work for this half-crazed, racist woman who is likely to get him killed. Ganambarr, a dancer in an extraordinary acting breakthrough, builds a character whose grudge against the British begins to match Clares own. Watching the mutual hostility between these two antagonists soften into a fragile bond gives the film a fierce hold on viewers, and Kent never loses sight of the psychological wounds that fester underneath Clares odyssey. Its a shame that she diffuses the force of her storytelling with too many false endings. But as a devastating deconstruction of the complex nature of one womans retribution, The Nightingale is peerless.

The First Time: Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani

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Former wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista and comedian Kumail Nanjiani make for an unlikely pair in the new Uber-themed action movie, Stuber. In the latest episode ofRolling Stones the first time, the co-stars say they met for the first time at a chemistry test for the film, but quickly hit it off and by the end of shooting they were the undisputed Stuber ping-pong champions. Bautista also jokes, Now we finish each others prompting Nanjiani to deadpan, Sandwiches.

Elsewhere in the episode, Bautista talks about competing in dance battles as a kid that would often get out of hand, while Nanjiani remembers standing up for himself by delivering a cheap shot to the chest of a bully who never bothered him again. Bautista also recalls seeing basketball legend Julius Erving at a train station in Baltimore, but being too nervous to say anything, while Nanjiani jokes that hes never really felt succesful because hes never felt like Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of Pumping Iron smoking a joint while eating fried chicken and wearing a shirt that says Arnold Is Numero Uno.

The pair also spoke about constantly feeling nervous on set, and shared the first songs that made them cry: For Nanjiani it was Willy DeVille and Mark Knopflers Storybook Love at the end of The Princess Bride, while Bautista remembers crying to the iconic Rocky anthem, Gonna Fly Now.

Towards the end of the interview, Nanjiani recalled the first time he was sort of recognized, saying someone came up to him and said they really liked him on The Big Bang Theory. Without missing a beat, Bautista cackled and joked: I said I was sorry! Let it go!

The First Time: Beanie Feldstein

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In the latest installment of our First Time video series, actress Beanie Feldstein, star of Booksmart and the Breakout talent of Rolling Stones 2019 Hot List, looks back on her childhood obsession with the Spice Girls (Spice World was on repeat in my house), her first big role (Peter Rabbit in a preschool play), and her first meeting with her Hello, Dolly! costar Bette Midler (She was wearing a cashmere sweatsuit and Skechers and I will never forget it).

She also talks about learning to stand up for herself as the little sister to two brothers. One of them, Jonah Hill, used to sit on her and pretend she was Santa Claus, Feldstein says: Hed be like, I want a pony and a trampoline and a and I would just be, like, eight years old and suffocating, like, Get off me! So I became very scrappy.

Feldstein, who also has a role in the FX vampire series What We Do in the Shadows, next stars in How to Build a Girl, based on a novel about a teen music critic in Nineties London and due out this fall.

Trailers of the Week: Jojo Rabbit, Mister Rogers Biopic, Linda Ronstadt Doc

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On deck: Tom Hanks asks if you would be his neighbor; Cynthia Erivo goes underground; Helen Mirren gets regal, Russian style; Linda Ronstadt gets the documentary she deserves; Zombieland gets a sequel, for better or worse; and we get a second peek at two major upcoming awards-season movies. Behold, your trailers-of-the-week round-up.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Tom Hanks as the late, great Fred Rogers nuff said, right? Getting the movies modern incarnation of Jimmy Stewart to portray TVs personification of kindness is a casting coup, and it takes exactly three seconds of Hanks, clad in a red cardigan and singing the films title, to make your heart melt. Its based on Esquire journalist Tom Junods profile of the iconic PBS star, which ended up turning into a friendship between the two men. The Americans Matthew Rhys plays a character based on the writer; director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) is calling the shots behind the camera. Were already tearing up. Nov. 22nd.

Catherine the Great
Shes played a ton of queens, so why not an empress as well? Helen Mirren is the woman who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 (thanks, Wikipedia!) and turned the country into a force to be reckoned with. Judging from the teaser for this HBO miniseries, her story is getting the full lush-period-piece-epic treatment from the network. Expect lots of violence, gowns and scowling. Should we just hand Mirren the Emmy now? Fall 2019.

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Gemini Man
The rise of this de-aging technology in Hollywood still has us a little unnerved, to be honest, but look: If its going to give us a middle-aged Will Smith having to outfight and outwit a younger Will Smith, who are we to say its wrong? Ang Lees action film pits Smiths over-the-hill hit man against a killer clone who looks like he just stepped off the Fresh Prince of Bel Air set. Clive Owen shows up in this second official trailer to look sinister; Mary Elisabeth Winstead drops by for some gunfire and sympathy; at one point, somebody punches a person in the face with the back tire of a motorcycle while driving it. Sold! Oct. 11th.

The Goldfinch
Because its not a fall movie season unless theres an adaptation of a major literary work, and this tony take on Donna Tartts Pulitzer-prize-winning novel definitely fits the bill. This second trailer plays up the psychic angst of a young boy (Oakes Fegley) after he loses his mother in a terrorist attack at the Met, and the life-is-a-journey drama of his older self (Baby Drivers Anson Elgort). The trailer drops a National song Terrible Love, for those playing along at home just to emphasize that all the feels are going to be felt. Nicole Kidman and Jeffrey Wright costar. Sep. 13th.

Harriet
Frankly, Harriet Tubman has been long overdue for a prestige-filled, awards-season-style biopic, and who better to play her than Widows Cynthia Orivo? Everything about this trailer for the life-and-times retelling of the anti-slavery activist and Underground Railroad guide screams that This. Is. A Very. Important. Movie. The fact that Kasi Lemmons (Eves Bayou) is in the directors chair is a huge plus. Nov. 1st.

Jojo Rabbit
Most of us had imaginary friends at one time or another when we were kids. Most of them were probably not, yknow, Adolf Hitler. The latest from visionistical director Taika Waititi revolves a young kid named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) in Germany who finds himself in a moral dilemma involving his mom (Scarlet Johnasson), a Jewish refugee and a little thing called WWII. So he, er, turns to his new buddy for advice. Waititi himself plays the dictator. This looks insane. Oct. 18th

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
She was the queenshes like what Beyonc is now. Bonnie Raitt isnt wrong nor are all of the other talking heads who wax rhapsodic about the Seventies songbird in the trailer for biodoc. You get everything here: early days, big breaks, from-Sunset-Strip-to-superstardom trajectory, stadium concerts, industry sexism, creative risks that pay off big, late-act health problems, etc. And that voice. Good lord, that incredible voice. Sep. 6th.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Hes called the Jangly Man. Hes one of several terrifying creatures youll meet in this Guillermo Del Toro-produced take on the horror book series. Hes proof that you may want to wear an adult diaper when you go to see this thing. Aug. 9th.

Wu Assassins
A young man (The Raid star Iko Uwais) discovers that hes the Chosen One, i.e. the guy gets the mystical power of a thousand sacrificed monks in order to defeat the descendants of Wu warlords. Who, by the way, happen to be in modern-day San Francisco, currently planning some power moves as Triad leaders. So the new Wu Assassin numero uno has to get a team of martial artists together to take these bad guys down, one of whom is wait for it his father. Yeah, theres lots of ass-kicking. Aug. 8th.

Zombieland: Double Tap
Oh, a sequel to Zombieland. Ok then. Mahyem, wisecracks, the walking hungry dead, Woody Harrelson in Elvis cosplay, explosions, famous faces (hi Rosario Dawson), an AC/DC songyou know the drill. Oct. 18th.

Crawl Review: See You Later, Alligators

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A summer movie, a natural disaster, a strong young woman in peril, a toothsome underwater predator or two whaddaya need, a road map? In the grand tradition of Jaws homages, Alexandre Ajas survivalist horror flick pits us vulnerable humans against Mother Natures little chompers in this case, massive alligators straight outta the sunshine states swamplands. University of Florida swimmer Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) gets a worried phone call from her sister (Morfydd Clark) in Boston; their divorced dad (Barry Pepper) hasnt been returning her calls, and with a Category 5 hurricane ready to make landfall, theyre afraid somethings happened to him.

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So Haley braves the bad weather and makes the two-hour drive to see if hes ok. She tracks him down to the old family house, a reminder of better times. Eventually, she finds him under the house. Hes out cold; there also seems to be some sort of injury on his shoulder. Soon, we meet the cause of it: a gigantic gator whos very hungry. A few of his equally starving friends decide to join in on the fun. Meanwhile, as the storm rages outside, their underground deathtrap is slowly but surely being flooded. And guess who loves being submerged in water when it comes to hunting prey?

More or less a two-hander more if you count the small, scaly paws of their digitally rendered costars, less if you count the fact that some folks may lose a hand during the proceedings Crawl takes its time setting its trap before letting things rip. Once it does get everything in place, the movie settles into an efficient mousetrap mode, cutting off some avenues of escape while opening others and dangling the notion of salvation before snatching it away. A few others briefly enter the fray, but these characters might as well be listed in the credits as Meal No. 1 and Meal No. 2. Its really up to Scodelario and Pepper to keep things moving, especially the former, and luckily for us, she proves to be a great scream-queen-in-training. Survivalist horror heroines have to simultaneously be vulnerable and steely think Sigourney Weavers Ripley in Alien, or Blake Livelys shark-battling surfer in The Shallows and the British actor is more than capable of holding the film on her broad shoulders while balancing both sides. She may have just found her niche.

Whether she or Pepper should be forced to play out the Electra-complex psychodrama and daddy-issues handwringing that Michael and Shawn Rasmussens script forces upon them is another matter entirely; those tortured back-and-forths about how her stalled swimming career is really a product of psychological yadda yadda yadda and if only the family had stayed blah blah blah are a far greater threat to them then the reptilian killing machines. Theres an occasional self-seriousness to Crawl that doesnt quite suit the proceedings, and you can tell that Aja is having more fun when he gets to indulge his inner gorehound more. Hes the French horror buff, after all, who took a 2010 3-D remake of Piranha one of the more disposable 70s cash-ins to swim in Jaws wake and turned it into a contender for the greatest Grand Guignol exploitation movie of the 21st century. Trashiness becomes him, and you can feel the film perk up whenever he can poke a bone through skin or coordinate the carnage of a feeding frenzy. Like the apex predators slithering at the center of it all, it gets the job done once it lets its more brutal, primal instincts take over. Bon Apptit.