New Trailers! The End of Oak Street, Onslaught, How to Rob a Bank, and Rich Flu
🎥 Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor face suburban dinosaur terror, Adria Arjona unleashes action mayhem, Nicholas Hoult robs banks with a purpose, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead battles a rich-only plague.
🎥 “The End of Oak Street” Full-length Trailer: Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor Face Suburban Dino-Sized Terror in David Robert Mitchell’s Sci-Fi Survival Thriller — In Theaters and IMAX August 14th
There’s something about dinosaurs that offers cinema a thrilling sense of enormous scale, horrifying danger, and pure old-school wonder. Maybe it’s because every time a dinosaur appears on screen, it instantly becomes a monster movie. All logic is suddenly thrown out the window, and what’s left is pure survival. Now throw an ordinary suburban family into the center of it, and suddenly all that prehistoric terror gets a little more intimate... and a little more terrifying.
When the first teaser trailer for The End of Oak Street dropped a few months ago, it didn’t just spark a wave of social media buzz. It also raised plenty of questions. What exactly is this movie? Why are dinosaurs running around what looks like an early ’80s-era mystery thriller about a middle-class family shocked to find themselves living through their own prehistoric nightmare?
Well, a new full-length trailer has been released this week, and while there are still plenty of unanswered questions left to be solved, it does shine a light on the tone and overall vibe. Let’s just say, expect plenty of frightening sequences of rampaging and snarling dinosaurs. Just don’t expect to truly know why they’re running around in a little neighborhood.
Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, best known for the horror smash It Follows and the cult neo-noir mystery Under the Silver Lake, the film stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as Denise and Greg Platt, parents trying to keep their family together after a mysterious cosmic event rips their street out of ordinary 80s-era suburbia and drops the entire neighborhood block into someplace unknown. Back in time, perhaps? Or maybe a different dimension, you know, like Land of the Lost or something?
That “someplace unknown,” as it turns out, appears to come with trees, fog, panic, and enough prehistoric threats to make real estate values collapse overnight.
Maisy Stella, of My Old Ass, and Christian Convery, of Cocaine Bear, co-star as Audrey and Brian, the Platt children caught in the middle of this impossible Twilight Zone-like scenario. What starts as a bizarre neighborhood-wide displacement quickly turns into a full-scale survival ordeal, as the familiar comforts of home give way to rampaging creatures, shaken neighbors, and the dawning realization that nobody really knows where they are anymore.
And that seems to be the hook here. The End of Oak Street isn’t just selling dinosaur mayhem, though the trailer certainly delivers plenty of that. It’s also leaning into suburban dread, family tension, and the strange horror of watching an ordinary street become a dead-end road into the unknown. Sometimes the scariest thing about a dinosaur movie isn’t the giant teeth or thunderous footsteps. It’s realizing your quiet little street may no longer be connected to the world you thought you knew.
The cast also includes Jordan Alexa Davis, P.J. Byrne, and Chris Coy, with filmmaker J.J. Abrams among the producers, working under his production banner Bad Robot. Behind the camera, Mitchell is joined by his frequent DP, acclaimed cinematographer Michael Gioulakis, who is also known for working on Jordan Peele’s Us and M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, Glass, and Old. Composer Michael Giacchino provides the score, which should only add to the film’s mix of wonder, fear, and dino-driven panic.
The End of Oak Street is slated to arrive in theaters and IMAX on August 14th. We are already picturing what the popcorn bucket might look like.
🎥 “Onslaught” Trailer: Adria Arjona Unleashes Hell in Adam Wingard’s Old-School Action-Horror Thriller with Rebecca Hall, Reginald VelJohnson & Michael Biehn — Hitting Theaters September 4th
One of the main reasons why ’80s and ’90s action thrillers are considered the height of the genre is that they often threw grounded, everyday heroes into wildly extreme situations. More often than not, those situations devolved into cartoonish levels of chaos and violence, but never at the expense of the main character or characters. They always had a clear sense of morality and purpose, even when using some questionable methods.
Having spent a major chunk of this decade playing in the kaiju sandbox on two Godzilla vs. Kong blockbusters, filmmaker Adam Wingard returns to his gritty indie roots with his latest film. And he seems to be trading giant monster mayhem for a blast of old-school action-genre muscle harkening back to those over-the-top ’80s and ’90s actioners where villains were cold and ruthless, and heroes still had a moral code despite their own personal issues and shortcomings.
In our eyes, Wingard made one of the best ’80s/’90s action-thriller throwbacks in recent memory with 2014’s The Guest, an awesome homage to John Carpenter and the kind of pulpy, horror-leaning action thrillers that defined those decades.
With Onslaught, Wingard appears to be returning to that same lane, this time mixing a little Rambo with Commando with a heaping dash of Universal Soldier, while tossing in some shadowy government conspiracy for good measure.
This upcoming A24 action-thriller stars Adria Arjona (of Andor fame) as a PTSD-suffering ex-military sniper who is now living in a trailer park with her young daughter, trying to keep her life from falling apart. She is soon forced to tap back into those survival skills and killer instincts when a violent threat escapes from a secret military base. And not just any threat. We’re talking genetically engineered super soldiers breaking loose in the desert, turning an already rough situation into a full-blown chaotic nightmare.
From there, things seem to get messy fast.
As mercenaries move in to contain the situation, Arjona’s character and her young daughter become trapped between a runaway experimental menace and the heavily armed forces trying to suppress it. Which, in classic action-thriller fashion, means the people who claim they’re there to fix the problem might be just as dangerous as the thing they’re hunting.
But little do they know, Arjona isn’t a woman who goes down quietly. Locked and loaded, she’s about to remind everyone that there are some trailer parks you don’t want to roll into uninvited.
The cast also includes Rebecca Hall as a shadowy government agent barking out orders, alongside Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, and Eric Wareheim, with Dan Stevens set to make a guest appearance. And for those hardcore ’80s and ’90s fans, Die Hard’s Reginald VelJohnson and Aliens’ Michael Biehn are rounding out the lineup just to keep things interesting.
Wingard, of course, has built a career out of bending genre expectations. From the home-invasion horror of You’re Next to the synth-soaked action menace of The Guest, as well as a couple of Godzilla vs. Kong hits, his best work often lives in that sweet spot between horror atmosphere and hard-hitting thriller energy. So the idea of him making a gonzo action-horror film about a badass Army sniper protecting her daughter from escaped super soldiers sounds pretty much right in his wheelhouse ... and ours.
Onslaught opens in theaters September 4th.
🎥 “How to Rob a Bank” Trailer: Nicholas Hoult Turns Viral Bank Heists Into Anti-Capitalist Mayhem in David Leitch’s Action-Comedy Thriller with John C. Reilly, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai & Pete Davidson — Hitting Theaters September 4th
They say there’s a thin line between cops and robbers. Both are chasing the score, just from opposite sides of the law. But they often forget there’s an even thinner line between robbers and revolutionaries. Sometimes it all depends on whether you’re stealing for yourself or stealing to make a point.
Fresh from his villainous turn as Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor, Nicholas Hoult will be back on the big screen this September playing a very different kind of scoundrel: one whose criminal actions aren’t entirely without purpose. One could even say he’s robbing from the rich to expose something much bigger and uglier in the system.
In the upcoming action-comedy heist thriller How to Rob a Bank, Hoult stars as the leader of a crew of social media-savvy, animal mask-wearing bank robbers who don’t just pull off daring heists. They broadcast them on their phones. Their crimes become content, their rebellion becomes public spectacle, and their growing online fame turns them into something between wanted criminals and viral folk heroes.
Of course, the problem with turning bank robbery into a public performance is that law enforcement eventually starts watching too. And as the crew’s notoriety grows, they find themselves in the crosshairs of the FBI.
Enter John C. Reilly as a veteran FBI agent tasked with taking down these viral masked thieves before their online celebrity becomes something worse: a full-scale movement of its own.
With growing public resentment working both for and against the elusive robbers, Reilly’s FBI agent recruits a brilliant but convicted computer hacker, played here by Zoë Kravitz in full snarky slacker mode, to help track Nicholas Hoult and his crew. In exchange for getting out of house arrest, she agrees to use her illegal but frighteningly effective tracking software to find out where they are... or better yet, where they’re planning to hit next.
But the deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes these robbers aren’t choosing targets at random. They’re going after powerful banks with long histories of corruption, exploitation, and dirty money.
They’re thieves with a cause. And this time, their run of good luck may finally be running out.
Directed by David Leitch, the filmmaker behind Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, and The Fall Guy, the film arrives with a built-in promise of slick action, bruising comedy, and stunt-driven thrills with a side order of class warfare and anti-capitalist sentiment.
In a world where the rich are at their most powerful, banks are too big to fail, people are getting screwed left and right, and the little guy is left holding the bag, the question isn’t who broke the law, but... who’s robbing who?
Joining Hoult, Kravitz, and Reilly in the cast are Emmy-winning Shogun star Anna Sawai, comedian Pete Davidson, The Penguin breakout Rhenzy Feliz, and Mortal Kombat II’s Tati Gabrielle as the rest of Hoult’s crew of rebellious bandits, while Christian Slater co-stars as an arrogant bank manager who doesn’t know he’s the next target.
How to Rob a Bank is slated to open in theaters September 4th. Come for the action comedy, stay for the message that we’re all getting robbed one way or another.
🎥 “Rich Flu” Trailer: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Faces a Wealth-Based Plague in the Latest Dystopian Class-War Thriller From ‘The Platform’ Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia — on VOD/Digital June 5th
Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia first came onto our radar with the deliciously wicked dystopian thriller The Platform. Released in 2019 before finding a wider audience on Netflix during the height of the pandemic, the film hit a nerve by taking a brutally simple idea and turning it into a full-blown social nightmare.
The allegory was blunt but effective: a tower of survival where the most fortunate eat first, while everyone below is left fighting over whatever scraps trickle down from a descending platform. It was basically the “eat the rich” genre taken to one of its nastiest extremes.
Well, it looks like Gaztelu-Urrutia isn’t done taking sharp, sinister swings at class, privilege, and the ugly things people do when the system isn’t just stacked against them, but starting to collapse. And yes, the title alone kind of gives it away: Rich Flu.
In this upcoming dystopian-tinged thriller, Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Laura, a woman whose career is peaking just as the world is thrown into utter chaos by a deadly virus that targets the wealthy. First, it comes for billionaires. Then millionaires. Then the next rung down. Suddenly, money isn’t power anymore. It’s a warning sign. Which creates one hell of a panic.
As the disease spreads, the rich start doing the one thing they were never exactly famous for doing quickly: giving away all their money. Assets are dumped. Fortunes are unloaded. Bank accounts become liabilities. Because when wealth becomes a death sentence, generosity suddenly starts looking a lot less selfless.
That’s the wicked hook behind Rich Flu, which from the look of things takes the class-war metaphor and makes it literal, turning financial status into a kind of biological countdown. The richer you are, the closer you are to death in this topsy-turvy scenario where the 1 percent finally learns how it feels to be at the bottom.
Joining Winstead in the cast are Rafe Spall, Lorraine Bracco, Jonah Hauer-King, and Timothy Spall, giving the film a strong ensemble to play out this nasty little nightmare of class status, global panic, and desperation.
Gaztelu-Urrutia clearly has a thing for turning social inequality into genre pressure cookers, and Rich Flu looks like another brutal thought experiment built around one simple question: what happens when the people at the top suddenly become the most vulnerable? It seems the answer involves a whole lot of rich people trying to get poor in a hurry.
Rich Flu will be available on VOD/Digital this Friday, June 5th.
