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Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'The Summer I Turned Pretty.' 'Untamed' — TV and movie new releases to see or skip this weekend in Canada — streaming and in theatres
We're back to the discourse about Team Conrad vs. Team Jeremiah for Belly as The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 started its release on Prime Video this week. And the fans already have some intense thoughts. But while the show, based on Jenny Han's book trilogy, was appointment watching for many, others were heading to the movie theatre to see the highly anticipated I Know What You Did Last Summer remake, starring Outer Banks actor Madelyn Cline and The Studio's Chase Sui Wonders. Additionally, Eddington with Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix, from divisive filmmaker Ari Aster, also landed in theatres. Meanwhile, drama fans had Eric Bana's new limited series Untamed to enjoy at home on Summer I Turned Pretty, Season 3 — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Admittedly, I have only watched the first two episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 to, but how could I not include one of the most highly anticipated TV releases of the year! I'm leaving room for improvement, or for things to really take a left turn as the season continues, but the first two episodes are incredibly juicy. In all honestly, I watched the first two episodes right at 3:00 a.m., and shortly after rewatched the episodes to really zero in on all the details and Easter eggs. It's just a story that will suck you in completely, it's a show that's incredibly addictive, and there's no denying how impressive it is for a show to have that much fandom. Where to watch The Summer I Turned Pretty: Prime Video Eddington — ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 Ari Aster is a particularly polarizing filmmaker, so it's no surprise that there are a wide variety of opinions on Eddington. While Aster has some lofty goals in this film, with choices that at times feel overindulgent, it's ultimately an effective evaluation of paranoia and societal collapse, all set amid COVID-19 pandemic mandates. While several films and TV shows have tried to reflect life at the height of the pandemic, Aster has done it the best. There are few filmmakers who are able to build anxiety in a film like Aster, but the focus is ultimately an accurate reflection of how disoriented and chaotic our world. Whether we're willing to accept of not, the most cynical moments in the movie are in fact the most real. Where to watch Eddington: Now in theatres I Know What You Did Last Summer — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I think it's worth remembering that when the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer was first released, it wasn't a huge hit. It's one of those movies that became more beloved as people went back to watch it. With the new I Know What You Did Last Summer following a very similar story, this is a film that will mostly entertain those who are particular fans of the original, and those who love members of this new cast. This movie really leans into the silly and it's a fun journey if you're willing to not take the film to seriously. From Madelyn Cline's outrageous comedy to the visual spectacle of the slasher elements For any reboot there's always a question about whether it was necessary, and this is a film that rests on its audience already feeling invested in the story from the past. Where to watch I Know What You Did Last Summer: Now in theatres Untamed — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The landscape of British Columbia is used as Yosemite National Park in Untamed, the new crime drama, limited series on Netflix, starring Eric Bana. From relationship drama to lingering trauma and critical safety concerns, Untamed checks all the boxes for elements of a story to build tension and suspense. At times it's predictable, at others a little over-to-top in its melodrama, but this is Bana at his best, giving a particularly engaging performance. Even with its fault, you're going to feel compelled to get to the end and solve the mystery. Where to watch Untamed: Netflix
New York Post
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Cloaked, hook-handed figure is terrorizing NYC: Mystery madman or marketing ruse for ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer?'
This 'maniac' wants to kill it — at the box office. An apparently cutting-edge ad campaign for the latest installment of the 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' franchise is terrifying New Yorkers from Coney Island to Manhattan. The dead ringer for the villain in the 1997 slasher flick — long black cloak, rubber boots, bucket hat and gleaming fisherman's hook — has been seen in videos making the social media rounds in the past two weeks. The new movie opened July 18. 4 In one viral video the creep slinks up behind a group of nine teenage boys walking just before 11 p.m. on the boardwalk at the South Street Seaport. Obtained by The NY Post 4 The fishy fearmonger was seen among a captive audience on the Staten Island Ferry. Obtained by The NY Post In one viral video the creep in galoshes slinks up behind a group of nine teenage boys walking just before 11 p.m. on the boardwalk at the South Street Seaport. One of the teens notices the stalker, whose silver blade could be seen twinkling in the glow of a streetlamp, before alerting his friends who all begin to sprint in terror. Fifteen minutes later, cameras near the Highline in Chelsea captured footage of an anxious woman repeatedly glancing over her shoulder at the same figure, about five feet behind her, before she takes off running. 4 The purported ad campaign for the latest installment of the 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' franchise is terrifying New Yorkers. Sony Pictures The mystery man popped up again 24 hours later, lurking behind three people on the Coney Island boardwalk, sending them running with their arms flailing, another clip showed. Daylight provided no refuge from the shadowy figure. He is seen skulking behind an oblivious woman in Battery Park on the morning of July 11. Unflappable street vendors barely noticed. The fishy fearmonger was even seen among a captive audience on the Staten Island Ferry. 4 Cameras near the Highline in Chelsea captured footage of an anxious woman repeatedly glancing over her shoulder at the figure, about five feet behind her, before she takes off running. Obtained by The NY Post Some social media users speculated the cloak and dagger routine was a marketing ruse to promote the sequel to 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' starring Madelyn Cline, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Sony Pictures, mysteriously, did not respond to inquiries.
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The New ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer' Betrays Itself From the Very Start
If you make an I Know What You Did Last Summer movie, one thing has to work above all else. Whatever the characters 'did last summer' has to be bad enough for someone to plausibly return a year later and try to kill them. It's one of the things the 1997 original gets right. A group of (mostly) drunk friends drive on a dark road, run into a person, and then, while he may or may not be still alive, throw his body into the ocean. Yeah, if I was hit by a bunch of drunk kids and left for dead, I'd feel pretty murderous too. The sequel, which opens in theaters this weekend, doesn't even get that right. It thinks it does, crafting a scenario that is similar to the one in the original film, but when you break it down, the lack of clearly defined right and wrong undercuts the whole rest of the movie. You never feel like what they 'did last summer' is bad enough to warrant that level of revenge, and as a result, the whole movie falls flat. So what happens? Here it is, with spoilers for only the first 15 minutes of the movie.A group of friends leaves a party to go to a secret spot to watch fireworks. Most of them are drinking and smoking weed, but Danica (Madelyn Cline) is not. She's sober, so she makes it a point that she'll be driving. Safety first! On the way, her friends, but especially her fiancé, Teddy (Tyriq Withers) are pretty messed up. He tries to jokingly distract her (and distracted driving is what caused the accident in the first movie), but eventually, they make it to the fireworks spot no problem. Once they get there, Teddy is feeling so good, he starts dancing in the street. While in the middle of the street, a car starts to approach, and Teddy decides to play chicken with it. It gets close enough that Milo (Jonah Hauer-King) has to save him, and everyone gets mad at Teddy's recklessness. This is important because it establishes there's a good amount of road between the turn and where Teddy is standing. Soon after this, everything goes down. Teddy is still in the road, and a car comes by that's going so incredibly fast its driver somehow doesn't see him. As the car swerves to avoid Teddy, it ends up crashing into a guardrail and almost goes over a cliff. With the car teetering on the ledge, the group all rush over to save the driver, but the doors are jammed. They do everything they can, but five kids can't pull a pickup truck back from over a cliff, and it eventually goes over. But not before the driver gains consciousness, smashes the window, and rips Teddy's shirt off. This never comes back, by the way, but it's a thing that happens. Now, should Teddy have been in the road? Of course not. But should this person have been driving at a reasonable enough speed to see him, especially when the film establishes there's plenty of road there? For sure. So, basically, the movie misses the mark a few times here. First, the movie makes it clear that a sober person is driving, and they arrive at the location unscathed. Second, Teddy is partially, but not wholly, at fault for the accident, and everyone makes a clearly valiant attempt to save the driver. Next, Teddy calls the police to report the accident, but then they all leave as if they weren't there. Now, not everyone is happy about this. They feel they should stay there and own up to it, but the idea is floated that, as a compromise, they'll go to the police station on the way home. Which doesn't happen and further pisses off the group. It's an awkward ride home, but eventually, they all agree never to speak of this again. To reiterate, Teddy reports the accident to the police. This is after he and others tried to save the person. They don't handle the situation perfectly by any means, but the movie makes them much more forgivable than the group in the original. Oh, and the car doesn't explode or anything when it falls over the cliff. It's just there. (Later, we learn the person did die.) Either way, the characters don't do everything right, but they do enough things right that you at least feel like they are partially not responsible. So, by the next year, when Danica gets that titular note (only she gets the note, by the way, so it's not really even a thing), instead of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' it's really more like 'I Know You Made a Guy Swerve Off a Cliff by Accident Last Summer.' Later in the film, we learn some spoilers about who the victim was and how they relate to the killer, which I won't ruin here. It does make the plausibility of why this person goes on a murderous rampage maybe 5% more believable, but even so, after 90 minutes of movie where we're left wondering why this killer is so mad, it's too little too late. And that's the new I Know What You Did Last Summer in a nutshell. A legacy sequel to a movie that was already pretty bad on its own but somehow doesn't even understand why that movie worked in the first place. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'I Know What You Did Last Summer': Madelyn Cline looked to Sarah Michelle Gellar as her 'blueprint'
Sarah Michelle Gellar was a fan favourite in 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, and now she's passing the baton to Madelyn Cline in the new remake. While Cline's character Danica Richards isn't exactly like Helen Shivers, there are a lot of similarities to the original Croaker Queen. "You can pinpoint the cast members who were paying tribute to the original characters, the outline was all there," Cline told Yahoo Canada. "We filled the rest in with our own ideas and little specificities." In the 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer film (now in theatres), we first meet Danica at her engagement party in her hometown of Southport, North Carolina, as she's set to marry her rich, socialite fiancé Teddy (Tyriq Withers), attended by her best friend Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), and Ava's ex Milo (Jonah Hauer-King). Taking a late night drive after the party, along with their former friend Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon), they accidentally contribute to a driver swerving, and driving off a cliff. A year later Ava returns to Southport for Danica's bridal shower, ahead of her planned wedding to her new fiancé, Wyatt (Joshua Orpin), after things didn't work out with Teddy. It's at that event that Danica opens a card that reads, "I know what you did last summer." Understandably freaked out, that's the beginning of the bloody and fatal events that impact this group of friends, while they try to find out who's out to get are many connections between the new characters in I Know What You Did Last Summer and the characters from the 1997 film. Primarily, Ava reaches out to Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie James to get her help to try to stop the murderer who's targeting her and her friends. And while Helen's death by the Fisherman is one of the most iconic horror scenes, that doesn't mean Gellar didn't make an appearance in the new film. As Danica faces anxiety, grief and fear, she has a dream where she's just escaped death and ends up in an auditorium, seeing a blonde woman on the stage. It's Helen, in her full beauty queen look. There's a sassy exchange with Helen happy to poke fun at Danica, both the similarities and differences between them, when Helen's body starts to transform into a corpse. Cline herself actually loved watching that scene back, "glued to the screen" watching Gellar's cameo, while also sharing that both Gellar and her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., shared a lot about their experiences on the original film. "She's our original Croaker Queen, she is Danica's blueprint," Cline said. "She had many, many conversations about her experience on the original, and stories that she and Freddie shared." "The best way you can bring something back is to have the original people, their essence also involved, because ... they walked so we can run. They're the reason why we're here." 'I was just having the time of my life' But as Cline stepped into several Scream Queen elements for I Know What You Did Last Summer, she wasn't incredibly confident in her ability to play out some of the near death moments. "Sometimes I'm like, ... is this corny? Am I doing this right?" Cline admitted. "Where's the manual, where's the guidebook? ... What do I do with my voice? What do I do with my hands?" What Cline felt more comfortable with is the outrageously silly dialogue she had as Danica. "I just remember from from day one with Danica, I was just having the time of my life with her," Cline said. "She's so fun and quirky and lovable, and that's the thing about her, she has these quirks [and you] love her for it." "She is serious and that is what makes me love her so much, ... she's just a deeply earnest person. ... She was already written so funny and I was just happy that they trusted me to go in there and give whatever my little sprinkle was." The door for another 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' movie is open While we won't reveal who the killer is in I Know What You Did Last Summer, we'll spoil that, unlike Helen, Danica makes it out alive. And just like the original film had the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, a mid-credits scene between Julie and Brandy Norwood, who played Karla Wilson, teases that there could be more in store for this story. So where could Danica go in the future? Cline has some ideas. "I think Danica, [she'll] definitely start drinking," Cline said. "She's definitely a Cosmopolitan girl. I think she graduates from Shirley Temples to Cosmos. "I think Danica would be in like a revenge arc of sorts. But ... I think she's too soft. I think she would find some way to get revenge, but at the same time, I think she would be like, 'F—k that.' I think she would maybe pull a Julie and just move away, and maybe try to find another fiancé that's rich."
Hype Malaysia
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hype Malaysia
'I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)' Review: Trip Down Memory Lane That Delivers On The Horror
If you've lived longer than 20 years, you've probably heard of the recent '20-Year' or '30-Year' rule, when something that was mediocre then (that still managed to receive a cult following when it first came out) suddenly sees a massive resurgence or renewed interest today because of nostalgia, among other factors. The same is true for movies, as seen with the recent incarnation of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and starring Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, and Sarah Pidgeon, the film also features Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprising their roles and taking us back to the same old town with the same old serial killer. Much like the original 1997 film, 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' 2025 follows another group of friends who are caught up in an accident, resulting in the death of a stranger. After failing to save the stranger, the group of friends form a pact to never speak of what happened again to avoid the consequences. Yet, despite this, their actions come back to haunt them a year later and they are now chased by the legendary serial killer, or at least an imitation of them. Realising this, the friends seek help from the two survivors of the original Southport Massacre of 1997. Similar to how it revisits Southport after all these years, the film recreates a lot of the things we loved about the original. From the air of mystery that the OG is well known for, to the campy vibes it had all those years ago – this movie is an absolute treat for dedicated fans of the franchise (which includes 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' and 'I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer'), but also serves as a nice starting-off point for those new to the series. If you are in the former camp, however, you will be incredibly rewarded for watching the previous entry, as there are tonnes of references for you to spot, and you might make your movie experience more enjoyable. The film kicks us off by introducing a tight group of friends who have essentially known each other for their entire lives – and are the central focus throughout its 1 hour and 51 minute runtime. Oftentimes, legacy sequels find it quite hard to break away from their predecessor's shadow and it makes sense. Rather than running away from it or disregarding it, 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (2025) doubles down and embraces it by reinventing itself just enough for it to still be refreshing, with enough similarities to make it still feel familiar. A key reason for this is the return of Prinze Jr. and Love Hewitt as Ray Bronson and Julie James, respectively, which creates a sense of continuity without making them the centre of attention. One of the major positives of this movie is that it finds a way to bring the original cast back without making it feel like they are shoehorned in for the sake of nostalgia — they are an actual force in the story that actually progresses the plot. Of course, having had their time in the spotlight, Prinze Jr. and Love Hewitt take a step back to welcome the next generation of Southport residents. They support the main cast, which comprises Cline, Sui Wonders, Hauer-King, Withers and Pidgeon. As mentioned earlier, they create a convincing and realistic upper-class friend group that hooks you in so that you actually want them to survive this ordeal. They alone create a convincing sequel for the film as is, but with the reprisal of the original cast, it feels like it's a passing-of-a-torch moment that you have to see if you're a fan. Furthermore, when it comes to slashers, a lot of characters are randomly introduced to fill up the body count. Sometimes, there are instances of just being at the wrong place at the wrong time, and you can say the same for the previous entries. But 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (2025) feels more intimate and personal, as the kills focus more on the people that are close to the main cast instead of some passersby. Because of this, we get to know the cast far better, making it far more thrilling when the serial killer comes knocking down their door and gives the newer cast more story importance than the recurring ones. However, the film is not perfect. One of the glaring faults is its story, particularly the ending. As the tale homes in on its conclusion, we are left wondering who is the man behind the slicker outfit? Though the crew do their best to unravel the killer's identity, they never really do a good job compared to the original. Sure, there are hints, and it makes sense in the end, but they never seem significant enough, so much so that the big reveal feels forced and leaves us scratching our heads. To say this is a major blow — for a horror/mystery no less — would be a massive understatement. Additionally, the ending itself is also extremely contrived, as if the filmmakers are forcing a certain ending to occur rather than letting it happen naturally. Another painful issue is that many argue that this entry is not as campy as its predecessor and therefore hurts the film in some way. You can make the argument that the original film was not made with the intention of being campy, but the fact that it was is what made it so iconic. Sure, the tone is far darker now, but it is also a prime candidate for the injection of some dark humour into the mix, which would have elevated it to being more than just a regular entry/continuation. This is mildly offset by the fact that the characters display massive amounts of character development that only the past entries could dream of. If there's a follow-up to this franchise, we just hope it takes all the best aspects of its predecessors and uses them to create a thriller we won't soon forget. 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' is a refreshing yet familiar return to Southport, complete with a brand new cast of characters with the same old killer. This refreshing entry sees it reimagining the franchise for younger fans while maintaining familiarity for more seasoned ones, and it does so with flying colours! However, it falters painfully at the end by not providing enough evidence to make the big reveal more convincing, while the conclusion itself feels extremely forced. Despite it all, it's still an enjoyable film that deserves your attention. 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' is now in theatres.
