Welcome to the trailer park! This week: Archer channels some classic Magnum P.I., Creative Control shows us five minutes into the future,
Archer: Season Seven
The latest season of Archer kicks off with a brilliant Magnum PI parody trailer. Here’s a side-by-side.
Synopsis:
“At ISIS, an international spy agency, global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. At the center of it all is suave master spy Sterling Archer, whose less-than-masculine code name is “Duchess.” Archer works with his domineering mother Malory, who also is his boss. He also has to deal with his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane and her new boyfriend, ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, as well as Malory’s lovesick secretary, Cheryl.”
Creative Control
This film is set in the future. Five minutes in the future.
Synopsis:
“n near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new Augmented Reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend’s girlfriend…sort of.”
Pandemic
It’s a movie that feels like a video game.
Synopsis:
“Pandemic is set in the near future, where a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren (Rachel Nichols) is a doctor, who, after the fall of New York, comes to Los Angeles to lead a team to hunt for and rescue uninfected survivors.”
Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle is pure Oscar bait in this role.
Synopsis:
“In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis (Cheadle) virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.”
The Witch
Not intended as an accurate depiction of the Wiccan community.
Synopsis:
“A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.”