Summer is officially over, which means movie theaters will be full of star studded movies waiting for their Oscar nominations. “The Big Short” is one film that’s received a lot of buzz and many think it’ll be Paramount’s way into the awards.

The Adam McKay (Step Brothers, Anchorman) directed film, starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt, is based on Michael Lewis’ book, “The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine.”

“The Big Short” centers around the four men who predicted the economic collapse in the 2000s- Hedge fund manager Steve Eisman (Carell), Greg Lippmann (Gosling) the Deutsche Bank trader, Scion Capital founder Michael Burry (Bale) and one of the founders of Cornwall Capital, Ben Hockett (Pitt). After their realization of the upcoming crisis, the men make some bold investments and “bet against the banks.” Marisa Tomei, Melissa Leo, and Max Greenfield also star.

Originally the film was set to release in 2016, but after seeing an almost final cut from McKay, Paramount decided to push the date forward to be apart of the award season mix. “The Big Short” will premiere on November 12 as AFI Festival’s closing night gala before it opens in limited theaters on December 11 and wide on December 23.

Check out the trailer below:

Selena Gomez has joined the cast of Universal’s “Neighbors 2.” Selena joins Zac Efron, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, and Dave Franco for the sequel to 2014’s “Neighbors.” Chloe Moretz is also attached to play a new character. Although the plot for the sequel hasn’t been released, IMDB lists the film’s full title as “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.” Will we be seeing Selena as a sorority girl? Or perhaps more of “Spring Breaker” type? See what we did there?

Selena Gomez has been keeping herself busy. She will be releasing an album on October 9th, titled “Revival,” and has several upcoming films. Selena recently wrapped “The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving,” withe Paul Rudd,  “The Big Short,” which stars Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, and Ryan Gosling (just to name a few) and “In Dubious Battle,” directed and starring by James Franco.

The original “Neighbors” brought in $269 million worldwide. Hoping to make that magic again for the sequel is director Nicholas Stoller. Stoller also wrote the film with Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien.

“Neighbors 2″ is slated for release on Friday, May 20, 2016

You know your film isn’t off to a good start when the first headlines revolve around it being booed at the Cannes Film Festival. As was the unfortunate beginning for “Only God Forgives,” the second collaboration between director Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling (who first worked together in the critically acclaimed thriller “Drive”).

American audiences got their first look at the film during the LA Film Festival in late June and the critics haven’t gotten any kinder. Some have even gone to predict this as Gosling’s first flop. The movie finally premiered in the U.S. on July 19^th, giving Gosling fans a chance to decide what they think of the film for themselves.

“Only God Forgives,” starts with the brutal murder of an underage prostitute. Senior police officer Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), who acts as executioner throughout the film, finds the prostitute’s father and allows him to kill the murderer. We soon find out that the prostitute killer, Billy (Tom Burke), was the brother of a drug-smuggler by the name of Julian (Ryan Gosling). The film follows Julian (Ryan Gosling) as he attempts to avenge Billy’s murder, at the request of his mother, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas).

Once Crystal arrives in Thailand to retrieve her first-born’s body, Julian is ordered to find the killer. Julian already knew it was Chang’s righteous doing that ended his brother’s life, and wanted to stay away. But Crystal was relentless. The film goes on a wild goose chase, Crystal after Chang, Chang after Crystal, until finally Chang and Julian meet face to face.

While the synopsis above seems to make for an interesting film, don’t be fooled. Audiences are left squirming in their scenes due to the over-the-top violence, but also due to the boredom. The brutality in the violent acts did not detract from the lack of dialogue, and overall slow pace of the film. Gosling’s performance, probably (hopefully?) intended to be stoic, seemed to be nonexistent. As a fan of Gosling, it’s disappointing to write the following sentence: he was just there, a blank face with no emotion and it wasn’t enough. However, the film did have one saving grace, Kristin Scott Thomas. The most memorable scene of the movie (perhaps due to the shocking, and admittedly amusing, dialogue) takes place during a   dinner between Crystal, Julian, and a prostitute he hired to pretend to be his girlfriend. After Julian is completely emasculated by his mother, he tells her of Billy’s wrongdoings, to which she replied, “I’m sure he had his reasons.”

Perhaps Nicolas Winding Refn focused too much on style, which for some people may have hidden the little-to-no substance the film provided. The film was aesthetically pleasing, thanks in part to cinematographer Larry Smith, but the tone was never fully settled. Was this supposed to be a voyeuristic, sadistic violent film, or a highbrow art film? Perhaps neither, and somewhere in the middle-weird void between the two, the film was completely lost.

The film is currently on limited release (so far only 78 theaters) in the U.S.