One of M. Night Shyamalan’s greatest mysteries will always concern “The Happening”: Was his 2008 killer trees thriller intentionally so ridiculous and unhinged? Or namely, was it aware of how funny it was? No such mistake or question will follow Shyamalan’s latest, an odd pitch-black comedy about a beach that ages its uninformed visitors a year for every 30 minutes. Adapted from the graphic novel “Sandcastle” by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters, “Old” is Shyamalan’s kind of summer romp, in which beach bodies decay, and even the most informed people at the end of his puppet strings are completely doomed.

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The life of a young actor can often be unpredictable, but rarely do you have the opportunity to play a child trapped in a grown man’s body and a truffle hunter’s unwitting accomplice in hunting down his lost pig in one year. And yet, that’s what Alex Wolff found himself doing in back-to-back projects.

On this episode of The Playlist Podcast, actor Alex Wolff joins us to chat about his roles in “Old” and “Pig” – both movies dropping within a week of one another this summer.

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For the first time in quite a while, the upcoming release schedule for films has veered back into some semblance of normal. There will still be several films that receive the treatment of being released in theaters simultaneously with a run on streaming services – either through a subscription such as HBO Max or paying for a movie while also having the streaming service, it will be available on such as “Black Widow” on Disney+.

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Aging sucks. When you’re young, you feel invincible and that you have an infinite amount of time on this planet. But as you get older, your own mortality creeps into your head and you start to think of things in terms of how little time you have left. And it’s that sort of anxiety that is exacerbated in the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan thriller, “Old.”

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In the trailer for “Old,” we’re introduced to a lovely family that is just on vacation and looking for a nice beach.

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So… I guess we’re back? If you’re an American, chances are you’ve been vaxxed to the max already and or are probably awaiting your second dose, which should come quickly.  As we already noted, folks like Marvel are already flexing, welcoming audiences back to theaters, and well, that means nature is healing, right? Cinema is healing too, and with New York vowing to reopen fully on June 1, that probably means the rest of the country isn’t far behind.

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As his career has waxed and waned over the preceding decades, there’s been one constant in M. Night Shyamalan‘s career: he loves shooting part of whatever he makes in the Greater Philadelphia area. That’s all about to change because his next film, “Old,” leaves behind the City of Brotherly Love entirely for life on the beach (and a short-lived one too, apparently).  

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Shyamalan and tropical idyll look like a mismatch at first glance, but there’s plenty of supernatural menace to the movie’s premise.

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Pandemic life may have been horror enough for most, and no, this isn’t some comment on Inauguration Day, but those of us who find comfort in giving ourselves the creeps have been in a bit of a drought. Last year saw the displacement of some massive upcoming titles, like “A Quiet Place Part II,” Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s “Candyman” sequel, and the next David Gordon Green “Halloween” installment, “Halloween Kills.” Those movies are all set to finally premiere this year, and they – along with a few other holdovers and some new features – are among our most anticipated horror films of 2021.

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M. Night Shyamalan has had a very interesting career path. The filmmaker skyrocketed with his third film, “The Sixth Sense,” but quickly faded out of popularity with a series of big-budget critical and commercial duds. Then he seemed to be on a comeback path with a series of low-budget thrillers. Now, a year after he had Bruce Willis drown in a puddle in “Glass,” Shyamalan is back with a new thriller, titled “Old.”

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