Armageddon Time gives us a close look at a specific slice of 1980s American life… but fails to launch any satisfying conclusions.

Director James Gray has revealed which classic movies influenced his next project, Armageddon Time, in a new interview. The Ad Astra and Lost City of Z helmer is currently in the early stages of production on his next movie. Back in June, we learned Armageddon Time had recruited some heavy-hitters, with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, and Oscar Isaac joining Cate Blanchett and Donald Sutherland on the casting front. Armageddon Time will tell a coming-of-age story based on Gray's own experiences growing up in Queens in the 1980s and attending the Kew-Forest School. Gray was …

Writer-director James Gray is assembling an impressive cast for his new movie Armageddon Time, as Oscar Isaac and Oscar winners Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Donald Sutherland have joined the starry ensemble, which also includes two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett. Armageddon Time is described as a coming-of-age film based on Gray's own childhood memories of growing up in Queens, New York in the mid-1980s. The period drama draws on Gray's time at the Kew-Forest School, a private school where Fred Trump served on the board and Donald Trump was once a …

The coronavirus pandemic may have slowed down Hollywood's day-to-day operations but it has been a busy month nonetheless for Cate Blanchett. Just last week, the two-time Oscar winner agreed to star in Eli Roth's adaptation of the popular video game Borderlands, and on Monday morning, Collider broke the news that Blanchett is in talks to join Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay's sci-fi satire Don't Look Up. But that's not all, folks! On the heels of our Don't Look Up story, Variety has dropped its own scoop that Blanchett is set …

I don't know about you, but James Gray's sci-fi epic Ad Astra is one of my most anticipated films of the year. I mean, Brad Pitt doesn't just venture into space for anyone. I can't say I love any of Gray's films -- his Blood Ties script is probably my favorite -- but he hasn't made a bad one either. And hopefully, Ad Astra will be his best yet. Either way, the director has signed on to a new project as he'll step behind the camera for the indie drama Armageddon Time, it was …