Category: Film Previews
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2020 Blockbuster Season Box Office Preview Wrap-Up: June
What should have been the saving grace of the box office season turned out to be a wasteland with no major wide releases and very few minor limited releases.
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Looking at the Weekend: Nov. 6-8, 2020
Without much new at the box office, a film like this could do well, but as we’ve seen in recent months, audiences just aren’t flocking back to cineplexes. That means this Diane Lane and Kevin Costner film, which would appeal more to older audiences, who are most at risk in the pandemic, isn’t likely to…
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Film Preview: I’ve Got Issues (2020)
Page Revisions: (November 1, 2020) Original Release Date: September 18, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A comedy about despair and what to do with it.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating:…
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Film Preview: The 24th (2020)
Page Revisions: (November 1, 2020) Original Release Date: August 21, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “It is the story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Such an uninspired design with a faux patriotic background, partly translucent text and internal details…
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Film Preview: Proxima (2020)
Page Revisions: (November 1, 2020) Original Release Date: November 6, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Trying for a proximate approach to locale, the design doesn’t need the extra space shuttle details to convey that information and…
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Trailer Watch: Freaky (2020) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Freaky, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Film Preview: The Midnight Sky (2020)
Page Revisions: (November 1, 2020) Original (December 20, 2020) New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) Release Date: December 23, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.” Poster Rating:…
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Film Preview: The Prom (2020)
Page Revisions: (November 1, 2020) Original Release Date: December 11, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no…
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Trailer Watch: Ghabe (2020) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Ghabe, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Film Preview: The Giant (2020)
Page Revisions: (October 25, 2020) Original Release Date: November 13, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A teenager’s small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A strange design with motion blurring that doesn’t seem…
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Film Preview: Lucky Grandma (2020)
Page Revisions: (October 25, 2020) Original Release Date: May 22, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Set in New York City’s Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck – and in the middle of a gang war.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW…
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Weekend Preview: Nov. 6-8, 2020
Below are four previews for films opening next weekend. Let Him Go (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Dark and the Wicked (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview The Informer (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Jungleland (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview
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Film Preview: Jungleland (2020)
Page Revisions: (October 25, 2020) Original Release Date: November 6, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by travelling across the country for a no holds barred boxing match that becomes a fight for their lives.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Rather than looking like brothers, the design…
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Film Preview: Black Ops (2020)
Page Revisions: (October 25, 2020) Original Release Date: June 12, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Special ops squad “Hell’s Bastards” are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever…
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Film Preview: The Empty Man (2020)
Page Revisions: (October 25, 2020) Original Release Date: October 23, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s not enough to this to be interesting. Clearly a slapdash design.…
