Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Possessor (2020)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2020) Original (September 27, 2020) New Release Date (changed from 10/9/20) (October 18, 2020) New Trailer (#2) Release Date: October 2, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations…
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Film Preview: The 40-Year-Old Version (2020)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2020) Original Release Date: October 9, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL…
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2020 Spring Season Preview Wrap-Up: April
None of the films highlighted in my original preview article back in March were actually released. Some went virtual, others were postponed. As a result there will be no update this month. This was the first month of a slimmed-down or non-existent cinematic experience across the country. Things wouldn’t open up until August, so expect…
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Looking at the Weekend: Sep. 11-13, 2020
Tenet shouldn’t have anything to worry about from this weekend’s lone new wide release. The Broken Hearts Gallery may be the first romantic comedy to release wide at re-opened cinemas, but the film doesn’t seem like the kind that can translate into big box office. Our Highest Rated Films: The Broken Hearts Gallery, I Am…
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Film Preview: A Call to Spy (2020)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2020) Original Release Date: October 2, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency — the Special Operations Executive (SOE) — to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. SOE’s “spymistress,” Vera…
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Film Preview: Spontaneous (2020)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2020) Original Release Date: October 2, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A high school senior discovers that she and her classmates may explode at any moment.” 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…
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Film Preview: Black Adam (2021)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2020) Original (June 12, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#3) — New Release Date (changed from 12/22/21) — New Synopsis (July 31, 2022) New Trailer (#3) (September 18, 2022) New Trailer (#4) — New Posters (#4-#9) (October 16, 2022) New Posters (#10-#12) Release Date: December 22, 2021 Synopsis: From…
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Film Preview: Ghost Tropic (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2020) Original Release Date: August 28, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL…
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Weekend Preview: Sep. 11-13, 2020
Below are five previews for films opening next weekend. The Broken Hearts Gallery (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Buoyancy (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview I Am Woman (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Rent-A-Pal (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Sibyl (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview
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Film Preview: Sibyl (2020)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2020) Original Release Date: September 11, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer.” Poster Rating: C+ (3) SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1-#3) All three of these designs employ the same motif, which lacks rich detail and ultimately feels like they were…
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Film Preview: Buoyancy (2020)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2020) Original Release Date: September 11, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “14-year-old Chakra is sold as a slave labourer to the captain of a Thai fishing vessel. The captain’s rule on board is cruel and arbitrary.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Floating, but dully. I cannot see how this…
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Film Preview: The Eight Hundred (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2020) Original Release Date: August 28, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.” Poster Rating: – SEE…
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Film Preview: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2020) Original (April 4, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#22-#35) (April 11, 2021) New Trailer (#3) (June 27, 2021) New Trailer (#4) — New Poster (#36) — New Summary (July 25, 2021) Added Image Gallery (August 1, 2021) New Posters (#37-#38) Release Date: August 6, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb:…
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Film Preview: Wild Grass (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2020) Original Release Date: September 10, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In the 1990s, the two girls and a boy who first entered the society tested the incredible destiny they experienced in the pursuit of a new life. In the flourishing 1990s, they rose up with the dream and they survived.” Poster…
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Film Preview: Kajillionaire (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2020) Original (September 20, 2020) New Release Date (changed from 9/18/20) Release Date: September 25, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman’s life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they’re planning.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Making…
