Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 16, 2020) Original Release Date: September 4,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents’ secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Based on Iain Reid’s acclaimed novel.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL…
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Film Preview: Hard Kill (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 28,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Willis) is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter just to get it.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: An action design that has…
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Weekend Preview: Aug. 21-23, 2020
Below are five previews for films opening next weekend. Unhinged (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Pale Door (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Peninsula (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Stage Mother (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Tesla (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview
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Film Preview: Stage Mother (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 16, 2020) Original Release Date: August 21,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A conservative church choir director inherits her late son’s San Francisco drag club.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Minor inventiveness collides with simplistic dullness for an overall uninteresting design. Trailer Rating: C+ SEE ALL TRAILERS BELOW Review: There are…
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Film Preview: The Pale Door (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 21,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After a train robbery goes bad, two brothers leading a gang of cowboys must survive the night in a ghost town inhabited by a coven of witches.” Poster Rating: B SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The background is wasted, but the foreground image…
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Film Preview: Chemical Hearts (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 21,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A high school transfer student finds a new passion when she begins to work on the school’s newspaper.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A standard issue design that focuses on the romance aspect, but sells nothing else about the story…
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Film Preview: The Vanished (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 21,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Story of a husband and wife that will stop at nothing to find her missing daughter, who disappeared on a family camping trip. When the police don’t catch any leads, the duo take over.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There…
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Film Preview: Get Duked! (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 28,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A design that tells more about the film to those who’ve seen the…
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Looking at the Weekend: Aug. 14-16, 2020
Another week with mostly virtual and limited releases. When we first prepared this week for consideration, The SpongeBob Movie hadn’t been scheduled. Normally, it would have been included. Here is my original preview of the film. There isn’t otherwise much to see here. Our Highest Rated Films: In the Life of Music Our Best Awards…
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Film Preview: Project Power (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 14,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.” Poster Rating: C SEE…
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Film Preview: Centigrade (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original (August 23, 2020) New Poster (#1) Release Date: August 28,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A married couple find themselves trapped in their frozen vehicle after a blizzard and struggle to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s spot-on to the film’s premise,…
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Film Preview: Pearl (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: August 11, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “None Available” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C- SEE ALL TRAILERS BELOW Review: It’s an instantly forgettable trailer with…
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Weekend Preview: Aug. 14-16, 2020
Below are two previews for films opening next weekend. In the Life of Music (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Sputnik (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview
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Film Preview: In the Life of Music (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 9,2020) Original Release Date: August 14,2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In the Life of Music, a story told in three chapters, tells the story of how one song ‘Champa Battambang,’ a song made famous by Sinn Sisamuth (the King of Khmer Music), plays a role in the lives of three different generations.” Poster…
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Film Preview: Spree (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: August 14, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Thirsty for a following, Kurt Kunkle is a rideshare driver who has figured out a deadly plan to go viral.” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this…
