Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Fisherman’s Friends (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: July 24, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Cheap-looking PhotoShopping detail, this design favors nothing more than dullness. There’s…
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Film Preview: Yes, God, Yes (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: July 24, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 00s discovers masturbating and struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal damnation.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: For once, a big,…
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Trailer Watch: Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#3) Bill & Ted Face the Music, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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2020 Spring Season Preview Wrap-Up: March
Below is a wrap-up of the predictions I made several months ago, an exploration of what succeeded and what failed, and how I observe things to have gone. NOTE: This was the first month were exhibitors and studios had become skittish, so a lot of these pictures may have been rescheduled (several times, possibly). March…
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Looking at the Weekend: Aug. 7-9, 2020
It’s another week with no wide releases and the trend doesn’t look to be stopping anytime soon. Our Highest Rated Films: Out Stealing Horses Our Best Awards Ratings: No consensus. OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Black Water: Abyss (Limited) Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine (Limited) SamSam (Limited) Trump Card (Limited) The Green Years (Virtual) You…
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Film Preview: Valley of the Gods (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: August 11, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this…
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Film Preview: Sputnik (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: August 14, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.” Poster Rating: C / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The shadow play here is weakly done, becoming far too…
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Film Preview: Legacy of Lies (2020)
Page Revisions: (July 26, 2020) Original Release Date: July 28, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An ex-MI6 agent is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes to uncover the shocking truth about operations conducted by unknown secret services.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s a lot of wasted space here,…
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Weekend Preview: Aug. 7-9, 2020
Below are eight previews for films opening next weekend. After We Collided (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview The Burnt Orange Heresy (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview I Used to Go Here (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Made in Italy (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Out Stealing Horses (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Paydirt (Limited)…
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Film Preview: Peninsula (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original (August 16, 2020) New Relase Date (changed from 8/7/20) Release Date: August 21, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Sequel to the 2016 South Korean zombie film.” Poster Rating: C+ / C / C- / B- / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) “…though I walk through the valley of…
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Film Preview: The Tax Collector (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: August 7, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A “tax collector” for a crime lord finds his family’s safety compromised when his boss’s old rival shows up in LA and upends his business.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This semi-symmetrical design has a lot of grating…
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Film Preview: I Used to Go Here (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original Release Date: August 7, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate is invited to speak at her alma matter by her former professor. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students.” Poster…
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Film Preview: After We Collided (2020)
Page Revisions: (August 2, 2020) Original (October 18, 2020) New Posters (#3-#6) / New Release Date (changed form 8/7/20) Release Date: October 23, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Based on the 2014 romance novel of the same name, this follows the love life of two young adults.” Poster Rating: C- / C- / C- (4) SEE…
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Film Preview: The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Page Revisions: (July 26, 2020) Original Release Date: July 31, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A widow struggling to get by meets a stranger who subscribes to a philosophy of positive thinking.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A nice sunset adds to the image’s beauty, but it’s a rudderless concept that doesn’t seem…
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Film Preview: Out Stealing Horses (2020)
Page Revisions: (July 26, 2020) Original Release Date: August 7, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.” Poster Rating: C- / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Seems to have nothing to do with the film, at least through the frame…
