Category: Film Previews
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Trailer Watch: Rules Don’t Apply (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Rules Don’t Apply, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Looking at the Weekend: Oct. 7-9, 2016
Will controversy spoil Nat Turner? That’s the big question as one of the year’s most talked-about, but most controversial films opens at the multiplex. While the controversy isn’t like to keep its target audience away, the advertising has been minimal and the subject matter isn’t your typical blockbuster material. That’s why I give the edge…
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Film Preview: Fences (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original (December 4, 2016) New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#1) Release Date: December 25, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An African American father struggles with race relations in the United States while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life.”…
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Trailer Watch: Fantastic Beasts (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#4) / New Poster (#4) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Trailer Watch: Urge (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Urge, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Weekend Preview: Oct. 7-9, 2016
Below are nine previews for films opening next weekend. The Birth of a Nation (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Girl on the Train (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Being 17 (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Blinky Bill the Movie (Limited)…
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Film Preview: Under the Shadow (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Someone got a little overzealous with…
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Film Preview: Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The final installment of the long-running Phantasm series.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: If you’re familiar with the long-running franchise, many of the images here are well known and even compelling. The vast amount of black space doesn’t…
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Film Preview: The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets…
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Film Preview: Blue Jay (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The curio-method of blurring out all but the love between these two individuals…
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Film Preview: Blinky Bill the Movie (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An adventurous young koala embarks on a journey across the wild and dangerous Australian outback in the hope of finding his missing father, but he soon discovers that there is more to being a hero than meets the eye.” Poster Rating:…
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Film Preview: Being 17 (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay…
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Film Preview: The Whole Truth (2016)
Page Revisions: (September 25, 2016) Original Release Date: October 21, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.” Poster Rating: C / D+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) There’s not much to this design, which works somewhat well, but not well…
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Film Preview: Ordinary World (2016)
Page Revisions: (September 25, 2016) Original Release Date: October 14, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An aging punk rocker copes with life after rock.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There is little about this poster that works. Apart from those familiar with Billie Joe Armstrong noticing, the stiff white background, the chintzy red…
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Film Preview: London Town (2016)
Page Revisions: (September 25, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In ’70s London, a 14 year-old boy is introduced to the Clash by his estranged mother. It changes his life forever.” Poster Rating: B / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) It has that British 80s punk feel that fits…
