Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Friend Request (2017)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original (August 6, 2017) New Release Date (changed from 10/7/16) (September 17, 2017) New Poster (#3) (October 15, 2017) New Trailer (#2) Release Date: September 22, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a college student unfriends a mysterious girl online, she finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make…
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Film Preview: Bad Santa 2 (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original (September 25, 2016) New Trailer (#4) Release Date: November 23, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An adventure with Santa impersonator Willie Stokes.” Poster Rating: C- / C / F SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) It’s a teaser design and so it may be forgiven for some things, but a…
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Film Preview: The Sea of Trees (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original Release Date: August 26, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.” Poster Rating: D / F / C- / F / D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Overly simple…
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Film Preview: The Great Gilly Hopkins (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “12-year-old wisecracking Gilly Hopkins finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home until she meets Maime Trotter.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This kind of design makes one wonder if poster creators are really trying very hard.…
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Trailer Watch: Don’t Breathe (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#4) Don’t Breathe, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Looking at the Weekend: Aug. 19-21, 2016
It’s been awhile since a Biblical epic had the potential for long legs at the box office. This film, a re-adaptation of the Lew Wallace novel follows distantly on the heals of a 1925 silent version and a much more famous 1959 version starring Charlton Heston. That film, which won a record-setting 11 Oscars is…
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2016 Oscar Season Preview: Introduction
There are a lot of films releasing in the last four months of the year that have a chance at box office glory. Many of those may also be Oscar contenders. So far, we don’t have a lot of indication for the major indie films for the remainder of the year, but suffice it to…
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Film Preview: Complete Unknown (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original Release Date: August 26, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “As a man contemplates moving to a new state with his wife for her graduate program, an old flame – a woman who often changes identities – reenters his life at a birthday dinner party.” Poster Rating: C+ / C- (2)…
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Film Preview: Arrival (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original (October 23, 2016) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#1-#15) Release Date: November 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.” Poster Rating: B…
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Trailer Watch: Rogue One (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Film Preview: Emily & Tim (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original Release Date: August 12, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.” 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…
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Film Preview: Finding Altamira (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 7, 2016) Original Release Date: September 16, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Life and events of the man who realized one of the most important discoveries of the 19th century: Altamira’s caves.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This dull color palette might appeal to fans of Antonio Banderas, but I…
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Trailer Watch: Ben-Hur (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#3-#13) Ben-Hur, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Weekend Preview: Aug. 19-21, 2016
Below are seven previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2016)
Page Revisions: (August 14, 2016) Original Release Date: August 19, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.” Poster Rating: D / C- / C / D+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The fractured glass motif has been done to death…
