Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Wolf Totem (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In 1967, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads’ traditional enemies – the marauding wolves – to the north;…
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Film Preview: Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A good-natured womanizer and a serial cheater form a platonic relationship that helps reform them in ways, while a mutual attraction sets in.” Poster Rating: C / C- / D+ Review: (#1) Using scenes from the film works when the scene…
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Film Preview: Listening (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A team of genius-but-broke grad students invent mind-reading technology that destroys their lives and threatens the future of free-will itself.” Poster Rating: C- Review: Trying to suggest the invasion of the mind without becoming tacky and overwrought is a fine line…
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Film Preview: Coming Home (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer…
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Film Preview: Breathe (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels in Melanie Lauren’t sexy sophomore film.” Poster Rating: C Review: While…
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Film Preview: The Perfect Guy (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.” Poster Rating: C+ (2) / D Review: (#1 & #2) This pair of designs share a concept and would…
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Film Preview: 90 Minutes in Heaven (2015)
Page Revisions: (September 6, 2015) Original Release Date: September 11, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.” Poster Rating: C Review: The sky opened up at the site of a…
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Film Preview: Jem and the Holograms (2015)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2015) Original Release Date: October 23, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.” Poster Rating: B Review: If you look at the poster…
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Trailer Watch: Pan, updated (2015)
New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#6-#10) / Page Redesign Pan, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
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Film Preview: The Intern (2015)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2015) Original (September 20, 2015) Added Gallery Release Date: September 25, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and…
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Looking at the Weekend: Sep. 4-6, 2015
You can tell it’s Memorial Day because the studios have dumped every film they have no confidence in on one weekend. Sure, it’s been a couple of weekends like that, but this one takes the case. Perhaps fans of the Transporter films are enamored enough that they’ll turn out, but I suspect it will be…
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Trailer Watch: The Martian, updated (2015)
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) / Page Redesign The Martian, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
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Film Preview: Carol (2015)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2015) Original (November 15, 2015) New Posters (#1 & #2) (December 20, 2015) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#3-#8) Release Date: November 20, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.” Poster Rating: C…
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Weekend Preview: Sep. 4-6, 2015
Below are six previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: A Rooster with Many Eggs (2015)
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2015) Original Release Date: September 4, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The world’s most egg-cellent animated (Huevo Cartoon) series finally cracks the U.S. big screen with UN GALLO CON MUCHOS HUEVOS! Toto, (voiced by Bruno Bichir) was born the runt of the litter. But, when an evil rancher threatens to destroy his…
