Category: Film Previews
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Weekend Preview: Jan. 16-18, 2015
Below are seven previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Spare Parts (2015)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 16, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country’s reigning robotics champion, MIT.” Poster: D Review: What kind of movie are we actually getting?…
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Film Preview: Little Accidents (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: January 16, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a…
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Film Preview: Rage (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: July 11, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.” Poster: C- / C- / C Review: (#1-#3) Most action thrillers these days skimp…
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Film Preview: War Story (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: July 30, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A war photographer who recently endured a brutal detainment in Libya holes up in Sicily to come to terms with her ordeal, not far from the home of her former lover and mentor. Soon she crosses paths with a Tunisian migrant in need of…
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Film Preview: The Wedding Ringer (2015)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 16, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Doug needs a best man, in the worst way. Jimmy is the best friend money can buy. But sometimes when you buy a friend, there’s a price to be paid…” Poster: C / C- Review: (#1 & #2) There isn’t much that separates these…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jan. 9-11, 2015
There isn’t much new coming out in these early months. Taken 3 will be the film to dislodge The Hobbit from the top of the box office, but whether it can match its predecessors remains to be seen. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: Beloved Sisters might be good, but it won’t be in my neck of…
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Film Preview: Winter Sleep (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: December 19, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter…
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Film Preview: ’71 (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: February 27, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.” Poster: C+ / C / C+ Review: (#1) A full body shot that…
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Weekend Preview: Jan. 9-11, 2015
Below are four previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Beloved Sisters (2015)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 9, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial young writer and hothead Friedrich Schiller. Defying the conventions of their time, the sisters decide to share their love with Schiller. What begins playfully, almost as a game among the three…
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Film Preview: Taken 3 (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: January 9, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ex-government operative Bryan Mills is accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed. As he is tracked and pursued, Mills brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear…
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Film Preview: Ping Pong Summer (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: June 6, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A family vacation during the summer of 1985 changes everything for a teenage boy obsessed with ping pong.” Poster: C Review: As lamely cheesy as the types of posters created for the types of films that this “throwback” is gently poking fun at. The…
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Film Preview: The Last of Robin Hood (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: August 29, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The last days in the life of legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn.” Poster: B- Review: I’ll give it style points simply for being different. A minimalist design using an arrow’s fletching to show off the actors, this poster might not win awards, but in…
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Film Preview: The Longest Week (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: September 5, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent’s prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and… in love.” Poster: D+ Review: A ho-hum, blink and you’ll forget it poster design that needlessly…
