Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: March 20, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.” Poster: B- / C / C+ (7) / B- / B (5) / C+…
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Film Preview: Goodbye World (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: April 4, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a mysterious terrorist attack causes chaos in the cities, a group of friends take refuge in their countryside cabin. But the challenges of living in a post-apocalyptic world soon take their toll on relationships within the group.” Poster: B Review: An apocalyptic vision…
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Film Preview: Test (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: June 6, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “San Francisco, 1985: Frankie confronts the challenges of being an understudy in a modern dance company as he embarks on a budding relationship with Todd, a veteran dancer in the same company and the bad boy…
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Looking at the Weekend: Dec. 19-21, 2014
Sensing weakness, studios have done two bits of counter-programming for the final chapter of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. That won’t likely matter as Jackson is bound to top the list once again. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: I’m excited to finally get to the end of The Hobbit trilogy. Little else outside of Mr. Turnerlooks interesting.…
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2015 Spring Season Preview: January
The end of the year brings the most combative environment for films trying to become Oscar winners. The next four months will be an interesting proving round.
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Film Preview: The Love Punch (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: May 23, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.” Poster: C- / C / D+ Review: (#1-#3) This trio of generic, bland designs don’t strike out differently in each iteration. The…
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Trailer Watch: Inside Out, updated (2015)
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#9) Inside Out, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
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Weekend Preview: Dec. 19-21, 2014
Below are four previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Jurassic World (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: June 12, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining,…
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Film Preview: Pan (2015)
Page Revisions: (December 7, 2014) Original (May 24, 2015) New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#5) (August 30, 2015) New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#6-#10) (October 4, 2015) New Posters (#11-#14) / Updated Release Date (changed from 7/17/15) / Added Image Gallery Release Date: October 9, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of an…
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Film Preview: Chappie (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: March 6, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son in a strange and dysfunctional family. Chappie is preternaturally gifted, one of a kind, a prodigy. He also happens to be a robot.”…
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Looking at the Weekend: Dec. 12-14, 2014
The Hunger Games‘ reign is about to come to an end as Ridley Scott’s Bible epic Exodus: Gods and Kings competes for box office dollars. The film’s success depends entirely on attendance from church groups as I don’t think it’s going to be too big of a cross-demographic hit. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: Inherent Vice…
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2015 Spring Season Preview: Introduction
Another lackluster spring has a few potential bright spots, but is mostly a time to catch up on the Oscar-nominated films you haven’t already seen. To introduce you to the upcoming films, there will be two preview articles every month and this introduction every four months. The Season Preview article will focus on one of…
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2014 Summer Season Preview Wrap-Up: July
July 2, 2014 Deliver Us from Evil Box Office Prediction: $20 M Box Office Expectations: What I Said: “Uncertain. The trailers get some of the peril right, but make this look more like a supernatural thriller rather than a supernatural horror film and none of that may be very convincing to an audience that’s growing…
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Film Preview: Citizenfour (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 24, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.” Poster: C Review: Everyone should know who Edward Snowden is now, but to rely solely on his image to sell the documentary may not generate the…
