Category: Film Previews
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2014 Oscar Season Preview: December
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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Trailer Watch: A Most Violent Year, updated (2014)
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) A Most Violent Year, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
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Trailer Watch: The Hobbit, updated (2014)
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#3-#16) The Hobbit, 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: Nov. 21-23, 2014
Below are three previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: V/H/S: Viral (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows fame-obsessed teens who unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.” Poster: C+ / C Review: (#1) Playing off the stylistic design of the prior films, this one heaps video tape all over itself, but forming a simple skull isn’t enough to make…
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Film Preview: Happy Valley (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A documentary that observes the year after Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s arrest on child sex abuse charges.” Poster: D+ Review: It does say all it needs to about the film’s subject, but it could have been far more imaginative or…
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Film Preview: Serena (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: March 27, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton’s timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned that his wife, Serena, cannot bear children.” Poster: C+ / C (2) / B- Review: (#1) Strange that this…
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Film Preview: Minions (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: July 10, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Gru is recruited by an organization to stop Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.” Poster: C / B- / C+ / C / C-…
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Film Preview: Furious 7 (2015)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: April 3, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his crew for the death of his brother.” Poster: C / C / C / C / C Review: (#1) As teasers go, it’s not that impressive. For…
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Looking at the Weekend: Nov. 14-16, 2014
While it isn’t much Dumb and Dumber To may be the weekend’s top new release, but if it’s as bad as it looks and performs as poorly as its predecessor, it could fall to Beyond the Lights. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: All the best options are in limited release with Foxcatcher easily topping the list.…
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Film Preview: The Imitation Game (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: November 28, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.” Poster: B- / D (2) Review: (#1) The enigma-cracking device, the forebear of the modern computer, is impressive, but it might…
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Trailer Watch: Into the Woods, updated (2014)
Trailer #2 / Posters #1-#11 Into the Woods, 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: Nov. 14-16, 2014
Below are six previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Saving Christmas (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 14, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Kirk is enjoying the annual Christmas party extravaganza thrown by his sister until he realizes he needs to help out Christian, his brother-in-law who has a bad case of the bah-humbugs. Kirk’s fresh look at Christmas provides Christian the chance to see Christ is…
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Film Preview: The Homesman (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: November 14, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.” Poster: B / C / B Review: (#1) See my comments in the Serena preview page on this…
