Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: Cheap Thrills (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: March 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Cheap Thrills follows Craig (Pat Healy, Compliance), a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and…
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Film Preview: 50 to 1 (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: March 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies for the Kentucky Derby. Based on the inspiring true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys face a series of mishaps on their way…
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Film Preview: Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: June 27, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An automobile mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down the Autobots and Decepticons – and a paranoid government official – on them.” Poster: B / C- / C / C (2) / C+ / D…
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Film Preview: Sparks (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: March 7, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation’s most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks’ life and reputation in ruins.” Poster: D Review: A small production budget obviously doesn’t afford much for advertising and this poster design certainly shows…
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Film Preview: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: August 22, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The town’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants.” Poster: D / D- / C (2) / C- (7) / B- (4) / C (2) / C+ (4) / C (4)…
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Looking at the Weekend: Mar. 14-16, 2014
I give a slight box office edge to Need for Speed, but The Single Moms Club could also be the weekend’s top new release. It’s also possible that neither can overcome the second weekend of 300: Rise of an Empire. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: The Single Moms Club might not be bad, though I’d probably…
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2013 Oscar Season Preview Wrap-Up: October
October 4-6, 2013 Gravity Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Critics won’t be enough to push this into Oscar contention. Audiences must respond to the film and it must make a strong showing with the precursors. District 9 managed a Best Picture berth over similar odds, so it’s possible.” Oscar Results: It was a huge hit…
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Film Preview: Stage Fright (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: May 9, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.” Poster: C+ Review: The “rocker” horned devil hand sign doesn’t seem at all fitting for a horror film set at a stage musical camp. It’s not a bad poster…
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Film Preview: 13 Sins (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: April 18, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A bright but meek salesman, drowning in debt as he’s about to get married, receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he’s on a hidden camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.” Poster: C+…
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Weekend Preview: Mar. 14-16, 2014
Below are nine previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: Shirin in Love (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: March 14, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Love has no borders and therein lies the premise of the charming, new Iranian-American romantic comedy “Shirin in Love.” Nazanin Boniadi plays Shirin, an absent-minded, young Iranian-American living in “Tehrangeles” (the large Iranian community in Los Angeles) with her overbearing mother and empathetic father.…
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Film Preview: Le Week-End (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: March 14, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.” Poster: C+ / C- / C+ Review: There differing designs that are equally unimpressive. The first is more traditional,…
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Film Preview: The Art of the Steal (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: March 14, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world.” Poster: D Review: A bland, unoriginal design showing off the actors in poses that aren’t very inspiring and definitely…
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Film Preview: Under the Skin (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: April 4, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An alien seductress preys upon hitchhikers in Scotland.” Poster: C+ Review: I would say that it’s uninteresting, but it doesn’t seem to be all that enthused with selling tickets either. Trailer: C+ Review: This confusing mess of a trailer tries to establish itself as…
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Film Preview: Brick Mansions (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: April 25, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An undercover cop tries to take down a ruthless crime lord with access to a neutron bomb by infiltrating his gang.” Poster: B+ / C / C (3) / C / C / C- Review: The first design…
