Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: The Lunchbox (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: February 28, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.” Poster: C…
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Film Preview: Son of God (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: February 28, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.” Poster: B- / C+ / C- Review: The first design, although it’s more generic than the others, at least tries…
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Film Preview: Tammy (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.” Poster: C / C / C- (4) / C+ (5) Review: A larger than life Melissa…
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Film Preview: Blood Ties (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.” Poster: B / C- / C (8) / D+ / C Review: (#1-#2) It’s quite unusual for a small crime…
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Film Preview: Draft Day (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.” Poster: C- Review: I wonder if the designer of the 3 Days to Kill poster took the same image, folded on some new clothes and stuffed…
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Looking at the Weekend: Feb. 21-23, 2014
We’ll probably see a third week at number one for The Lego Movie while Kevin Costner’s action film edges out the cheesy romantic disaster film Pompeii. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: There’s not a lot this week that I really have an interest in. Sometimes it’s better to go with the Oscar nominee than the not.…
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2014 Spring Season Preview: March
There are no two bigger months at theaters. While the Summer may provide box office swing, both box office and Oscars dominate the final two months of the year with November likely the biggest of them all. This year, a number of top notch films will compete for audience dollars and critics’ appreciation going into…
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Film Preview: Date and Switch (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two guys who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom find their friendship tested when one of them comes out of the closet.” Poster: B- Review: It’s a bit too simplistic, but the film’s premise is presented easily and without pompous excess.…
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Trailer Watch: Captain America, trailer #2+posters (2014)
Captain America, trailer #2, posters #3-#9 Plot Summary: From IMDb: “Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.” Release Date: April 4, 2014 Poster Trailer Rating: C+ (5) / C+ / C Commentary: (#3-#7) These five…
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Weekend Preview: Feb. 21-23, 2014
Below are eight previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: In Secret (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small…
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Film Preview: Black Out (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos wakes up next to a murdered man with no recollection of what happened the night before. He soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of…
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Film Preview: Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “What does it mean to be a performing artist – first, last and always? Broadway legend Elaine Stritch can answer that. At 87, Stritch is still here, dominating the stage in her one woman cabaret act, torturing Alec Baldwin on 30ROCK, giving us her…
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Film Preview: Barefoot (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The “black sheep” son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who’s been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother’s wedding to convince his family that he’s finally straightened out his life. She…
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Film Preview: A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: May 30, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his newfound courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun slinger, announces his arrival.” Poster: C / C+ (7)…
