Category: Film Previews
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Film Preview: As I Lay Dying (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family’s quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.” Poster: C / C Review: I don’t understand the coffin…
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Film Preview: Broadway Idiot (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Broadway Idiot follows Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong from a punk rock concert at Madison Square Garden to the opening of his musical American Idiot on Broadway – only ten blocks away, but worlds apart. From behind the curtain share in the crazy journey…
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Film Preview: Cassadaga (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A deaf girl attempts to contact her sister during a séance, only to connect with the ghost of a murdered woman.” Poster: B- Review: A single still image that appears only briefly in the trailer doesn’t seem like the most effective advertising choice, but…
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Film Preview: Design Is One (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Italian-born Massimo and Lella Vignelli are among the world’s most influential designers. Throughout their long career, their motto has been, ‘If you can’t find it, design it’ The work covers such a broad spectrum that one could say the Vignellis are known by everybody,…
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Film Preview: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.” Poster: B+ Review: At first glance, this design seems like a myriad other poster designs, but…
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Film Preview: Zero Charisma (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An overgrown nerd who serves as Grand Master of a fantasy board game finds his role as leader of the misfits put into jeopardy when a new initiate enters the group.” Poster: B / C- Review: A more inventive and symbolically relevant design than…
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Film Preview: Rio 2 (2014)
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: April 11, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Blu, Jewel and their three kids living the perfect domesticated life in the magical city that is Rio de Janeiro. When Jewel decides the kids need to learn to live like real birds, she insists the family venture…
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Film Preview: Geography Club (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 15, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.” Poster: C+ Review: It should quickly and easily appeal to its niche market, but a wider audience…
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Film Preview: How I Live Now (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: November 8, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as the third world war breaks out.” Poster: D+ / F Review: Uninteresting and unflattering, there’s little chance that this design will enchant…
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Looking at the Weekend: Oct. 4-6, 2013
Early tracking shows that Alfonso Cuaron’s space thriller is going to open fairly strong, which should easily put it ahead of the weekend’s other new release Runner Runner and the expanding Metallica: Through the Never. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: It’s an easy choice this weekend: Gravity. Peter J. Patrick: Oscar magnet Gravity should dwarf the…
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Trailer Watch: Ender’s Game, trailer #2, poster #2 (2013)
The game’s the thing. Ender’s Game, trailer #2, poster #2 Plot Summary: From IMDb: “70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.” Release Date: November 1, 2013 Poster Trailer Rating: C+ Commentary: They tweaked the format and…
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Film Preview: The BoxTrolls (2014)
Poster Poster #12 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: September 26, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children’s novel ‘Here Be Monsters’ by Alan Snow.” Poster: B / B (6) /…
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Weekend Preview: Oct. 4-6, 2013
Below are thirteen previews for films opening next weekend.
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Film Preview: The Summit (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 4, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of the deadliest day on the world’s most dangerous mountain, when 11 climbers mysteriously perished on K2.” Poster: B- Review: The sense of grandeur and danger is easily depicted, but the vast open space on the upper left of the poster is…
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Film Preview: Let the Fire Burn (2013)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 2, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped two pounds of military explosives onto a city row house occupied by the radical group MOVE. The resulting fire was not fought for over an hour although firefighters were on the scene with water cannons in place.…
