https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7kbVvpOGdQ They're back...and they're everywhere. Working as a segue between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and the upcoming Jurassic World 3, the new 8-minute short film Battle At Big Rock is the first example of what the end of Fallen Kingdom teased: dinosaurs have escaped island quarantine and are now spreading out across the U.S. mainland and [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9laReRAYFk In what looks to be more of a sequel to Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor than Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (both in narrative and spirit), Midway is a remake of the classic war film with an all-star cast that dramatizes in epic spectacle America's response to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It comes from disaster-movie maven Roland [...]
*1/2 out of **** Rated R (for disturbing violent content and bloody images throughout, pervasive language, and some crude sexual material) Released: September 6, 2019 Runtime: 169 minutes Directed by: Andy Muschietti Starring: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Wyett Oleff, Jack Dylan [...]
*** out of **** Rated TV-14 (for some language) Released: August 21, 2019 Runtime: 115 minutes Directed by: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert My review of American Factory, for The Tulsa Voice. The first film from the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama, this Netflix documentary follows the corporate culture clash when a Chinese company reopens a U.S. [...]
AMC Theaters invites you to be their guest for a Disney Princess marathon, back on the big screen. Starting Friday September 6, the nationwide multiplex chain kicks off their “Dream Big Princess” series. In it, four of Disney’s modern classics will each have a one-week theatrical run. The month-long event is in partnership with Walt [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5z3cr8AB5g To say I'm excited for this would be an understatement. Waves is the third film from writer/director Trey Edward Shults, an indie upstart whose first feature in 2016 -- a microbudgeted family drama called Krisha -- was one of the more acclaimed debuts of recent memory. It Comes At Night, his art house horror [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78 This feels like Oscar bait from the 1990s, and judging by last year's Best Picture win for Green Book that could be a winning Awards Season formula (especially with its confronation of racial issues). Just Mercy, the latest film from director Destin Daniel Cretton (whose indie breakout Short Term 12 is one of the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI&feature=youtu.be Wes Anderson, but goofier. That's the tone of Jojo Rabbit, the new political satire from writer/director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt For The Wilderpeople), as seen in this latest trailer. The premise -- of a German boy during World War II who befriends a runaway teenage Jewish girl while also having Adolf Hitler [...]
Same bold experiment, but this time backwards. Five years ago, writer/director Richard Linkater stunned the film world with Boyhood, a coming of age story that he had quietly been filmming over a 12-year-span off-and-on in-between other movies. Tracking the life of a boy from grade school to graduation as he becomes a man, the unprecedented project [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxy8udgWRmo&feature=youtu.be They're back. And they're together again. Previous promos for Terminator: Dark Fate have teased glimpses of Linda Hamilton's Sarach Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 meeting again, but this final trailer for the reboot-sequel has them finally fighting side-by-side. Serving as a direct decades-later continuation of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (films 3, 4, and 5 [...]