CAUTION: I solemnly swear that I am up to spoilers here. The Muggle world has been split asunder by none other than their leader herself, J.K. Rowling. The cliffhanger she dropped on the collective Potterverse at the end of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is exactly the kind of love-it-or-hate-it move that sends uberfans [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of fantasy action) Released: November 16, 2018 Runtime: 134 minutes Directed by: David Yates Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Jude Law, Jacob Kowalski, Allison Sudol, Callum Turner, William Nadylam, Claudia Kim, Carmen Ejogo What?! That’s the question Harry Potter fans will be [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for sexual content including an assault, some strong language, and brief drug use) Released: November 9, 2018 Runtime: 115 minutes Directed by: Joel Edgerton Starring: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton, Flea, Troy Sivan, Jesse LaTourette, Xavier Dolan, Joe Alwyn For a movie unlikely to change anyone’s personal [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=shdb-Bn-kMo When a making-of "Behind The Scenes" promo plays better than a film's actual trailers, well, that's not a good sign, but that's where I'm currently landing right now with Aquaman, the latest desperate attempt to save the floundering (pun intended) DC Extended Universe. The vision and scale on display here is impressive, and you [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NiYVoqBt-8 Here's a movie that will give us an earful while making our hearts full. It's Dumbo, the live-action remake of the 1941 Disney animated classic about an orphaned baby circus pachyderm with floppy oversized ears. This is the first official trailer for the movie from director Tim Burton, following an initial teaser released this [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for strong language including some sexual references, and brief drug use) Released: October 19, 2018 limited; November 9 expands Runtime: 106 minutes Directed by: Marielle Heller Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Stephen Spinella, Ben Falcone, Jane Curtin, Christian Navarro, Anna Deavere Smith A quality forgery is much [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=nQk7DWW4mz8 Leave to Pixar to deliver, in stealth fashion, a reunion that many comedy fans have been longing for. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, a.k.a. the stars of the long-running sketch comedy series Key & Peele, are the voices of two new characters in Toy Story 4. One day after the first teaser for the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roy4o4tqQM&feature=share "Deadpool for Kids" is basically what you get when Ryan Reynolds does the voice for Pikachu...and that's exactly what the first live-action Pokémon movie is offering up. POKÉMON Detective Pikachu plops a CGI version of that yellow fuzzy rodent into the real world, fueled by Reynolds' snarky sass dialed in for the entire family. The [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXYRzerjzU No spoilers, just radar-pinging in this first brief teaser for Toy Story 4. Avoiding plot details entirely, the whole purpose of this promo quickie (well-timed to be tagged on the front of Ralph Wrecks The Internet) is to remind everyone that this is coming out next summer. That, and to introduce a new character: [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for thematic material including a sexual situation, brief strong language, and smoking) Released: October 19, 2018 limited; November 9 expands Runtime: 105 minutes Directed by: Paul Dano Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp (Click here to read my interview with director Paul Dano) Taking a slow burn [...]