The return to the J.K. Rowling's wizarding world is less than a year away, and now we catch our first glimpse of the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. It releases worldwide, November 2016.
Month: December 2015
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Dominates Critics’ Choice Awards Nominations (AWARDS 2015)
UPDATE: The critics of the Critics Choice Awards have added Star Wars: The Force Awakens to their list of Best Picture nominees, doing so over a week after their original announcement - which occurred, of course, prior to the film being screened. The Force Awakens has not been added to any other categories. This is the 2nd [...]
STAR TREK BEYOND Trailer #1 Debuts (VIDEO)
Well...that's an interesting music choice. Time will tell if it's indicative of the film's actual tone, or just a desperate marketing choice.
TRUMBO (Movie Review)
** out of **** Rated R for strong language, including some sexual references Released: November 25, 2015 Runtime: 124 minutes Starring: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Louis C.K., Michael Stuhlbarg, John Goodman, Elle Fanning, Helen Mirren In the simplest terms, Trumbo is AC-TORS AC-TING in A Very Important Movie. Given its showiness and subject matter, it should come [...]
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE Official Trailer #1 (VIDEO)
Will Smith may not be back, but the aliens are - and having Jeff Goldbulm take the lead this time around should provide more than enough entertainment value in the Fresh Prince's absence (plus, he'll be seen a month later in DC's Villain movie Suicide Squad). Independence Day: Resurgence opens next summer, June 24, 2016.
Feel All The Chills From THE LITTLE PRINCE Trailer #2 (VIDEO)
When an animated film geared towards the family plays to raves at the austere Cannes Film Festival, you know it's something special. This latest trailer for THE LITTLE PRINCE, an independently produced 3D animated feature, delivers on that praise, capturing the genuine magic and wonder that so many films reach for yet so often miss. [...]
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (Movie Review)
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and peril, brief startling violence, and thematic material Released: December 11, 2015 Runtime: 122 minutes Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson Putting a Jaws-like spin on the Moby Dick legend sounds like a surefire premise, especially when you’re throwing [...]
The 73rd Golden Globe Nominations (AWARDS 2015)
The Golden Globe Nominations have made one thing clear: nothing's clear in this year's Oscar race. First, Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road dominated early critics group choices. Then Trumbo, Beasts Of No Nation, and The Big Short were embraced by the Screen Actors Guild. Now today, Carol (which won the New York Film Critics top prize) [...]
Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations (AWARDS 2015)
The Oscar Race just got more confusing, and intriguing. Trumbo, the true story satire about a Hollywood screenwriter from the Blacklist era, hadn’t made a blip in the early critics group lists. Yet today, it made the biggest splash when The Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for their 22nd Annual Awards with 3 Nominations [...]
First Look: Teaser for Steven Spielberg’s THE BFG, Summer 2016 (VIDEO)
Spielberg returns to childhood and magic. After a late career focus on adult and historical dramas, director Steven Spielberg's next film will be an adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book The BFG (which stands for Big Friendly Giant). As if that creative combo wasn't intriguing enough, this adaptation was written by the now-late screenwriter Melissa Matheson [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 