This dream cast just keeps getting more magical. Following her praised collaboration with director Rob Marshall in Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, Meryl Streep has signed on to reteam with the musical filmmaker in Disney's sequel Mary Poppins Returns. Joining Into The Woods cast mate Emily Blunt (who plays the titular magical [...]
Debuting on movie screens in front of the latest Jason Bourne installment this weekend is the first trailer for the new action spectacle from Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) and Bourne star Matt Damon. Sort of a Spielberg of the Far East, Yimou is admired by critics and audiences alike. His latest film The [...]
** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief strong language) Released: July 29, 2016 Runtime: 123 minutes Director: Paul Greengrass Starring: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh Bourne to be mild. Even with two big action set piece bookends [...]
Good Will Sniping? Puns like those (this wasn't my first) are likely to surround the upcoming thriller starring Ben Affleck called The Accountant. Following a teaser this past spring, the film's first full trailer has now debuted (see below). Affleck plays Christian Wolff, a math savant (with Asperger-like traits) who works as a financial manager for clients [...]
This is going to be one of the more interesting box office experiments we've seen in awhile. (You can read my review of the movie here.) The upcoming World War II movie Hacksaw Ridge is a bundle of contradictions. Liberals will like cheer the story - and trailer (below) - of an Army medic who, as a conscientious objector, [...]
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Rated PG (for sci-fi violence, brief sensuality, and some language) Released: December 6, 1991 Runtime: 113 minutes Director: Nicholas Meyer Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Christopher Plummer, Kim Cattrall Star Trek: Original Cast Movies – A Look Back [...]
Once dubbed the next Spielberg, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has struggled to fulfill that promise after an impressive (and lucrative) early three-film stretch that began nearly twenty years ago. Based on this disturbing debut trailer, Split may be the closest thing to those glory days he's offered up yet. (Warning: the predatory nature of the villain's [...]
Apocalypse Kong. In what appears to be a Vietnam Era jungle excursion gone horrifically awry, the first trailer for Kong: Skull Island shows a King Kong reboot aiming for terrifying results. The first large scale Hollywood production for indie director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer), this blockbuster monster movie stars recent Best Actress Academy [...]
In what is the most fleshed-out version of the plot's details yet, the latest trailer (below) for the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them frames the story about new wizarding hero Newt Scamander (Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne) and his adventures in New York. Directed by Potter movie veteran David Yates with a screenplay [...]
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Rated PG (for sci-fi violence, some language, and some sensuality) Released: June 9, 1984 Runtime: 107 minutes Director: William Shatner Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Laurence Luckinbill Star Trek: Original Cast Movies – A Look Back I not [...]