The theaters are closed, but the 2020 Summer Movie Season is just beginning… Welcome to Week 2 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I’m curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies. But now, instead of new options for the multiplex, they’re classic [...]
First, Universal Studios ticked off AMC. Now, Justin Timberlake is mad, too. Following the straight-to-PVOD success of NBCUniversal's Trolls World Tour (PVOD = Premium Video On Demand), making $100 million in its first three weeks of at-home play, the studio announced that they would start to release more first-run movies to the PVOD platform, bypassing theaters [...]
Ready Player One (2018) Rated PG-13 (for sequence of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity, and language) Released: March 29, 2018 Runtime: 140 minutes Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen Available to rent through Amazon [...]
The Post (2017) Rated PG-13 (for language and brief war violence) Released: December 22, 2017 Runtime: 115 minutes Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Sarah Paulson, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons Available to rent through Amazon Video, iTunes, and most VOD platforms. Day 34 of “30-Plus [...]
In the age of the Coronavirus, what's old is new again. At least when it comes to our entertainment options. With all of Hollywood on pause along with the rest of us, original content is at a minimum. As a result, content providers are having to dig deep into their archives. One thing that always [...]
The BFG (2016) Rated PG (for action/peril, some scary moments, and brief rude humor) Released: July 1, 2016 Runtime: 117 minutes Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Jemaine Clement, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall, Bill Hader, Adam Godley Available to rent through Amazon Video, iTunes, and most VOD platforms. Day 33 of “30-Plus Days of Spielberg” Somewhere, [...]
The theaters are closed, and so is our Summer Movie Season. Until now. Welcome to Week 1 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I will be curating a weekly slate of movies from decades of summers past. Ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies, I will give you a “Now Playing…” [...]
For 2020, the Summer Movie Season is now playing on a TV screen very near you. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, movie theaters will be closed for at least the first two months of Summer 2020 and possibly beyond. Yes, some major titles are still scheduled to open from mid-July through August, but that could [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 