The Boston Society of Film Critics became the third group of the 2015 Awards season to name their winners - and it should come as no surprise that the lauded Boston-based true life drama Spotlight took their top spot for Best Picture. In addition, the Oscar contender notched two other wins for Best Ensemble Cast and Best [...]
Over the past six weeks, director J.J. Abrams has given us plenty of footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the form of trailers and TV spots, but no actual film clips. Until now. We got this little truncated action scene - the first to be released - from star Daisy Ridley last night on [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG -13 for violence, language, and some sensuality Released: November 25, 2015 Runtime: 132 minutes Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew Creed is ranked #10 on my Top Ten List for 2015 Creed, both the movie and its title character, have a lot to live up to. And they [...]
Cinemark Theaters continues their ongoing Film Classics series with three Christmas favorites: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, It's A Wonderful Life, and Miracle On 34th Street. Showing each Sunday and Wednesday - plus two Christmas Eve encores of the Capra classic - here are the dates and times for each movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Sunday December [...]
My review of The Letters (click here), at Crosswalk.com, about the life of Mother Teresa and her private letters that revealed spiritual struggles, loneliness, and doubts. **1/2 out of **** Rated PG for thematic material including some images of human suffering Released: December 4, 2015 Runtime: 114 minutes Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Rutger Hauer, Max von Sydow, Priya Darshini, [...]
The new - and first full - trailer for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and is now all over the internet. It provides the most detail of the premise yet and, I have to say, it's less promising than the original teaser that set a more ominous tone. Here, we see a [...]
The New York Film Critics Circle honored the very arthouse films that the National Board of Review ignored. A day after the NBR got the 2015 Awards Season rolling by naming Mad Max: Fury Road the Best Film Of The Year, the critics of New York chose Carol, the universally acclaimed 1950s period piece about a star-crossed [...]
Well how about that? The 2015 Awards season has officially begun, and The National Board of Review named the summer action tentpole Mad Max: Fury Road Best Film of 2015. The surreal directorial vision from George Miller (click here for my review) received universal praise when it was released in May, and now this honor all-but-solidifies MM:FR as being [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG for peril, action, and thematic elements Released: November 25, 2015 Runtime: 100 minutes (including the Pixar Short “Sanjay’s Super Team”) Starring (the voices of): Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Raymond Ochoa, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, Steve Zahn (read my interview with the director and cast here) Barely living up to its title, The [...]
In early November, I was able to sit down and talk with the filmmakers of Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, including director Peter Sohn and voice cast members Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, and Jeffrey Wright. You can read about our conversation (click here) at Crosswalk.com The Good Dinosaur opens in theaters Wednesday November 25th. (You can read my official [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 