Kids ain't afraid of no female Ghostbusters. In fact, tykes are flocking to their action figures - boys and girls alike. Mattel reports that sales for their tie-ins to the new female-centric Ghostbusters reboot have exceeded their projections, proving popular with both genders. The film itself opened to a solid but not gigantic $46 million [...]
The secret's out: animated films rule the box office. This past weekend, The Secret Life of Pets opened to a record-breaking $103 million. That's the largest debut for a non-sequel animated film ever (and the first to cross $100 million in its first three days), topping last year's $90.4 million notched by Pixar's Inside Out. Pre-weekend estimates [...]
For cinephiles, it's like Christmas in July. Ever since the release of his masterpiece The Tree Of Life in 2011, enigmatic auteur Terrence Malick (of this year's Knight Of Cups) has been developing a poetic cinematic reflection on the entire history of time and space. Talk about ambitious. But each successive year would come and go with (seemingly) little-to-no [...]
The first official movie poster is here for Hacksaw Ridge, the directorial return for Academy Award winning (and polarizing) director Mel Gibson (Braveheart, Passion of the Christ). Along with it are some set photos - a few official, others not taken from afar. Also in the mix is a second poster for the Asian market. (You [...]
With hopes of stirring up a tremendous rumpledumpus, Disney has released a couple of clips from The BFG, the upcoming children's fantasy. These scenes, totaling less than two minutes, offer a sneak peak into the early phases of the budding relationship between the title giant and Sophie, an orphan girl who becomes his friend. Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison, The BFG - based [...]
Accio Hero. In preparation for this fall's Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, author (and, for the first time, screenwriter) J.K. Rowling hosts a featurette that introduces us to the new trilogy's central character, Newt Scamander. Played by Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, Newt will guide us back into the wizarding world. This time [...]
We will once again know the power of the Dark Side, because Darth Vader is back. In a tease of their upcoming exclusive coverage of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Entertainment Weekly made the official announcement that the Dark Lord of the Sith will indeed be in the upcoming Star Wars anthology film, a [...]
The buzz of this year's Sundance Film Festival, The Birth Of A Nation won both the Grand Jury prize and Audience Award for 2016. Starring, written and directed by young African-American filmmaker Nate Parker, the indie epic passion project looks to solve the #OscarSoWhite problem - at least for one year. Based on a true story from the early 19th Century, [...]
Can't get enough of the most adorable (and best) part of Finding Dory - a.k.a. Baby Dory! - but need a fix to tide you over until the new Pixar smash swims upstream to home video? Disney's just thrown you a bite. Here's a short Baby Dory clip from early on in the movie. Play it on [...]
Boldly brandishing one of those titles that's just ripe for critical digs if the movie isn't any good, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back released its first trailer (below) this week. Never Go Back is the follow-up to the first Jack Reacher action mystery starring Tom Cruise, about a renegade ex-Army investigator turned drifter who gets pulled back into a lethal case. Sort of an old school [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 