They may take our theaters, but they’ll never take…our movies! Welcome to Week 4 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 ones for your [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RDTPfsLAI&feature=emb_logo Spike Lee is a filmmaker to be reckoned with, and Da 5 Bloods looks like a reckoning. As the follow-up to Lee's Academy Award-winning BlacKkKlansman, Da 5 Bloods is the fictional tale of four African-American veterans who return to Vietnam to gather the remains of their platoon leader. The slain commander's son joins them. [...]
The Summer Movie Season isn’t closed, it’s just…different. Welcome to Week 3 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 ones for your personal home [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…” [...]
Fifty years ago, America and the world were stunned and consumed by a sudden evolving crisis with an unknown outcome, and all they could do was watch from their homes…and wait. Sound familiar? The similarities between the Coronavirus pandemic and the Apollo 13 mission don’t end there. Both involve things that had become completely routine [...]
Savage (1973) Not Rated (adult themes) Released: March 31, 1973 Runtime: 75 minutes Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Michele Carey, Dabney Coleman, Barry Sullivan, Susan Howard, Paul Richards, Jack Bender, Louise Latham Available to watch on YouTube. Day 4 of “30-Plus Days of Spielberg” Now that’s more like it. And more like him. [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 