https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xo-EP_O5pQ In 1997, Judi Dench went from obscure American notoriety as M to Pierce Brosnan's James Bond to her first Oscar nomination as Queen Victoria in the under-seen yet powerful Mrs. Brown. Now, 20 years later, she plays Queen Victoria again during her final years in the dramatic charmer Victoria & Abdul. The similarities to Mrs. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzvKH8AVf0 Well that retirement didn't last long. Steven Soderbergh is officially back in the feature film game, following his dubious "retirement" in which he stayed rather busy with his Cinemax series The Knick. The Oscar-winning director's return to the big screen is Logan Lucky, a new heist comedy that plays like a hick version of his Ocean's Trilogy. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiK1gQKgK8&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Direct Every parent of a special needs kid better brace themselves for Wonder, the new movie about a boy with a deformed face who goes to school for the first time in the fifth grade. Based on the best-selling book by RJ Palacio, the boy is played by Jacob Tremblay, the breakout star of Room. It was topliner Brie Larson who [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0D3AOldjMU ...or so I've read. Not having watched the final official trailer (above) or the latest international trailer (below), I can't tell you how much of the plot is dumped here, but when I read other people say things like Marvel is giving away the story for free, I choose not to push play. But if you want [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4C1gnqdrew It takes a monster to defeat a monster. So says Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll in this final trailer for The Mummy, the first entry into Universal Studio's Monsterverse. It looks to be as much of a big-budget horror pic as a Tom Cruise action flick, mixing scares, thrills, and comic relief for mainstream consumption. The Mummy opens on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ykcuAS1F4 The 1970s retro look is in full effect with the first trailer for Battle of the Sexes, the new movie based on the true story of a highly publicized match between tennis star Billy Jean King and male chauvinist firebrand Bobby Riggs. King is played by Emma Stone, fresh off her Best Actress Oscar win for La La [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7cNNfjCyc This might actually be fun. That's the sort of delusional hope this new international trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight actually sparks. A better preview than any of the previously released trailers in North America, this gives us a more accurate sneak of what to expect from the story, plus it's the first to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pJt4dK_s4 Is Pixar getting any kickback for their patented story construct? Okay, of course not, but watching this first trailer for The Emoji Movie one can't help but draw parallels to Pixar's Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and others. Yet while this doesn't appear to be breaking any new ground, it does show the potential to be a perfectly [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjPjPzQ1iU Damn dirty apes, with Woody Harrelson (who's currently in a "makes every movie he's in better" phase of his career). I can't say I've been the biggest fan of this series but it has been a very good one, and it's advanced the quality of realistic digital animation as much as any franchise in Hollywood [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stmYoyHpXI0 In some ways, this will probably have Star Wars diehards as geeked for the new movie as anything else. It's the trailer for The Last Jedi re-imagined as a preview from 1983, and it's sure to push all of the right nostalgia buttons. But it also (if unintentionally) shows how different filmmaking styles are today. Even with [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 