Summer's barely starting, but this movie is the reason I'm looking forward to getting to the halfway point. After an initial teaser and then an official trailer, the 2nd full trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming The BFG (see below), based on Roald Dahl's classic book, has hit the internet. This comes on the heels of [...]
Good Wolff Hunting? But as an assassin. That's a quippy but basically-accurate nutshell of The Accountant (at least based on its debut trailer - see below), the new thriller starring Ben Affleck that opens this fall. Plus, in an added layer to Affleck's math savant character Christian Wolff: he appears to be somewhere on the spectrum. Assuming that's [...]
How do you bring instant credibility to a Video Game movie? Hire some of the most respected art house actors you can find. That's exactly what 20th Century Fox has done for Assassin's Creed, the new time-jumping action movie based on the popular game property. Its first trailer was released May 11 on Jimmy Kimmel Live (see below), boasting [...]
The Obama Rom-Com. That's what we see - along with some inspiring community organizing - in the first trailer (below) for Southside With You. Having premiered earlier this year at January's Sundance Film Festival, the film dramatizes the first date between Barack and Michelle Obama back in 1989. It opened to generally positive reviews at Sundance, [...]
The only question at this point is: what are you looking forward to more - this, or Captain America: Civil War? X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters May 27, 2016 for Memorial Day weekend.
I'm starting to wonder just how big this movie might go. If my perception is correct, the vibe of anticipation for Independence Day: Resurgence is generally positive. People are looking forward to it. Looks like it'll be good solid popcorn-fueled summer movie fun at the multiplex. It may even open over $100 million. But it won't [...]
Bourne is back - and so is Damon. After one film away from the Bourne saga, Matt Damon returns along with director Paul Greengrass to resurrect amnesic super spy Jason Bourne. Moving away from the series of title tags ("Identity", "Supremacy", etc.), this 5th chapter in the franchise simply goes by the alias identity itself: [...]
Wow. That Ray Kroc was a real piece of work. From The Weinstein Company and director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) comes The Founder. It tells the darkly comic story (emphasis on dark) of how milkshake machine salesman Ray Kroc - played by Michael Keaton, an actor on a hot streak - took the small [...]
Yesterday, MGM and Columbia released the first images from their remake of The Magnificent Seven. Today, the first teaser trailer. Well two, actually. Both slightly different versions - one for North America, the other an International trailer - are below. This new take on the classic western has long been in development. Early on Tom [...]
Here's your first look at possibly the top Oscar contender for 2016. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, The Birth Of A Nation is the epic passion project of young African-American mutli-hyphenate filmmaker Nate Parker, who wrote, directed, and starred. Dubbed the "Braveheart of American slavery", it depicts the [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 