***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for strong language throughout, disturbing behavior, sexual references, and some drug material) Released: October 20, 2017 limited; expands through November Runtime: 111 minutes Director: Sean Baker Starring: Brooklynn Prince, Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, Caleb Landry Jones Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through [...]
Hocus Pocus! No, that's not the subtitle to the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel. (How awful would that be?) J.K. Rowling's better than that. Revealed below in its full title font, the next chapter in the Potterverse prequel franchise is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. It's the follow-up to 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for scenes of sci-fi violence and action, and some language) Released: November 17, 2017 Runtime: 120 minutes Director: Zack Snyder Starring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Connie Nielsen, Diane Lane, Joe Morton, Billy Crudup, J.K. Simmons Marvel is officially inside DC’s head. Justice League [...]
Coming to television screens near you, these four new ads for Star Wars: The Last Jedi - titled "Fight", "Permission", "Kick", and "Destiny" - are about to start cropping up in commercial breaks for all of your favorite shows. The wait is almost over. Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens on December 15, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=Q_AROLipOGg https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=MAPLZJeO5q8 [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG (for thematic elements including bulling, and some mild language) Released: November 17, 2017 Runtime: 113 minutes Director: Stephen Chobsky Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Izabela Vidovic, Noah Jupe, Owen Wilson, Daveed Diggs, Nadji Jeter, Millie Davis, Mandy Patinkin Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K. Proceeds from purchases made through these [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for violence and thematic elements) Released: November 10, 2017 Runtime: 114 minutes Director: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leslie Odom Jr., Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Olivia Colman, Derek Jacobi, Tom Bateman Dinner theatre on a blockbuster budget. All of the strengths and weaknesses [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=149&v=5sCvvkKjaug American territories of the late 19th Century could be a pretty grim place, and that's exactly what we see in this first trailer for Hostiles, the new movie from writer/director Scott Cooper. Known for heavy, burdened character pieces like Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace, as well as the mafia movie Black Mass, [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for thematic elements and smoking) Released: October 20, 2017 in limited release; November 10 wider Runtime: 114 minutes Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmons, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Tom Noonan, James Urbaniak, Corey Michael Smith Available to rent through Amazon Video (free for Amazon Prime members). When a movie based on a book [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXlY6gzTTM The Academy Awards handed out to this movie may actually be presented on a silver platter. That's the strong vibe emanating from the first trailer for The Post, Steven Spielberg's dramatization of the fight by The Washington Post to publish classified documents (known as The Pentagon Papers) that exposed government corruption during the Vietnam [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=sPSJYXi7BWA Make room for James Franco in the 2017 Oscar Race. A one-time nominee before (rightly so, for 127 Hours), Franco will likely find himself as a major contender again for the ironically titled The Disaster Artist. Based on the making of the infamous low budget bomb The Room - a train wreck of filmmaking often [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 