**** out of **** Rated R (for some disturbing violent content) Released: December 23, 2016 limited; January 13, 2017 wide Runtime: 161 minutes Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Issei Ogata, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for sexual material, strong language, some nudity, and brief drug use) Released: December 25, 2016 limited; January 20, 2017 wide Runtime: 118 minutes Director: Mike Mills Starring: Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann, Elle Fanning, Billy Crudup Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for disturbing thematic content and behavior, violence, and some language) Released: January 20, 2017 Runtime: 117 minutes Director: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula, Betty Buckley Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for violence, realistically graphic injury images, strong language throughout, an some drug use) Released: December 25, 2016 limited; January 13, 2017 wide Runtime: 133 minutes Director: Peter Berg Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, Alex Wolff, Them Melikidze, Michelle Monaghan, J.K. Simmons, Michael Beach Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray, DVD, [...]
"A droid don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that." - Han Solo Exhibit A: this newly-released deleted scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. (The quickly-seen shock by Rey is hilarious.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLmdLRUPtE
The Force is weak with the rumor mill. After much speculation swirling around the fate of General Leia Organa - following the untimely tragic death of Carrie Fisher, and the Star Wars creative team meeting to determine how to move forward - Lucasfilm felt compelled to release the following statement: "We don’t normally respond to fan or [...]
***1/2 out of **** (includes some strong language and brief sexual humor) Released: January 7, 2017, on HBO Runtime: 95 minutes Director: Fisher Stevens, Alexis Bloom Starring: Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher It’s as if Providence knew, and spent years preparing this gift for us when we’d need it most. Not meant as a memoriam [...]
Martin Scorsese's decades-long passion project was just renounced by the final major pre-Academy Awards guild, essentially ending its Oscar hopes (ones that were already on life support). Having been snubbed by the Screen Actors, Writers, and Producers Guilds, the Directors Guild of America - the most friendly one to Scorsese of the Big 4 - left the [...]
Deadpool doesn't have a chance at winning the Oscar for Best Picture, but now it has a legitimate shot at snagging a once-unthinkable nomination for the Academy's top prize. After the surprise Best Adapted Screenplay nod from the Writers Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America followed up with a legitimate shocker by adding Deadpool to its [...]
In the new teaser for Pixar's Cars 3, the seemingly washed-up Lightning McQueen says defiantly to his doubters, "I decide when I'm done." That seems to be Pixar's sentiment to moviegoers who aren't necessarily clamoring for a third Cars movie, particularly after Cars 2 was easily Pixar's most corporately crass cash grab to date. At the [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 