**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sexual material, brief strong language, thematic elements, and drug references) Released: November 23, 2016 Runtime: 126 minutes Director: Warren Beatty Starring: Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Warren Beatty, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this [...]
** out of **** Rated R (for violence, sexuality/nudity, strong language, and brief drug use) Released: November 23, 2016 Runtime: 124 minutes Director: Robert Zemeckis Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Simon McBurney, Lizzy Caplan Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. What a waste [...]
https://youtu.be/IqrgxZLd_gE For the second December in a row, Adam Driver co-stars in the movie I want to see the most. Based on the novel about two 17th Century Jesuit missionaries that go on a search for their mentor who's gone missing in Japan (where Christianity is outlawed and persecuted), Silence is the realization of director Martin [...]
**** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for thematic elements involving racism) Released: November 4, 2016 limited; November 23 wide Runtime: 123 minutes Director: Jeff Nichols Starring: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Sharon Blackwood, Michael Shannon Available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. Ranked #10 on My [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for peril, some scary images, and brief thematic elements) Released: November 23, 2016 Runtime: 113 minutes Director: Ron Clements & John Musker Starring: Auli’I Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger And a girl shall lead them. That’s the empowering fulcrum on which Moana not only turns but soars. It’s the [...]
Available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. Twenty-five years ago, a tale as old as time became timeless. Elevating what The Little Mermaid had revolutionized just two years prior, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast solidified the revival of not one but two dormant genres: the animated feature [...]
**** out of **** Rated R (for some sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language throughout) Released: October 21, 2016 limited; expands November 18 Runtime: 111 minutes Director: Barry Jenkins Starring: Ashton Sanders, Alex R. Hibbert, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, André Holland Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support [...]
Hold on to your butts. By the looks of things, it'd be fitting for Samuel L. Jackson to crib his famous warning from Jurassic Park and apply it here. In this first full-fledged trailer for Kong: Skull Island (following a previous teaser), we not only get our first extended look at the latest digitized version [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for some fantasy action violence) Released: November 18, 2016 Runtime: 133 minutes Director: David Yates Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Alison Sudol, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, Carmen Ejogo, Jon Voight Available to buy on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. 2016 Academy Award [...]
Peter Berg is about to complete his mission. Following the Afghanistan War movie Lone Survivor and this fall's Deepwater Horizon, filmmaker Peter Berg concludes his "American Heroes" trilogy with Patriots Day. Each of these films has also starred Mark Wahlberg. Here, the director and actor dramatize the events of the Boston bombing, an act of terrorism that occurred on April 15, 2013. [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 