*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of strong violence, action and destruction, brief strong language, and some suggestive images) Released: May 27, 2016 Runtime: 144 minutes Director: Bryan Singer Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Olivia Munn [...]
Disney Mulls Live Action LITTLE MERMAID
What a report / Isn't it neat / Wouldn't you think Disney's collection's complete / Wouldn't you think they're the brand / The brand that has...everything Apparently not. Or, more likely, they know we want more. After 92 million first-day views of the new Beauty and the Beast live action teaser, Deadline.com reports that Disney is exploring the possibility of making [...]
New FINDING DORY Trailer Shifts From Laughs To Feels (VIDEO)
If the first trailer for Finding Dory focused on the funny and the familiar, the second one - see below - wants to remind you to bring tissues, too. While still peppering in some new laughs, Finding Dory Trailer #2 makes a pitch for the emotional jugular, emphasizing by trailer's end that this journey for Dory [...]
Original STAR WARS Story In One Single – and Lengthy – Infographic
You've never experienced Star Wars like this before. I haven't had the time myself to take it all in, but this new way of telling an old story is massive and basically mind-blowing. A 34-year-old graphic artist from Zurich - Martin Panchaud - has created an online scroll of infographic imagery that tells the entire story [...]
First Teaser For Live Action BEAUTY & THE BEAST Debuts (VIDEO)
There's certainly more - a lot more - to this not-so-provincial movie than its first teaser lets on. For Disney-diehards, this first look (see below) at the live action adaptation of the animated Beauty and the Beast musical certainly cranks up the "tease" factor to its highest level, doing the exact job it's supposed to: making everyone who sees [...]
30 DAYS OF SPIELBERG – A Preview
(To read my ranking of the Spielberg Canon, click here.) On Monday May 30, 2016 – Memorial Day – I invite you to join me here at the I Can’t Unsee That movie blog to kick off a “30 Days Of Spielberg” celebration. In anticipation of his upcoming children’s fantasy The BFG, I will be looking at the entire [...]
STAR TREK BEYOND Trailer #2 Ditches Beastie Boys Music, Goes Epic (VIDEO)
Following the debut teaser fueled by the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage", the latest (and possibly last) trailer for Star Trek Beyond - see below - ditches the fun rock-and-rap attitude for a bigger, bolder, more emotional tone. I'm still not exactly sure what to expect from this movie. Trailer #2 certainly has all the elements I'm looking for, but [...]
GHOSTBUSTERS International Trailer Best One Yet (VIDEO)
Why didn't they just show this one in the first place? On the heels of the second stateside trailer for the estrogen reboot of Ghostbusters, Sony Pictures has released an International Trailer - and it has the best collection of jokes and effects yet. If the first two trailers suggested this movie has potential, this [...]
THE NICE GUYS (Movie Review)
***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for violence, sexuality, nudity, strong language, and brief drug use) Released: May 20, 2016 Runtime: 116 minutes Director: Shane Black Starring: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Margaret Qualley, Yaya DaCosta, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Keith David, Beau Knapp Writer/Director Shane Black is sort of the Shakespeare of Buddy Action [...]
The DC Universe Finally Gets Its Guru(s), And It’s Not Zack Snyder
The fallout from Batman V Superman continues. But perhaps for the first time, it's in a direction that's proactive and not reactive, and will bring order to its galaxy (to coin a term from another franchise). The biggest strength and advantage that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has had over DC's is an authoritative executive voice, one that steered [...]