Category: Movies

Celebrating 100 years of Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema. Janus Films has debuted a trailer to celebrate their upcoming Ingmar Bergman Retrospective, which will be launching at the Film Forum in NYC next month. This is a big year for legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who would’ve been celebrating his 100th birthday on July 14th (he passed away in 2007). Janus is celebrating his life and work by showing almost all of his films in cinemas around the country, including his most famous features: The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander, The Magic Flute, The Magician, Through a Glass Darkly, Wild Strawberries, and Winter Light. “Join Janus Films as they celebrate the centennial of Bergman’s birth in 2018 with a traveling retrospective of his theatrical films, all newly restored and many never before available in DCP.” So dive in. ›››

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“Being a warrior won’t make you a great man. Being a great man means living without chains.” Vertical Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an animated movie titled Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, which premiered back in 2015 and 2016 at film festivals but is just getting a theatrical release in the US in February of 2018, this year. Long delay, but this received some positive reviews so maybe it’s worth the wait. The film comes from the Middle East and is made by animation studio Barajoun Entertainment, telling the story of a boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior who is abducted into slavery. The voice cast for the English-language version of the movie includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian McShane, Jacob Latimore, China Anne McClain, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, and Michael Gross. This looks like an entertaining animated adventure, telling a story that we don’t normally see on this side of the world. Enjoy. ›››

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The next set of 2017 awards nominees have been revealed. The WGA Awards nominations were unveiled today, highlighting an outstanding set of the best films of the year. I’m happy to say that they’ve once again nominated truly the best screenplays from 2017, featuring many of my favorite films of the year such as Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya. The biggest surprises are Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick, and James Mangold’s Logan, but these all deserve to be included anyway. As usual with the WGA, I’m very impressed by the nominees, as the WGA is less about popularity and truly about quality. Congrats to all. Check out the list of film nominees below. ›››

Continue Reading 2018 Writers Guild Awards Nominees Include ‘The Big Sick’ & ‘Logan’

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“We’re a public library, we’re not a shelter for the homeless.” The first trailer has debuted for the latest film written & directed by Emilio Estevez (where has he been all this time?) titled The Public, which is a reference to a public library in Cincinnati. On top of writing & directing, Estevez also stars as one of the managers of the library. When an Arctic cold comes into the city, a group of homeless people decide to hold an “occupy” movement and camp out in the library. The full cast features Jena Malone, Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Gabrielle Union, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Ki Hong Lee, Richard T. Jones, and Jacob Vargas. This actually seems like a fascinating take on this kind of story. Pretty much every public library in every city has to deal with homeless people, and yet this seems to show how important this place is to the community and to these people, it’s a nice twist on the norm. I am quite curious about the various angles of this story they’re playing with in the film. Definitely worth a look. ›››

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“We live our lives and ask – what do we leave behind” Bleecker Street has debuted a trailer for a film titled Nostalgia, which questions our attachment to various possessions and objects that shape our lives. Even though the word “nostalgia” is often discussed in this industry more as something Hollywood is capitalizing on to make more movies based on characters from our youth, this film is all about letting go and moving on from these attachments. Nostalgia is directed by Mark Pellington and is described as a “mosaic of stories” with a cast featuring Ellen Burstyn, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Nick Offerman, Amber Tamblyn, Annalise Basso, and James Le Gros. This actually looks really good, I’m curious about it. Burstyn’s voiceover sounds like it’s from the Cloud Atlas trailer, and that got my attention. ›››

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“It’s gargantuan seven storied structure with no apparent rhyme or reason…” CBS Films has debuted the second official trailer for the horror thriller film titled Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built, now titled simply just Winchester (because who wants to remember that very long title, I guess?). Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of “the most haunted house in the world”, built by Sarah Winchester, played by Helen Mirren, heiress to the Winchester (weaponry) fortune. The huge house, located 50 miles outside of San Francisco, stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. Apparently Winchester built this house as a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts. The cast includes Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Angus Sampson, Laura Brent, Tyler Coppin, and Dawayne Jordan. This does look fairly creepy, and I’m hoping the house plays a major role with all kinds of scary things coming from inside. ›››

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“I’m about to go explosive on these motherf*!*rs!” Netflix has debuted the full-length official trailer for the action comedy titled Game Over, Man!, the first feature film made by the “Workaholics” group. The film stars all three guys from “Workaholics” – Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Blake Anderson – and is directed by one of the creators of the show. These three actors have already landed other major roles in all kinds of movies, but this time they’re finally coming together to tell a story of three stoner gamer friends about to sign a big financing deal when their main investor is kidnapped by terrorists. These three “zeroes” become heroes (sort of) when the hotel they work at is taken hostage. This seems like a big riff on Die Hard, but with the “Workaholics” guys going stoner crazy, and it looks like hilarious fun. I’m definitely in for this. ›››

Continue Reading Full-Length Trailer for Action Comedy ‘Game Over, Man!’ from Netflix

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Are you ready to kick off 2018?! For a quick preview of the year ahead, check out this movie trailer mashup video made by JoBlo’s Nick Bosworth, the same editor behind the Final Cut mashup retrospective year-end videos. There have only been a handful of trailers released for movies in 2018 so far, but there’s quite a few exciting ones releasing in the summer that have already been teased – including Avengers: Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Sicario 2: Soldado, and Alita: Battle Angel. We haven’t seen any footage from Solo, Ant-Man, or The Predator yet – but hopefully sometime soon. If you’re not yet excited about this year, this video should get you in the right mood for some big screen entertainment coming your way soon. ›››

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“Even though he’s the head a tribe, he’s a hell of a lot more than that.” Marvel Studios + Disney have just released a featurette video for Ryan Coogler’s upcoming Black Panther movie, which hits theaters next month. This video focuses on Black Panther’s comic book origins, featuring appearances by Kevin Feige and Stan Lee talking about the character, along with a few behind-the-scenes shots. Directed by Ryan Coogler (of Fruitvale Station, Creed), the story follows King T’Challa, once again played by Chadwick Boseman, who goes back to his African nation of Wakanda after the events of Civil War. The ensemble cast includes Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis as Klaw, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, Winston Duke, and Sterling K. Brown. This is probably the first big movie of 2018 that I am actually very excited to see. ›››

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“Tell the truth, or you die. Do the dare, or you die. Refuse to play…” Universal has released the first official trailer for a new horror thriller movie titled Truth Or Dare, one of the latest features made by the highly successful horror studio Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, Split, Happy Death Day, The Gift), directed by the same guy who made Kick-Ass 2. There’s actually another horror Truth Or Dare movie from 2017 as well, but this one has the more impressive cast and studio behind it. Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey star in this, along with Violett Beane, Nolan Gerard Funk, Hayden Szeto, and Sophia Taylor Ali. The movie’s story obviously focuses on a “truth or dare” game that turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare. Eye roll… come on. Only worth a look if horror is your thing. ›››

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