Anticipation (Before Trailer): 1 out of 100
Anticipation (After Trailer): 1.01 out of 100
How did this movie get by WWE Studios? Holy shit, this looks horrible.
There’s a theatrical release date of September 25th on the official AWOL-72 website. If this makes it to a theater near me, please don’t let me go see it. Please!
Hot Take: Apparently, The Transporter franchise wasn’t out of gas. It had a dead battery. Refueled went nowhere.
The Transporter Refueled wasn’t even the best Audi commercial of the summer movie season (That award goes to Hitman: Agent 47). This isn’t an indictment of the chase scenes dominant throughout the film but it isn’t a ringing endorsement either. For the most part, the car scenes are fairly generic with a glimmer of above average only to be dragged down by terrible dialogue, a lame storyline and some poorly thought out decisions by the characters who tow the plot to it’s destination.Read More →
Hot Take: The unabashed sex life of a licentious 15-year-old girl. It’s dark, complex and controversial. There’s more to learn from how the viewer (or reviewer) reacts than the film itself. Being a teenager can surely be a mess and applying that to the story told here would be understated. (Warning: This review is not spoiler free.)
“I had sex today… Holy shit!”
From the first line spoken by Minnie Goetze (played by newcomer Bel Pawley), there was the sense the viewer was supposed to be uncomfortable. It was immediately evident this was more than your standard coming of age film. Within minutes, it is revealed Goetze’s first time was with her mother’s 34-year-old boyfriend. This is all told by the young teen gleefully while the audience has barely settled in.Read More →
Hot Take: If you’re looking for the depth and insight of last year’s Wild, A Walk In The Woods will disappoint. If you want a better Grumpy Old Men, grab your pack and join Robert Redford and Nick Nolte on the Appalachian Trail.
Robert Redford and Nick Nolte bring travel writer Bill Bryson’s novel to life to close out the ’15 summer movie season. Redford as Bryson and Nolte as long lost former friend Stephen Katz decide (for their own barely discussed reasons) decide to tackle the roughly 2,200 mile trek from Georgia to Maine.
If anything, A Walk In The Woods benefits from timing (and not just Redford and Nolte’s comedic timing). With summer winding down and August filled with high paced, mindless action flicks not good enough for the key summer weeks, A Walk In The Woods comes across as refreshing and a welcome change of pace.Read More →
Anticipation (Before Trailer): 65/100
Anticipation (After Trailer): 90/100
Maybe I’m just too easy but if you attach “From the Guys Who Brought You This Is The End” to any trailer, I’m probably in. The Night Before did so and even if the movie trailer wasn’t hilarious, I’d still want to see it.
It looks like the release date was moved up to November 25th (from December 11th) which is smart to release during the front end of the Holiday movie season rather than during the full frontal assault Star Wars is going to put on the box office. You could say it’s going to come in like a wrecking ball. I’ll see myself out.
Anticipation (Before Trailer): 60/100
Anticipation (After Trailer): 90/100
Pencil in The Danish Girl for some Oscar nominations. It’s the type of movie the Academy loves. Having just watched Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything and recently wishing Alicia Vikander had a more worthy follow up to her stunning performance in Ex Machina than The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Danish Girl fits the bill.
Fun fact: Before Vikander landed the role of Gerda Wegener (Einar/Lili’s wife), the role belonged to Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rachel Weisz and was rumored to be attached to Uma Thurman and Marion Cotillard.
Anticipation (Before Trailer): 50/100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFAn5IaFS0
Anticipation (After Trailer): 80/100
Macbeth looks visually stunning. If I knew nothing about this film, I would want to see it for that reason only. The “Oscar season” release date of December 1 is promising as well.
Anticipation (Before Trailer): 20/100
Anticipation (After Trailer): 30/100
A creepy movie starring Nicholas Cage as a professor who searches for his son after he disappears during a Halloween parade, Pay the Ghost looks to be an instantly terrifying then suddenly forgettable fall flick.
There hasn’t been a Nicholas Cage movie in recent memory I would consider anything more than average. For most, it would probably be National Treasure. For me, it’s been since 2000 (Gone in Sixty Seconds) and that’s pushing it. Considering he was the hottest thing going in the late 90s (Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air, City of Angels, Face/Off), Cage has had one hell of a drop-off. No reason to expect this to be his return to prominence.
Anticipation (Before Trailer): 65/100
Anticipation (After Trailer): 65/100
While the cast of Concussion looks impressive (from Will Smith to Albert Brooks and everyone in between), there’s something about the trailer’s attempt to make the NFL seem more like a rogue government agency motivated to stop Dr. Bennet Omalu (played by Smith) and his study of head injuries and the effects of Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Not that the NFL isn’t capable but it all seems a bit Hollywood.
It’ll be interesting to see how Concussion performs in what looks to be an extremely crowded and promising Christmas movie season.
Hot Take: Care about plot, dialogue and social issues? If so, move along, there’s nothing to see here. Care about stoking your inner xenophobe, being terrified, capitalizing on the most basic stereotypes and satisfying your thirst for blood and violence? Step right up! No Escape is the movie for you!
As harsh as this sounds, John Erick Dowdle and brother Drew would have to borrow a shit to give one about the plot of No Escape. Before the movie dives into the deep end of graphic violence and realistic terroristic mayhem (which it does jarringly fast), No Escape spends roughly two minutes developing the storyline which provides the backdrop for an adrenaline rush of a thriller which borders on realistic horror.Read More →