Christmas is coming early, and confusingly, for moviegoers this year with films opening on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
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“That’s probably a movie first, maybe,” writer-director Damien Chazelle said with a laugh while discussing the film’s connection to the small Southern Nevada town, specifically its library.
The bulk of this year’s Oscar nominees will come from films that are still awaiting release. It should be their time to shine, these small, thoughtful works of art. And yet they’ll still be overshadowed at the box office by spinoffs of two of the most successful franchises in movie history.
There’s a boy named Pete. He has a dragon. And that’s pretty much where the similarities between this weekend’s “Pete’s Dragon” andthe 1977 original begin and end.
“Sausage Party” is so wrong, so go-for-broke insane, existing words aren’t enough to describe it. Shockrageous comes close. As does horristurbing.
They’ve battled the villainous William Stryker, the killing machines known as Sentinels and, more often than not, each other. Now, the mutants of “X-Men: Apocalypse” are fighting their greatest enemy yet: sequelitis.
Well, whaddya know? You really can stuff too many superheroes into a 2½-hour movie, make them fight each other, throw in some mommy issues and, despite a muddled plot, actually leave audiences thrilled and hungry for more.
The magic mirror from “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” is really more of a shiny metal disc. It looks quite a bit like a gong. If only Chuck Barris were there to save us from the movie’s lazy “Frozen” rip-offs and general cut-rate Tolkien aesthetic.
Four years ago, Bryshere “Yazz” Gray was fired from a Pizza Hut. Now, he’s spending hours in an on-set hot tub with Naomi Campbell before drying off and hustling to a recording studio to work with Timbaland. That’s the power of broadcast television.
If I’d seen Disney’s new take on “The Jungle Book” at the same tender age I saw the 1967 animated classic, I would have wet myself.