Based on the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt and co-written and directed by George Miller for the screen, Dr. Alithea Binnie, played by Tilda Swinton, is an academic. She’s content with life and a creature of reason.
While in Istanbul attending a conference, she encounters a Djinn, played by Idris Elba, who offers her three wishes for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts he is real; second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes have gone wrong.
The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she submits and makes a wish that surprises them both.
Beast stars Idris Elba in a pulsating, thriller-driven movie directed by Baltasar Kormakur and written by Ryan Engle.
The movie follows recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels, played by Elba. He returns to South Africa, where he met his late wife. He brought his family to South Africa, hoping for a successful healing journey after her passing.
The doctor’s plan is to take a long trip with their daughters, played by Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries. The trip is through a game reserve managed by Martin Battles, played by Sharlto Copley.
The healing journey quickly jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a mistreated lion by a poacher attacks them. The vicious lion stalks Daniel’s family and others because it now sees all humans as enemies.
Directed by Jeff Fowler, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 starts out in Green Hills. Sonic, played by BE Schwartz, wants to prove that he truly is a hero. His abilities come face to face when Dr. Robotnik, played by Jim Carrey, returns with a new partner, Knuckles, played by Idris Elba.
The two evil dudes are in search of a mystical emerald. The gem has the power to destroy civilizations.
Jim Carrey in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.
Sonic and his sidekick, Tails, played by Colleen O’Shaughnessey, embark on a global adventure to locate the emerald before it falls in the two scoundrels’ hands.
Based on a comic book co-written and directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad follows a secret government agency that recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated supervillains. The purpose is to form a defensive task force. Their first mission is saving the world from the apocalypse.
These supervillains are impressive with Quinn, Bloodsport and Peacemaker. Then, there is a collection of cons at Belle Reve prison who join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Here, they are heavily armed and dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Gunn is best known for directing the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. John Ostrander co-wrote the script with Gunn, based on his modern comic book version.
The all-star cast makes the journey of this movie worthwhile. The movie stars: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Viola Davis, Taika Waititi and Sylvester Stallone.
Directed by Tom Hopper, Cats is a musical film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical theatre sensation and the poems from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.
Idris Elba plays Macavity with a stellar cast.
The film stars James Corden, as Bustopher Jones, Judi Dench as Old Deuteronomy, Jason Derulo as Rum Tum Tugger, Idris Elba as Macavity, Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella, Ian McKellen as Gus, Taylor Swift as Bombalurina, Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots, and Francesca Hayward, principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, as Victoria.
Tom Hooper, who directed The King’s Speech, Les Misérables, and The Danish Girl, brings a new technology to transform his cast members in vivid cats, unlike the ones we see on stage. Costumes will not be in the movie, but CGI images of the cats created as they captured the actors performing for the camera. Hooper and Lee Hall, who wrote Billy Eliot, scripted the screenplay.
One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, the London stage production of Cats received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981—where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9,000 performances. Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the show won the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical. In 1983 the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and ran for an unbelieve 18 years.
The next featurette shows excellent dancing. It appears that the movie has tons of dancing.
Seeing Taylor Swift creating with Andrew Lloyd Webber and the director is an inspiration to working in film. “Beautiful Ghosts” sounds like a lovely song, and I hope it inspires the movie to do well.
I was skeptical about this movie, but now, after seeing the new trailer, if the story moves along as it does in the second trailer and at a good pace, we have ourselves a box office hit.
Cats TV spot plays with Taylor Swift singing her song recorded especially for this musical movie.
Directed by David Leitch, the next franchise installment brings us the first stand-alone sequel as Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
Hobbs and Shaw heaved blows at each other since they first appeared in the franchise together in 2015. Hobbs being the loyal agent and Shaw the outcast bent on breaking the law.
But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton, played by Idris Elba, gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever — and bests a brilliant and fearless .rogue MI6 agent, played by Vanessa Kirby, who is Shaw’s sister.
The movie boasts international-globe crossing adventure with a new flair for the Fast & Furious diehard fans.
Leitch directed Deadpool 2 and took the script from longtime Fast & Furious screenwriter. The movie looks to be another hit at the box office. Helen Mirren also stars, and her interview is next.
Helen Mirren plays Shaws’ mother.
The second trailer puts us right into the action and destruction with unbelievable, and crazy, wild stunts.
The featurette explains Hobbs’ brothers and what it means to Johnson.
Directed by Oscar nominee Hany Abu-Assad, The Mountain Between Us stars Oscar winner Kate Winslet and Golden Globe winner Idris Elba.
Beau Bridges has a small part but he is good.
The movie follows two strangers who are stranded after a tragic plane crash. They must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain as they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness discovering strength they never knew possible.
This looks like a movie worth watching as long as it has a happy ending. I am a sucker for any happy ending.
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, I have not read many Stephen King’s books, so I am not familiar with The Dark Tower storyline or whether it follows the book at all.
Though, I am intrigued to see a young boy telling a story to a therapist of some sort. There are some talented people behind the camera and in front of the camera as well. Ron Howard is one of the producers.
The story follows a gunslinger, played by Idris Elba, and we are told there are other worlds than these, which is not that ambitious these days. Other worlds are quite common in the movie industry.
Still, it is an expansive story from one of the world’s most celebrated authors, and now it is headed to the big screen. So, the last Gunslinger, known as Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, played by Matthew McConaughey, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
Also in the cast is Jackie Earle Haley, who is fondly known for playing Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise movies.
It really sounds like dark fantasy where kids tell the story late a night during a sleepover. I sure it will do well at the box office because King has a legion of fans.
