Monthly Archives: January 2018

“Halloween” Trailers, Featurettes, Movie Clips, and Poster

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Co-written and directed by David Gordon Green, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to one of her best roles in the movies. Laurie Strode comes to her ultimate confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

John Carpenter will not direct this time but will executive produce and serve as a creative consultant. The rest of the cast includes Judy Greer, Will Patton, Nick Castle, Andi Matichak and Omar J. Dorsey.

Following Carpenter’s classic, filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride crafted a story that carves a fresh path from the events in the groundbreaking 1978 movie.

Forty years ago, Michael Myers went after Laurie Strode in the original Halloween. There are two featurettes focusing on the original movie. One featurette focuses on how the production team dealt with making the Myer’s mask look older. In the next featurette, the cast, crew and director share their stories when they first saw the original Halloween.

Now, the movie is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and is streaming. Purchase your copy and keep it in your library, so you can play it every Halloween or whenever you need a dose of Myers stalking Jamie Lee Curtis.

Here are a couple of movie clips with Michael Myers. He hasn’t changed over the last 40 years in prison.

The movie clip below shows how intense the movie will get when Laurie Strode confronts Michael Myers.

The featurette is so much fun to watch. Curtis is one of my favorite actors.

The second trailer is better than the first. I see some familiar faces.

Jamie Lee Curtis is fantastic in the movie trailer. This is going to be a fun and horrific movie.

The First Purge Posters, Trailer, TV Spot, Movie Clip, and Featurette

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Written by James DeMonaco and directed by Gerard McMurry, The First Purge follows the idea that behind every tradition lies a revolution.  The filmmakers are talking about the next Independence Day, witness the rise of our country’s 12 hours of annual lawlessness.  A movement that started as an experiment.

The silliness or craziness of the story is to push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community.  But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the marginalized, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

Still, don’t think this is not worth seeing because DeMonaco, reportedly, has some success with the movie storyline as a series, The Purge: Election Year, The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year.

Now, he is returning with McMurry directing his script. The cast includes Y’Lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Luna Lauren Velez, and Marisa Tomei.

The movie is streaming and the Blu-ray and DVD are on the streets as well.  If you want to see it again, or haven’t seen it, now is your chance.

The movie clip is an argument about Dimitri wanting to kill Nya’s brother during the Purge.

The featurette gives a little bit of information.  The whole story feels awkward.

The movie trailer pretty much tells you about the movie.  I am not sure if this is a horror movie or just a destructive movie.

The TV Spot called Together doesn’t offer much. I am sure more information will be coming soon.

Unsane Trailer, Poster, Movie Clips

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Directed by Steven Soderbergh, who has brought us profound and laughable movies, takes a deeper shot using an iPhone camera at the psychiatric institution. The charlatans at best as Unsane follows a young woman Sawyer Valentini, played by Claire Foy of The Crown, who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution.

This movie explains why psychiatric institutions should be closed down and green mental health prevails.

While incarcerated she is confronted by her greatest fear – but is it real or is it a product of her delusion?

The movie is co-written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer and includes Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving.  It’s good to see Irving in a movie. I’ve missed her.

This clip is intense. It reminds of a time I was helping a mother release her daughter from a psychiatric facility.  Her daughter was being abused, she needed my help. The nurse at the facility was degrading and as a joke said I couldn’t leave the hospital. I put her in her place and she apologized.  Moral of the story, stay away from these institutions, nothing but harm comes from them.

This clip is pretty horrific, and I would never want to be in her shoes.  I am impressed with the use of the iPhone camera. Soderbergh created some awesome angles.

Soderbergh is a genius and this clip is so intense.  I don’t know if I will be able to watch the movie. Which means, horror fans will love it.

Watch this trailer, Claire Foy is amazing. The edit cuts of the trailer and direction by Soderbergh is per entertainment.

“Finding Your Feet” Trailer, Poster, and Clip

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Directed by Richard Loncraine, Finding Your Feet follows ‘Lady’ Sandra Abbott, played by Imelda Staunton, a Harry Potter alumni, discovers that her husband of forty years, played by John Sessions, is having an affair with her best friend, played by Josie Lawrence, she seeks refuge in London with her estranged, older sister Bif, played by Celia Imrie.

Sandra is a fish out of the water next to her outspoken, serial dating, free-spirited sibling who lives on an inner-city council estate. But different is just what Sandra needs and she reluctantly lets Bif drag her along to a community dance class where she meets her sister’s friends, Charlie,  played by Timothy Spall, also a Harry Potter alumni, Jackie, played by Joanna Lumley, and Ted, played by David Hayman.

This colorful group of defiant and energetic third-agers starts to show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

Here is a cute movie clip of a couple of Harry Potter alumni.

Watch the trailer and you’ll have some good laughs.

“Acrimony” Poster, Trailers, Movie Clips, Interviews, and Blu-ray/DVD

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Written and directed by prolific artist Tyler Perry,  Acrimony follows Taraji P. Henson in the psychological thriller. She becomes enraged after learning the truth about her philandering husband.

The movie trailer pretty much tells the story. The movie also stars Lyriq Bent, Tika Sumpter, Jazmyn Simon and Jay Hunter.

Check out the poster. It gives us an idea of who the movie follows. It seems to be a testimony. I love those words, “Hell – Hath – No – Fury.”

The Blu-ray and DVD are on the streets, so check it out if you haven’t seen the movie yet or want to see it again.

The second trailer gets more into her soul and her problems with her cheating husband. I am impressed with the foreboding tone of the overall theme.

Crystle Stewart said in an interview Perry shot the film in eight days. That is unbelievable.

The movie clip below says much about what the movie is about. We are going to be seeing some fatal attraction.

Taraji P. Henson talks the talk with lots of truth about relationships. It is worth watching.

Tyler Perry talks about why he made this movie and how deeply it means to him.

Huge Gift of Magic “Foxtrot” Outstanding Movie Clip

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Written and directed by Samuel Maoz, Foxtrot is a cute little movie, which is evident by the cute short clip below. In his second film, the story originates from Maoz’s experience with his daughter about 20 years ago in Israeli. An unforgettable day developed into an inspiration for Maoz’s, the award-winning Foxtrot. 

An intense and phenomenal examination of what writer Paul Auster called “The Music of Chance.” He refers to David Mitchell’s 1999 novel Ghostwritten, dealing with the nature of random chance.

He turned down his daughter’s request for money to take a cab to school when she was running late. He insisted she takes the bus. He heard 20 minutes later that a terrorist attack hit the bus line she was riding.

He learned later she missed the bus. Still, he experienced that distressing window of time when he thought his daughter was dead. He felt compelled to take responsibility for sending her to her death.

Watch the clip below, and you will see why reviewers call the movie a legitimately stunning piece of work. 

The movie projects confidence in structure and tone, and the imagery is striking and memorable—some of the most impressive, extraordinary imagery of the year.

“Breaking In” Trailer, Movie and Poster

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Directed by James McTeigue, Breaking In follows actress Gabrielle Union as she plays a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.

No trap, trick and especially no man inside can match a mother with a mission when she is determined to breaking in.

The movie also stars Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Ajiona Alexus, Levi Meaden, Jason George, Seth Karr,  and Christa Miller.

I like these movie clips because they show how tough these women can be. You go, girls!

The trailer pretty much tells the story, but Union looks good and is one demanding mother.

“Beirut” Poster, Featurette,Trailer, and Clip

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Directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy, Beirut follows a former US diplomat Mason Skiles, played by Jon Hamm, CIA operatives Sandy Crowder and Donald Gaines, played by Rosamund Pike and Dean Norris. Caught in the crossfires of civil war, they must send the former U.S. diplomat to Beirut to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.

The first part of the story takes place in 1972, where Skiles, his wife and hopefully to adopted 13-year old Lebanese orphan, played by Yoau Saian Rosenberg are having a cocktail party in there home. Mason’s best friend, CIA Agent Cal Riley, played by Mark Pellegrino, arrives and seconds later terrorists attack the party with tragic results.

Ten years later and now an alcoholic working as a mediator for labor disputes in Boston, Mason gets approached by a stranger in a bar. He hands him a passport, cash, and a plane ticket along with an urgent invitation from mutual “friends” that he travel to Beirut. Grudgingly, Mason arrives in Beirut only to find that the formerly picturesque city on the sea has become a violence-ridden warzone. Mason soon discovers the real reason he’s been called back. CIA and Embassy officials Donald Gaines, Gary Ruzak, played by Shea Whigham, and Ambassador Frank Whalen, played by Larry Pine explain that terrorists have kidnapped a CIA agent. The offer Mason a mission. He negotiates a swap for the release of terrorist leader Abu Rajal, played by Hicham Ouraqa, believed to be imprisoned by Israeli secret police, in exchange for the American. The story unfolds with intrigue and competing agendas.

Under the helm of Anderson is a tight spring action thriller
You might recognize Gilroy’s name as the writer behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Before the Star Wars franchise was resurrected, he formulated his fictional script around facts on the ground including the 1984 kidnapping of CIA Station Chief William Buckley. “For me, that was very much the model for what would happen if a high-level CIA officer were kidnapped,” Gilroy says. “Buckley’s body actually turned up just as I was finishing the script and there was a lot of reporting about that case that I drew on. It was all very garish and gothic and horrifying and dramatic.”

Beirut’s central character prefigured the flawed heroes that would later anchor some of Gilroy’s best-known works. “Mason was the beginning of my fascination with characters in need of redemption, which is also true for Jason Bourne and Michael Clayton,” Gilroy says. “With Beirut, I was interested in writing about people trapped inside a political situation, while at the same time Mason is forced to confront his past and his own weakness.”
After Gilroy finished his script in 1992, numerous A-list actors and directors circled the project, known at the time as High Wire Act. It was just too hot to handle because of the authenticity of the story.

Anderson says related to the script as a great story that was well written. “I was very taken by the world of Tony’s story. I frankly didn’t know very much about Beirut, so for me, it was more the character elements that drew me in. I was fascinated with Mason as this tortured soul who’s trying to redeem himself by saving his friend. That’s a very classic dramatic sensibility.”

The featurette, trailer and clip offer an excellent idea of how good this movie is put together.

“Traffik” Trailer, Clips, and Poster

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Written and directed by Deon Taylor, Traffik follows Brea, played by Paula Patton, and John, played by Omar Epps They are taking a romantic weekend in the mountains and run into some major trouble.

The thriller spends most of the time in an isolated and remote estate, but the couple is dumbfounded by the arrival of two friends, Darren, played by Laz Alonso, and Malia, played by Roselyn Sanchez.

Just when the weekend starts to get back on track, a violent biker gang turns up and begins to torment them. The foursome is forced to fight for their lives against the gang who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are available now. This movie is a horror movie in its own right.  In other words, it is intense and scary.

The movie clip shows their endearing relationship.

The movie clip shows how dangerous the story is getting.

We have a nice car chase.

This movie makes it clear that these two couples had no plans but to have fun.

Watching the trailer, the movie seems more of a horror movie than a thriller with the gruesome-looking female at their door. There is a kind of haunting undertone to the overall trailer.

Silly Spotlight on the Special “Show Dogs” Trailers

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Directed by Raja Gosnell, Show Dogs follows a bunch of talking dogs. The original screenplay comes from Max Botkin.

Gosnell directed other kids’ movies like Scooby-Doo, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and The Smurfs. He even worked with Chris Columbus as editor of the movies Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and Mrs. Doubtfire.

The story takes place where humankind and sentient dogs co-exist. A macho but forlorn Rottweiler police dog named Max, voiced by Ludacris, goes undercover as a groomed show dog in an elevated dog show with his human partner Frank, played by Will Arnett. Together, they try to prevent a disaster during the dog show. The movie also stars Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O’Neal, Omar Chaparro, and Stanley Tucci.

The movie is streaming and available on Blu-ray and DVD. The film is perfect for all kinds of dog lovers.

Here is another trailer that looks like tons of fun for the kids.

If you or your kids like watching talking dogs, then see this movie. Watch the trailer and see if you like watching talking dogs.