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“Solo: A Star Wars Story” Trailers, Featurettes, Interview, and Posters

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Directed by Ron Howard, we learn about the early years of one of Star Wars most beloved heroes – Hans Solo.  Plenty of posters, movie clips, featurettes, and trailers are posted here for you to peruse. You can start with the teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The movie boards the Millennium Falcon and journeys to a galaxy far, far away in an all-new adventure with the one of the most known about scoundrel in the galaxy. The movie is a story about Han Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich, at the beginning of his adventures in Star Wars.

The Blu-ray and DVD are on the streets with streaming available as well. Check out the trailer promoting the next phase of seeing Solo: The Star Wars Story. 

Remember, the special featurettes will be worth the purchase.

I am looking forward to having this movie package as part of my personal library.  The Star Wars franchise is such a pleasure and exciting part of the entertainment industry.

 

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, played by Donald Glover. The story will set the course for one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

The screenplay is written by Lawrence Kasdan and his son, Jon Kasdan, which means it will be a great story.  Senior Kasdan is very familiar with the Star Wars series.  He wrote Empires Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Force Awakens.

The also stars Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Paul Bettany.

The next featurette came out the day of the US opening night. It offers even more information about the characters and the story.

I am posting Ron Howard’s interview because he articulates the story and cinematic approach to making a movie about Han Solo. He talks about working with George Lucas and the production team.

Becoming Solo featurette tells a bit more about the story in terms of the Empire.

Here is a super cool tour of the Falcon. Donald Glover is the tour guide.

The second trailer tells more of the story, and it appears Han Solo gets involved with some ruffians.

“Skyscraper” Posters, TV Spot, Featurette, and Trailers

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Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, Skyscraper follows former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, played by Dwayne Johnson. Sawyer’s job is to assess security for skyscrapers.

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He is on an assignment in China. The story is not clear if he is assessing the tallest, safest building in the world or just visiting when suddenly it’s ablaze—framed for causing it to catch fire.

Sawyer becomes a wanted man on the run. He must find those responsible for the fire to clear his name. At the same time, he has to figure out someway how to rescue his family trapped inside the building above the fire line.

The movie is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming. So, if you haven’t seen it yet, now you can unless you’ve seen it and want to see it again.

Universal Pictures released the movie as a 3D action-thriller. The list of producers is long, and they are all connected to making action-thrillers like San Andreas, Pirates of the Caribbean series, and Kong: Skull Island.

The third movie trailer tells more about the story, and the intensity of the circumstances Johnson’s character confronts.

The featurette offers a bit more information about Johnson’s character while learning more about the special effects.

The second trailer explains the storyline more, and we see more action and stunts happening in the movie.

Here is the trailer, which pretty much tells you the story.  It looks like a lot of action and CGI.

Here is the TV Spot. The poster shows a man leaping from one skyscraper to the next. So, it looks pretty action-packed.  Also, starring with Johnson is Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, and Hannah Quinlivan.

“Game Night” Trailer

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Co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Game Night is a hilarious movie that follows a group of friends with a standard get-together for game nights. Games consist of charades, board games or whatever the host provides. The group finds themselves trying to solve a murder mystery after one of the hosts, played by Kyle Chandler, takes the game up a notch. The game becomes real, and it is just not for fun anymore.

Writer Mark Perez crafts a brilliant, clever story that takes the cat-and-mouse theme to a new level. Rachal Adams and Jason Bateman are still the show in the movie trailer. I recommend you watch it. You’ll have great laughs, and it will lift your spirits.

Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible: Fallout” Posters, Trailers, TV Spot, Featurettes

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Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible—Fallout follows Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt once again. The story is about how the best intentions often come back to haunt you.

The movie finds Hunt and his IMF team, played by Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, and Ving Rhames, along with some familiar allies, played by Rebecca Ferguson and Michelle Monaghan, in a race against time after a mission gone wrong.

Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast, and filmmaker McQuarrie returns to direct his second Mission: Impossible movie.

The next poster is called “Sunburst.” The colors and characters let us know we are in for an adventure.

The poster says it all. Certainly, Ethan Hunt will work with his team to save the world from malevolence. The stellar cast is phenomenal, something to look forward to seeing in the movie theater.

The featurette talks about Cruise’s stunts and shows footage we haven’t seen yet.

The following trailer tells us about the story, filled with action, Tom Cruise stunts, and the bad guys.

I watched Top Gun the other night. Tom Cruise made that movie great. He is such a brilliant actor—and cute, too! Here, he is performing another impossible stunt.

Aerial Featurette is fantastic, with Tom Cruise flying the helicopter and doing spirals.

The movie trailer is fantastic, pure entertainment.

The TV Spot is shorter but fine.

“The Hurricane Heist” Trailers, Superbowl TV Spot, Blu-ray/DVD

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Directed by Rob  Cohn, who brought us The Fast and Furious, The Hurricane Heist follows treasury agent Casy, played by Maggie Grace, as she works with Will, played by Toby Kebbell and his former Marine brother, played by Ryan Kwanten,  to survive a Category 5 hurricane and stop a  team of tech masterminds from stealing $600 million making it the biggest heist ever achieved.

The Blu-ray and DVD hit the streets. If you haven’t seen it yet, now is your chance.

The Blu-ray/DVD special features include deleted scenes, “The Eye of the Storm” featurette, “Hollywood Heist: A Conversation with Rob Cohen” featurette, VFX reel, and audio commentary with director Rob Cohen.

The Superbowl TV Spot just came out for everyone to see. The movie looks intense in this ad.

The movie trailer is intense but that is all the visuals I have right now.

“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.