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.
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.
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.
Directed by Kay Cannon, Blockers follow three parents who discover their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom. The parents launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal. Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, This Is 40), Ike Barinholtz (Neighbors, Suicide Squad) and John Cena (Trainwreck, Sisters) star in Blockers, the directorial debut of Kay Cannon. She is the writer of the Pitch Perfect series.
The poster is wacky and makes me wonder which are the kids. Parents seem more like kids, while the kids seem more like adults.
The movie is streaming and the Blu-ray and DVD are available. You might want to watch it if you haven’t seen it yet. Like I said, the movie is pretty wacky. You will need to be in the mode for such vulgar wackiness.
Here are a couple of movie clips. One is from the trailer and the other is unique and stands on its own but looks like it just got blocked. Hopefully, it will be unblocked soon. It is a good movie clip that moves the story along well.
Directed and co-written by Italian Paolo Virzì, The Leisure Seeker follows a vintage recreational vehicle as John, played by Donald Sutherland and Ella Spencer, played by Helen Mirren, take one last road trip from Boston to the Hemingway House in the Florida Keys.
The road trip movie is about John and Ella arriving at the Keys before his Alzheimer’s and her cancer can catch up with them. They base the movie on a novel, so the story is rich and thought-provoking.
Co-written and directed by Rob Greenberg, Overboard follows Leonardo, played by Eugenio Derbez. He is a selfish, spoiled, rich playboy from Mexico’s most affluent family and Kate, played by Anna Faris, a working-class single mother of three hired to clean Leonardo’s luxury yacht.
Leonardo unjustly fires Kate and refuses to pay her. He falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital and, to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work – for the first time in his life.
At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually, he earns the respect of his new family and co-workers. With Leonardo’s billionaire family hot on their trail and the possibility of his memory returning at any moment, it makes for a fun and entertaining movie.
The Blu-ray and DVD are available with streaming video happening as well. Each disc package contains special featurettes, including an audio commentary with the writer and director Rob Greenberg.
Watch the trailer promoting the Blu-ray and DVD. You might find yourself wanting to see the movie. If you have already seen the movie, you might find yourself wanting to see the film again.
Interestingly, Overboard is a cross-culture movie. With the Anglo-Saxon playing the excellent and thoughtful lower-income character and the Hispanic playing the wealthy and arrogant nature.
Watch the trailer and get a sense of the old Hollywood movies where the audience is in on the gag. This movie clip shows why Kate is putting him through the wringer.
This movie clip makes the joke seem believable. It’s beginning to look like a decent movie.
The second trailer tells us more about the film. It’s kind of cute and funny.
Directed and co-written by Gary Ross, Ocean’s 8 follows Danny Ocean’s estranged sister, Debbie, played by Sandra Bullock, who attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City’s star-studded annual Met Gala. Her first stop is to assemble the perfect crew: Lou, Rose, Daphne Kluger, Nine Ball, Tammy, Amita, and Constance. These roles are played part and parcel by Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter and Dakota Fanning in an undisclosed role.
Directed and written by Wes Anderson, Isle of Dog looks hilarious with tons of fun to watch over and over again. The trailer is fantastic and I am still laughing.
The story is so cool, which takes place in the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are happening now. The movie clip released with the disc release is witty. The drums in the background are awesome. They play a major role in the movie.
Do you recognize those voices? They are Anderson’s cohorts including Ed Norton and Bill Murray with
Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Ken Watanabe, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, Harvey Keitel, Liev Schreiber, Scarlett Johansson, and Tilda Swinton.
There is an interesting movie clip showing the stop-motion animation quality of the movie.
Here are a couple of clips that show a female dog who is a psychic. So, it’s not just male dogs in the movie. The clips apparently show part of the plot points, which is helpful in understanding the story. Currently, one of the clips are supposedly blocked, but you might be able to view them anyway.
The clip below shows how animation is done Wes Anderson’s style.
The movie clip is interesting because I am curious about the parody.
The movie clip is totally unexpected, and I find it rather funny if not satirical.
The Party is a very British movie with a stellar cast. Here is the trailer. I am intrigued that it is in black and white. I haven’t heard much about the movie yet, but here is a clip that shows how this movie seems like a staged play.
Directed by both Guy Shalem and Cathryn Michon, Cook Off! follows the reality-show shenanigans mix with the cutthroat world of competitive baking in the delectably sly mockumentary.
I am going along with the shows play on words to describe this crazy and nonsensical story as a buffet of quirky contestants prepare for the renowned Van Rookle Farms Cooking Contest. The heat is on to win a one-million-dollar prize.
As the movie follows the contestants and the wily media and celebrity judges descend on a hotel convention area to see which contestants rise, which ones fall, who will reveal their true nature, and who will find love with the contest’s costumed Muffin Man mascot.
I get the impression that we are seeing nothing but improv with the talented cast that includes Cathryn Michon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Gary Anthony Williams, Niecy Nash, Diedrich Bader, Stephen Root, and Sam Pancake. Will the movie be zesty or tasteless?
Perhaps, some viewers will relate the that crazy and give an affectionate nod to ordinary Americans who believe they’re one dollop of spray cheese away from achieving their dreams.
