Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick storyline is hush-hush, right now. But, watch the trailer, and you’ll get a gest of what is happening. All I can say is it looks like the same formula as the first Top Gun. We are fortunate to have Cruise introduce the first trailer to us at San Diego ComicCon.
Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
The movie trailer says it all. The movie formula fits the original movie storyline.
The featurette takes you to another realm. Fantastic footage captured for IMAX theaters.
The Superbowl ad narration tells us there is a conflict going on between Maverick and Goose’s son. Ad narration tells us there is a conflict going on between Maverick and Goose’s son. The cuts and shots of the top guns are incredible.
Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers comes from an article published in the New York Magazine entitled “The Hustlers at Scores” written by Jessica Pressler.
Scafaria is also an actress and writes more than she directs. She won a screenplay award for scripting The Meddler.
The poster shows the actresses and their characters.
If you read Scafaria’s article, you get a good idea of the story. The magazine published the article in 2015. It tells the story of a handful of strippers who went after some wealthy men as a revenge tactic but truthfully just wanted their money.
The movie clip shows pole dancing moves anyone girl can do.
The second trailer is short and doesn’t say more about the movie compared to the first trailer.
Three more clips show us how the story plays out. Some heartfelt moments to completely screw these shysters and take all their money.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn, The King’s Man unfolds a story with a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds. They gather, plotting a war to wipe out millions. Then, one man must race against time to stop them.
The movie is about the discovery of the origins of the very first independent intelligence agency.
A stellar cast, but they are not all shown in the poster.
Vaughn contributed to the screenplay with five other writers. Vaughn directed the first two Kingsman movies.
The movie has an impressive cast, including Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, and Harris Dickinson.
The second trailer is not as riveting as I’d like it. The story happens during the first World War, and the music sounds contemporary and harsh. Matthew Goode also stars in the movie, but there are no images of him in the trailer or poster. But, it explains why he had such a small part in Downton Abbey.
The next trailer shows a funny, wild, and crazy movie that is pure entertainment.
Written and directed by Alex Ranarivelo, Bennett’s War follows Marshall Bennett, played by Michael Roark. He is a young soldier with the Army Motorcycle Unit who survives an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in combat overseas and medically discharged with a broken back and leg. He dispatched back to the U.S.
He arrives and finds out his dad, Cal Bennett, played by Trace Adkins, is behind on the family farm’s mortgage. The family may lose the farm.
Despite his physical condition, Marshall pledges to help his family as a motocross racer. Allison Paige plays Sophie Bennett, Marshall’s concerned wife, and Ali Afshar plays Cyrus, Marshall’s mentor. Trace Adkins is predominately known for being CMA Award-winning music singer, and he starred in Deepwater Horizon with Mark Walhberg.
The “Race” clip is awesome to watch because you get to see some honest dirt bike racing.
The next clip, “I Think I’ll Race” is worth watching because the scene between these two actors is tight and paced well.
Co-written and directed by Bart Freundlich, After the Wedding follows the manager, Isabel, played by Michelle Wiliams, of an orphanage in Kolkata, who travels to New York to meet a benefactor, Theresa, played by Julianne Moore. Freundlich co-wrote the screenplay with Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen.
Freundlich and Moore are a real-life married couple with two children. They are working together on this film about a marriage that is about to implode.
Watching the trailer, Theresa’s husband has a past with Isabel, and it didn’t end on friendly terms. There is a young boy from the orphanage who is somehow involved in this triangle.
The next clip is intense, and the acting is superb with ingenious casting.
I am not quite sure where this movie is going. Watching the movie clips, we can see that Theresa and her husband appear to be happy together with their daughter getting married.
Something happened in the past between her husband and Isabel.
Directed by Roland Emmerich, Midway focuses on the historic Battle of Midway as a critical part of the Pacific Theater during World War II. The movie shows the clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy, which marked a pivotal turning point during WWII. The film is streaming on Amazon.
Wes Tooke wrote the story based on the real-life events of heroic feats. The leaders and soldiers used their wits, instincts, courage, and bravery to overcome the odds and defeat the Japanese.
The movie’s huge cast is stellar.
Some of the top brass in the movie are Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky, played by Luke Evans, Edwin Layton, played by Patrick Wilson, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, played by Dennis Quad, and Admiral Chester Nimitz, played by Woody Harrelson. The rest of the cast includes Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Etsushi Toyokawa, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Kleintank, Jun Kunimura, Darren Criss, Keean Johnson, Alexander Ludwig, and Mandy Moore.
Emmerich directing credits are rich with grandiose movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. Tooke writing credits include episodic TV shows like Colony and Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
The next trailer tells more about the story. Historically, the story is impressive. Doolittle and his crew perform an unbelievable mission.
The cast brings a whole new dimension to the story.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejoin, The Current War follows three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future hold on electricity. The epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world told in hush tones is now a motion picture.
Tom Holland as Samuel Insull and Benedict Cumberbatch as Edison
Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse, played by Michael Shannon, who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla, played by Nicholas Hoult, have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America using AC current.
The poster is like the first one, but this poster says “Director’s Cut,” and that is fascinating. The movie has not been released, and there is a new version of the movie.
As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules.
Michael Shannon as Westinghouse
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is best known for directing Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Michael Mitnick wrote the screenplay and is also one of the producers of the movie. Mitnick adapted The Giver and scripted the episodic Vinyl.
The movie also stars Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton.
The next group of movie clips tells the tale of the war between Westinghouse and Edison. From the looks of it, Edison was a greedy man who only wanted fame and money.
Directed by Melina Matsoukas and written by Lena Waithe, Queen & Slim follows a young couple on their first date in Ohio. A black man, played by Daniel Kaluuya and a black woman, played by Jodie Turner-Smith meet on a first date.
They are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, and the man kills the cop in self-defense, living a sudden and tragic end.
Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly becomes a symbol of trauma, terror, grief, and pain for people across the country.
As they drive, these two unlikely fugitives will discover themselves and each other in the dire and desperate of circumstances and will forge a deep and powerful love that will reveal their shared humanity and shape the rest of their lives.
It’s riveting to see their transformation from the first date to criminals on the lamb.
The movie is about something that could happen as a serious and unfortunate incident. The trailers show how something so ordinary, but endearing, can go wrong in a world of racism and idiocy.
It’s a sad movie because these two loving souls are in big trouble.
The featurette introduces us to the director and screenwriter of the movie. They tell us their vision and their hope to inform and inspire us about the Black culture.
Here are two movie clips that define the story. The chemistry between these two actors is dynamite.
The early reviews of the movie are positive, and the clip backs them up. You can feel the undertones between the uncle and her.
The next two featurettes fit into the promotion of the film because they talk about the screenwriter, director, and set photographer.
The documentary is directed by Max Lewkowicz and he brings together some extraordinary talent to discuss the message of the musical Fiddler on the Roof. The story, though original, is universal and so timely.
It is one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals and its creative roots in early 1960s New York tells a story of when “tradition” was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations, and religion were evolving into what we have today.
The musical is popular around the world with community and academic theaters. The message that “tradition is changing and we can’t fight it but embrace it” is powerful.
Written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo and winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Brittany Runs a Marathon follows an unusually poignant portrait of a young woman, played by Jillian Bell, uncovering her long-buried potential.
Brittany Forgler is everybody’s best friend ― except maybe her own. At 27, her hard-partying ways, chronic underemployment, and toxic relationships are catching up with her, but when she stops by a new doctor’s office to try to score some Adderall, she gets slapped with a prescription she never wanted: Get healthy. Too broke for a gym and too proud to ask for help, Brit is at a loss, until her seemingly together neighbor Catherine pushes her to lace up her Converse sneakers and run one sweaty block. The next day, she runs two. And soon, after finishing her first mile, she sets an almost unthinkable goal: running in the New York City Marathon.
The movie is the winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.
The rest of the cast includes Michaela Watkins, Micah Stock, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Alice Lee, and Lil Rel Howery.
This movie could be the next sleeper hit.
Colaizzo won the Helen Hayes award for his playwrighting talent, and now, he is making his screenwriting and directorial debut with a slice of life movie. Brittany Runs a Marathon reminds me of Richard Curtis or Cameron Crowe storytelling.
The three movie clips show Brittany’s attitude before she starts changing her life around and getting in shape. The first clip is obscure, and its purpose of the scene is unconvincing.
The last clip is in the trailer but shows how Brittany managed to get by in life by lying. The doctor is smart and sits her on a path of redemption and a healthier lifestyle.
