Film Preview: September 5 (2024)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2007
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2007 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our fifth pass, we take a look at the new…
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Film Preview: The UnderDoggs (2024)
Page Revisions: (January 1, 2024) Original Release Date: January 26, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Plot under wraps.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C+) It probably tells you all you want to know about Snoop Dogg’s movie, but it all feels incredibly familiar. Trailer Rating: B- SEE ALL TRAILERS BELOW Review: Some…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jan. 5-7, 2024
Wonka seems to be on a roll and I don’t see Night Swim being able to topple it even as the only new release. OTHER RELEASES We are only looking at films that have had trailers released on Rotten Tomatoes’ trailer YouTube Channels. Below are some other films that are releasing this weekend that we…
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jan. 5-7, 2024)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jan. 5-7, 2024)
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Film Preview: Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)
Page Revisions: (January 1, 2024) Original (March 31, 2024) New Release Date (changed from 1.26.2024) Release Date: April 5, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A queer woman is forced to raise her partner’s daughter who herself doesn’t want to be a mother.” Poster Rating: B- / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, B-) This is…
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Home Viewing with Peter #861
At the end of a year or the beginning of the next one is a time to look back over the previous year’s crop of releases. Traditionally for me, that means two things. The first is looking over the past year’s home video releases which have dwindled to a precious few and have been covered…
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Film Preview: Miller’s Girl (2024)
Page Revisions: (January 1, 2024) Original Release Date: January 26, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A creative writing assignment yields complex results between a teacher and his talented student.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C) While it gets a somewhat pointed look from Jenna Ortega a starkness that speaks of “don’t stand…
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Weekend Preview: Jan. 5-7, 2024
Below are four previews for films opening next weekend. Night Swim (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Bricklayer (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview He Went That Way (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Mayhem! (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview
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Film Preview: Mayhem! (2024)
Page Revisions: (January 1, 2024) Original Release Date: January 5, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A model prisoner’s leave ends in tragedy when his past resurfaces, forcing him to flee. He starts over in Thailand, until a local criminal coerces him back into crime. After this man attacks his family, he vows revenge.” Poster Rating: C…
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Film Preview: The Kitchen (2024)
Page Revisions: (December 24, 2023) Original Release Date: January 19, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home.” Poster Rating: C+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Film Preview: Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part One (2024)
Page Revisions: (December 24, 2023) Original Release Date: January 9, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The Anti-Monitor (the Monitor’s evil counterpart) is released in the DC Multiverse and begins to destroy the different Earths that compose it. The Monitor attempts to recruit heroes from across the Multiverse, but is murdered.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Film Preview: The Bricklayer (2024)
Page Revisions: (December 24, 2023) Original (January 1, 2024) New Poster (#1) Release Date: January 5, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An ex-FBI agent is reactivated when an extortionist targets the agency.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C+) The brick motif is to be expected, but the black-white-and-red color scheme is dull.…
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Film Preview: Under the Fig Trees (2023)
Page Revisions: (December 24, 2023) Original Release Date: October 20, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.” Poster Rating: C- (2) SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1-#2, C-) While the positioning…
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Film Preview: Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024)
Page Revisions: (December 24, 2023) Original Release Date: January 5, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Inspired by true events that occurred during the fierce rivalry between Germany (Audi) and Italy (Lancia) at the 1983 Rally World Championships.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one…
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