Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Best Man Holiday Director: Malcolm D. Lee R; 123 mins. Trailer After nearly 15 years apart, Taye Diggs (television’s Private Practice), Nia Long (Soul Food), Morris Chestnut (Kick-Ass 2), Harold Perrineau (Zero Dark Thirty), Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow), Sanaa Lathan (Contagion), Monica Calhoun (Love & Basketball), Melissa De Sousa (Miss […]
Reel News: Week of Nov. 4 — Thor: The Dark World, Grown Ups 2, White House Down
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Thor: The Dark World Director: Alan Taylor PG-13; 112 mins. Trailer Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s “Thor” and […]
Dagger Movie Night: “Ender’s Game” — There’s No Crying in Battle School!
It is never entirely fair to compare a movie to the book it is based on. They are two different media that operate in different spheres of perception–one visual, and the other contemplative. Yet “Ender’s Game” is such a well-loved piece of science fiction that it is hard to justify all the changes that were […]
Reel News: Week of Oct. 28 — Ender’s Game, Last Vegas, About Time, Free Birds, Man of Tai Chi, Byzantium, Monsters University
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Ender’s Game Director: Gavin Hood PG-13; 114 mins. Trailer In the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel […]
Dagger Movie Night: Bad Grandpa — “This Shouldn’t Work as Well as it Does”
Paramount is gambling that this latest installment of the Jackass franchise will outperform their Halloween staple “Paranormal Activity” this year. While it might seem an odd choice, the rumors about the “Bad Grandpa” spinoff have been circulating since the last “Jackass” film was released three years ago. You would think with all that time off, […]
Reel News: Week of Oct. 21 — 12 Years a Slave, The Counselor, Jackass: Bad Grandpa, The Conjuring, The Internship, Before Midnight
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Counselor Director: Ridley Scott R; 113 mins. Trailer Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) have joined forces in the motion picture thriller THE COUNSELOR, starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt. McCarthy, making his screenwriting debut […]
Reel News: Week of Oct. 14 — Escape Plan, Carrie, The Fifth Estate, The Heat, Pacific Rim
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Escape Plan Director: Mikael Håfstrom R; 116 mins. Trailer One of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to […]
Reel News: Week of Oct. 7 — Captain Phillips, Romeo & Juliet, Machete Kills, Wadjda, After Earth, The Purge, The Hangover III
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Captain Phillips Director: Paul Greengrass PG-13; 130 mins Trailer Captain Phillips is director Paul Greengrass’s multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is – through Greengrass’s distinctive lens – simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the […]
