Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Judge Director: David Dobkin R; 2 hr. 22 min. Trailer In “The Judge,” Robert Downey Jr. stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town’s judge (Robert Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along […]
Reel News – Week of Sept. 26: The Equalizer, The Boxtrolls, Neighbors
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Equalizer Director: Antoine Fuqua R; 2 hr. 11 mins. Trailer In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the […]
Dagger Movie Night — “A Walk Among the Tombstones”: A Film Noir That Can’t Find True Darkness
The resemblance to “Taken” seems too close for this to be considered anything else. Yet this is much, much darker undertaking with enough of a film noir feel to separate the final product from that earlier hit. Neeson excels even when the storyline succumbs to movie tropes. Did he really need a sassy black kid […]
Reel News: Week of Sept. 19 — This is Where I Leave You, The Maze Runner, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Tusk, The Fault in Our Stars
Upcoming Theatrical Releases This is Where I Leave You Director: Shawn Levy R; 103 mins. Trailer The dramatic comedy “This is Where I Leave You” is directed by Shawn Levy, and based on the hilarious and poignant best-selling novel by Jonathan Tropper. It features a starring ensemble cast including Golden Globe winner Jason Bateman (“Arrested […]
Reel News: Week of Aug. 29 — As Above So Below, Blended
Upcoming Theatrical Releases As Above/So Below Director: John Erick Dowdle R; 93 mins. Trailer Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the secret of what this city of the dead was meant […]
Reel News: Week of Aug. 15 — The Giver, The Expendables 3, Calvary, Muppets Most Wanted
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Expendables 3 Director: Patrick Hughes PG-13; 126 mins. Trailer In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to […]
Reel News: Week of Aug. 8 — Ninja Turtles, Into the Storm, The Hundred Foot Journey, Magic in the Moonlight, Divergent, Need for Speed
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Hundred-Foot Journey Director: Lasse Hallstrom PG; 118 mins. Trailer In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south […]
Reel News: Week of July 25 — Lucy, And So It Goes, Hercules, Wish I Was Here, Step Up: All In
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Hercules Director: Brett Ratner PG-13; 100 mins. Trailer Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ film HERCULES, starring Dwayne Johnson, bows on July 25th. Based on Radical Comics’ Hercules by Steve Moore, this ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth, HERCULES. The epic action film also stars Golden Globe Winner Ian […]
