Next year, when the Godzilla franchise gets rebooted, people are going to look back at “Pacific Rim” as the film that blew the doors off of the giant monster genre. No matter how good Godzilla turns out to be (probably not very, but at least it won’t have a B-track Rage Against the Machine song […]
Reel News: Week of July 8 — Pacific Rim, Grown Ups 2, The Way Way Back, Admission, The Host, Spring Breakers, Temptation
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Pacific Rim Director: Guillermo del Toro PG-13; 131 mins Trailer When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: […]
Reel News: Week of July 1 — Despicable Me 2, The Lone Ranger, Unfinished Song
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Wednesday, July 3 The Lone Ranger Director: Gore Verbinski PG-13; 149 mins. Trailer From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/ Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed […]
Reel News: Week of June 24 — White House Down, The Heat, Burt Wonderstone, No
Upcoming Theatrical Releases White House Down Director: Roland Emmerich PG-13; 137 mins. Trailer While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. (Synopsis by IMBD) No, you are not experiencing […]
Dagger Movie Night: “The Purge” — The Blunt Force Trauma of Another Dumb Home Invasion Horror Movie
If you had to defend your family from a world free to murder and main, you’d think a system of defenses would be a wise investment—or at least something more than a few metal plates over the doors that can apparently easily be torn off with a length of chain and an F-150. Why not […]
Reel News: June 3 — The Internship, The Purge, The Kings of Summer, A Good Day to Die Hard
Upcoming Theatrical Releases The Internship Director: Shawn Levy PG-13; 119 mins Trailer Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment. (Synopsis by IMBD) There is always that […]
Independent Films from Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca and More Available for Streaming from Harford County Public Library
From the Harford County Public Library: Harford County Public Library is pleased to announce the launch of IndieFlix, a premier online streaming service provider of award-winning independent films, shorts and documentaries from around the world, provided through RBdigital from Recorded Books. Harford County Public Library customers now have unlimited access to thousands of film-festival hits, […]
Reel News: Week of May 27 — Now You See Me, After Earth, Dark Skies
Upcoming Theatrical Releases Now You See Me Director: Louis Leterrier PG-13; 116 mins Trailer “Now You See Me” pits an elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse against “The Four Horsemen”, a super-team of the world’s greatest illusionists. “The Four Horsemen” pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders […]
