If you loved IT, you’ll probably love IT Chapter 2.
It’s smart, creepy, scary and poignant – with enough of Stephen King’s characteristic dark humor to provide adequate balance to the scares.
Continue reading IT Chapter 2 – Long & Involved and Scary as Hell!
A 14-year old boy becomes an adult superhero in Shazam!. It’s every comics fan’s dream come true!
Based on DC Comics’ character, Shazam! is a free-wheeling, fun-filled epic about a kid who wants to find his mother but finds a family instead.
Somewhere C.C. Beck is giggling joyfully over what he’s seeing in the trailers adapting his Golden Age character.
The new trailer for SHAZAM! confirms that they have, indeed, gotten it right.
SHAZAM! opens on April 5th.
The new trailer for SHAZAM! finds Shazam looking to be ‘some of your finest beer) and looking to buy a lair.
This superhero is not so serious. Check out the trailer below.
SHAZAM! will be in theaters on April 5th.
If you were worried that Warners/New Line wouldn’t get the SHAZAM! movie right, they did.
Asher Angel (Billy Batson) and Zachary Levi (Shazam!) combine to present a superhero who feels just right – a kid in a superhero’s body.
SHAZAM! bolts into theaters on April 5, 2019.
Continue reading Comic-Con 2018: They Got It Right Trailer: SHAZAM!
For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade—risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down with the battle cry: “You’re It!”
This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming… and he’s ready. Based on a true story, the New Line Cinema comedy Tag shows how far some guys will go to be the last man standing.
Tag will be in theaters on June 15th.
A movie called Game Night ought to be a laugh riot, right?
Then why does it end up being such a farce of a farce?
Continue reading Game Night – Too Many Games, Not Enough Fun!
The seemingly bucolic town of Derry looks like a place you could settle down – if only it weren’t its high statistics for people going missing (with adults it’s 6% higher than the average; with kids it’s ‘much higher’).
When kids start to go missing, for the rest of the town that means missing posters on telephone posts and in shop windows – for Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher), it’s barely noticeable until his younger brother, Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott) goes disappears while floating a waxed paper boat in the gutter.
Full disclosure: I have not seen any of the films from The Conjuring universe and it doesn’t matter, because Annabelle: Creation is, in terms of the series’ mythology, is the origin story that kicks off the events of all the others.
That said, Annabelle takes some stock ideas, dresses them up with carefully modulated pacing, light and sound – and a very game cast – and kicks out the jams!
‘When you’re alone as a kid, the monsters see you as weaker. You don’t even know they’re getting closer.’
The first trailer for New Line Cinema’s IT – based on the Stephen King bestseller – builds an atmosphere of grim foreboding.
IT will premiere on September 8th.
The first trailer for Stephen King’s IT has arrived and it’s really, really creepy (yay scary clowns!).
The story of four boys who have to take on Pennywise – a clown who has been killing centuries – is pretty compelling stuff (to be watched between one’s fingers – preferably during the daylight hours.
Directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama), It opens on September 8th.
