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.
When parents Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler discover they can’t afford to send their daughter to the college she just got into, they come up with the obvious financial solution: underground casino!
The House opens on June 30th.
Continue reading Papa Needs His Daughter’s Tuition Trailer: The House!
In 1993, a high school production of a play called The Gallows failed to finish its premiere performance when the male lead was accidentally hanged on the stage gallows. Now, the same high school is about to try to perform the play again.
Recipe for disaster? Damn skippy!
Continue reading The Gallows – Paint-By-Numbers Horror Non-Thriller!
Warner Bros. disaster flick, San Andreas, has a very scary new trailer. Even star Dwayne Johnson – as a rescue helicopter pilot named Ray – looks tiny in comparison to The Big One.
See for yourself after the jump. San Andreas opens on May 29th.
What if a massive earthquake happened along the San Andreas Fault?
That’s the premise of the epic Dwayne Johnson disaster flick San Andreas, which finds Ray (Johnson) and his estranged wife, Emma (Carla Gugino), trying to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco to find their daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario).
San Andreas opens on May 29, 2015. Check out the first trailer for San Andreas after the jump.