Tag Archives: Summit Entertainment

Movie Trailers

The Hitman Needs a Bodyguard? Trailer: The Hitman’s Bodyguard!

The Hitman’s Bodyguard centers on a top protection agent (Ryan Reynolds) who is tasked with guarding his mortal enemy and a most notorious hitman (Samuel L. Jackson). The two, who have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years, are thrown together for a wildly outrageous 24 hours. They encounter high-speed car chases, outlandish boat escapades and a merciless Eastern European dictator who is out for blood.

All set to the music of Whitney Houston…

The Hitman’s bodyguard will be in theaters on August 18th.

Continue reading The Hitman Needs a Bodyguard? Trailer: The Hitman’s Bodyguard! →

Movie Reviews

John Wick Chapter 2 – Now This Is How You Make an Action Movie!

John Wick Chapter 2 — John Wick (Keanu Reeves) Photo by Niko Tavernise/Summit Entertainment/eOne

The first John Wick film was one of the rare action flicks to actually warrant the title film. It was mad crazy in terms of action and remarkably thorough at sketching out the world in which the characters lived and worked.

John Wick Chapter 2 expands that world in fun, messy ways and is even more propulsive than the first. I would say that it’s the rare sequel that is even better (if only marginally) than the original – it deepens every aspect of its world and character.

Continue reading John Wick Chapter 2 – Now This Is How You Make an Action Movie! →

Movie Reviews

La La Land Rejuvenates Movie Musicals!

La La Land – Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Photo courtesy of Summit Entertainment/eOne

La La Land is a strange beast – influenced equally by Hollywood musicals like Singing in the Rain (to which there is a fun reference) and Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – that is something more than mere colorful fun.

Damien Chazelle’s second film is the story of two struggling artists – jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and wannabe actor Mia (Emma Stone) – who don’t exactly meet cute, then do before going on to have a very real relationship (cleverly camouflaged as piece of fluff musical).

Continue reading La La Land Rejuvenates Movie Musicals! →

Movie Reviews

Mechanic: Resurrection – Fun Action Flick Proves You Don’t Need a $200 Million Mission: Impossible Budget!

D4D_2041.NEF
Mechanic: Resurrection – Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham). )Photo by Daniel Smith/Courtesy of Summit Entertainment)

Mission: Resurrection stars Jason Statham, returning as Arthur Bishop, an assassin whose specialty was making his kills look like an accident. At the end of Mechanic, he had faked his own death so that he could retire in peace.

Unfortunately, a man from his past has found him and wants him to kill three people – making the kills look like accidents, of course – or a woman he knows, and the Cambodian children she cares for, will be sold into slavery.

Continue reading Mechanic: Resurrection – Fun Action Flick Proves You Don’t Need a $200 Million Mission: Impossible Budget! →

Movie Trailers

Emma Stone Sings Trailer: La La Land

LLL d 41-42_6689.NEF
La La Land – Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone (Photo: Summit Entertainment/eOne)

We’ve heard Ryan Gosling sing in the first teaser for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land so it’s only fair that co-star Emma Stone should be given the opportunity to reply.

The second teaser for the film just makes sense – and adds a little more insight into what the film will be (a Hollywood musical, but not quite). Check it out after the break.

Damien Chazelle’s La La Land will be in theaters on December 16th.

Continue reading Emma Stone Sings Trailer: La La Land →

Movie Trailers

Opposite Day Trailer: La La Land!

landscape-lala

When Damien Chazelle was asked how he planned to follow up his brilliant debut feature, whiplash, he said he’d like to do a musical.

He wasn’t lying.

Check out the trailer Chazelle’s second feature, La La Land, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, after the break. It’s incredibly charming. La La Land opens on December 16th.

Continue reading Opposite Day Trailer: La La Land! →

Movie Reviews

The Divergent Series: Allegiant – Running In Place; Jumping Up and Down; Standing Still!

Allegiant - Hitching a red desert ride

I enjoyed the first two movies in the Divergent series – enough to give them both a B grade. The characters were riffs on ones we’d seen before, but Shailene Woodley and Theo James brought substantially more to them than the scripts might have indicated.

Now comes Allegiant – third in the series and part one of the two-part elongation of the third book in the YA trilogy. Although it introduces a new villain – and suggests that, like in The Hunger Games: Mockingbird Part 2, a once apparently decent character gives in to the temptation of power – the whole thing feels like it never really goes anywhere.

Continue reading The Divergent Series: Allegiant – Running In Place; Jumping Up and Down; Standing Still! →

Movie Trailers

Beneath the Surface Trailer: Now You See Me 2!

NYCSMe2

The Four Horsemen are back!

As you may recall, I loved the first movie and the second one seems to be suggesting that the imprisoned Thaddeus Bradley might be avenging his jailing at the hands of the four magicians, which makes me very curious (if maybe a bit less enthusiastic).

The international trailer is a zippy, flashy thing that captures the spirit and momentum of the original movie, but I have to say that I wish Isla Fisher had agreed to be in it (I love Lizzy Caplan, so I’m open to the possibilities).

Even with that one major change, though, Now You See Me 2 looks like a lot of fun. Check out the trailer after the break. Now You See Me 2 opens on June 10th.

Continue reading Beneath the Surface Trailer: Now You See Me 2! →

Movie Trailers

Heights Clip: The Divergent Series: Allegiant!

Allegiant - Run, Tris, Run

Tris and Four have to really work hard to get a few moments of privacy in The Divergent Series: Allegiant – the third of four movies in the series.

Check out a new clip following the jump. The Divergent Series: Allegiant opens on March 18th.

Continue reading Heights Clip: The Divergent Series: Allegiant! →