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A doll as creepy as the one featured on this poster for John R. Leonetti's Annabelle is best not brought into your home, - just a recommendation ... |
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A doll as creepy as the one featured on this poster for John R. Leonetti's Annabelle is best not brought into your home, - just a recommendation ... |
Praise as well as its subject Weiwei taking a picture of us fill this poster for Alison Klayman's Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry |
One of the fashionably psychedelic posters for Ben Wheatley's A Field in England, which prominently features Martin Scorsese's head-scratching endorsement of the film |
Something seems creepily amiss on this poster for Nick Murphy's The Awakening |
The handsomely designed, almost popcorn-smelling poster for Peyton Reed's Ant-Man |
Hank Pym is an alienated business pioneer in the field of minimizing the human being for military purposes. He now wants to protect his company by making an ant-man out of an unsuccessful petty criminal.
Michael Douglas (The China Syndrome (1979)) makes an impressive comeback in this his highest-grossing pic to date, and he works well as the person that the film's protagonist ant-man Paul Rudd (The Simpsons (2011-14)) plays up against. Rudd's three friends in the film, played by Michael Peña (Cesar Chavez (2014)), T.I. (Get Hard (2015)) and David Dastmalchian (Chronic (2015)), add to the fresh sense of fun that this self-ironic movie benefits from, - Peña especially.
Ant-Man is truly a spectacular special effects film, and so watching it without the 3D element some of the point of the film evaporates, and especially in that case, some adult audiences might have to really force themselves to stick with its naturally loony plot. It is phallocentric but done with an infectious energy and a lightness to it. The film also boasts a tremendous climax. It is written by Joe Cornish (The Adventures of Tintin (2011)), Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz (2007)), Rudd and Adam McKay (The Other Guys (2010)) and directed by Peyton Reed (Yes Man (2008)).
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Impending danger is palpable on this poster for Michael Bay's 13 Hours |
The original Danish poster for Mads Matthiesen's Teddy Bear has a lovely photo from a beach in Thailand |
Antonio Banderas seems to be looking up in wonder at a mysterious, giant, floating number on this poster for Patricia Riggen's The 33 |
A greedy mine boss sends a new group of workers down into a mine, which is showing signs of imminent collapse. Soon after a part of the mine collapses, and the 33 men find themselves buried alive in a hollow space about a kilometer below the surface ...
Regrettably, no good film has been dug out of the incredible true story of the 2010 Chilean mining disaster. The 33 is deeply uninspired, flat and boring, seemingly dragging itself towards its ending, which for most of its audiences is already known. Apparently the bet of the filmmakers here has been that it would somehow become compelling storytelling, if enough stars got sprinkled on it, - but great actors employed here can't change the film's deficiency. Furthermore, the only star that really stands out is Gabriel Byrne (No Pay, Nudity (2016)), but for the wrong reason: He seems to start out here with a Spanish accent, which then turns back to his natural Irish English accent shortly after.
The 33 is written by Mikko Alanne (5 Days of War (2011)), Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club (2013)) and Michael Thomas (Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)) with Jose Rivera (Letters to Juliet (2010)) contributing story elements, based on Héctor Tobar's (The Tattooed Soldier (1998)) Deep Down Dark (2014) nonfiction novel, and directed by Patricia Riggen (Miracles from Heaven (2016)). It is a poorly handled, conventional film spun over an incredible story.
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This striking poster for Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge highlights how one man went against the destructive chaos of war |
Four game stars pose for Rawson Marshall Thurber's We're the Millers |
When a pot dealer loses his drugs and his money, he is tasked with smuggling in dope from Mexico by his douche-bag boss to make up for it. To do so successfully, he enlists three other destitute people and heads south with them as the 'Miller family'.
We're the Millers, written by Bob Fisher, Steve Faber (Wedding Crashers (2005), both), John Morris and Sean Anders (Dumb and Dumber To (2014), both), is the second film by great San Franciscan director Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball (2004)). It is a surprisingly hilarious, well-paced road movie comedy.
We're the Millers is a real performers' movie: Lluis Guzmán (Rise of the Damned (2011)) has a funny cameo; Ed Helms (The Hangover Part III (2013)) is funny as super-douche bag Brad Gurdlinger; Kathryn Hahn (Wanderlust (2012)) and Nick Offerman (A Walk in the Woods (2015)) in particular are a riot as a camping enthusiast couple who the 'Millers' meet.
Will Poulter (The Revenant (2015)) enjoys a minor breakthrough being very funny as innocent 'son' Kenny. Jason Sudeikis (Drinking Buddies (2013)) has the part that would have gone to Chevy Chase if the film had been made in the 1980s, I assume, and he does okay, - although he is no Chase. Jennifer Aniston (The Switch (2010)), lastly, is in her ace as a comedienne (and still wildly enticing woman) here, and it is only adding to the all-around amusement that it's clear that everyone is having a ball doing the film.
We're the Millers breaks a few taboos in a funny way, and although it probably has a plot point too many, it is mostly unimportant, since the film hits its tone so well and is as funny as it is.
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