The Magnificent Seven (Trailer)
Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight...
Independence Day: Resurgence (Trailer)
Twenty years after the events of the first film, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth’s early warning system and the main defense force using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces, with some military forces assembled on the Moon. However, the aliens were able to send a distress signal to their other...
Rogue One (Teaser Trailer)
Aw, yeah! Behold the first teaser for the next Star Wars movie – and the first “anthology” chapter to not have an episode number. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story takes place in roughly the same era as Star Wars Rebels, but closer to Episode IV: A New Hope. Remember when Darth Vader referred to the stolen Death Star plans and casually said, “There will be no one to stop us this time.” He was probably...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 3/29/16
Quentin Tarantino’s 3-hour western shoots blanks, Leonardo DiCaprio guns for Tom Hardy, and Jennifer Lawrence’s Mockingjay sequel kills the YA...
Classic Movie Trailer: Porky’s (1982)
Flick Nation Presents … a selection of curated classic movie trailers. And when we say “classic,” that doesn’t mean the movie was necessarily good, but has endured the test of time. Sure, maybe it’s one of the greatest flicks ever … or maybe it’s a movie that’s so awesome that it should have endured. Either way, consider the next two minutes of your life as homework for your streaming...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 3/22/16
Two Oscar-nominated films take place at the same time in New York, two SNL vets star in their funniest movie together, and too many people were bamboozled by the housing crisis – the real event and the movie version....
Green Room (Trailer)
Back in 2013 a movie called Blue Ruin rocked the cinematic world with its slow burn revenge thriller stylings. Seriously, if you haven’t seen the film, seek it out. It’s on Netflix Instant right now and is well worth watching. At that time the films writer/director Jeremy Saulnier was a relative unknown having only written and directed 2003’s Murder Party which was pretty good but a bit uneven. Blue Ruin is damned near a masterpiece....
Everybody Wants Some (Red-Band Trailer)
Back in December we showed you the trailer for Richard Linklater’s new film Everybody Wants Some and it was….eh, it was o.k. The “spiritual companion film” to Dazed and Confused moves the action up a decade to the 1980’s and although as I said back then, Linklater really doesn’t make “bad” films often, that trailer left a little something to be desired. Such as a plot, a sense of characters and an overall angle as to what it was...
Zootopia (Review)
About two months ago, an extended scene for Disney’s latest animated film Zootopia hit theaters as a sort-of trailer. I’m talking about the scene where a bunny police officer and a fox go to the DMV in “Zootopia” (A human-like world inhabited by animals all living together in relative harmony) to run a license plate and discover the entire organization is run by sloths. While, yes, that in and of itself is kind of clever, the way the...
J.K. Simmons Is the New Commissioner Gordon
As the world prepares for just exactly what Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of Justice is going to be like, the DC Comics movie universe is still plugging along with director Zack Snyder at the helm. The Hollywood Reporter broke news this week that the upcoming Justice League (Ie; DC Comics The Avengers) films will feature surly grouch J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon. Honestly, that’s pretty solid casting even if he already played J....
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 3/08/16
Grease Live and The Peanuts Movie do their originals proud, and for some reason, two of the worst films of the 80s get upgraded to HD. At least one of them has a great soundtrack. Hosted by Dennis...
Cinequest: A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff
Cinequest Film Festival, March 1-13, 2016 will unite 700 world leading artists and innovators with audiences (expected to top 100,000) in the Silicon Valley to experience the fusion of creativity and innovation—and to celebrate and re-imagine storytelling via film and new technologies. (Voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers.) Sometimes filmmaking is murder…literally. Mitchell Altieri (The Hamiltons,...
The Force Awakens announces home media dates
After weeks of rumors, Lucasfilm has officially announced the release dates of the home media versions of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, now with a shiny new video! The Digital HD will drop April 1st, and you can get your hands on a physical disc April 5th. Personally, we think they should have gone for the last big box office push to get the domestic take over a billion dollars by dropping the Rogue One trailer at the top. But it...
Cinequest: Maverick Spirit – Rita Moreno with World Premiere screening of Remember Me
Cinequest Film Festival, March 1-13, 2016 will unite 700 world leading artists and innovators with audiences (expected to top 100,000) in the Silicon Valley to experience the fusion of creativity and innovation—and to celebrate and re-imagine storytelling via film and new technologies. (Voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers.) SATURDAY, MARCH 5 @ 7:00 PM CALIFORNIA THEATER, SAN JOSE A...
Cinequest: My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse)
Cinequest Film Festival, March 1-13, 2016 will unite 700 world leading artists and innovators with audiences (expected to top 100,000) in the Silicon Valley to experience the fusion of creativity and innovation—and to celebrate and re-imagine storytelling via film and new technologies. (Voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers.) THURSDAY, MARCH 3 @ 7:30 PM CALIFORNIA THEATER, SAN JOSE Winner of...
Cinequest: The Wave
Cinequest Film Festival, March 1-13, 2016 will unite 700 world leading artists and innovators with audiences (expected to top 100,000) in the Silicon Valley to experience the fusion of creativity and innovation—and to celebrate and re-imagine storytelling via film and new technologies. (Voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 @ 7:30 PM CALIFORNIA THEATER, SAN JOSE THE WAVE is an epic...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 3/01/16
Brie Larson stars with Jacob Tremblay and scored her first Oscar in the thrilling drama Room; and Alicia Vikander appears in two winners: The Danish Girl, for which she won Best Supporting Actress and the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. Hosted by Dennis...
Cinequest: Eye in the Sky – Opening Night Film
Cinequest Film Festival, March 1-13, 2016 will unite 700 world leading artists and innovators with audiences (expected to top 100,000) in the Silicon Valley to experience the fusion of creativity and innovation—and to celebrate and re-imagine storytelling via film and new technologies. (Voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers.) Opening Cinequest with a bang! Award-winning director Gavin Hood will present his...
Pete’s Dragon (Teaser Trailer)
Last week we dropped the poster for Disney’s live action remake (reboot?) of the 1977 classic Pete’s Dragon. No sooner had the poster hit the Internets then the trailer flew onto our screens I won’t go into the details of how I know the Pete’s Dragon writer/director David Lowery a little bit, that info and my angle on it is in the post about the poster. So, let’s talk about the trailer. First off, I love it. I’m not just saying that...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 2/23/16
Rocky returns in the box office smash Creed, Pixar gets a box office mulligan with The Good Dinosaur, and Brad Bird’s classic animated tale The Iron Giant gets a spiffy HD release. Hosted by Dennis...
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