Pete’s Dragon (Teaser Poster)
Over the past few years Disney has been releasing live-action versions of some of their popular animated films to varied success. Some were pretty great (Cinderella, Maleficent while other, eh, not-so-much (Alice in Wonderland). But like it or not, there’s up to 15 planned Disney live action remakes of animated films coming our way with John Favreau’s The Jungle Book hitting next in early April. One of these films I’ve been keeping a...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 2/16/16
Three real-life stories, three of the best performances of the year. Michael Fassbender, Johnny Depp and Bryan Cranston dominate this week’s new releases! Hosted by Dennis...
Star Wars: Episode VIII Production Announcement
Star Wars: Episode VIII has begun production, under the direction of Rian Johnson, and today we get the first glimpse behind-the-scenes! Don’t get too excited. It’s only a few seconds. But it’s a very key few seconds and a familiar location. About the only thing to keep in mind is that all of this footage was likely shot back in September, which means the last few seconds of The Force Awakens were also likely at that...
Ghostbusters Trailer Announcement
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters doesn’t open until June, but now we have our first … um… teaser … of the actual trailer. That’s right, a 30-second teaser to the actual trailer, which will drop March 3rd. If that’s not enough for you, Ghostbusters II predicted the world would end today. Happy Valentine’s...
A Bigger Splash (Trailer)
In A BIGGER SPLASH, rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson) and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue. A BIGGER SPLASH is a sensuous...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 2/09/16
Bond is back, and he’s bring the past with him … in more ways than one; Lily Tomlin has her best role in years as the saucy Grandma; and Michael Shannon dominates 99 Homes. Hosted by Dennis...
Jason Bourne (Super Bowl TV commercial)
It has a name, and just like Beyonce dropping a new video out of the blue, nobody expected to see Jason Bourne’s smiling mug during the Super Bowl. But BOOM! We have our first footage of the movie to reunite Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, and to try and make us forget about that really bad Jeremy Renner sidequel. Jason Bourne. That’s how badass this movie is. They’re not even trying to confuse us with a...
10 Cloverfield Lane (Super Bowl Ad)
Watch the Super Bowl Ad for 10 Cloverfield Lane, a new film from Bad Robot. 10 Cloverfield Lane is coming to theatres March 11th. Director: Dan Trachtenberg Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr. Writers: Josh Campbell & Matthew...
Batman v. Superman Turkish Airlines . Wait, what? (Trailer?)
Sigh. More weird ass marketing from DC Comics for their upcoming Batman VS Superman: The Dawn of Justice movie. First we had the truly strange “trailer” featuring Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) measuring their ding-dongs before Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) pops in to break the intense sexual tension. It just wasn’t really a trailer inasmuch a really oddly chosen scene from the movie. But, whatever. They made...
Captain America 3: Civil War (Super Bowl Trailer)
I know you’re all settling in for thirds on your buddies bacon nacho wings as the Super Bowl gets going but we here at Flick Nation are going to do you a solid by showing you the big Marvel trailer for Captain America 3: Civil War. That’s it at the top of the page. While there’s not a lot of new footage in terms of what we’ve already seen, the trailer does serve to show us who the two teams are going to be when heroes collide this May...
Cabin Fever (Trailer)
It feels like just the other day that the horror ingénue Eli Roth splattered onto the scene with his funny, gory and terrifying Cabin Fever but alas, that was over a decade ago in 2002. Since then he’s done more (bad) acting in films (Tarantino’s Death Proof and Inglorious Basterds as well as Piranha 3D) than he’s directed (Green Inferno). While he did have unintentional back-to-back films last year with the aforementioned abhorrent...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 01/26/16
Three of 2015’s most acclaimed hits are now available: from the dangerous streets of Mexico, to the hip-hop beats of N.W.A., and the Oscar-nominated crowd-pleaser about Matt Damon trying to survive on Mars. Hosted by Dennis...
10 Cloverfield Lane (First “Mystery” Trailer)
This weekend Michael Bay’s latest opus 13 Hours hits theaters and it’s about Benghazi so right-wing conspiracy theorists are frothing at the mouth to see sweaty, tan and buffed men running around with guns. Hope they bring a lot of Kleenex to the movie, it’s a wet dream come true. However some regular movie people also went to see early screenings last night and among those were journalists and regular movie geeks who almost had their...
11.22.63 (Trailer)
It’s 2016 and I’ve made many resolutions. None of them included to stop bombarding you with Stephen King “movie” news. Actually, aside from Cary Joji Fukunaga leaving the new It adaptation, the news has all been pretty solid of late. Which is great because King is one of our finest storytellers and his books give themselves over to adaptations easily. The problem is, studios and screenwriters either truncate his work to the point of...
Elvis & Nixon (Trailer)
This entire trailer presentation should end as I write: “Kevin Spacey is Nixon, Michael Shannon is Elvis” but alas, I’m still too stunned that this is real to let it go at that. Up top there is the trailer for Amazon Studios spring release Elvis & Nixon and it looks batshit crazy. Not just because of the aforementioned actors who are starring in the title roles but because…well, did you watch that trailer!?!? I actually LOL’ed 3-4...
The Hateful Eight (Review)
Aside from Star Wars: The Force Awakens the movie I was most looking forward to at the end of 2015 was Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight. Like most cinephiles, I love Tarantino and have loved every one of his films. And let us not forget this one almost didn’t happen after someone leaked the script back in 2014. Luckily QT cast aside his anger, put together a simply fantastic cast and got to work. Like many, I...
The Force Awakens passes Avatar in US
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now passed Avatar’s $760 million on the all-time domestic box office list. In just 20 days. Let’s think about that for just a second. The seventh film in the legendary series was front-loaded to do an amazing amount of business, but most realistic estimates put it on track to do $500 million by the end of the year. But The Force Awakens has maintained a stunning daily hold, with many fans seeing the...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 1/05/16
Sick of the holidays? Good, because the first releases of 2016 aren’t exactly warm and fuzzy. David Spade returns as everyone’s favorite (?) time-traveling mullet-wearing loser; M. Night Shyamalan’s latest is the surprise hit about a Visit to the grandparents gone wrong, Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno is a film for the entire family … the Manson...
The Big Short (Review)
The documentary Inside Job tried to explain the 2008 financial crisis in a responsible way, and now, with The Big Short, writer/director Adam McKay attempts to do it with humor. His film focuses on some misfits in the financial world, all of whom discover, early, just what the banks were doing to us. Michael Burry (Christian Bale) is a stock trader who doesn’t know how to handle people, but knows his way through a mortgage...
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