Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/22/15
Award season is kicking up. Here are three of the year’s best films, now available to rent or stream. Hosted by Dennis...
The Good Dinosaur (International Trailer)
In America, Pixar has been slowly teasing out trailers for their next film The Good Dinosaur which opens on Thanksgiving of this year. All we’ve really seen of the film thus far is some cool looking animation, giant, looming dinosaurs and a nifty logo. Well, today Pixar released a new trailer Internationally which shows the dinosaurs speaking and even gives us a look at a little caveman who apparently joins a lost dinosaur to make...
Pawn Sacrifice (Review)
Director Edward Zwick is pretty much an invention of the movie business. Ever since the inception of the Oscars, studios have divided their investments between movies that will hopefully make money, and movies that will hopefully make them look good. Oftentimes a genuinely great filmmaker will make a genuinely great film that actually gets noticed, but just in case, directors like Zwick are needed. Whereas a genuinely great director...
Bryan Singer Goes 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
When X-Men franchise director Bryan Singer recently said he was pretty much done with the mutants many wondered what he might do next. Here was a guy who burst on the scene with The Usual Suspects and then did some Nazi type stuff…errr….Nazi type FILMS like The Apt Pupil and Valkyrie, both of which, while quite good, were fairly overlooked. His Jack the Giant Slayer was also overlooked which made many people wonder if he could do...
Time Out of Mind (Review)
People don’t generally go to see movies about homeless people, but Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind is something different and deserves to be seen. Director Moverman, recovering from a slight stumble with Rampart and returning to the glories of The Messenger, directs Time Out of Mind in an unconventional, appealingly immersive way. We’re introduced to our main character, George (Richard Gere) in a series of...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Citizens — To honor the strong bond and compassion between two of the most courageous sisters we know – Katniss and Primrose Everdeen – we present a brand new poster and moving tribute of Katniss’ sacrifices for her sister throughout THE HUNGER GAMES series. Raise your 3-Finger Salute and experience some of the powerful moments these two sisters have endured throughout their fight against the Capitol in the NEW Trailer For Prim....
The Jungle Book (Trailer)
From the company that brought you Pirates of the Caribbean (aka, Disney) comes the first look at the latest entry of live-action Disney cartoons, The Jungle Book and I gotta say, it looks pretty awesome. While I’ll probably never be completely sold on CGI the animals on display here (save Kaa, the snake) look pretty amazing. I also love the sprawling, epic, action packed angle the film is taking then they tie it all back in at the...
Creed (Trailer 2)
The second trailer for the Rocky spin-off Creed has dropped, and it reveals more of the plot – namely the fates of certain characters, and the fact that the movie will simultaneously honor the Rocky canon while being it’s own creation. We can’t wait! OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema comes award-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s “Creed.” The film explores a...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/15/15
Disney’s Cinderella remake is enchanting, Furious 7 races into stores, and Avengers bring the clutter in Age of Ultron. Hosted by Dennis...
The Visit (Review)
M. Night Shyamalan is the filmmaker that fans love to hate. He stumbled out of the gate in the 1990s with a couple of comedy-dramas (the latter starring Rosie O’Donnell) and then struck gold with his third film, The Sixth Sense (1999), a legendary hit and a multiple Oscar-nominee. Since then, he has tried to re-create that film’s unique vibe, a languid, creepy mystery-horror, and always with a surprise twist. Following it...
I Smile Back (Trailer)
I’m a big fan of the people who made I Smile Back which made its debut at this years Sundance Film Festival. Sarah Silverman is a brilliant artist and this film shows her really sinking her teeth into a role that’s not comedic, per se. I’m also a big, big fan of one of the films producers, Brian Koppelman (who has an excellent podcast you should be listing to) and his wife Amy Koppelman wrote the screenplay for the film. So, I was...
A Walk in the Woods (Review)
While A Walk in the Woods could have been an overly earnest weepie or an embarrassing slapstick farce, it settles somewhere comfortably in-between. It’s inconsequential, but it should please fans of codger comedies. After living all over the world, travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) finds himself back in the U.S.A., semi-retired, giving inane TV interviews and attending one funeral too many. He decides to hike the 2000+...
We Know What the New Christopher Nolan Film (Won’t) Be
Look, a lot of the cool-guy blogs out there are trying to make blind guesses as to what the newly announced (set for July 21, 2017) Christopher Nolan film will be. We here at Flick Nation are going to do you one better. We’re going to name some films it certainly will NOT be. Here goes… It won’t be a Batman movie. Nolan said he‘s done with that and Affleck has the next one as director. It won’t be a remake of Annie because that just...
Our Brand is Crisis (Trailer)
O.K., let’s start off with the good/great in this trailer for Our Brand is Crisis. First off, it’s great to see Sandra Bullock dropping some serious dramedy chops onscreen again. It’s what she’s best at and yes, floating in space talking to no one is not what she’s best at. Although she was actually pretty good at that. Secondly, great to see Billy Bob Thornton being a badass once again. It’s what he’s good at. Always. I also love the...
Demolition (Trailer)
I think it’s fair to say Jean-Marc Vallée is on a serious roll. His adaptations of Dallas Buyers Club and Wild we’re both critically successful and popular with audiences . More specifically, it’s no coincidence his new film – his third in as many years – is being released in the middle of award season. Let’s not forget Matthew McConaughey won his Oscar for Dallas, and Wild scored nominations for...
Cate Blanchett, Set to Have a Ball
Luuuuucy, I’m looking for an Oscaaaaaar nomination!! O.K., maybe I should at least wait until the new biopic about Lucille Ball starring Cate Blanchett and written by Aaron Sorkin has, you know, a director before hedging bets on the films Oscar chances but, c’mon. That’s quite a dangerous duo of filmmaking awesomeness right there. Oh, what’s that? You don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Sorry, getting way ahead of myself all...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/08/15
Paul Feig’s Spy is surprisingly funny, Poltergeist is a pointless remake, and Pitch Perfect 2 is practically Aca-parody, Hosted by Dennis...
The Transporter Refueled (Review)
Definitely rebooted and sequelized, if not exactly refueled, the fourth Transporter movie is broken down, out of gas, and any of a dozen other dead car metaphors. Likely it was dead from the drawing board. Continuing this series without Jason Statham was a dubious idea, and casting Ed Skrein as the Frank Martin character was another wrong step. Statham is a genuine movie star, popping off the screen from the moment he first appeared...
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Review)
The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney is a force to be reckoned with. As a director or producer he has made movies about the corruption of Enron, the use of torture by the United States in Afghanistan, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, pedophilia in the Catholic Church, journalist Hunter S. Thomspon, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, athlete Lance Armstrong, the scandalized New York governor Eliot Spitzer, the war crimes of...
We Are Your Friends (Review)
Zac Efron and Emily Ratajkowski are both extremely attractive people who seem better suited to modeling than acting. They give empty portrayals as empty characters in an empty film, but at least the music is good. We Are Your Friends is about characters who don’t really seem like they would be friends in real life. They have very little in common, and their goals are superficial: fame, fortune, and a good time. In the San...
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