Winter-Spring 2025-2026 Movie Preview

I'm getting back to my periodical entry, with a monthly selection of what's announced for the next half of the year. The "award movies" season is starting, so in theory we should have enough choice, although among what's below I don't think there are many qualified for this.

December has plenty to offer, but despite the stellar reviews I'll keep my doubts for the recently released "Hamnet". I can believe that Jessie Buckley does an Oscar worthy role, but I don't have any trust in Chloé Zhao's direction after the "Nomadsland" experience, out of which there's not much to remember, so I'll skip the trailer for this one. Another production that already got some decent reviews is "Nuremberg", and the patient-psychiatrist relationship between Hermann Göring and Douglas Kelley is indeed a movie subject. Again, however, the script seems a bit too Hollywood-ish, with enough overacting that transpires into the trailer, and which doesn't really seem to capture the case complexity (Kelley was a movie subject after Nuremberg as well). I think this still keeps some documentary value, and overall as a movie = including production and the technical side, it seems to deliver something ok-ish.

If I should choose only one movie for December out of what has a released trailer, that would be "Dust Bunny". The direction + script by Bryan Fuller, as his first big screen movie, doesn't promise much (even worse, he's responsible for a part of "Star Trek: Discovery", the only undigestible series from the entire franchise). Still, the trailer gives a hint of "Leon" mixed with a surreal fantasy a la "Sucker Punch" (underrated), so maybe it has some chance to move out of the classic Hollywood action. It depends how much movie time it spends on CGI with flying bullets and stuff.

I decided to mark "The Housemaid" too for the December list. Paul Feig has made plenty of mediocre movies but also a gem among them, "A Simple Favor" (the first; the second, more recent, I didn't have time to see, is down below in terms of ratings, and I don't see much sense for it anyway). We'll see if the chemistry between Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried here will come out as good as it was between Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. In "A Simple Favor" the script helped a lot, with a solid touch of dark humor; here it seems we'll just have the dark part, without the humor, but we still have some basis in a bestseller novel, so, we'll see.

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to see a festival screening for "These Final Hours", a indie production of an Australian director, Zak Hilditch, with the story set on the end of the world, awaited as a cataclismic phenomenon, somewhere on the coast of down under. It wasn't a masterpiece, but what was left from there was some warm feeling (no pun intended, given the cataclism) felt like that on the apocalyptic background setting. In January we have an expected release for "We Bury the Dead", yet another zombie horror, directed and written by the same Hilditch, not so indie this time, however. I'll keep my opinion that this subgenre is not like any other horror, as long as it keeps the early line settled by George Romero, with his "of the Dead". The touch there is set mostly on the psychological side of inter-human relationship in a dystopic environment, and much less on the horror. There are many examples of this, like "The Crazies", "World War Z", "I Am Legend" and "The Walking Dead" as a series, despite all its soapy bits. The same category would also cover another more high-profile production announced for January, the 4-th iteration from Danny Boyle's "28 ..." series - "... Years Later: The Bone Temple". Only that it's not directed by Danny Boyle this time, and it seems to me that there's already quite a lot overexploitation of the setting there compensated with blood and gore to cover it up. So, if I'd have to choose between the two, I'd go for the Australian backed one, as long as it won't get too corrupted by Hollywood during production. s

To bring something a bit different to the list, for the beginning of 2026, we also have a French crime mystery frantuzesc, "Vie privée", released with an early screening at this year's Cannes, starring a Jodie Foster in a French-speaking part of a psychiatrist set somewhere between Maigret and Poirot. We'll see to which one is closer when the official release comes out in January.

"All You Need Is Kill" is the original Japanese manga of the story in "Edge of Tomorrow", one of the best SciFis produced by Hollywood during the last decade. Well, I might be slightly subjective, given when I watched it and the impact it left with the whole idea of a repeated cycle of the temporal perception. Nevertheless, the movie is widely regarded as underrated. Getting back to the Japanses version, unfortunately this was left only on paper until recently, when it finally got some screen time in an anime announced for January. The teaser says almost nothing + I'm not very thrilled by the graphich style. However, given the subject, it's something to keep en eye on, and for who's willing to find out more details, the second clip below, from about seven years ago, provides an extended comparison between the US version and the Japanese manga.

"Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" lands in cinemas in February, being a joint effort of Gore Verbinski (directing) and Matthew Robinson (script). The first is more known for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, but he also directed other better movies, although underrated, the last being "A Cure for Wellness", a thriller from 2016. A plus of Verbinski is his versatility on switching genres - for instance we also have "The Lone Ranger" - a western with some nice accents of dark comedy, "Rango" - an Oscar awarded animation, "The Ring" - a reference in the horror genre. Matthew Robinson got known to me for his supposed involvement with the sequel to "Edge of Tomorrow", mentioned before, another previous reference I know being just "Love and Monsters" which was ok, although a bit Hollywood-ish. Here the trailer builds up a similar impression, so I'll keep lower expectations on this, but who knows? Maybe we'll have a suprise.

On my February list, I also marked "How to Make a Killing", a dark comedy written + directed by John Patton Ford, his second movie after "Emily the Criminal" from 2022. The previous one was lifted a lot by Aubrey Plaza, the reason I've watched it after all, so I might be subjective, but anyway her part there was quite different from other roles. This movie leaves an impression of having a more solid/complex script, so I'll give it a chance.

I'm not watching slasher horrors for quite some time, but I couldn't let February go without "Scream 7", especially considering that Neve Campbell returns one more time as Sydney Prescott, backed by Kevin Williamson which wrote the scripts of the series by its 4-th iteration if I'm not wrong. This time he took as well the directing prosition, so we'll see what results from this. However, after the passing of Wes Craven, Williamson is probably one the most qualified persons for the job. Despite the commercial feeling it manifests, I doubt there's any other slasher horror series to maintain a decent average level for so many years, to exert so much influence on the genre, and to keep a perfect balance between the horror, the dark comedy and the teenage drama, which brings me back every time to a nostalgic feeling on the times when I've watched the first "Scream". And again, Sydney is back ;)

The trailer for "Project Hail Mary" already says more than enough, but there aren't many SciFis out there, and neither trailers out for this spring. So I'll stop to this option for March. After all Drew Goddard (script) also has "The Martian", "Bad Times at the El Royale" and "The Cabin in the Woods" in his CV. So, it can't be very bad.

There's not much to choose for April either, and I don't trust sequels, but again, let's keep some hope for "Ready or Not 2", given that the movie kept the team from its first iteration. With all the red paint that was spilled, that was surprisingly good. The subject is quite straightforward and probably won't provide much surprise, so if this manages to get to at least 2/3 from the level of the first that should be acceptable I guess.

Instead of releases announced for May, where we would have some "Star Wars" spinoff or a sequel to "Mortal Kombat" (to be fair that seems to provide at least some self-irony), I preferred adding to more titles, already released in their home country I assume, but still not distributed throughout Europe. So, with an undefined release date for next spring, we have as well "No Other Choice", the last Korean production by Park Chan-Wook ("Oldboy" + the rest of the Vengeance trilogy, "Thirst" and others), featuring again Lee Byung-hun as main lead, with some extra wrinkles maybe, but still like in possession of an anti-aging formula, and also "Fabula", a Dutch production, which looks like a sort of Guy Ritchie movie in a more continental version.

That's about it. I've chosen a slightly more extended variant that in the previous rounds, from more than one year ago, to compensate a bit the long break. Hopefully it's useful for somebody + and I also hope that I didn't mess it up too often - with previews you never know.

Summer-Fall 2024 Movie Preview

With some delay for this year, I'm trying, however to get through a lightning fast preview of some titles announced for this summer-fall season. So, without further ado, what caught my eye is in the list that follows.

With a change in the cast, in June we have a prequel, "A Quiet Place: Day One", which is actually the third part of one of the few horrors that I found to be ok during the latest years. John Krasinski keeps his writer role for this, and as director we have Sarnoski, whose previous activity includes mainly "Pig", again ok-ish. Maybe we get something at least ok-ish here too.

"The Convert" was produced during last year, but its mainstream release date got set to this July. And since it's something different than the typical summer blockbusters...

In August we have the release of "Alien: Romulus", a new iteration of the series, without Ridley Scott as director. Fede Alvarez, replacing him, has more background on classic horrors than on SciFi ("Evil Dead", "Don't Breathe"), and the trailer seems to drag into that area. But, we'll see..

Probably the headline for September is "Wolfs", starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, in a thriller with a promising trailer.

Unlike the other sequels/prequels above, "Joker: Folie a Deux" to be released in October, keeps Todd Phillips as director. Therefore, I'd say it's not to be missed.

I'd close this entry for November with "Gladiator 2", even more considering that I was complaining that we lost Ridley Scott from directing "Alien", but we don't have a trailer yet. And I think the expectations for this are higher than for a SciFi, which pretty much everything that could be told was told in the previous episodes. So, let's wait a bit more for this one.

Summer-Fall 2019 Movie Preview (the brief version) - Part 2

Let's not lose time with another intro, and see what the Fall brings. In September we have "Spies in Disguise", an animation where Will Smith gets wings as a secret agent. Probably the lack of presence in the latest "Men in Black" had to be compensated with something...

...And also probably an animation is not enough for that, so we have, again, Will Smith in "Gemini Man" in October. In a more serious note, this looks much more promising with Ang Lee directing, and a large team of writers among who we find Andrew Niccol ("In Time", "Lord of War", "Gattaca") and David Benioff (yes, I know that last GoT season sucked, but still...)

I enjoyed each of the 5 Terminator instances until now, despite the bashing the last two of them got from the critics. It's not very clear to me though how they can turn the story around for the 6th installment: "Terminator: Dark Fate", to be released in November, but I'm waiting to see that.

That's it. The good news is that in this previews break I had the luck to get across a couple of movies which were quite ok, so I have something to write next time ;) (in theory, if I don't forget about it...)

Summer-Fall 2019 Movie Preview (the brief version) - Part 1

1. My left ankle still suffers from the period of the last winter's similar entry of this kind.
2. That's not even close to the top of my current problems (but tries to climb there...).
3. To conclude, let's keep the reasoning for choosing a "brief version" six months ago, also for this preview round = one piece of incoming title per month. Summer goes first...

Remember "Shaft"? Me neither... Maybe the June re-reboot won't be as forgettable as the last try. Although I have a feeling that the trailer pretty much sums up all you'll get to see there...

There's something about summer and fishy horror movies... sharks, sharknados, piranha 3d, piranha 3dd (I still don't know what that means). Are we in danger to also mix alligators in the "fishy" category? We'll see in July in "Crawl".

"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" looks like a more solid option for the month of August. At least with the army of writers it seems to have gathered ("The Collector" movies, a part of the "Saw" series, "The Lego Movie") + Guillermo del Toro. Or maybe the piano cover mixing of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" in the trailer was too cool to resist :) ...

Fall goes second. Next time...

Winter-Spring 2018-2019 Movie Preview (the brief version) - Part 2

Considering the amount of research I did last week, I'm currently more tempted to start a survey on treating tibiofibular diastasis without surgery than movie blogging. However, as much I would like to convince myself that a "Dr." near your name gives you super-powers to conveniently re-interpret a CT scan, that's probably not a valid assumption unless you also have a "M.D." written there, with all the help you might get from journal articles of Korean orthopedists. Besides that, I should probably move my focus anyway to cardio areas since there seem to be more urgent issues there (not mine... yet, not that it would make things simpler). To conclude, it's probably more recommended to take a break from re-qualification attempts and complete the entry of last time. Still in brief mode = one title/month...

In March we have "Captive State". Which I don't trust more than the worst episode of "Black Mirror" (whichever that might be), but considering the utter lack of SciFi movies, I'm willing to give a chance to pretty much anything.

The lack of SciFi movies doesn't include (unfortunately, I would say) also the super-hero area. But "Shazam!" seems to bring though a bit of a mix between "Kick-Ass" and "Defendor", which, if confirmed in April, outside the rest of re-heated soups in this movie genre.

We'll stick to the same stuff for the month of May too. Even if it makes me thinking on including super-hero movies in the list of Spring allergies, I won't ignore "Avengers: Endgame". Why? Because, surprisingly, I liked "Infinity War". Almost enough to give it a blog entry, but considering that I've watched that at more than half a year after its release I said that it might be a bit late. Besides, it's quite likely that it's just because my subconscious reacts favorably to anything involving "time travel", and wants to see a confirmation to the previous episode that this is the solution for all problems ;)

As I was saying to someone long ago that given my typical lack of communication, as long as I'm writing something on my blog it means that I'm "still alive", I'll try another entry by the end of the year. So, let's postpone the holiday wishes for next time ( hopefully... ;) )

Winter-Spring 2018-2019 Movie Preview (the brief version) - Part 1

Never say you're done until you're really done... or to put it differently, don't brag that you managed writing something weekly as long as you're not sure that you won't break a leg until the year ends. That being the reason why the traditional Winter start entry is in brief version for this time. Not that I'm writing with my legs (well, maybe only figuratively speaking), but this activity is not the most comfortable since half a month already. So, we have a strict selection of only one piece incoming title per month...

Since December is as typically filled with a density of blockbusters that makes it look like a Summer month, it's hard to find anything else. And from what we have here the best option seemed to be "Aquaman". Even though DC movies tend lately to copy too much the Marvel stuff, maybe we still have a chance. Or maybe's the fault of Amber Heard as a redhead that I stopped here...

In January "The Cube" meets "Saw" in "Escape Room". Or at least this is how it looks like in the trailer. With a "Weeds" "from a different movie". Little boxes...

In February I preferred to ignore the sequel to "How to Train Your Dragon" in favor of the sequel to "The Lego Movie". Despite that "Lego: Batman" wasn't as good as the original, the trend is still more optimistic there compared to the bottomless pit where the second episode with Toothless dived in from high skies.

That's all for today. Long breaks heal legs (they say... or at least remove swellings). So back to horizontal now. Spring months, next time (hopefully).

Winter-Spring 2014-2015 Movie Preview - Part 2

I'll start the spring and the month of March with "Chappie", a movie that seems to be a sort of "A.I." (in case somebody remembers what Spielberg was doing around year 2000) but set in much more tensed world. World that actually looks very similar with what Neill Blomkamp got us already used to in "District 9" or "Elysium". For me not enough, I still don't trust the directing skills of this guy ...
Did you know that "Moby Dick" had a real source of inspiration? Well, after watching the trailer for "In the Heart of the Sea" and having a quick look on the novel's Wikipedia page, I tend to think that's more a marketing strategy (= "Moby Dick" actually had not one but more real life sources, this being just one of them). In any case, Ron Howard knows how to do one thing very well, and that's real story based dramas. So the expectancies are .. big :), as the whale.
Lately I'm quite disappointed by DreamWorks, but I wanted to have also an animation in my previews list, so I'm closing "March" with "Home". Despite being discouraged by the trailer ...
I don't have many options for next April that already have a trailer out, so don't shoot me (no pun intended), but what I'm left with is "Furious 7". The only thing that gives me a reason to see also the seventh part (unbelievable but true I managed to get through the first six .. it can actually be much worse = "Transformers"), is that the director is James Wan ("Saw", "Dead Silence", "Insidious", "The Conjuring"). I'm really curious to see how the most active/appreciated horror director of the last 10 years works on a different genre.
I guess my position regarding superhero movies is already known. Fortunately, the density seems lower for next year. At least as production number, because regarding the superheroes count we have again all the gang reunited in May for "Avengers: Age of Ultron". Big yawn ...
I never got to understand the praise for the "Mad Max" movies, and neither for George Miller as director. So next year's reboot doesn't excite me at all. Despite the trailer's level of pumped up adrenaline ...
After a relatively pessimistic series I'm closing May and this preview round with the top title on my "to watch" list: "Tomorrowland". The only fear I have is that it might be to teenage targeted. Except that, looks good, director, writers, story, cast, everything :). That's all for now. I'll be back, soon, with a title that seems quite promising ;)

Summer-Fall 2014 Movie Preview - Part 2

So, it seems that last time's "hope" for the posting frequency was hopeless. Ok, let's forget it and kick-off the fall previews (which as usual are not that many because it's a bit early for end-of-year trailers) ...

"Maze Runner" gets released in September. It's a debut movie (director & screenwriters), the casting's a bit obscure, the expectancies low, trailer .. relatively interesting ...
"Good People" is a thriller directed by a guy from Danemark (Henrik Ruben Genz) who's totally unknown for me, but apparently known in his country (+ having an Oscar nomination for a short movie). I have a feeling I won't be disappointed by this one. Besides that, who likes Anna Friel ( me included :) ), quite rarely seen on big screen, has an opportunity to catch her here (true though that seems to be quite a small role) ...
"Book of Life" it's an animation to be released in October. No, no ... it's not about the Bible. Looks more like a sort of "Tim Burton" after-death animated experience in a lighter version (and more colored) ...
"Kingsman: The Secret Service" seems to be a sort of lighter version (since we're at this topic) for Bond. And considering we still have to wait for the next 007 ...
"Interstellar" is closing today's entry, as main headline for November. The last product by Nolan & Nolan seemed I guess a bit more interesting before last trailer's release. Which I don't know how to say it nicely, but it suggests me a sort of a bit more elaborated "Armageddon", but still keeping a tear-generating factor to impress the average public. Especially since I don't see anymore in the screenwriters list the name of Kip Thorne (known physician) who appears now only as producer. Well, we'll see what we get ...
That's it. Next time ( I won't say when :) ) I'll be back with an already announced entry = something pretty good running now in cinemas ;) ...

Summer-Fall 2014 Movie Preview - Part 1

Yeah, yeah .. I know :) I'm again behind schedule with my entries. Don't worry, we'll recover = 2 entries, I hope, in 2 days ;) (with emphasis on "I hope" :P). The usual preview for end of May - start of June. Let's see what summer brings ...

"Edge of Tomorrow", already released in some places, is an adaptation after a Japanese SciFi novel, which according to some was supposed to combine "Groundhog Day" with "Independence Day". Well, somehow I managed to see this movie in a Basel cinema this Friday (don't ask), so I can say that: 1. the small piece of romance that's nicely thrown there somewhere is so waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better (at least for me) compared to what I remember from "Groundhog Day" and 2. who compared this with "I-Day" deserves to be cut in pieces and fed to aliens :D The best movie I've seen this year (well, on par with "Philomena", but a total different genre). I'll dedicate a full entry for it. By then, all can I say is don't miss it ;) ...
"Borgman" is a Dutch production, which I've decided to add on the list to bring some color to the typical made-in-Hollywood collection. I don't know more than it's a thriller that already has been shown in a couple of festivals, and is supposed to get an international release soon. More, in the trailer.
"How to Train Your Dragon 2" comes out in June. For me, "HTTYD" is the best animation ever made (well, I still have some indecision regarding "Emperor's New Groove" - the former #1). So, on one hand this sequel is mandatory to see, but on the other hand I'm afraid that it might have been better not to be made. Because I think it's really, really hard to reach at least 3/4 of what the original managed to offer. And from my experience, the ultra-aggressive marketing (very present these days) was never deserved when it got to the final product. But, we'll see ...
"Earth to Echo" has the release date somewhere at the beginning of July. At a first sight is seems to be a sort of "E.T." remake combined with some "Super 8". Unfortunately for my preferences, seems biased more to the former than to the latter, but since most SciFi's find a place on my list ;) ...
"Jupiter Ascending" is the most recent production by the Wachowski's ("Matrix", "Cloud Atlas"). A bit too colored for me, but I thought it deserves a chance ... after all I can't say that I've ever been disappointed by them ...
"Lucy" is my guilty pleasure :) for this July. Comments are useless. Check out the trailer ;) ...
"Guardians of the Galaxy" starts the month of August, and is the first time when I'm actually 100% convinced to watch a production based on Marvel Universe. Finally, something that seems to depart from the classic recipe of superhero troubled with existential issues. It might sound weird, but I sense something from "John Carter" in this trailer ... even though it doesn't seem to have anything in common ... I'm referring to the atmosphere .. and I loved "John Carter" ;) ...
"The Expendables 3" doesn't require much introduction. Because it probably doesn't have much story either :) But if it gets to the level of the 2nd part (God forbid to be like the first), it deserves the ticket money ;) ...
"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" ends August. Finally we get a sequel, at 9 years after the first, and after many delays and casting changes. Stuff that usually doesn't announce something good. But, for the sake of the old times ;) ...
For the Fall season, next time = very soon ;) ...

Winter-Spring 2013-2014 Movie Preview - Part 2

As usual, I don't have many options for the 2nd preview part. Mostly due to the lack of trailers at 3+ months before the release dates. Well, let's see what we can pick from the existing pool for the next Spring ...

In March we have a potential alternative to "Fast & Furious" (which anyway, in the light of recent events, has chances to stop at episode 7). However, to bring to the screen a game like "Need for Speed" is probably as "promising" as a "PacMan" movie. So I guess it would've been more interesting to look up for a automotive industry documentary instead of the trailer below ...
"Divergent" looks like a remix on "Hunger Games", despite people saying it isn't so. The only part that gives some hope is the director, Neil Burger, who's responsible for two pretty good movies, both including tiny elements of fantasy or SciFi: "The Illusionist" and "Limitless". But anyway, the story shown in the trailer seems to state quite clearly that this is not much more than "yet another teen SciFi romance" ...
Last week I managed somehow to (incredibly) escape superhero movies. This time we have a bunch of them. April starts with "Captain America 2". Considering how much I "like" the genre, I can say that the first part was actually quite ok. Although I think this was mostly caused by the action placement during WW2. So, I don't know what to say about the new episode. Well, one good thing - it has Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) in it :P
Probably the most solid part Schwarzenegger had since he returned to acting is in "Sabotage". The direction + the script belong to David Ayer ("Training Day", "Harsh Times", "Street Kings", "End of Watch"). I think it's not hard to anticipate that the movie will be a rough action thriller without many comic nuances (we'll see how well gets Arnie into the role in this context).
In May we return to the Marvel universe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2". I'm too bored by the genre to add more comments (and no Black Widow here).
Tricky question: what's more annoying than a superhero movie ? Answer: a movie with many superheroes. No, we didn't get yet to "Avengers 2". For the moment we have the light version = the latest "X-Men" sequel ( still, no Black Widow here :( ).
At the end of May we have probably the most interesting title in this entry - "Maleficent" - or "Sleeping Beauty" told from the perspective of the wicked fairy. As a fantasy subject sounds very promising, but (it had to be something ...) I don't remember any successful directorial debut by somebody with a career in VFX (Robert Stromberg in this case). Maybe I'll be contradicted, although the trailer looks already a bit too focused on CGI ...
That's it for the preview round. Next week, back with a movie review ...

Winter-Spring 2013-2014 Movie Preview - Part 1

Since I didn't manage to see anything this week that's worth spending a blog entry time, I find myself in sync again with the end of November and with the usual preview list for the next six months. So, let's kick it ...

In the beginning of December we have "Out of the Furnace". A drama that reminds me a bit of "Winter's Bone". We'll see if it also confirms at the same level. The trailer seems relatively promising ...
I had some second thoughts before including "The Hobbit II" in the enumeration. I'm wondering what else can be squeezed out of this franchise, after making three movies out of a short children's book: the 1st consistently filled with dwarf-orcish martial arts to justify its length, and the 2nd apparently teleporting Legolas in the story due to lack of ideas. Just to raise more the box office by dragging in Orlando Bloom's teengirl fans (I actually considered re-reading the book to convince myself he's not there, but a quick look on Wikipedia confirmed it). But well .. I can still hope for a miracle = that the adaptation gets the kids story a bit closer to the much more complex subject of LotR ...
The end of December brings something that some already consider to be the worst movie of the year: "47 Ronin". To be fair, neither the directing, nor the screenwriting credits recommend this. But after past experiences like "Ninja Assassin" or "The Warrior's Way", unjustly buried by some U.S. critics, who knows ? Maybe we'll have another surprise ...
January seems quite scarce in announced releases, so forgive me but I'll switch to some horrors (I'm anyway writing this entry late into St. Andrew's night so the "atmosphere" fits :P). Let's start with "Open Grave", an indie with a sufficiently catchy subject. You're waking up with amnesia in a ground hole filled with corpses. Who are you and how did this happen ? (unfortunately the trailer cuts a bit from the mistery ...)
"Devil's Due" seems more hardcore. Again I thought a bit if to add it or not in the enumeration, not as much due to the bloody disgusting stuff which I can get over with, but more because I'm fed up with lame reused stories ("Rosemary's Baby" meets "The Omen"). Even more, the movie's done in the overused and already annoying mockumentary style. But if 20th Century Fox financed this, maybe there's something I don't see yet ...
I'm closing January with something that I didn't do before in the preview entries. An anti-recommendation. Which is not a horror (although when you hear "I, Frankenstein" probably that's what's coming into your mind). And not being a horror is probably the only part it has in common with "Frankenstein" - the classic novel, which is actually a drama with some SciFi and romance nuances. A drama with so many senses hidden there that a blasphemy as what's shown in the trailer doesn't deserve any single extra comment ...
In February, after some delays, we finally get "RoboCop", the remake. I've heard many doubts about this movie. I still prefer to give it some credit, and I hope at something at least as decent as the "Total Recall" remake. After all, the original story was a good one, and the director is Jose Padilha ("Tropa de Elite"), so he's not exactly a randomly picked no-name ...
Ok, if there is to be a comedy in the today's list, let it be a guilty pleasure :P : "Vampire Academy". Maybe unbelievable, but the movie is actually based on a novel. And to raise a bit more the expectancy the directing belongs to Mark Waters who was responsible for "The Spiderwick Chronicles", one of the few fantasies from the flood following LotR that managed to be less ridiculous and more heart-warming ...
At the end of February Liam Neeson returns in "Non-Stop". Under the same director as in "Unknown" and with the same attitude as in "Taken". Should I say more ? ...
That's it for the winter. Next time, the spring ...

Summer-Fall 2013 Movie Preview - Part 2

The Fall (or better said September, since you don't really know when a season starts end ends) begins with "Riddick". Obviously I couldn't have stopped at anything else than a SciFi :) Sequel to a very well done "Pitch Black" (although as marketing as obscure as the title) and a much worse "Chronicles of Riddick" (overall level inverse proportionally to the budget). The traile for this one doesn't seem very encouraging but we'll see what we'll get from episode 3.

Since we're on sequels, call this a guilty pleasure, but I won't jump over "Machete Kills". The first part was superb in regard to the satire towards action movies. And since the second seems to follow the same trend ...

Getting into a more serious zone, towards the end of September we have a biopic. "Rush" is centered on one of the most, let's call it "terrible" stories from the Formula 1 history = the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda + the accident of the last of them from 1976. I'm not really into biopics, and for various reasons I'm neither watching Formula 1 since years, but this movie looks quite good, and the direction by Ron Howard ("Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", "Cinderella Man" to count only the same genre) gives an increased degree of probability to hear about this title also at the next year Oscars.

The movie for which I have the biggest expectancies in all the current series comes at the start of October and it's ( obviously :) ) a SciFi (more or less). "Gravity" is a production with two actors (probably only them for 99% of the length) - Sandra Bullock & George Clooney - a director who should guarantee a good result - Alfonso Cuaron ("Children of Men", "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban" - the only in the series that left me with a nice impression) - and an apparently simple subject, but at least an original one: following an .. "accident", two astronauts fall into space drift on the orbit. And that's pretty much all we know for the moment :) ...

November starts with a SciFi expected by apparently lots of people: "Ender's Game". I didn't read the book (Orson Scott Card), awarded with Hugo and Nebula, but I know the story in brief, and in the SciFi range that I had time to digest it leaves me pretty much as cold as "Starship Troopers" (Robert Heinlein). I know that it's not the same thing but is the niche of the genre ("military science fiction" to quote from Wikipedia) for which I really don't have any interest. I'm waiting to see if the movie manages to contradict me.

It couldn't be possible to skip completely the super-heroes section. And since I don't have many options anyway as trailers for the end of Fall, I won't jump over "Thor: The Dark World". From all the Marvel series, the first "Thor" is for me somewhere at the bottom of the list (together with "Iron Man 2" and more movies from the "X-Men" series), so if the second episode surprises me it cannot be otherwise than on the positive side.

Another sequel, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", closes November and the current preview round. Without extra comments, I'll just say that's another example, where considering the first part, this one cannot surprise me in any other way than positive. If it surprises me, on which I don't give much chance :P

That's about it for the current "preview". Time during I managed to gather up a couple of subject for the coming weeks. Cam atat pentru "avantpremiera" curenta. So, back next with a movie ;)

Summer-Fall 2013 Movie Preview - Part 1

I'm maybe in the worst mood for writing since the beginning of the year. So the end of May is well synced, since it's the usual time when I go through the movies of the following 6 months. So, less words, more video ...

In June we have, the way too promoted "Man of Steel". Getting over the semi-alergic condition that I lately developed for super-hero movies (although I have to admit that "Iron Man 3" was decent), the only part that attracts me to this one is the direction by Zach Snyder. But not even this probably can save a story told already in something like 3-4 trailers (+ the known background), the last of them covering pretty much all the blank spots left.

I'll stop for a moment on "White House Down". Because I've recently seen "Olympus has Fallen". Which is a bit like a Die Hard at the White House. And now, at least than 3 months distance comes the "remake". Why I insist on it ? Just because the first version, contrary to some ratings that mislead me when I payed my ticket, makes the last "Die Hard", bashed by everybody, to look like a Oscar movie. To bad for the idea, which has potential for an action movie. So, from the weirdness of having two movies with the same topic one after another, maybe something good manages to finally come out. Even though Roland Emmerich directing (remember "Godzilla" ?) doesn't sound encouraging.

By far, the most interesting title for June comes from UK. "Hummingbird" is a thriller written and directed by Steven Knight ("Dirty Pretty Things", "Eastern Promises"). As an alternative title it also comes as "Redemption". No pun intended, but even so I'm curious to see if Jason Statham in his first role with a more solid drama content deserves getting credit for the acting, demonstration avoided by now with the skill of the "Transporter" driver.

"The Lone Ranger" opens July as the last collaboration between Gore Verbinsky/Johnny Depp/Jerry Bruckheimer & Disney. Contrary to the majority of the public, who besides "Pirates of the Caribbean", pretty much ditched every Disney super-production in the last years, to be read "Prince of Persia" & "John Carter", I actually liked them. Quite a lot. There's something there from the feeling of the movies before '90 ("Indiana Jones", "Back to the Future", "Star Wars" the old series). So, I have hope also here. And since the mentioned triplet is the same from "PotC", if the movie confirms, I hope it will get enough public this time to avoid getting canceled for eventual sequels.

Not to forget animations completely, this summer we have "Turbo". After the first teaser, close to 0 details, the title did sound promising. Without more comments, following the 2nd trailer I start to think if DreamWorks is somehow "virused" by Pixar lately as feeling/age target/rest of script+story related stuff (and it's not supposed to be something good).

I know I mentioned above that I become allergic to super-hero movies, but I don't know if I have any better option for the end of July. And the last version of "Wolverine", although again giving quite a lot from the subject in the trailer, looks anyway relatively promising. If we take as plus only the Orient location and we already have something more original than the other title with "steel" in it.

I have to admit that this year seems very good for SciFis, compared to others. And more, SciFis that seem promising and already confirmed ("Oblivion", "Star Trek"). Because there's also the "classic" category targeted on getting profit proportional with the explosions amount (maybe I'm wrong but it looks that "Pacific Rim" sort of fits). From the others though, in August we have "Elysium". But let's see if what we have here it's not just competition to (and on par with) "Hunger Games" ...

I'll allow myself to put also "Grandmaster" on this summer list, although the movie was already released. I don't really preview Hong Kong movies because even if I have a pretty good opinion on many titles that are getting out of there, there are a lot which are totally lame. This one was sent though to a bunch of festivals (where to be true the opinions were divided). So I said that I can do an exception. Especially since is directed by Wong Kar Wai, somehow strange for a biopic that (after I don't know how many other installments) it's about Ip Man's life, known as essential figure in the Chinese martial arts. Why the directing seems strange .. because WKW is known for a series of movies that don't have almost anything in common with this type of action, and get much more close to a surreal drama area (yes, surreal drama from that part of the world - check out "2046" or "Chunking Express" - it might be surprising after you see them but they're made in China). Anyway, after the trailer, the movie looks fine at least visually, so I would give it a chance ...

If I already got into a niche that's far from mainstream, and with movies that are released already in some places, I'll end August and today's entry with a made in UK production, about which I don't know if it's low budget or not, but looks quite indie. And for an indie to get catchy, especially a fantasy in which there were pumped some money, "Hammer of the Gods" should hopefully have at least a decent story .. or lots of blood. We'll see which one ...

Part 2 of Winter-Spring 2012-2013 Movie Preview

I'll start the second part of the preview entry with "Oz: The Great and Powerful", scheduled for release next March. It's a prequel to the classic story, and despite looking like a Tim Burton movie from what you can see in the trailer, it isn't one (fortunately, if we look at "Alice" as an example, a pretty uninspired choice mentioned as reference by the producers). The directing belongs to Sam Raimi (the "Spiderman" trilogy, the "Evil Dead" trilogy, etc), thing that gives some hopes.

I liked the first "G.I. Joe" despite the reviews at the time. At least it had a story slightly more complex than the usual superhero movie (in the end it's not a superhero movie .. but you could still apply the comparison). The sequel, delayed by one year, seems though to be a potential disaster if we take a look at the director's CV ... "Step Up 2", "Step Up 3D", "League of Extraordinary Dancers" ... I'd better stop here, although there's more ... But we have Bruce Willis. And Adrianne Palicki in the red dress ;)

I'm closing March with "The Host". The only reason for adding this title to the list is the directing by Andrew Niccol who pleasantly surprised me not that long ago with "In Time" (although "Gattaca", considered a classic, for me was just plain boring). It probably matter more though that the movie is adapted from another "successful" novel by Stephenie Meyer ("Twilight" in case it doesn't ring a bell, and it's enough said).

There aren't many trailers released for the next April. So I'll come with an anti-recommendation ("backed-up" anyway further below also by the trailer - rated R). I was mentioning somewhere before "Evil Dead" by Sam Raimi. For who likes horrors is impossible not to know about it. Well, the remake is going to be released next year ... What's new in it ? No Ash, apparently. Again, who knows what I'm talking about, I guess agrees with me that "Evil Dead" without Bruce Campbell as Ash is hard to conceive .. but without Ash as main character is already a blasphemy. Even worse is that Bruce Campbell promoted this, being also a producer ($, $ .. and again $). The only thing left to hope for, is that what you can see below is 0 compared to the final version - in terms of subject, feeling, etc. Unfortunately the only horror I know that managed to change the impression of the trailer in the last years was "The Cabin in the Woods". And I don't know why but my feeling is this one does not intend at all to do something similar.

Unfortunately we don't have yet a trailer for the following "Star Trek" which is top of the list from what I expect to come out next year, so I'll wrap up more quickly the today preview with "Iron Man 3". Release date in May. I assume that's known (at least by who looks from time to time at my posts), what opinion I have on super-hero movies. It doesn't differ in this particular case. It looks like "yet another one" following the classic story. However, again for the today entry, I have to refer to directing, which is different from the first two parts. This time is by a screenwriter - Shane Black (who of course is also the author of the script). Maybe the name doesn't say much, so I should give some reference - "Lethal Weapon" entire series, "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "The Last Boy Scout", "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", "Last Action Hero". If it's not clear yet, check the titles on IMDb ;)

Back next week with a really good movie ;)

Part 1 of Winter-Spring 2012-2013 Movie Preview

Somehow I've managed again to sync the lack of watched movies with the end of the Fall = just perfect for the usual entry in this time of year. So, let's get straight to the point with some December releases.

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is the prequel to "The Lord of the Rings". Directed also by Peter Jackson, having the same production team, the same screenwriters .. should sound promising, right ? Well, not for me, simply because "The Hobbit" is a children's book, relatively short, infinitely less complex than "Lord of the Rings" ... but this alone still wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that this was supposed to be the first part of two. I think this was already exaggerated as length, but now it looks even worse, they want another trilogy ! For a book which if I remember well is shorter than any of the three in LotR. "The Fellowship of the Ring" is for me somewhere up high in the top of all movies ever watched (partially subjective) and one of the best adaptations for the screen from a book (yes, even better than "Return of the King" which is excessively lengthened in the end). Unfortunately I can't see how "The Hobbit" in three parts could get at least up the level of "The Two Towers" which is a book a bit harder to adapt considering the action threads, and still the result was decent. Conclusion: I'm afraid that everything is about $ .. and since more movies mean more $ .....

Since we're close to the adapting topic, another title with a box-office potential for the end of the year is "Jack Reacher". Here I can't say much because I have no idea what is in the book which seems to be actually a series of crime novels having the above mentioned as main character. The part that might deserve some attention is the director and screenwriter of the movie: Cristopher McQuarrie who after the success with "The Usual Suspects" from long ago was also involved in "Valkyrie" or "The Tourist" more recently. Well .. none shined, but anyway both were above the usual mindless Hollywoodish action.

For the end of December we have the final production made by Tarantino. Maybe I'm a bit too skeptic today but for some reason Jamie Foxx doesn't look very convincing as lead character in the trailer of "Django Unchained". We'll see ...

Since it's been a while from my last reference to a real horror, I'll stop to "Mama" for the beginning of January 2013. I think the trailer says enough. And for who tastes the genre, it seems that somewhere online there's also a short movie on which this one is based upon ;)

I didn't see yet the second part of "Expendables", but from what I've heard it shows that Schwarzenegger took a long break from acting (not that we're speaking of Oscar material anyway). Despite all these "The Last Stand" for me looks more fun than Tarantino's production from above (maybe I'm subjective, and I still have my childhood marked by "Terminator 2", "Total Recall", "Predator" and others :) ). To top this the direction belongs to a Korean - Jee-woon Kim - from whose movies I didn't see any, but I have four or five on my "to watch list" (all having a rating bigger than 7 on IMDb).

Sometime long long ago we had a Lee Marvin pissed off by being betrayed and left in a pool of blood by his partners in crime. More recently, but still more than 10 years ago, Mel Gibson was getting the same treatment in the remake. Both of their names were Porter (as a side note somewhere meanwhile Chow-Yun Fat was getting into the same troubles in a Hong Kong made production). Well, it seems that the character's name is actually "Parker" and I found out that he's also the lead in a book, or again more exactly a series of crime novels - more or less good. Even if the story somehow is able to catch your attention (like a sort of condensed and energized Monte Cristo) I still think I'll prefer the Gibson's Porter version to a "yet another Jason Statham movie" coming out at the end of January.

In February we have a sort of mix between a light horror, comedy and romance - "Warm Bodies". As a reference, the movie has the same director as "50/50". And even given that I'm not really into the last two of the above, I don't know why but from all the premieres in this entry it seems this one is the most promising :)

After Schwarzenegger, we have an entry with Stallone (and the third "action hero" comes immediately below). Actually the reason why I'm bringing into discussion "Bullet to the Head" is that it's the first movie directed by Walter Hill since 2002 (in case it sounds a bit cryptic make a name check on IMDb). Unfortunately, what's below doesn't seem that promising ...

To complete the list, I'm closing February with the fifth episode of Bruce Willis' life as John McClane in "A Good Day to Die Hard". Somehow the impression given by the trailer is the opposite to the previous title. On the other hand the directing is also on the other side of the balance ... ("Max Payne" should be enough as reference)

Next week : March - May ;)

Part 2 of Summer-Fall 2012 Movie Preview

In the beginning of September we have a SciFi that looks quite indie but seems nonetheless to have a decent budget behind. Because I'm writing in a hurry (as usual ...) I'll just stop at the idea that it reminds me about a classic by Carpenter: "They Live" from '88. For who did not see it yet, but who's tempted by both of them, better wait - the old one might create some disappointments about the one below ...


Since last time we had more Action-SciFi than horror in the true sense we can compensate this time with ... "House at the End of the Street". I'm intrigued by ... the title length ... And I can't get over the first topic on the IMDb boards that does a slight change: "Boobs at the End of the Street" (:P just quotin' .. not that I have something against it). Do I have to conclude that probably the trailer might be the scariest part of the movie ? ...


At the end of September we have scheduled what I think to be the most interesting title from this Fall. "Looper" seems to have everything it needs: a combination of SciFi with thriller with time travel on top which for me at least is the best possible, a director about whom I don't know anything but who wrote also the script (which usually is a good thing) and it doesn't seem to be exactly his first movie, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, what else to say .. the only thing that I find a bit disturbing in the trailer .. the makeup :|


For October we do not have yet many trailers released. So my options are pretty much limited to "Argo". Which looks like a decent title, adapted after a true story happened in '79, story that after a quick look-up on Wikipedia seems to be indeed worthy of a movie. But I won't give more spoilers than what's below ..


The first title for November, on which I stumbled upon the last days, is an animation from Disney. Disney as in Disney the main studio = no Pixar, thing that I'm not too sure if it sounds promising or the other way around (because I really don't remember what I've seen last time and when from them without the hopping lamb in the beginning). For the moment, the subject seems a bit too far fetched for me, even for an animation .. well, it's probably due to my job :) ...


The next Bond: "Skyfall" seems to be the most promising among the latest. And not due to the trailer that doesn't say anything, but because of the director - Sam Mendes. Even if I'm not a big fan (mostly due to the subjects he picks), he has done one of the top movies that I've ever seen in its genre: "Road to Perdition". It's true that this was long ago, but since from what he did after nothing was that close to a drama/thriller/noir I have hopes that "Skyfall" will catch at least a bit from what was there ...


We had animation from Pixar last time and one from the owner = Disney before, so I couldn't skip looking something from DreamWorks to compensate. And I found .. "Rise of the Guardians" - at the end of November, probably to be more close to the holidays considering what we can see below. About how it looks ... well, I hope (from all my heart) that it won't take itself too seriously. Otherwise I declare myself totally and unchangeable convinced that the Americans have a genetic problem that manifests through a chronic lack/need of super-heroes in everyday life. Otherwise I cannot explain myself how can you get up to transforming even the Easter bunny in something like this ...


Back later this week with a movie .. been some time since talking about something specific ;) ...

Part 1 of Summer-Fall 2012 Movie Preview

I'm back (I hope ...). No change though in my chronic lack of time. So let's get fast into the subject = what movies are coming out until December. This post - the Summer season:

The headline for the beginning of June is obviously "Prometheus". Well .. obviously at least for me :) = I mean, I could tell without doubt that this is "The summer movie" for this year in what I'm concerned. In case there still is somebody wondering what I'm talking about - Ridley Scott is back, after the first "Alien" from '79. Here we have the prequel, meaning: what happened before Ripley's vs. the long teeth animal hunting session on Nostromo. If it's still gibberish what I'm saying, go watch "Alien" (it's unbelievable how good can that movie look even today).


Who's taking a look from time to time over what I'm writing probably knows that I'm not a very big Pixar fan, but this year I have something on my "must see" list: "Brave". Even if, again, it will result in something covered by their trademark "more tear jerking than a pot of chopped onion" (although I hope this time they'll see the limit), there are at least two reasons to watch this movie - Kelly Macdonald who does the voice for the redhead in the trailer and Billy Connolly as her father. You can hear them both below:


Since I've started with the "Alien" prequel, I thought it should be fit to end June with something announced for release at that time in UK - "Storage 24", that seems to be a variation of the same theme but with an indie movie budget. Now .. there have been countless variations of the theme .. some good, some bad. We'll see about this one ...


I'm confused about the American appetite for super-heroes, but since I don't have anything better for the start of July, I'll go with "The Amazing Spider-Man". It's indeed something to do a reboot to a trilogy since ten years from the first movie, that seems to be reused (well, it's the story) for at least a third of its length. But maybe the green evil character is more interesting this time although I have my doubts (yes, it's still green .. I assume, well .. on IMDb it's written "The Lizard"). I didn't see yet "Avengers" and I'm not very tempted, so what to say about this one. There is an exception though on this genre ... following ...


"The Dark Knight Rises" is supposed to end the Batman trilogy in the Cristopher Nolan version. But, I've already heard some reboot rumors .. in 2015 .. also with Nolan (but only for the script). That's just in case that the idea for a new "Spider-Man" version above didn't sound crazy enough. But let me get back to the subject. As I was saying it's pretty much the only exception in the area of super hero movies that keeps me interested ... probably because when I was around 10 years old, during a winter, I went to see "Batman Returns" in cinema and maybe I got a nostalgic fixation since then (for me by the way, it's still the best Batman, no matter what anybody's saying). I don't know if I don't start repeating already from what I wrote some other time, so let's better move to the trailer:


There are also some other titles announced but .. for the end of July I'm stopping at "Ruby Sparks". I don't know exactly why. Generally I pretty much avoid both the comedies and the romance stuff, and here is clearly a mix of both. But the context ... I'm just curious in case I'll convince myself to watch this if it will leave me with a normal smile, a bitter one, or the third option which I think I actually want: a big yawn ...


At the beginning of August we have "The Bourne Legacy". The nice thing about "The Bourne Trilogy" is that is based, more or less, on the book series by Robert Ludlum. I say "more or less" because if you want to see something more close to the original, at least for the first book, it's more recommended to watch the TV version from '88 with Richard Chamberlain. For me that's a movie that's more spy thriller than the new ones, but this doesn't mean that the big screen productions are not ok up to very good. But I stay at the opinion that the main reason lies in the fact that they're based on a book. Unfortunately from what I know Ludlum didn't get to finish others. He was continued by a semi-obscure writer of novels of this type, who I have no idea if he managed to come close to the original. Ludlum for me is in top 3 ever on this area, so I doubt it even compares. Well .. I have no idea on what's based the movie here, if it is. The screenwriter (and director) is Tony Gilroy, the same as before, who besides Bourne wrote "Extreme Measures", "Devil's Advocate", "Michael Clayton" .. but also "Proof of Life" and the lame remake for "State of Play". I have hope .. even if in this case we have .. surprise: a Bourne without Bourne ..


After prequels, reboots and sequels, what's left .. a remake (well remake .. reboot pretty much the same): "Total Recall". Since I'm always hungry of P.K.Dick I can't complain. It's unbelievable how many short stories this guy wrote that made up to movies (the one here, "Minority Report", "Paycheck", and .. well .. "Impostor" and the pathetic adaptation after "The Adjustment Bureau"), that's to give an idea of the potential his novels have. I doubt that the current version of "Total Recall" can somehow subclass the Verhoeven classic from '90 with Schwarzenegger, but I also don't think it can end up a disaster + for the female cast I tend to prefer the Kate Beckinsale/Jessica Biel version towards Sharon Stone/I don't remember who was the good girl.


I'm closing August and the summer with a guilty pleasure: "The Expendables 2". Yes, I know. The first was a complete mess as story, script and others. But the first didn't have Schwarzenegger back apparently in a more consistent part since many years ago, didn't have Van Damme, Chuck Norris, had only a couple of seconds of Bruce Willis .. I wonder why I started enumerating the cast .. because probably even them should keep it secret as "the subject", since I don't know if you have something else to get from the movie neither this time :P . But starting with low expectances .. who knows ;)


Next week, the Fall season ;)

Part 2 of Winter-Spring 2011-2012 Movie Preview

I'm getting directly into the subject because I don't have much time for writing. I suppose that everybody heard about Tarzan. However I don't know who heard about John Carter. What's the catch ? Both were created by the same author - Edgar Rice Burroughs - being featured on the cover of a significant number of books (individually, not together, obviously - the first is lost in Africa, the other on Mars). Well .. if Tarzan got enough coverage during the last century, next March it seems we get the first big budgeted production for pentru John Carter. For me looks like an YASM - Yet Another Superhero Movie ... but we'll see ...



If we're already on the American literature area let's move on to another Edgar. "The Raven" which for my expectations is top of the list for the next Spring is an apparently awkward mix between the dark tales of Edgar Alan Poe and .. Edgar Alan Poe himself. What is probably not that known, and by chance I've found out myself quite soon from a book that got into my hands, is that Poe was a pretty complex character let's say for the first half of the 19th century when he lived, besides the prose having also written a series of essays related with the origins of the universe, physics, etc ... nothing really serious as far as I know but nevertheless interesting to read. Anyway, until I'm not starting to get to far from the subject, coming pack to the production which in the end I really doubt that has something to do with the real Poe besides the literature part, what I'd like to point aout is the director: James McTeigue this being after all the reason for which I'm waiting for the movie. To be more exact I doubt that it would be comparable with "V for Vendetta", but if it's above "Ninja Assassin" it's already very good.



Since I didn't have any animations from last time up to this moment I'm closing March 2012 with "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". As the trailer says, the movie is produced by the same studio - Aardman - that released "Chicken Run" (which I didn't get to see yet) and the shorts series + the movie featuring Wallace & Gromit, stuff that for me was genius work. Unfortunately Nick Park who nailed a few Oscars with those doesn't seem to be associated in any way with the present title. Anyhow, I still hope for something above average ...



In April we have "Safe" which I find to be something like a sort of "Mercury Rising" reloaded. In case nobody remembers about "Mercury Rising" don't worry you have no reason to, it's a movie with Bruce Willis since before 2000 which was a major flop. But at least it had Bruce Willis ... Here, besides the reused idea we have also Jason Statham on the reloaded track (I'm asking myself if this guy couldn't optimize a bit his incomes and career = to shoot more movies at once, it's anyway the same role in each).



As it can be already observed I don't have many titles left for the next Spring, so even if I'm not a very big comedy fan, I don't have any options left for the next April besides "American Reunion". It's a sequel. For "American Pie". What's the number ? I have no idea ... I lost count ...



In case somebody forgot the superheroes invasion lately, it's not a problem - in May the next year, everybody comes back in "The Avengers". Since I'm more than fed up with the genre, I won't spend any time enumerating them, you can look for yourself in the trailer ...



I'm closing this preview (without much hope) with "Battleship" because that's pretty much the last trailer momentarily available for the end of next Spring. The only reason that made me mention it is the fact I've seen Liam Neeson around there but I'm not sure that's enough to guarantee that we won't end up with an aquatic Transformers ...



Next time I'm back with a movie. Ciao ;)