Monster Trucks looks like good silly fun, and sometimes that’s all that you need to keep yourself entertained. Aliens are the engines for this wild romp, I may have to check it out. Bad Kids of Crestview Academy gets a mention because it is based on the graphic novel ‘Bad Kids Go 2 Hell’ and because it appears to be that rare crossbreed: horror/comedy. While I don’t expect it to be in Shaun of the Dead territory it might just surprise me, and they did a great job of casting the actors to match the manga characters. I will briefly also point out The Crash because it claims to take place in the ‘near future’ (it’s another get-the-hackers-to-protect-the-country film), and Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies as winner of this week’s Silliest Title award, another horror/comedy. Perhaps they are not as rare as I thought.
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale is the feature film coming to theaters later this year, continuing the saga. This trailer has the Lisa theme song as its core, and a story line based on a nightmare from VR starting to spread into reality by way of AR. Not just based on the light novels by Reki Kawahara but actually written by her specifically for the movie, I am looking forward to seeing this one on the big screen.
One of the movies I am looking forward to in 2017, Transformers: The Last Knight looks like a lot of fun. It will be hitting the Big Screen next June23rd, and no doubt be filled with the non-stop adrenaline pacing that Michael Bay is famous for.
The Fantasy A Monster Calls has won two awards and been nominated for 51 more before it even went into wide release, and may be the movie of choice this week. Underworld: Blood Wars puts Kate Beckinsale squarely between the Lycans and Vampires as she moves in to end the ages old war. Hidden Figures is the true story of the women who calculated the launches, orbits, and landings for the Mercury and Apollo space programs, and what they had to overcome to do it. It was a double whammy against them in the 19050s and 1960s because besides being female they were African Americans, but they were also some of the finest engineers this country has produced. Finally, Railroad Tigers is the story of a railroad worker in 1941 China who leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese to get food to the poor. Since it starts Jackie Chan, there is a chance it may have some comedic moments.
We get two versions of Princess Mononoke in movie theaters this January, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Studio Ghibli classic. On January 5th you can see the original Japanese version with English subtitles, while on January 9th you can watch the English Dub version. Both versions were the work of Hayao Miyazaki, but you may not be aware the English language version was written by Neil Gaiman, and performed by such talents as Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, and Gillian Anderson! The special event screening is a combined project of Fathom Events and GKIDS.
I have been a serious fan of Minions for years, and when I spotted the trailer for Despicable Me 3 I had no choice but to include it here. It will be hitting the theater on heaters on June 30, 2017, and I can’t wait to see what new and twisted tropes they brutalize next as they destroy all things disco!