The main film this week is The Jungle Book, the latest iteration of the Rudyard Kipling classic. The composited Live Action/CGI makes this the best looking version yet, and is an example of just how good the technology has gotten. The last time Disney told this story they did it with hand drawn animation, and that was the best anyone had seen up to that point, so this continues their tradition. While the most widely publicized, this isn’t our only choice this time around; Adam Green’s Aladdin will be making its way to a limited number of screens, and looks interesting enough to check out.
This week sees Hardcore Henry on the big screen, a man who has been brought back from the dead by his wife just before she gets kidnapped. He has no memory and doesn’t know the city he is in, and his wife’s kidnapper is a powerful warlord with an army of mercenaries. Worse, he has a plan for world domination which involves reanimating the dead, which is how Henry came back. The movie was filmed first person style, so you spend the thing seeing everything from Henry’s viewpoint, which is a little confusing on the action sequences. I probably won’t be seeing this one myself, but it is genre so I had to mention it here.
If you have played this even once, the reality of the Ratchet & Clank movie can be summed up with their tag line: Kick Some Asteroid! It will be on the big screen at the end of April, just a handful of weeks from now.
The genre film this week is Pandemic, but I would rather seem Miles Ahead. The first is about a plague that threatens to wipe out all life on Earth and turn us all into Zombies, and I have already seen that movie twenty times too often, each time with a different cast. Miles Ahead is an indiegogo funded film about musical genius Miles Davis at a critical point in his life that I think has a lot of promise. So this time around I will be listening to the music.
Edgar Rice Burroughs has created some amazing characters, and his most recognized is coming back to the big screen in The Legend Of Tarzan. On July 1st we will get to find out if they are doing this classic story justice, and if they are, we will have a reboot of the entire massive collection of tales, both big and small.
The movie Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is based on Ransom Riggs New York Times best seller debut novel (his previous book being a study of the methods of a Fictional Detective, rather than a fiction itself), and it looks like Tim Burton has set the tone quite nicely for this fantasy. It will be on the big screen on September 30th, and I am looking forward to seeing how they did with it.