When I put together this week’s Something to Do: Movies entry, I somehow completely missed the new Hong Kong Martial Arts epic Kung Fu Killer. It isn’t exactly in wide release, but a lot of the Chinese owned AMC Theater Multiplexes will be carrying it. It is put together by the team that did IP Man, and stars Donnie Yen as a killer/Kung Fu expert recruited by police to track down a murderer in return for his release from prison. Check out the trailer, I think this one looks quite entertaining.
DC is taking one of their darker Parallel Earth story lines with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which will be coming out next year. I thought they might want to do something a bit more positive for their first theatrical presentation of the Justice League, but I would have been wrong. There isn’t a lot to their web site quite yet, since the release date of March 2016 is still quite a ways off. That date has changed twice so far, and may do so again.
I don’t know what number this trailer is, beyond the fact it is the one published in the last 16 hours or so. Jurassic World will open on June 12th, and I am thinking this one deserves to be seen in 3D IMAX.
This week finally brings us The Age of Adaline, the story of the woman who had a strange accident and thereafter did not age. Somewhere around the time she turned 110 she fell in love again, and that changed everything. I have been waiting for this movie to get into the theaters for quite a while, and am quite pleased it is finally time. Their movie home page design is really well done, but needs a bit of work to create a proper navigation interface that you can actually find. The one it has is hidden, unless you have a 12 year old guide whose only computer has been their smart phone for all their life. Their Tumblr page is the best use of that resource to promote a movie I have seen, breaking the image set into the decades that span the timeline of the film, and telling its own story.
A young French film student by the name of Gwenn Germain has put together an amazing tribute to Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli films, and it is world class. Watch, and go Ooh and Aah, and let me know what you think!
This one just cracked me up, so I had to share… And yes, of course there is no such movie coming out. Wouldn’t it be nice, though?