Seventh Son is a nice looking fantasy adventure which should be on the big screen around February 6th. The film is based on Joseph Delaney’s book series The Last Apprentice, also called Spooks. I am looking forward to this one, and I think I have time to catch up with all the books before I sit down in the theater.
The Age of Adaline is a story about a woman who does not age, as the world changes around her. It is an epic romantic drama, her story taking place over the span of 10 decades, and based on the trailer it looks worth checking out. It will be on the bigh screen on April 24th.
Somehow I can’t get excited over The Pyramid this week, another in a long line of cursed tomb films. The fact that this plot line has been done to death probably has something to do with that. This will be a good weekend to catch up with the TV series I haven’t had time to get through yet this year.
The animated George Lucas film Strange Magic will be in theaters on January 23rd, and should be a lot of fun. It looks like some of the same folks are involved who created Epic if the character design and animation style is any indication.
This week we get The Imitation Game, the true life story of Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist. He was in the forefront of the project to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII, without him we might have lost the war. Benedict Cumberbatch gets to play the great man this time around. If you prefer your spy’s animated rather than real, The Penguins of Madagascar is quite a bit funnier… but it also stars Benedict Cumberbatch, so he is in both of my selections for this weekend.
It is now called Project Almanac, but when I first blogged about it back in January the name was Welcome to Yesterday. It does look like it could be a very interesting time travel movie, fully grounded in the law of unintended consequences. Of course, it might just collapse into a horror type film as well; we will find out on January 30th.