This looks like a fun little time travel movie. Welcome to Yesterday is about some friends who find parts for a time travel machine along with some instructions in Dad’s old workshop, and proceed to figure out how to make it work. As is usual in such cases, the law of unintended consequences exacts its price from our protagonists. No way to predict the survival rate based on the trailer, hopefully it won’t be too brutal.
In the form of an animated music video with the song What Good Is Love sung by Janelle Monáe. I enjoyed the first movie, and am looking forward to Rio 2 when it comes out on April 11th.
Her opened in very limited release back in December, this week it goes into wide release, after winning a number of awards. The Legend of Hercules also comes out this Friday, and it looks like they took some pains to keep it close to the original story line.
In somewhat more limited release is EVANGELION: 3.0 – You Can (Not) Redo; mostly it will only be playing for one day in each theater, but there are a bunch of US and Canadian theaters on the list. Two of the theaters are within driving distance for me, I can’t wait to see the latest chapter in the rebuild of the franchise on the big screen.
Hello, and welcome to the future! There are a ton of films coming out in the New Year, I am just going to touch on a few of the better known ones that I am excited about. From Marvel, we are getting Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 14th, Amazing Spider-Man 2 on May 2nd, X-Men: Days of Future Past on May 23, and Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1st. The dates are best guesses, since production or contract realities may shift them about, as always.
We get 2 from Michael Bey this year, Transformers: Age of Extinction on June 27, and for some reason he is also doing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Megan Fox on August 8.
Besides the ones already mentioned there are several other sequels and/or reboots, with Godzilla on May 16th, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For on August 22, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes on July 18th, The Hunger Games Mockingjay (Part 1) on November 21st, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again on December 17th.
There are also a number of unique properties that have not previously been movies that I am eager to check out, most of which are smaller independent films which I will be mentioning down the road. A few of the larger productions include The Lego Movie on February 7th (that one looks like a serious hoot), The Edge of Tomorrow on June 6th, Jupiter Ascending on July 23rd, and Interstellar on November 7th.
Yes, it should be a hell of a year for movies, and I am looking forward to it.
After New Years we get a few movies worth checking out, including Paradox, a story about a theoretical physicist who’s wife is murdered. He build a paratime device to allow him to jump between parallel universes, looking for one in which she is still alive. Unicorns is about a teenage girl who retreats into a fantasy world when her first romantic entanglement turns violent. This one doesn’t seem to be genre really, but it is as indie as they come, so I thought I should at least mention it on the off chance it does go into a fantasy realm.
One of the movies hitting the big screen this week is a remake of the classic 47 Ronin. While I am not sure how Keanu Reeves ended up starring in a Japanese Historical Epic Chushingura, it looks like a good addition to a true story that has been done as kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, and television shows, not once, but many times each. The historical incident at the core of this tale took place in 1700’s Japan, and it is probably the single best known and most often retold story in Nihongo (that’s Japanese to you and me). The other choice this week is also a remake of an old film (get some new ideas, Hollywood!), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which looks like they may have done justice to the James Thurber story. Even though there isn’t anything original out this week, it looks like they have done a world class job on each of them, so I will have to be in the theater for both.