A big swing and a huge miss (one of few) for A24, Revenge of the Green Dragons is a straightforward and crass mob
movie following a pair of brothers scaling the ranks of a legendary Chinatown gang in 1980's New York.
Not exact matches
Black Panther, directed by Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, is due out February 16th, 2018,
following a
pair of two upcoming Marvel
movies, Spider - Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok.
Michael Bay is directing a
pair of
movies for Skydance - in the forms of 6 Underground and Robopocalypse -
following the end of his Transformers run.
The international hostage crisis (and spectacular rescue operation) that
followed captivated the public, and within months it had been turned into an Oscar - nominated film by B -
movie king Menahem Golan and a competing
pair of TV
movies that boasted some of the era's craziest all - star casts.
The well - received novel's
following, as well as the popularity of the
movie's
pair of pretty young stars, could very well prove to be a late - summer multiplex draw.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, subtitled Him and Her,
follows a
pair of damaged figures (Jessica Chastain's Eleanor and James McAvoy's Conor) as they attempt to repair their fractured relationship, with the
movie unfolding in two separate, full - length parts from the perspective of both characters.
With apologies to Steven Spielberg's classically tailored Bridge of Spies, the sprawling Straight Outta Compton, the moody creepshow It
Follows, a
pair of formally risky survival
movies (The Martian and The Revenant), the bodacious blockbusters Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron, a
movie you've never heard of called Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and other near - gems we left behind, our picks for the year's 21 very best
movies are listed below, in descending order.
Alexander Payne
follows up his
pair of family dramas with Downsizing, a
movie that doesn't quite know what it is.
The
movie - which
follows several soldiers as they arrive on a small island hoping to escape the zombie menace but must instead contend with an ongoing feud between a
pair of rival clans - opens with some promise, admittedly, as writer / director Romero effectively returns to the atmosphere established by 2007's Diary of the Dead (with the decision to jettison that film's handheld visual style certainly working in its favor).
In that same spirit, the
movie follows a few world - building detours, including some extended scenes between Jérôme and his wary ex-girlfriend — a semi-popular rock singer named Clémence (Esther Garrel)-- and a few comic interludes involving a
pair of burlesque performers who keep making their routines edgier and more sociopolitically meaningful.
The story is comprised of four separate vignettes,
following the romantic misadventures of various characters in Rome - a retired American opera director tries to make a star of his daughter's father - in - law to be, who can only sing in the shower; a
pair of newlyweds are separated for a day and have their fidelity tested by a prostitute,
movie star and a burglar; a middle - class office worker unexpectedly becomes a celebrity targeted by the paparazzi; and an architect runs into a young man who reminds him of a younger version of himself - and is about to make the same romantic mistakes....
West, of course, directed the second EXPENDABLES
movie with Statham, and here the
pair reunite for WILD CARD, which is based on the 1985 novel «Heat» by William Goldman, which was filmed the
following year with Burt Reynolds.
After the Sunset starts off like a typical heist
movie, complete with a
pair of thieves who are looking at retirement but with one last potential score on the horizon and an obsessive FBI agent who
follows them to paradise to catch them once and for all.
His first
movie, In Bruges, about a
pair of squabbling hitmen cooling their heels in that medieval Belgian city, attracted a small but passionate
following for its idiosyncratic blend of semi-comic violence and bro - on - bro chitchat.