Awards Season Gets a Summer Start With Strong Contenders Like ‘War For the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘The Big Sick’
This summer several movies are moving along on their road to the Oscars, while others are falling away.
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The Weinstein Company 2017 Release Calendar: Here’s the Oscar Hopefuls, and the Damaged Goods
After they get a few duds out of the way, Weinstein actually has a promising fall award season slate.
‘Doctor Strange’ Blu-ray: How ‘Inception’ Inspired Marvel and ILM’s Mystical VFX
The Blu-ray release of Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” reveals the VFX Sorcery in the bonus features.
‘Doctor Strange’ Review: Marvel’s Mind-Bending New Superhero Movie Is Their Best Since ‘The Avengers’
Tilda Swinton and some dazzlingly trippy special effects make this a strong shot in the arm for a cinematic universe that’s in need of new stars.
Emmys 2016: Who’s the Possible Spoiler in the Best Actor Race for Limited Series/TV Movie?
From a battle of British detectives to “the master of the Senate,” TV Academy history suggests that Courtney B. Vance’s road to Emmy is no walk in the park.
Star Trek Into Darkness
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
George Smiley, a recently retired MI6 agent, is doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the service, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects – all experienced, skilled and successful agents – but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment.
Four Lions
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.
War Horse
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. [Synopsis courtesy of IMDb, Image courtesy of DreamWorks]
Creation
Follow Australian trio Silverchair through the creation of their acclaimed album, Diorama.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Zoolander 2
Models Derek Zoolander and Hansel must stop a conspiracy to kill the world’s most beautiful people.
