Welcome back to Part Two of the Summer Movie preview, in which the month of July is covered. There are a ton of exciting releases not covered here, so look at this as a guide for the huge stuff. Enjoy. July 1 “The BFG” What it’s about: It’s an adaptation of the lovely Roald Dahl […]
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Summer Movie Lineup
Mandatory Fun, Part I: May & June releases
Welcome to the Summer Movie Preview. Last weekend’s arrival of “Captain America: Civil War” was the early dawn of 2016’s summer movie season. There will be big actors, enormous explosions and the largest budgets the American film industry has ever seen this year. The following mandatory fun list includes the bigger flicks of May and […]
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Summertime, and the Box Office is Humming
A few summer film standouts
This summer is an odd mix of reprisals—Poltergeist, Vacation (really?), and Jurassic Park—as well as the normal dose of superhero films—Fantastic Four (messing it up once wasn’t enough?), Ant-man—but it also has a surprising helping of high quality documentaries. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (June 12): The likely contender for summer favorite breakout […]