13 June
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LATE NIGHT Director: Nisha GanatraStarring: Mindy Kaling, Emma Thompson, John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Denis O’Hare, Max Casella, Ike Barinholtz Molly (Kaling) works for a chemical plant but is an aspiring comedy writer. She gets the nerve to interview for “Late Night with Katherine Newbury” with no experience in television writing. She gets hired on the sole basis she fills the minority quota in an all-male writers room. The show is sliding down in the ratings. Katherine Newbury (Thompson) has been the host for decades doing long informative interviews. The industry wants short, funny bits with YouTube stars instead. She’s at risk of losingRead More →

12 May
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SNATCHED Director: Jonathan Levine Starring: Goldie Hawn, Amy Schumer, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, Joan Cusack, Randall Park Snatched is the kind of easy breezy comedy you go into because of its stars, not because the trailer looked overly promising or that it has an original plot. It doesn’t really have either of those things. Audiences are going to see Snatched because Amy Schumer is the It girl in comedy right now and Goldie Hawn is finally back on the big screen after fifteen years. I think you go in hoping it will be the funniest movie of the year because of these two talents. It’sRead More →

04 August
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SUICIDE SQUAD Writer/Director: David Ayer Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Cara Delevingne, Scott Eastwood, David Harbour, Ike Barinholtz, Adam Beach Imagine all of the craziest villains in the DC universe coming together for their own film. Suicide Squad takes the deadliest bad guys and unleashes them back out into the city. What could go wrong? In the wake of Superman’s death, government official Amanda Waller (Davis) puts forth Task Force X which would recruit DC’s finest and release them from the asylums and jails in order to take down any metahumanRead More →

17 December
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SISTERS Director: Jason Moore Starring: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Ike Barinholtz, Bobby Moynihan, Kate McKinnon, Rachel Dratch, John Cena Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have proven time and time again that they are comedy gold. They are making their first return to the big screen together since 2008’s Baby Mama. Maura Ellis (Poehler) learns from her parents (Brolin and Wiest) that they are selling their childhood home. They’re too scared to tell their other daughter, Kate (Fey), about the news, so it’s up to Maura to spread word about the fact their childhood home will soon be on theRead More →