07 October
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 Director: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon, Laura BrousseauStarring: Chlöe Grace Moretz, Charlize Theron, Oscar Isaac, Nick Kroll, Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton, Bette Midler, Snoop Dogg, Wallace Shawn, Bill Hader The Addams Family is back for more kooky mayhem, and this time they’re on a road trip in The Addams Family 2. The sequel focuses on teenage Wednesday Addams, once again voiced by Chloe Grace Moretz, whose going through a moody phase after a frustrating science fair at school. Gomez (Isaac) sees this as the perfect time for a family road trip to reconnect as a family. They head out for a cross countryRead More →

05 September
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IT CHAPTER TWO Director: Andy MuschiettiStarring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, James Ransone It’s been twenty-seven years since the members of the Losers Club battled Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård) They’re now adults and have put their past traumas behind them. They’ve suppressed those memories until Mike (Mustafa) gives them an unwanted call. History is repeating itself in Derry as a new crop of killings have occurred. As kids they made an oath to return to Derry if Pennywise started his reign of terror all over again. When they arrive backRead More →

09 May
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IT: CHAPTER TWO Director: Andy MuschiettiStarring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, James Ransone The new adaptation of It was a massive success at the box office breaking opening records for the horror genre. Unlike many horror sequels, IT: Chapter Two is not a cash grab. If you read the Stephen King opus or have seen the original Tim Curry version, you may remember that IT is told through the perspective of the Losers Club as children (as we saw in Part 1) and now, twenty-seven years later, as adults. The Losers Club reunitesRead More →

22 January
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LOVE, GILDA Director: Lisa D’ApolitoStarring: Gilda Radner, Gene Wilder, Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Chevy Chase, Martin Short The new documentary Love, Gilda is a love letter to comedienne Gilda Radner. It takes a traditional approach to its structure starting with her childhood days continuing on in her early days of improv, becoming a member of the first cast of Saturday Night Live, marrying Gene Wilder, and her diagnosis with ovarian cancer. Here’s my reviewRead More →

11 August
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SAUSAGE PARTY Director: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon Starring: Seth Rogen, Krsiten Wiig, Jonah Hill, Edward Norton, Bill Hader, James Franco, Salma Hayek, Anders Holm, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, Nick Kroll, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your groceries had a personality? What would they say as they are sitting on the store shelves and how do they feel once they are released into the Great Beyond, aka the real world passed the store doors? No, you haven’t thought that? Me neither. Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill came up with this premise and took a Toy Story-like approachRead More →

30 June
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THE BFG Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Ruby Barnhill, Jemaine Clement, Rafe Spall, Penelope Wilton There’s something nostalgic about seeing a Steven Spielberg film with the Amblin Entertainment studio logo playing before it starts. Spielberg and his crew composing of producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, trusty DP Janusz Kaminski and composer John Williams are back together again. This time the team takes on one of Roald Dahl’s beloved creations, The BFG. For a little girl named Sophie (Barnhill), the witching hour is that time in the middle of the night when the boogeyman comes out and people go missing.Read More →

16 July
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TRAINWRECK Director: Judd Apatow Starring: Amy Schumar, Bill Hader, Colin Quinn, Brie Larson, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, LeBron James, Jonn Cena, Vanessa Bayer, Mike Birbiglia, Evan Brinkman Amy Schumer is hotter than ever in 2015 even though her TV show “Inside Amy Schumer” is currently in its third season. If you haven’t watched her sketch “Last F…able Day” go watch that right now and come back to my review afterwards. She has now made a successful foray into movies with help from Judd Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin, This is 40). In Trainwreck Amy plays Amy, and you guessed it correctly, she is a trainwreck.Read More →

18 June
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INSIDE OUT Director: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen Starring: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Richard Kind, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Lane The last time writer/director Pete Docter, composer Michael Giacchino, and Pixar teamed up they brought us Up in 2009, and I was a puddle within the first fifteen minutes after sobbing so hard. I wasn’t that big of an emotional wreck this time around, but Inside Out is the best animated movie since then. Big claims, I know. At the tender age of 11, Riley (Dias) is forced to move from small town Minnesota to San Francisco, CA.Read More →