23 September
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DON’T WORRY DARLING Director: Olivia WildeStarring: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Olivia Wilde, Sydney Chandler, Douglas Smith Olivia Wilde showed her strengths as a director with the coming-of-age film, Booksmart. Her sophomore effort, Don’t Worry Darling, suffers from a high concept she can’t quite match. She sets the film in a picture perfect 1950s community. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star as married couple Alice and Jack Chambers. They live in a cul-de-sac neighborhood where all the men work for the same company, all leaving their driveways at the same time as they head out to work. Their wives waveRead More →

15 December
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WONDER WOMAN 1984 Director: Patty JenkinsStarring: Gal Gadot, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielson Trust me when I tell you that director Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot rule the DC Extended Universe. Their latest, Wonder Woman 1984, will be in theaters and will be streaming on HBO Max on Christmas. In the first film, we saw Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman fall in love with Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor during the first world war. Flash forward to 1984, and Diana now works for the Smithsonian by day while mourning the loss of her great love. Her newest colleague Barbara Minerva, playedRead More →

08 March
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A WRINKLE IN TIME Director: Ava DuVernay Starring: Storm Reid, Deric McCabe, Levi Miller, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pine, Michael Peña, André Holland Readers have cherished “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle for decades since its release in 1962. It was groundbreaking at the time for attempting a sci-fi, fantasy story for young readers much like we’ve grown accustomed to in recent years with the increased attention to the YA formula. It’s now been given the big screen treatment thanks to Disney and Selma director Ava DuVernay. Fourteen-year-old Meg (Reid) and her younger brother Charles Wallace (McCabe)Read More →

01 June
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WONDER WOMAN Director: Patty Jenkins Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Ewen Bremner, Elena Anaya Wonder Woman is the latest in the DC Extended Universe expanding on her storyline first introduced in Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice. There’s a lot riding on its success to keep this universe afloat after their previous movies have yielded mediocre reviews from audiences and critics. This version of Wonder Woman, with the dynamic Gal Gadot in the lead, traces the character back to her early days as a young Amazonian girl living off a private island shielded from Ares, the GreekRead More →

28 December
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2016: A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016 was not the best year when it came to the selections at your local movie theater. The spring brought out it the usual duds, the summer season was wildly disappointing, and the fall had a few great films to try and redeem itself. Big blockbuster movies like X-Men: Apocalypse, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and The Divergent Series: Allegiant were not greeted with the same sort of enthusiasm upon it’s release. All four were disappointing in some regard. We also saw reboots and revivals of franchises with Ghostbusters, Jason Bourne, Bridget Jones’s Baby,and Blair Witch; some of them wereRead More →

06 September
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HELL OR HIGH WATER Director: David Mackenzie Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham, Katy Mixon Bank robberies always make for a good movie opening. No matter how many I see, it always strikes me as just the right kind of jolt to kick a movie into gear. Ben Foster (Six Feet Under) and Chris Pine (Star Trek) play brothers Tanner and Toby Howard, respectively. Their targets are the Texas Midlands Bank snatching the front drawer cash from each one in the area. It makes for a simpler and quicker in and out versus hitting up the vaults. Tanner is the ex-con whoRead More →

22 July
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STAR TREK BEYOND Director: Justin Lin Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, Lydia Wilson It’s a bit rocky out there in space as the crew of The USS Enterprise attempts to go where no man has gone before. They are at the three-year marker of their five-year mission into deep space. Captain James Tiberius Kirk (Pine) has a birthday looming on the horizon, which prompts some deep soul searching. He’s beginning to question his mission in life and if they are out searching for something that may not be out there. TheRead More →

29 January
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THE FINEST HOURS Director: Craig Gillespie Starring: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, Kyle Gallner, John Magaro Disney is no stranger at taking true stories and attempting to turn them into inspiring movies. They’ve done that with many underdog sports films (Remember the Titans, Miracle, McFarland, USA…) Their latest is focused on the 1952 Coast Guard mission that is considered to be one of the greatest and most daring rescues to date. The SS Pendleton was an oil tanker caught in the middle of a huge storm off the coast of Cape Cod. The gale force winds whipped through at 50-60Read More →

25 December
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INTO THE WOODS Director: Rob Marshall Starring: Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Billy Magnussen, Daniel Huttlestone, Lilla Crawford, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Johnny Depp,Tracey Ullman, Mackenzie Mauzy Many of you may not know this, but I was a musical theater major in college. I have had a love of composer Stephen Sondheim for quite some time. I think it’s safe to say that he is the grand master and god of musical theater lovers everywhere. Into the Woods just happens to be my favorite in his diverse canon. He and lyricist James Lapine have combined characters from variousRead More →

21 May
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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Director: J.J. Abrams Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Alice Eve Trekkies might have been on edge back in 2009 when J.J.Abrams was going to reboot the beloved Star Trek films with a younger cast playing all the old familiar characters from the original series. I am sure there are some purists out there that turn their head in disgust, but Abrams successfully brought back a series that made the Star Trek universe cool again. Old fans rejoiced and new fans came in droves to check out the reboot. If these newRead More →