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Box Office Movies Coming Out in January

Posted in Movies, Recommendations on December 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Based on information provided by the Box Office Mojo and some internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in January:

A Dog’s Way Home
Opens: January 11

A dog named Bella (voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard) embarks on a 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her owner, Lucas (Jonah Hauer-King), who is an aspiring medical student. The cast includes Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos, Alexandra Shipp, Wes Studi, Barry Watson and Tammy Gillis.

Replicas
Opens: January 11

This sci-fi thriller tells the story of a biologist who violates all possible laws and principles in order to bring his family members back to life, after they died in a car accident. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch and Emily Alyn Lind.

Sgt. Will Gardner
Opens: January 11

An Iraq War veteran takes a spirited motorcycle trip across America and picks up pieces of his life that have been lost since going into combat. The film stars Max Martini, Omari Hardwick, Lily Rabe, Dermot Mulroney, Gary Sinise and Robert Patrick.

The Upside
Opens: January 11

A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy quadriplegic (Bryan Cranston) and an unemployed man (Kevin Hart) with a criminal record who is hired to help him. The cast includes Nicole Kidman, Aja Naomi King, Julianna Margulies and Tate Donovan.

Glass
Opens: January 16

Following the conclusion of Split, David Dunn (Bruce Willis) pursues Kevin Wendell Crumb’s (James McAvoy) superhuman persona of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters while the shadowy presence of Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), going by ‘Mr. Glass’, emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. The film also stars Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy and Spencer Treat Clark.

The Kid Who Would Be King
Opens: January 25

Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is a young boy who is picked on at school and does not appear to be very special at all. However, that soon changes when he finds and pulls King Arthur’s famous sword Excalibur. He discovers that he is destined to form a new round table for an upcoming battle with the medieval villain Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson), who summons evil forces to rule the world. The wizard Merlin (Angu Imrie) assists Alex in his quest. He was depicted as a young incarnation of Merlin in the film but capable of transforming to his old self (Patrick Stewart).

Serenity
Opens: January 25

The film follows a fishing boat captain who is approached by his ex-wife to murder her new husband. The cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, and Djimon Hounsou.

Movies coming out in February will be posted at the end of January.

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: Doctor Who New Year’s Day Special: Resolution

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The annual Christmas special of Doctor Who will actually air as a 90-minute New Year’s Day Special – reported to be called Resolution – on BBC America at 7 PM.

As the New Year begins, a terrifying evil is stirring from across the centuries of Earth’s history. Will the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz be able to overcome this threat to Planet Earth?

Here is a trailer for the Doctor Who Holiday Special:

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Year-End Round-Up: In Memorium

Posted in Movies, Music, Television, Year End Round Up on December 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The following industry personalities (listed in alphabetical order) passed away in 2018 and heartfelt condolences are extended to their families, friends and fans:

Marty Allen (Legendary Comedian)
Harry Anderson (Actor, “Night Court”)
Michael Anderson (Director, “Logan’s Run”)
Susan Anspach (Actress, “Five Easy Pieces” and “Play It Again”)
Avicii [aka Tim Bergling] (Artist, DJ and Producer) [He was only 28]

Marty Balin (Co-Founder, Jefferson Airplane)
Ken Berry (Actor, “F-Troop” and “Mayberry R.F.D.”)
Arthur Black (Canadian Humorist, Author and CBC Radio Personality)
Steven Bochco (Co-Creator, “NYPD Blue” and “Hill Street Blues”)
Anthony Bourdain (TV Personality, Celebrity Chef and Writer)
DuShon Monique Brown (Actress, “Chicago Fire) [She was only 49]
Barbara Bush (Former First Lady)
George H.W. Bush (Former President)

Joseph Campanella (Actor, “Mannix” and “One Day at a Time”)
Reg E. Cathey (Actor, “House of Cards,” “The Wire” and “Oz”)
Roy Clark (Legendary Country Guitarist and “Hee Haw” Star)
“Fast” Eddie Clarke (Guitarist, Rock Band Motorhead)
Anne V. Coates (Oscar-Winning Film Editor, “Lawrence of Arabia”)
Olivia Cole (Veteran Actress, “Roots” and the Mini-Series “Backstairs at the White House”)

Bill Daly (Actor, “I Dream of Jeannie”)
Paul De Meo (Screenwriter “The Rocketeer” and Producer “The Flash” 90’s TV Series)
Steve Ditko (Co-Creator, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange)
Peter Donat (Actor, “The X-Files”)
Bob Dorough (Composer, “Schoolhouse Rock!”)

Harlan Ellison (Sci-Fi Writer, “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5”)
R. Lee Ermey (Actor, Golden Globe Nominee, “Full Metal Jacket”)

Nanette Fabray (Actress-Singer, “The Band Wagon)
Milos Forman (Oscar-Winning Director, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”)
Naomi Parker Fraley (The Real Rose the Riveter)
Aretha Franklin (the Queen of Soul)
Joel Freeman (Veteran Producer, “Shaft” and “Love at First Bite”)

John Gavin (Actor, “Psycho” and “Spartacus”)
Lewis Gilbert (Director, “Alfie,” You Only Live Twice,” “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Moonraker”)
William Goldman (Oscar-Winning Writer, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”)

Barbara Harris (Actress, the original “Freaky Friday”)
Stephen Hawking (Theoretical Physicist and Author)
Stephen Hillenburg (Creator, “SpongeBob SquarePants”)
Tab Hunter (Actor, “Damn Yankees” and “Battle Cry”)

Joe Jackson (Patriarch of Jackson Family)
Keith Jackson (Legendary College Football Sportscaster)
Johann Johannsson (Composer, “Theory of Everything”)
Georgann Johnson (Actress, “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman,” “All My Children” and “As the World Turns”)
Mickey Jones (Character Actor)
Paul Junger Witt (Producer, “The Golden Girls,” “Benson” and “Soap”)

James Karen (Veteran Actor, “Poltergeist” and “The Return of the Living Dead”)
Carl Kasell (Legendary NPR Newsman)
Margot Kidder (Actress, “Superman”)

Christopher Lawford (JFK Nephew and Actor, “General Hospital” and “All My Children”)
Ursula K. Le Guin (Renowned Author, “Earthsea”)
Robin Leach (Host, “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”)
Stan Lee (Legendary Writer, Editor and Publisher, Marvel Comics Characters)
Andy Lewis (Oscar-nominated co-writer “Klute”)
Sondra Locke (Oscar nominee-Actress “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”)
Deanna Lund (Actress, “Land of the Giants”)

Katherine MacGregor (Actress, “Little House on the Prairie”)
John Mahoney (Actor, “Frasier”)
Dorothy Malone (Veteran Actress, “Basic Instinct” and “Peyton Place”)
Robert Mandan (Actor, “Soap”)
Penny Marshall (Director – Actress, “Laverne and Shirley”)
Jan Maxwell (Gifted Comic Actress and 5-Time Tony Nominee)
John McCain (Arizona Senator and One-Time Presidential Nominee)
Peggy McCay (Veteran Actress, “Days of Our Lives”)
Benjamin Melniker (MGM Executive and Producer of nearly all Batman films) [He was 104]
Donald Moffat (Actor, “The Right Stuff” and “Clear And Present Danger”)
John Morris (Veteran Composer, “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein”)
Patricia Morison (Actress, “Song of Bernadette” and “Dressed To Kill”) [She was 103 years old]

Tim O’Connor (Actor, “Peyton Place”)
Dolores O’Riordan (Singer-Songwriter, Lead Singer of “The Cranberries”)
David Ogden Stiers (Actor, “MASH”)

Charlotte Rae (veteran actress, “Facts of Life”)
Burt Reynolds (Actor, “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Deliverance”)
Donnelly Rhodes (Veteran Actor, “Soap” and “Battlestar Galactica”)

Mark Salling (Actor-Singer, “Glee”)
Mitzi Shore (Owner, “The Comedy Store”)
Neil Simon (Playwright, “The Odd Couple” and “Barefoot in the Park”)
Nancy Sinatra, Sr. (the late Frank Sinatra’s first wife and mother of his three children)
Russ Solomon (Founder of Tower Records)
Kate Spade (Fashion Designer)
Elizabeth Sung (Character Actress, “The Young and the Restless” “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Sopranos”)
D’Wayne Swear (Retired Naval Investigator who inspired NCIS: New Orleans character Dwayne Pride)

Emma Tennant (Top British TV Executive)
Verne Troyer (Actor, “Austin Powers” franchise)

Jerry Van Dyke (Veteran Actor “Coach” and Brother of Dick Van Dyke)
Will Vinton (Award-Winning Animator and Pioneer of Claymation)

Clint Walker (Actor, 1950’s western classic “Cheyenne”)
Nancy Wilson (Grammy-Winning Singer, Actress)
Scott Wilson (Veteran Actor, “The Walking Dead”)
Tom Wolfe (Journalist and Author, “The Right Stuff”)

Craig Zadan (Prolific Stage, TV and Film Producer)

NOTE: This list, in no way, covers all the industry talent who passed away this year. Again, condolences are extended to one and all.

Out of respect, please take a moment of silence.

TOMORROW: Ratings

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Year-End Round-Up: The Hits and Misses on the Big Screen 2018

Posted in Movies, Year End Round Up on December 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

In years past, I would attempt to see about 25 movies in the theatres every year, but this year has been drastically different with my only seeing about a dozen movies in the theatre this time around. The movies I enjoyed the most include: Mary Poppins Returns, The Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody and Avengers: Infinity War.

But I know readers don’t care about what movies I saw throughout the year or which ones I liked best. So it’s time to look at the top 30 biggest box office winners from this year (up through Sunday, December 23):

1. Black Panther – 700 million
2. Avengers: Infinity War – 679 million
3. Incredibles 2 – 609 million
4. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – 417 million
5. Deadpool 2 – 318 million
6. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch – 253 million
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout – 220 million
8. Ant-Man and the Wasp – 217 million
9. Solo: A Star Wars Story – 214 million
10. Venom – 213 million
11. A Star is Born – 200 million
12. A Quiet Place – 188 million
13. Bohemian Rhapsody – 185 million
14. Crazy Rich Asians – 174 million
15. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – 168 million
16. Ralph Breaks the Internet – 162 million
17. Halloween (2018) – 159 million
18. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – 154 million
19. The Meg – 145 million
20. Ocean’s 8 – 140 million
21. Ready Player One -138 million
22. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again – 121 million
23. The Nun – 118 million
24. Peter Rabbit – 115 million
25. Creed II – 109 million
26. The Equalizer 2 – 102 million
27. Rampage (2018) – 101 million
28. A Wrinkle in Time – 100.5 million
29. Fifty Shades Freed – 100.4 million
30. Disney’s Christopher Robin – 99 million

NOTE: Please keep in mind that the box office results for movies released during the week before Christmas won’t be tallied until later this week.

On the other spectrum are the movies that were either a disappointment in the box office due to poor ticket sales or, more importantly, had a horrible trailer that made me completely uninterested in seeing them.

They appear in alphabetical order below:

Acrimony
Bad Samaritan
Blockers
Game Night
Gotti
Gringo
Holmes & Watson
I Feel Pretty
Insidious: The Last Key
Life of the Party
Night School
Nobody’s Fool
Overboard
Overlord
Slender Man
Super Troopers 2
Tag
The First Purge
The Happytime Murders
The Meg
The Nun
The Spy Who Dumped Me
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Truth or Dare
Uncle Drew
Venom
White Boy Rick

What movies did you most enjoy seeing this year? Which movies were disappointments to you? Please share your thoughts and comments.

TOMORROW: The Award Goes To…

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: A Midnight Kiss

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

On December 29, the Hallmark Channel holiday movie A Midnight Kiss will debut at 8 PM.

With only one week to prepare, Lisa Patterson and her family of party planners are given the biggest job in their company’s history: a New Year’s Eve party for tech entrepreneur Megan Clark. But when her brother breaks his leg and her parents head off on a planned vacation, Lisa must reluctantly enlist the help of her brother’s visiting college buddy, David Campos, to help her pull off the event which just so happens to fall on her favorite day of the year. But what Lisa didn’t plan on was falling in love in the process.

The film stars Carlos PenaVega and Adelaide Kane.

Here is a trailer for A Midnight Kiss.

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: When Calls the Heart: The Greatest Christmas Blessing

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »

When Calls the Heart: The Greatest Christmas Blessing movie will debut on December 25 at 9 PM on the Hallmark Channel.

When a group of orphans become stranded in Hope Valley for Christmas, their caretakers — sisters who have a mysterious backstory — lead Bill (Jack Wagner) to investigate the circumstances of their arrival. He discovers the sisters and their orphanage are in jeopardy, so Abigail (Lori Loughlin) and the other residents rally to make it a Christmas to remember for the orphans.

Elizabeth (Erin Krakow), who is preparing for the birth of her child, organizes her students to engage in selfless gift-giving. That, along with a Christmas miracle, help bring wonder, hope, joy, and love to all this Christmas season.

Other regular cast members who will appear in the special include Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith and Paul Greene [among others].

Here is a trailer for When Calls the Heart: The Greatest Christmas Blessing.

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: Call the Midwife Holiday Special

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »

On December 25, the Call the Midway Holiday Special will air on PBS at 9 PM.

Sister Mildred (Miriam Margoyles) arrives unexpectedly at Nonnatus House with her hands full with four Chinese orphans. Having fled China, the child refugees were found abandoned in Hong Kong and are being adopted in the U.K. as part of the World Refugee Project. With Christmas preparations in full flow and the midwives busy caring for the expectant mothers of Poplar, these unexpected visitors cause joy and chaos in equal measure.

The special also sees Trixie return to Poplar in time to cover for the Sisters as they leave for the Mother House. The Order’s Mother Superior has taken ill, and a new spiritual leader needs to be elected. It soon becomes clear, much to Sister Julienne’s horror, that she is the favored candidate.

You can see the trailer for the Call the Midway Holiday Special here.

NOTE: Please scroll down the page at the above link to see the trailer.

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Special Event of the Week Recommendation: Timeless (Series Finale)

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »

On December 20, the Timeless two-hour series finale event will premiere on NBC at 8 PM.

The finale special will spread across three centuries and two continents, testing Lucy, Wyatt and the entire Time Team like never before as they try to Save Rufus, preserve history and put a stop to Rittenhouse once and for all.

Here is a trailer for the Timeless two-hour series finale event:

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: Hometown Holiday

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »

On December 23, the UP TV holiday movie Hometown Holiday will debut at 7 PM.

Based on the best-selling Harlequin book The Maverick’s Holiday Masquerade, the movie is about a high-powered music executive Ryan (Bradley Hamilton) is so desperate to sign the latest internet sensation to his label that he agrees to accompany his sister to a country wedding just to get the chance to meet him, but he also meets a beautiful small-town girl (Sarah Troyer) and falls head-over-heels for her.

Now, through a year of mistaken identities, misunderstandings and masquerades, the two will need to hope that a lot of love and some Christmas magic can bring them together.

The cast includes Kevin McGarry and Stephen Huszar.

Here is a trailer for Hometown Holiday.

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: Christmas Bells Are Ringing

Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on December 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The next holiday movie to debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is Christmas Bells Are Ringing airing on December 23 at 10 PM.

Photographer Samantha (Emilie Ullerup) returns to Cape Cod to celebrate Christmas and her father’s wedding. Anxious to revisit past memories, she finds new meaning in her photography, and falls in love.

The film co-stars Josh Kelly.

Here is a trailer for Christmas Bells Are Ringing.

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