Trailer: Get On Up — The James Brown Story

Posted on March 14, 2014 at 4:15 pm

Chadwick Boseman (“42”) looks electrifying as James Brown in this biopic directed by “The Help’s” Tate Taylor, produced by Ron Howard, and co-starring Viola Davis, Jill Scott, and Octavia Spencer.  It will be in theaters this summer.

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Clips: A Birder’s Guide to Everything

Posted on March 8, 2014 at 3:59 pm

Lesson Number One: Don’t call them birdwatchers.  They are birders.  And in this movie three very dedicated high school birders want to find and document what may be a duck previously thought to be extinct.  Sir Ben Kingsley co-stars with Kodi Smit-McPhee, James LeGros, and Alex Wolff in this charming story about a journey that takes just about everyone to an unexpected destination.  Here are two clips from the film, which will be in theaters on March 21.

 

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Trailer: The Boxtrolls

Posted on March 6, 2014 at 6:31 pm

Coming this fall from Laika (“Coraline,” “ParaNorman”), “The Boxtrolls” stars Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, and Tracy Morgan in the story of a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Hempstead-Wright) in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher (Kingsley), comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, “into the light,” where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnifred (Fanning). Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs’ family. It’s based on Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow.  The trailer looks awesome — love the cover of the Elvis classic, “Baby, I Don’t Care.”

Here’s an early look:

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A Sneak Peek at Disney’s new “Pirate Fairy”

Posted on March 6, 2014 at 5:45 pm

From the world of “Peter Pan” comes “The Pirate Fairy,” a swashbuckling new adventure about Zarina (voice of Christina Hendricks), a smart and ambitious dust-keeper fairy who’s captivated by Blue Pixie Dust and its endless possibilities. When Zarina’s wild ideas get her into trouble, she flees Pixie Hollow and joins forces with the scheming pirates of Skull Rock, who make her captain of their ship. Tinker Bell (voice of Mae Whitman) and her friends must embark on an epic adventure to find Zarina, and together they go sword-to-sword with the band of pirates led by a cabin boy named James (voice of Tom Hiddleston), who’ll soon be known as Captain Hook himself. With laughter, heart, magic and thrills, “The Pirate Fairy” sets sail April 1, 2014.

 

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