Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) is not your usual comic superhero origin story. It turns out that the majestic Amazon princess from a mythic island of female warriors was born of a Harvard psychologist and outspoken feminist who had a polyamorous relationship with two women who inspired the character and a passion for […]
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, the Oscar favorite of the season with 13 Academy Award nominations, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the blockbuster hit of 2017, are coming home in March on Cable and Video On Demand. March is a lively month for VOD releases. The Marvel superhero hit Thor: Ragnarok, which […]
The Oscar nominees roll out in February. Best Picture nominees Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (seven nominations, include acting nominations for Francis McDormand, Sam Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson), Darkest Hour (six nominations in all, including Gary Oldman for best actor), and Lady Bird (five nominations, including Greta Gerwig for best director and best original screenplay) […]
Christopher Nolan’s World War II drama Dunkirk, his big-budget recreation of the disastrous retreat saved by the efforts of British civilians, and the gentle biopic Victoria and Abdul with Judi Dench as Queen Victoria come to cable and streaming video-on-demand in December Also arriving in December are the modern spy sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle […]
The Fate of the Furious, the seventh film in the seemingly exhaustible Fast and Furious franchise, pits Vin Diesel and Charlize Theron against Dwayne Johnson and the rest of his crew. It leads off the new films coming to cable and streaming video-on-demand in July along with the jungle fever prequel Kong: Skull Island with Tom […]
Disney’s live-action remake of their classic animated musical Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, the action-packed sequel John Wick: Chapter 2 with Keanu Reeves, and the animated spin-off / superhero spoof The LEGO Batman Movie highlight the June calendar of offerings arriving on cable and streaming video-on-demand. There’s also the science […]
The super anti-hero film Suicide Squad, which pits a team of supervillains against an ancient god, the new remake of the classic western The Magnificent Seven with Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt recruiting a team of cowboys for a revenge mission, and Clint Eastwood’s Sully with Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, are among […]
