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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Through The Trailers: Lila & Eve Official Trailer #1 Review (2015)



Do not prejudge based on her last movie The Boy Next Door this is Jennifer Lopez with supporting the Academy Award nominated Viola Davis. Not a movie with JLo trying to act. Viola plays a mother grief stricken after the death of her son. When police are unable to move forward in the investigation Lopez's suggest they take matters in their own hands. This is when the trailer takes its best turn to keep you along for the ride.

Its interesting what a person can do in the name of love and family. What I'm most curious about is what is in it for the character played by Lopez.  She convinces a woman to go above the law and take an eye for an eye. I speculate that Lopez has a more diabolical ulterior motive. So far I'm just curious but not yet sold. But I do like what I see so far.

Directed by:
CHARLES STONE III

Written by:
PATRICK GILFILLAN

Starring:
VIOLA DAVIS
JENNIFER LOPEZ
SHEA WHIGHAM
CHRIS CHALK
JULIUS TENNON
ANDRE ROYO
AML AMEEN
YOLONDA ROSS
DIARRA KILPATRICK
RON CALDWELL
MICHOLE BRIANA WHITE

Produced by:
SARA RISHER
DARRIN REED

Rated: R

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Through The Trailers: The End of the Tour Review


The End of the Tour is a biographical drama directed byJames Ponsoldt and written by Donald Margulies, based on David Lipsky's 2010 book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. It stars Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg, and is scheduled for release on July 31, 2015.

The David Foster Wallace Literary Estate has not endorsed the film stating that Wallace would have never agreed to any filmic portrayal.

So I decided that I'm not taking my blogging serious enough.

So I'm going to challenge myself and start watching trailers on my phone when I have free time or down time and blogging immediately after I see new trailers. so thanks to Android I should be able to keep myself busy and get my thoughts out a lot faster. After watching this trailer I feel a little conflicted. I can already see that critics are already raving about the performances but just simply going by the trailer I get a vibe that it's a prequel to the social network.

Eisenberg still hasn't convinced me that he can break the chains from his performance on the social network. I'm hoping once he's portrayed Lex Luthor or that would have changed. but based on what I've seen from this trailer he still has not change my mind as of yet. That's not to say that this film won't be great. from what I can tell it has a lot of great messages and there's obvious chemistry between Segel and Heisenberg but I I am going to have to wait to see the movie in its entirety before I can tell you whether or not I even liked the trailer. it didn't make me very enthusiastic nor did it for me so I'm going to be a clean slate and just give the movie a chance for the sake of giving a movie a chance. here's hoping that I'll be knocked out by how great this movie will impact.