FIRST LOOK: FIVE NEW MOVIES!

As we are stuck in the dog days of movie winter, when the big studios dump their also rans and never weres onto our screens and we all ignore them to take in Oscar contenders featuring actors we've never heard of and fake babies, we look forward to the spring and summer, when the cinema screen promises to, well, suck less. Here then are five films on your horizon:

This is the one all your kids and grandkids are wanting to be first in line for. Gru had been set aside and the new film focuses solely on the part of the Despicable Me movies audiences respond to, those cute little yellow gibberish spouting goggle wearing sentient ear plugs, The Minions. Hopefully there will be some grounding element here, unlike last fall's Penguin movie, which was written and directed with a comedy shotgun. Which I fell asleep at. Cos it was the safest place to be. Minions hit the screen July 10, and it features non minions voiced by John Hamm and Sandra Bullock, because of course it does.

Next, we have:

...a movie based on a theme park attraction, Tomorrowland. I'm a big Cloony supporter, even in his big and dull self directed movies, the guy radiates old school screen star cool like very few, so his presence on screen is always welcome. Also this movie was directed by Brad Bird, who did The Incredibles, so even more points in this film's favor. In it, "a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory." Working against the film is that it was written in part by that guy driveled out the re-write on that last Alien movie, so I bet parts of this movie will take leaps of logic over giant plot holes you could fly a planet thru. Or not.

The movie opens 5 15 15. Check out the teaser trailer.

NEXT!

This, apparently, opens this month, somewhere. It has the block of balsa wood in human form Hayden Christensen acting alongside our favorite actor, Nic Cage. Even this trailer can not hide the overmodulated awful that is coming off our boy Cage's performance. Why are they romping around with all these Chinese people? Cage's character is called The White Ghost? Will this be the awful we hope for or just bleh? The saga of Nic Cage continues...

NEXT!

I never saw the first Pitch Perfect, sorry, missed that one, even though every female in my household was gaga over it. There was just something about it's resemblance to Glee that kept me away, because Glee I loathe with the brightness of a thousand suns. Why would I subject myself to a big screen version of that atrocity against human kind? However, that's just my opinion and your mileage may vary. Ha ha. Seriously, though, why?

AND LAST:

Oh yeah. This is the one daddy wants to stuff in his eyes. The director, Matthew Vaughan, has a resume of interesting fun twisted at their core genre films, The cast is stellar. Sam Jackson has affected a lisp and is playing the bad guy. Mark Strong and Colin Firth are favorites, in even the weakest of films, they do the Brit thing better than most. It was cast by somebody with the really really English name of Reginald Poerscout-Edgerton, Stuff blows up. It's from Marvel. It opens this month. Here's the trailer.

BOOM!

P.S: More movie previews are waiting for you right HERE!