Top Gun: Maverick Super Bowl Trailer

Time to also get excited about the Christmas season release of Top Gun: Maverick. Not only because Tom Cruise seems to have not aged a day since the summer of 1986. But also because, in these days of airborne CGI Transformers and the like, the movie's flying sequences were done practically. All in keeping with Cruise's quest for absolute authenticity and pushing limits, as seen in the above clip:

Can't wait for the film to hit theatres on December 23.

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No Time To Die: Super Bowl Trailer

Time to get the anticipation building for Daniel Craig's last turn as James Bond. Bond returns to action after several years in retirement to find that...things have definitely changed.

Things should be interesting and exciting on November 25.

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An Apple For Tom Hanks: Greyhound Trailer

Today Apple acquired the Tom Hanks WWII movie Greyhound from Sony, which had pulled it off of its July 12 theatrical release due to the pandemic. So Apple TV+ will release it on a yet-to-be-determined date.

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Old Guard Trailer

Looks like Charlize Theron's rocking an action movie for Netflix.

And it looks like it has a meatier plot than Extraction.

Looking forward to The Old Guard dropping on Netflix July 10.

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Daniel's An Indie Free Guy!

Daniel Craig, Harry Potter himself, has his own life-is-just-a-game movie with Guns Akimbo.

Looks interesting, even without the backing of Disney.

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The Big Two

There are two movies playing in theatres as of yesterday (May 19):

 Figures courtesy www.boxofficemojo.com.

1)  The Wretched





Theatres: 21
Gross Yesterday $14,885
Avg/Theater: $708
Days In Release: 19
Gross To Date: $332,084


2) How To Build A Girl:




Theatres: 9
 Gross Yesterday: $4, 019
Avg/Theater $446
Days In Release: 12
Gross To Date: $59,727

I'm guessing most of these numbers come from theatres open in Texas and Florida.

The numbers may in fact be higher due to theatres not able to report.

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Spike's War Joint: Da 5 Bloods

I applaud Spike Lee's desire to tell the story of the experiences of black soldiers in the Vietnam War.

It couldn't have been easy being disrespected by the country you were willing to die for.

But I wonder if Lee's artistic sensibilities will be ruffled when Da 5 Bloods draws comparisons to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 epic Apocalypse Now.

Da 5 Bloods drops on Netflix June 12.


And just for comparison's sake:






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Ryan's A Free Guy!

By the time Free Guy comes out on December 11, we may be in sore need of some fantasy.

And it looks like Ryan Reynolds will deliver!

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Unhinged: Russell Crowe's Up First!

Brand new studio Solstice has announced that the Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged will open in theatres on July 1.

Here's hoping...

...because here is the last movie I saw on July 1, in 1999 to be exact, at WEM's brand new SilverCity:




I'm sure both Will Smith and Salma Hayek both need a drink when the anniversary of the June 30th anniversary of the opening of Wild Wild West rolls around.

Because it fizzled, with a $27 million first-weekend gross, on the way to $222 million worldwide.

Mind you, if Solstice makes $27 million, Solstice just might hold a street dance on Hollywood Boulevard.

But that's just me.

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Waiting For Movies: Survive The Night

According to the venerable IMDb, this Bruce Willis actioner is supposed to be out on Friday.

Too bad it will only be seen in drive-ins in Texas and Florida.


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Mark Hamill's Inspiring Message

Just had to share this.

Mark Hamill has always seemed to be one of the most down to earth guys in all of fandom.

And he's been ahead of the culture, rocking the quarantine beard for quite a few years now!

And since I'm at a point in my life now where I'm somewhat reliant on nurses, I'd like to give them a shoutout as well!


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RIP Little Richard

With the death of Little Richard yesterday at age 87, real rock and roll music might not be gone.

But it definitely might be fading a bit, that's for sure.

There are a few rock and roll practicioners still around.

Like that guy in all the jokes that end with "...and a cockroach".

And three or four people that guy knows.

Don't want to name anybody.

Just because...you know.

But Little Richard was a musical genius.

Who did not give a damn what people thought of him, musicwise or lifewise.

And in the end, classics like Tutti Fruitti, Good Golly Miss Molly and Lucille will live on forever.

And as music fans, isn't that all we can ask?


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