September is that weird movie month where we aren’t quite to spooky season, not yet into the awards showcases yet, not quite at the holiday timeframe where families and friends round out time together with a movie, so this one ends up being a grab bag of movies with a pretty wide range of concepts and talent.
Don’t Worry Darling - The Woman King - Bros September offers up a trio of potential big theatrical releases. Our Nights Out radar always starts filling up coming out of Labor Day. Based on the plots, directors and stars in these three, our top of the list picks look promising. Check back after we get a chance to check out these if they’re worth a watch.
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September is always a tough month on the home front to get kids back into routines, regimens, arithmetic and alliteration. Movie studios know this and looking ahead to the nights where parents have hit their walls and need it ALL laid out in front of them on an easy Friday night, they’re doing them a favor and dropping titles on streaming platforms. Thank the suits this time around for making the right call for us. Here’s what we’ve got to look forward to with the little ones heading into the fall. Yes, that’s a Rob Zombie movie for the crew making the cut. Could be a rabbit hole or just a one stop kind of night as you introduce your fam to The Munsters. Additionally l, time to hop on the next train to Nostalgiaville because the 90s favorite, Hocus Pocus gets the 20s treatment of increasing that dopamine to 11 with the cast back for another time or running amok, amok, amok. Thank the suits this time around for making the right call for us. Here’s what we’ve got to look forward to with the little ones heading into the fall.
Wrapping up the summer of 2022 as one we feel will be remembered as a sign of shifts in tastes and studio approaches due to the success of Top Gun: Maverick.
Tossing out our thoughts on a pivot point type of summer. Could it actually point to something impossible to fathom but BIG MOVIES FOR ADULTS CAN WORK (and the coveted 18-35 might come out too)? We’re big believers in movie preferences reflecting a lot more than just picking a movie (societal shifts, consumer trends, reflectors of society to name a few). With TGM, the age span of moviegoers had to be one of the widest seen in recent memory and it begs an important question: Will studios take note or go further down the reboot, sequel path that TGM seemed to avoid the pitfalls which seemed blinking red in front of it before audiences embraced it BIG MOVIES FOR ADULTS CAN WORK (and the coveted 18-35 might come out too) Top Gun: Maverick Elvis Where the Crawdad Sings COMICS ARE HERE TO STAY AND NOT GOING ANYWHERE . . . FOR NOW Is it possible that as Marvel wraps up Phase 4, which I will be glad to hear any rationale, calm takes on what Phase 4 overall is really about, but are there chips appearing in the armor and points of saturation starting to appear (Thor weekend two box-office drop the beginning of a drip, streaming shows cutting into the event-of-it-all)? Today, right now, the answer may be no and an absolutely never can happen but nearly 15 years in and a generation coming and going plus the upcoming lineup in Phase 5 . . . we’re just posing a question. WHAT’S GOING ON WITH FAMILY MOVIE PREFERENCES? Minions hit big but DC League of Super Pets swung and missed, while Lightyear faded away. What does it all mean? The reality of summer fading into fall is on the books this week with the flicks to help transition out of the best time of the year. Loss of innocence, moving on, looking back and seeing the full view of the summer that was. No matter how old we get, the sounds of summer change and fade away but those of summer often are the loudest with the late nights, trips, sunburns and frankly boatload of memories we’ve created. Movies might take up a sliver of our fullest summers but they are a part of the pie nonetheless. From Crooklyn and a summer on the stoop to anxiety of the school day in Eight Grade, this time of year is one of reflection, happiness and melancholy, yet they end up being the ones we look back on with some of the most reverence of any memories we have.
It’s getting hot and expensive out there, so this night we are staying in and remembering which subscriptions we haven’t canceled yet. Although we’ve cut the cord to save money, somehow we’re now in deeper than we ever were before and justifying $20 a month for about two releases a year. It’s fine, really, we’re excellent at this whole finance thing. Regardless if we are lost in the dollars and sense of it all, here’s a look at some picks that are out, some coming soon and a couple that might keep our attention for a couple hours.
A celebration of all machines in-motion or the hubs that house them. Transportation is a central theme or plot driver of many of our favorites when he take a moment to look back at them. Grab the keys, your boarding pass and metro card. In honor of Bullet Train we’re bringing you the best prep work around to catch one more ride this summer heading to another memorable movie night. Outside of the Box, Semis and CarsHave you ever started sweating from just watching a movie? Wait - not like that folks, get your mind out of the gutter. We're talking about those flicks from the past decades that take you right back to the heat of the moment, the feel of the sand on your feet and the cool air hitting you in the face as you stepped foot in the theatre or in your home ready to take a couple of hours to wind down. Like music, movies will take you right back and this time of year is the best time to revisit. When late July hits, one Tuesday can blend into a random August Thursday before we take those steps out the door for back to school or get back on schedule and have to set those damn alarms. We'll look at some of our favorites to help you deal with the clock ticking toward another summer in the books. Decade-by-decade we get a little sentimental and find out the movies that we think put us right back at the pool, by the lake or driving around with the windows down. Sure, we’re a little sappy and sentimental today but isn’t that what the impending end of summer is supposed to bring out of us? School isn’t quite yet back, even if the shelves and commercials want you to think it’s tomorrow. Take another night to feel THAT vibe again because at the end of the day there are only so many summers we get.
There are still moments of singularity that can shift our attention from scrolling and cinematic universes to remind us that something from one’s mind and vision can still be just as satisfying, engrossing and simply one to not miss.
In saturated markets where content flows from a never-ending stream, there are still a few arrows which pierce the public consciousness, if not demand our attention, with a big, bold event of a movie. Sometimes, the swings aren’t everything we might have hoped for and lead us from the normal spoon-feeding we’ve become accustomed to, but more times than not these four directors build anticipation and intrigue leading up to even the announcement of a new project, let alone a release. These four can still put butts in seats, leading with theatrical first and for better or worse a vision and direction unlike many others throughout the history of Hollywood. Jordan Peele James Cameron Quentin Tarantino Christopher Nolan If you’ve followed along with us for some time you know that we’ve suffered from some comic book fatigue, but we know when something is big too and there’s no fighting it. Thor: Love and Thunder storms into theaters and it will be huge, so let’s keep rolling with it as Christian Bale joins the MCU later this week. When we saw that Christian Bale was set to be the villain, that piqued our interest and also shot us thinking about what we will hash out this week: Who should we bring to the MCU? We aren’t so concerned with multiverses, fan demands or deep character cuts but with interesting casting choices to breathe some newfound interest in the MCU for us old heads who just don’t get it all. This week is for us! Old heads ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!
Arnold Schwarzenegger Exhibit A: T2 Jim Carrey Exhibit A: Sonic the Hedgehog Quentin Tarantino Exhibit A: Inglorious Basterds A celebration of the next generation of actors ready to yield the power of the box-office. As Top Gun: Maverick bowled over audiences this weekend, it raises the question not of which movie stars are left that could battle for eyeballs (although that one did come up) but who would be ready to take on the spot that Tom Cruise has positioned himself for so well in calculated ways. Sure, there have been misfires and we are prisoners of the moment but Cruise gets the moments and reasons we’d show up for a movie. Although an easy opinion may be that there’s nobody else around to carry on a legacy, there are those with the resume, chops and charisma to carry on the legacy.
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