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April is an interesting month for movies.  It’s a nice mix of big budget blockbusters, like Captain America: The Winter Solider (2014) and Fast Five (2011), and smaller indie hits like Ex-Machina (2015) and Mud (2013).  This April looks to be about the same, though leaning more towards the smaller scale side.  Here are five movies you should check out this month.     5 – Keanu (Peter Atencio, April 29) Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the masterminds behind the best…

Today is Pi Day (3.14), so to have a little fun, here are the best pie scenes in cinematic history.       5 – Sweeney Todd and the Demon Barber of Fleet Street  (Tim Burton, 2007) Sweeney Todd and the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is one of my favorite musicals of all-time and one of Tim Burton’s best films.  Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) and her pies are horrible, as her intro song implies….

The latest Captain America: Civil War trailer dropped today and needless to say, it is as epic as any trailer released this year.  I had the movie ranked at number seven on my most anticipated movies of the year.  But after this trailer, I would now move it up to within my top five.  Here are what I saw as the best moments from the latest trailer.   Here is the trailer incase you haven’t watched…

With 10 Cloverfiled Lane coming out on Friday, the sequel (I think) of the 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield.  Both films had great teaser trailers, especially the first one.  Along with Cloverfield, there have been a lot of legendary teaser trailers, which is what I will be looking at today.  A teaser trailer isn’t a full on trailer that gives you all the characters and plot.  They give you a taste, hence the word, tease….

It was announced yesterday that Oscar winner J.K. Simmons will be playing Commissioner Gordon in The Justice League (2017).  While this is great news for DC and The Justice League, this does sadden me a bit.  This ultimately means that Simmons will be unable to reprise his role as J. Jonah Jameson in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot, scheduled to come out in 2017.  Simmons portrayal of Jameson is iconic and arguably the best part of the Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man films….

February has come and gone, and it was surprisingly a great month in cinema.  Movies like Deadpool, Hail, Caesar, and The Witch were all great in their own way and were bright spots in what is usually a dead month for movies.  But now, it is on the March, which is usually the real start to the cinematic year.  I probably should have made this last before this past weekend so I could have put…