DRAGONLORD'S 2016 MOVIE GUIDE

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THE BRONZE

Release: March 18, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bryan Buckley (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Melissa Rauch, Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch, Sebastian Stan, Cecily Strong, Haley Lu Richardson
Synopsis: A foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist (Melissa Rauch) must fight for her local celebrity status when a new young athlete's star (Haley Lu Richardson) rises in town.

 

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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Release: March 18, 2016

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller

Director: Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter)

Cast: Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, and Sam Shepard

Synopsis: In the sci-fi thriller “Midnight Special,” writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon), goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers.

What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever, in this genre–defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.



Comments: Director Jeff Nichols describes Midnight Special as a "sci-fi chase film." He stated that he "wanted to make a 1980s John Carpenter film like Starman." Reminds me of Firestarter also.

 

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THE PROGRAM

Release: March 18, 2016

Genre: Biographical Sports Drama

Director: Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters)

Cast: Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Chris O'Dowd, Lee Pace, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: From Academy Award (R) nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) and producers Working Title Films (The Theory Of Everything, Everest, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history; Lance Armstrong, the world-renowned Tour de France champion.

 

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TOO LATE

Release: March 18, 2016

Genre: Crime Drama

Director: Dennis Hauck (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: John Hawkes, Natalie Zea, Crystal Reed, Dash Mihok, Rider Strong, Vail Bloom, Jeff Fahey, Robert Forster, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Dichen Lachman, Sally Jaye, and Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Private investigator Mel Sampson (Academy Award nominee John Hawkes) is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past. With this familiar setup, TOO LATE takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it. From the desolate, overgrown Radio Hill to the ritzy penthouse of The Beverly Hilton, the film presents a sprawling view of Los Angeles that ranges from the undiscovered to the iconic. Ultimately, TOO LATE tells the story of a missing woman, but paints the portrait of a lost man.

 

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THE CONFIRMATION

Release: March 18, 2016

Genre: Comedy Drama

Director: Bob Nelson (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Clive Owen, Maria Bello, Patton Oswalt, Jaeden Lieberher, Stephen Tobolowsky, Tim Blake Nelson, Spencer Drever, Michael Eklund, Ryan Robbins, Matthew Modine, and Robert Forster

Synopsis: Walt, a down-on-his luck carpenter, is tasked with entertaining his eight-year-old son Anthony while Anthony's mom and her new husband are away. But when Walt's prized toolbox is stolen, a quiet father-and-son weekend turns into an adventure of a lifetime. Aided by an oddball drywall repairman, Walt and Anthony go on a wildly funny search for the thieves-and find something they never imagined: a true family connection.

 

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PEE-WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY

Release: March 18, 2016

Genre: Comedy Adventure

Director: John Lee (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Paul Reubens, Joe Manganiello, Alia Shawkat, Stephanie Beatriz, Tara Buck, Jessica Pohly, Leo Fitzpatrick, Brad William Henke, Nicole Sullivan and David Arquette

Synopsis: A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday in this epic story of friendship and destiny.

 

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BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

Release: March 25, 2016

Genre: Superhero Action Adventure

Director: Zack Snyder (Man of Steel, Watchmen)

Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Laurence Fishburne, Jena Malone, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, Ray Fisher, Callan Mulvey, Jason Momoa, Scoot McNairy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Tao Okamoto, and Harry Lennix

Synopsis: Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.

 

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MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2

Release: March 25, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Kirk Jones (Nanny McPhee)

Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Andrea Martin, Ian Gomez and Elena Kampouris

Synopsis: The Portokalos family gathers for a massive wedding after Toula's (Nia Vardalos) parents learn that they were never legally married.

 

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I SAW THE LIGHT

Release: March 25, 2016

Genre: Biographical Music Drama

Director: Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius)

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson, and Wrenn Schmidt

Synopsis: The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.

 

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GET A JOB

Release: March 25, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Dylan Kidd (P.S., Roger Dodger)

Cast: Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Alison Brie, Nicholas Braun, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Brandon T. Jackson, Marcia Gay Harden, Jorge Garcia, Jay Pharoah, Greg Germann, Cameron Richardson, Ravi Patel and John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, and Bryan Cranston star in this wickedly funny comedy about making it in the real world. Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will (Teller) and Jillian (Kendrick) who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family (Cranston), friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

 

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BORN TO BE BLUE

Release: March 25, 2016

Genre: Biographical Musical Drama

Director: Robert Bodreau (That Beautiful Somewhere)

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Bejogo, Callum Keith Renne, Stephen McHattie, Janet-Laine Green

Synopsis: Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool. By the 1960s, he was all but washed up, his career and personal life in shambles due to years of heroin addiction. In his innovative anti-biopic, director Robert Budreau zeroes in on Baker's life at a key moment in the 1960s, just as the musician attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback, spurred in part by a passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo). Creatively blending fact with fiction and driven by Hawke's virtuoso performance, Born to Be Blueunfolds with all the stylistic brio and improvisatory genius of great jazz.

 

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GOD'S NOT DEAD 2

Release: April 1, 2016

Genre: Christian Drama

Director: Harold Cronk (God's Not Dead)

Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, David A. R. White, Ray Wise, Robin Givens, Ernie Hudson, and Eamonn McCrystal

Plot: Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) stars as a high school teacher who quotes the Bible in class and gets sued by a student (Hayley Orrantia of The Goldbergs) who believes in this silly idea called “separation of church and state.”

 

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MEET THE BLACKS

Release: April 1, 2016

Genre: Spoof Comedy

Director: Deon Taylor (Supremacy, Chain Letter)

Cast: Mike Epps, Zulay Henao, George Lopez, Mike Tyson, and Charlie Murphy

Synopsis: After obtaining a great deal of money, the patriarch (Mike Epps) of a black family decides they should move from Chicago to a posh neighborhood in Beverly Hills. However, they are soon terrorized by home intruders who want them out of the affluent community in this comedic spoof of the Purge films.

 

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EVERYBODY WANTS SOME

Release: April 1, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood)

Cast: Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman, Dora Madison, Will Brittain, Forrest Vickery, and Glen Powell

Synopsis: Set in the world of 1980s college life, Everybody Wants Some is a comedy, directed and written by Richard Linklater, that follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Get ready for the best weekend ever.

 

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THE DARK HORSE

Release: April 1, 2016

Genre: Drama

Director: James Napier Robertson (I'm Not Harry Jenson.)

Cast: Cliff Curtis, Wayne Hapi, James Rolleston, Andrew Grainger, Kirk Torrance, Miriama McDowell

Synopsis: The Dark Horse is based on the true story of Genesis 'Gen' Potini (Cliff Curtis), a Maori speed-chess champion seeking redemption and a new purpose in life despite his struggles with bipolar disorder. A former chess prodigy, Gen is brilliant and charismatic, bringing unusual, potent energy to a game most often played with quiet reserve. Upon his release from an institution, he is remanded into the custody of his older brother Ariki (Wayne Hapi), the leader of a rough street gang planning the initiation of Gen's reluctant teenage nephew Mana (James Rolleston). When Gen volunteers to coach the ragtag young members of the Eastern Knights chess club, Mana is inspired by his uncle's determination to bring hope to the children of the club and turn his troubled life around, while seeing it as a chance to possibly save his own.

 

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MILES AHEAD

Release: April 1, 2016

Genre: Biographical Music Drama

Director: Don Cheadle (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Keith Stanfield, and Robert Ogden Barnum

Synopsis: In the late 1970s, jazz superstar Miles Davis (Don Cheadle), during the height of his fame, disappears from public view. Holing up in his home alone, he endures chronic pain due to a deteriorating hip. The medication he takes to control the pain stifles his musical voice and causes hallucinations.

Music reporter Dave Braden (Ewan McGregor) wants to know what's going on and he somehow manages to get into Davis’ house. The two men form a friendship and embark on an adventure to get back a tape of Davis' latest compositions, that was recently stolen.

 

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KILL YOUR FRIENDS

Release: April 1, 2016

Genre: Black Comedy Crime Thriller

Director: Owen Harris (Holy Flying Circus)

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, James Corden, Tom Riley, Georgia King, and Joseph Mawle

Synopsis: London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, Radiohead rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old hit chasing A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. In an industry of dream-makers, Stelfox refuses to buy into the 'dream' - and despises anyone that does. Fueled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.

 

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DEMOLITION

Release: April 8, 2016

Genre: Drama

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild)

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Heather Lind, Judah Lewis, and Polly Draper

Synopsis: Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father-in-law, Phil (Chris Cooper), to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions.

Davis' letters catch the attention of customer service rep, Karen (Naomi Watts), and, amidst emotional and financial burdens of her own, the two form an unlikely connection. With the help of Karen and her son Chris (Judah Lewis), Davis starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.

 

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THE BOSS

Release: April 8, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ben Falcone (Tammy)

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Tyler Labine, Kristen Schaal, Margo Martindale, and Kathy Bates

Synopsis: A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

 

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MR. RIGHT

Release: April 8, 2016

Genre: Action Romantic Comedy

Director: Paco Cabezas (Rage, Neon Flesh)

Cast: Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Tim Roth, Anson Mount and James Ransone

Synopsis: Hyperactive at the best of times, Martha (Anna Kendrick) has gone full-on manic since her latest breakup. She babbles, parties like a monster, cooks everything in sight - and is looking to do something terrible when she meets Francis (Sam Rockwell). To anyone else, Francis's approach would come across as creepy, but Martha can't help but be intrigued. They seem a perfect match: she's bananas, he's bananas... except he's a deadly sort of bananas. He's a professional assassin.

Francis is a hitman with a cause: he unexpectedly kills the people ordering the hits. Just as Martha begins to realize her new beau wasn't joking when he said he had to step out for a moment to shoot someone, things start heating up for Francis. His services are solicited by a dubious client who's being sought by an equally dubious FBI agent (Tim Roth). As the bodies pile up, Martha needs to decide whether to flee or join in the mayhem.