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‘Sing Street’ Review: A Rockin', Endearing, Coming-Of-Age Love Letter To The ’80s Note:We originally ran this review during the Sundance Film Festival. We’re republishing it today as the movie hits theaters this weekend. When you come to the Sundance Film Festival, you can’t wait to fall in love with a movie. As a sucker for coming-of-age movies, I’m always looking for one that really makes me run the gamut of emotions, and if it also has a hellacious soundtrack, fantastic breakout performances, and a glamorous reference toBack to the Future, then that’s even better....

‘Sinister’ Director Scott Derrickson To Make ‘Deus Ex’ For CBS Films WatchingSinister, I never would have guessed that the creators — directorScott Derricksonand co-writerC. Robert Cargill(aka Massawyrm at AICN) – would move on to tackle one of the most popular video game hits of the past twenty years. The game series in questionisDeus Ex, a set of first-person shooters that factors in many stealth and role-playing character elements as it drops players into a world characterized by giant corporations and extensive cybernetic body modification....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Trailer: Peter Parker Seems To Be Feeling Just Fine It’s been a week full of Marvel Studios mania. The week kicked off with anew trailer forCaptain Marveland it wrapped up with the mysteriousteaser forAvengers: Endgame. However, let’s not forget that there are three movies coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year, and the first trailer for the third and final one has been released. Spider-Man: Far From Homehas Peter Parker (Tom Holland) getting back to heroics, but the question is whether or not this movie takes place before the events ofAvengers: Infinity Waror after the events ofAvengers: Endgame....

‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ Trailer Promises Even More Trouble With Tribbles One of the most beloved episodes of the classicStar Trekseries from decades ago is “The Trouble with Tribbles.” The episode saw the U.S.S. Enterprise suddenly getting dangerously crowded after the arrival of a quickly reproducing little puffball of a creature known as a Tribble. Now those cute little guys are making a comeback in a newStar Trek: Short Treksinstallment starringAlita: Battle AngelactressRosa SalazarandBob’s Burgersvoice starH....

‘Supervized’ Trailer: Tom Berenger Leads A Group Of Senior Superheroes Out Of Retirement We’re at the point of the superhero genre eating its own tail when we start getting straight-to-video comedies starringTom BerengerandBeau Bridgesas senior superheroes coming out of retirement to save the world. That’s what’s happening inSupervized, an honest-to-god real movie about a group of retired international superheroes who realize that their quiet Ireland nursing home is more sinister than it appears....

‘The Butterfly Effect’ Getting A Reboot As Hollywood gets increasingly dependent on established properties, we’ve seen all manner of things get remade and rebooted in the past few years. Including a certain superhero franchise that was barely ten years old when it got reworked as a new series. Still, this one seems to come out of nowhere. Benderspink and Film Engine are teaming for a reboot ofThe Butterfly Effect, the 2004 sci-fi thriller starring Ashton Kutcher as a man who travels back to earlier points in his life and attempts to re-do them — or reboot them, if you will....

‘The Mountain Between Us’ First Look Photos: Idris Elba And Kate Winslet Survive A Plane Crash We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Two of England’s best acting exports are joining forces for a survival romance about two people who escape the wreckage of a plane crash.Idris ElbaandKate Winsletstar inThe Mountain Between Usas a surgeon and photojournalist, respectively, who are injured in a crash and must rely on each other to survive in the freezing Colorado mountains....

‘The Post’ Featurette: Meryl Streep And Tom Hanks Make A Powerhouse Duo The Postis about a historic, monumental collaboration between masters of their crafts, whose work has changed the world time and time again. It’s also about how the Washington Post went up against the federal government to bring the Pentagon Papers to the public.Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg– names that elicit awe and wonder. And the fact that these three names are all behindThe Post…well, that’s just dandy....

‘The Vanishing Of Sidney Hall’ Trailer Cracks A Literary Mystery Kyle Chandleris on the hunt for a missing writer in the intriguingThe Vanishing of Sidney Halltrailer.Shawn Christensenhelms this new drama from indie super-studio A24, about a wildly popular writer who vanishes off the face of the earth. Or does he? A24 can’t stop, won’t stop – 2018 is barely 10 days old, and they’re already out here dropping trailers for brand new films....

‘The Woods’ Trailer Boldly Claims To Represent One Of The Scariest Movies Ever Made The horror genre has always been home to good old fashioned hucksterism. William Castle would rig theaters with flying skeletons and install seats that “shocked” the audience. Alfred Hitchock famously declared that those who were late toPsychowould be denied admittance. Even the 2013 remake ofEvil Deadgot in on the actionwith one of the most audacious movie posters in recent years....

‘Tolkien’ Featurette: How The Biopic Goes Early Into Tolkien’s Life And Back Again So much is known about the rich world of Middle-earth that authorJ.R.R. Tolkiencreated, but little popular thought is given to his life before he wroteThe Lord of the Rings. That will soon change with the upcoming Fox Searchlight biopic,Tolkien, which shows the early days of the legendary British author from his childhood through the publication ofThe Hobbitand his magnum opus,The Lord of the Rings....

‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Clips: Meet Bad Ape & See Woody Harrelson’s Last Stand The war between the apes and the humans can’t get here fast enough. If you’re also eagerly awaiting Matt Reeves’War for the Planet of the Apes, there are free early screenings next week (and there may even be tickets available still!). Most of us won’t see the movie until exactly one month from today, but the marketing ramp-up has revealed more footage – including a three-minute clip introducing Bad Ape (Steve Zahn)....

/Film Boston: Micmacs Movie Review And Closing Thoughts On IFFBoston Lots of cool film-related stuff happens inBoston, Massachusettsand not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too./Film Bostonaims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video content from film-related events around the Boston area. If you don’t live in Boston, I hope that this column will give you a window into some of the cool stuff that happens here regularly....