Denzel Washington and Liam “King Of January” Neeson kick off an uncertain year for movies
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This January is lighter on schlock than normal. But then, it’s lighter on movies in general. While a few are creeping into theaters over the next four weeks, those plans could easily change between now and the day each is scheduled to open; as we’ve said pretty much every month since the pandemic started, the following list of upcoming titles could prove more generally upcoming than indicated. If it holds, audiences can expect a couple of crime-centric star vehicles, several acclaimed documentaries, and a few titles hoping to capitalize on that extended Oscar-eligibility window. Keep reading to find out what’s coming to theaters and living rooms near you in January. And before trekking out to see a movie on the big screen, please read up on the health risks.
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The DigI guess that means we’ll never get the movie treatment of the great 1995 LucasArts adventure of the same name. Although to be honest, the chances of that went down tremendously when Armageddon took the same plot of astronauts planting nukes on an asteroid on a collision course with Earth but made it stupid. And of course The Dig goes in a very different direction once they get to the asteroid.
i still replay that about once a year. thanks to the internet you can blow past the only truly shitty puzzle and enjoy the solid sci-fi story and surprisingly engaging voice work/acting (given the technological limitations of the time.)
I replayed that game last year, and it was better than its reputation. I often think if the game were made in the first person style of Myst, it would have been hailed as a classic. The music alone is just superb.
It was originally developed as an episode of Amazing Stories before becoming a video game, and since Apple is reviving that series, I would really love for them to adapt the game.
You missed Locked Down, the Doug Liman COVID-set heist movie, on HBO Max next week:
It looks better than Songbird at least.
Gotta admit, Chiwetel Ejiofor sold this for me pretty much with his delivery of the line “No, I’d never accuse you of being happy and normal.” Though the abrupt switch from “indie drama about upper-middle-class lockdown relationship woes” to “heist movie” was intriguing.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m really looking forward to ‘Alison Janney and director Tate at the 2012 Writer’s Guild AwardsPhoto: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty Images for WGAwBreaking News in Yuba County’I just hope it captures the same charm that made the source novel such a delight.
I heard that was a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
The title’s a bit of a mouthful but true fans just call it AJaDTat2012WGAP:AER/GIfWGAwBNiYC for short.
“Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you open a book and when you close it again nothing can ever be the same. Walls have been pulled down, barriers broken, a dimension of feeling, of existence itself, has opened in you that was not there before. AJaDTat2012WGAP:AER/GIfWGAwBNiYC is a book of this magnitude,”
look at all the guns and warfare associated stuff in that header – uniform, helmet etc. no other country pumps out the amount of gun-forward, army culture than America.why?(i know why)
‘The Gatekeepers director Dror Moreh turns his attention to the decades-long struggle for peace in the Middle East, as told from the perspective of the American mediators and negotiators working toward that goal over the past 30 years’
i assume its 90 minutes of jarred?
but seriously, who gives a crap about the american negotiators perspective? ‘well, we tried to negotiate, but everyone knows we aren’t doing it in any sort of good faith and we’re apt to abandon them when the next administration/ raytheon arms deal comes along, so nothing will be accomplished until we either run out of evangelical death cultists or they run out of oil’ doesn’t seem like much basis for an engaging film.
Thank you, thank you for the list—keep them coming, our local theater is still closed and no end in sight. I can pick up this and that movie at home from various sources which is a welcome substitute. As an ICU nurse going to a darkened theater after a long hard week seeing the new films coming out (first matinee, opening day, always!) having my own little at home showing is a second choice but at least it is something! I send the list to my other movie loving co-workers who appreciate it.