IMDb tells me that the Japan release date for this is Sept...
But, just by chance, I'm in Belfast this week for a conference
Yay!!
Gonna head straight out after the end of business today and get myself a ticket. Can't wait.
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Mike_L wrote:Thor: Ragnarok extended trailer.
Not feeling too enthusiastic about this one. Looks very "video-gamey". And there's a big, fiery monster that makes me think the Balrog just stepped out of LOTR to do a cameo appearance for Marvel...
| Peter Sobczynski
July 21, 2017 | 125
Every summer movie season needs at least one out-of-left-field entry that is so cheerfully bonkers it stands as a living rebuke to an industry that churns out noisy and soulless garbage like “Transformers: The Last Knight.”
This year, that film is “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” a deliriously entertaining film that finds writer/director Luc Besson swinging for the fences in his efforts to make a weirdo sci-fi epic for the ages and coming up with a virtual home run derby. It's a film filled with humor, charm, excitement and so many memorable images that many viewers will find themselves struggling to keep from blinking so as not to miss any of the eye-popping delights crammed into each overstuffed frame.
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” is an utter delight and one of the most gorgeous fantasies to hit the screen in recent memory—the kind of film that can take moviegoers logy from the usual array of craptaculars and render them giddy with its pure fun. The question, of course, is whether viewers will be willing to give its weirdo charms a chance. But if you want to come away from a film feeling dazzled instead of simply dazed, this is an absolute must. Besides, it is almost certainly going to become a cult favorite in a few years, so why not get in on the ground floor while you can?
a couple of characters as memorable as the universe ranging racoon in Guardians.
New York Times - last paragraph -Though it is based on a popular graphic novel series by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” feels as if it were made up on the spot, by someone so delighted by the gaudy genre packaging at his disposal that he lost track of what was supposed to be inside.
The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
At no point along the way does the film provide a reason to invest your interest in any of this.
New York Daily News Stephen Whitty
It never stops for a minute, yet it never goes anywhere. And much as it promises to take you to a thousand planets, it can’t find one sign of intelligent life.
Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty
During the film’s intoxicating first 30 minutes, for example, I couldn’t decide whether what I was watching was brilliantly bonkers or total folly. Then, as the story went on, it came into sharper and sharper focus: Valerian is an epic mess.
The Playlist Rodrigo Perez
Even if the movie is based on an existing property, a beloved French graphic novel, as a producer and designer, Besson should be lauded; ‘Valerian’ is out of this world. But next time, he might want to reread the comic for its characters, checking the little word bubbles to see if there’s actually something there.
Here we go again! Mamma Mia is back
2017-08-23
Universal Pictures has announced that principal photography has begun on Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie grossed more than $600m around the world, the cast is back in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA.
With the film’s original cast returning and new additions including Lily James (Cinderella, Baby Driver), the musical comedy will open on 20 July, 2018.
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