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Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in It

Summer 2017 roundup

Post author:JL
Post published:September 13, 2017
Post category:Show Business

This summer has been absolutely terrible for the movie industry in general -- the worst since 2006. Cinema chain stocks even suffered a huge decline because moviegoing attendance was so low. I'm sure they'll bounce back eventually, because people won't stop watching movies in cinemas, and huge movie hits like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Thor: Ragnarok will bring in the crowds again; but for now, it looks like cinema stockholders won't be getting their dividends this year.

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Movies Coming Soon: September 2017

Post author:JL
Post published:September 1, 2017
Post category:Coming Soon Me and the Movies

September looks like a really boring month. I'm looking at the whole list of films that are coming out and feeling a sense of profound disinterest in almost everything being shown. It is slightly better than August, in that there are three movies I am sort of interested in, whereas I only had two last month, but the movie lineup just looks so unappealing to me. And the trend continues for the rest of the year.

Idris Elba as Roland Deschain and Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers in The Dark Tower

‘The Dark Tower’ review: As a person who didn’t read the books, I enjoyed it

Post author:JL
Post published:August 12, 2017
Post category:Movie Reviews Books to Film Show Business

Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower, a long book series with a sprawling mythology and epic battle of good against evil, has finally been made into a movie. I've heard it being talked about for years as this practically unfilmable book series -- kind of like The Lord of the Rings -- that Hollywood has been trying so hard to adapt for at least the last decade, but hasn't been able to succeed until now.