Local film critics Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing, Sean O'Connell of CinemaBlend.com and Ann Marie Oliva of Arts Ala Mode will discuss summer movies on Charlotte Talks, with Mike Collins, airing at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 11, on WFAE.
The three Charlotte reviewers will offer their takes on the seasonal flicks they've already seen, such as Godzilla and Edge of Tomorrow, as well as preview upcoming titles like Guardians of the Galaxy and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Cold in July - Michael C. Hall, Don Johnson
Edge of Tomorrow - Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt
The Fault in Our Stars - Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort
For No Good Reason - Documentary; Ralph Steadman, Johnny Depp
The German Doctor - Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro
Night Moves - Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning
Maleficent - Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning
A Million Ways to Die in the West - Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron
Blended - Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore
The Hornet's Nest - Documentary
The Immigrant - Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Renner
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy
Click on the link to be taken directly to the review.
Plus, check out our look at the cinema of 1984, the year that gave us Amadeus, The Terminator, Ghostbusters and more, here. And check out our picks for the Best & Worst Movies of 1984 here.
Belle - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson
God's Pocket - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks
Godzilla - Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston
Locke - Tom Hardy, Ruth Wilson
Million Dollar Arm - Jon Hamm, Lake Bell
My 4-year-old is high. He runs glassy-eyed and flushed from one end of the room to the other, taking out a few lamps in his wake. He yells something incoherent when I ask him why he's not wearing pants. I'd wonder who he's been hanging out with, but the evidence is smeared across the front of his shirt - buttercream, sprinkles, a few crumbs of red velvet. Someone in school must have had a birthday. Or a cultural holiday. Or a Tuesday.
Growing worries over sugary junk food have, for the most part, been firmly shoehorned as a Mommy Issue, something discussed in shrill disapproving tones in the Earth Fare checkout line or hippie mom groups - I'm not entirely sure, since I gave up on the latter after someone booed me for having a C-section. But at some point the kids grow up and enter the general population after having been incubated in high fructose corn syrup - and that's why one third of us will have diabetes by 2050, if you ask Katie Couric.
Fading Gigolo - John Turturro, Woody Allen
Fed Up - Documentary
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return - Animated; voices of Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd
Mom's Night Out - Sarah Drew, Sean Astin
Neighbors - Seth Rogen, Zac Efron
Only Lovers Left Alive - Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone
Walk of Shame - Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden