The Film Yap’s Weekly Reviews
Who’s ready for a movie?! The Film Yap’s Christopher Lloyd tells us what’s in theaters this weekend!• Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle is a revelation playing the jazz icon, in a long-gestating drama he also wrote and directed. It’s more dizzy rumination on Davis’ mythology than straight biography.”
• The Huntsman: Winter’s War
Hollywood’s most unlikely and unanticipated sequel actually manages to improve on the original, with Emily Blunt shining as the tortured ice queen squaring off with Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain’s huntscouple.”
• A Hologram for the King
Tom Hanks plays a failed American businessman who travels to Saudi Arabia for one last shot, in this troubled production that’s getting dumped into theaters.”
• Elvis & Nixon
This kooky comedy looks at the circumstances behind the meeting of Elvis Presley and President Nixon, captured in one of the most iconic photos ever taken. Starring Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon.”
• The Revenant – Buy It
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his Oscar for this largely wordless portrayal of an 18th century trapper mauled by a bear and left for dead. Grim and beautiful. Buy It.”
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