![]() ![]() Alice Anne Hathaway travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter (Depp) in this much darker, yet still very Disney fantasy sequel. Who doesn’t want to hear Bill do Baloo?ĭidn’t get bored enough with Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” back in 2010? Good, there’s more to that book, as Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter suit up with painted faces and get back into their places for another magical journey for director James Bobin. Seriously, that’s a perfect cast of voiceovers. Directed by Jon Favreau with the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Idris Elba and Christopher Walken manning the voiceovers, the story of Mowgli, they raised by wolves comes to live action this spring, mixed with a bit of impressive CGI of course. The storybook adaptation that’s been pushed on its release several times is upon us. We just don’t care about it as much as we do our “little prince.” “Allegiant,” the final film of the “Divergent” series comes out the same day. James Franco, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams and more voice the film. Set for a limited release, the director “Kung-Fu Panda” takes on artistically invigorating one of the most timeless children’s books in history, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about a pilot who lands in the Sahara and comes upon a boy who claims to be an extraterrestrial prince. The film is based on the 2014 debut novel by David Shafer. Margot Robbie joins in as an unnecessary but completely sexy addition. ![]() At least this comes with Lily James and Lena Headey.Ī single, expendable reporter (played by Tina Fey) is sent overseas to cover war times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, getting her away from her boring life and relationship out into the real world for some gun shooting, ethnic love and wild white woman fun. It’s actually been great you just weren’t looking in the right place.A literary satire of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice” by Seth Grahame-Smith is now something for us to gawk at, mixing 19th century’s popular social class love conflict with modern day’s popular zombie apocalypse. Take a look at our picks and you’ll change your mind about how terrible 2016 has been at the movies. Most of these films are now available to watch at home on a variety of streaming platforms and, for those that still appreciate tangible media, on DVD and Blu-ray. There is an Irish production set in Cuba, a border tale directed by a gringo, and a film about a Russian in Mexico from a British lad. Luckily, we have compiled a list of 15 films with Latin American or US Latino content (regardless of the filmmaker’s ethnicity) that you may have missed when they hit theaters earlier this year. With one-week engagements only in major cities, it’s no surprise that some might have escaped the radars of even the most avid cinephile. Some had already won prizes at highly regarded international festivals and were even nominated for an Academy Award or a Golden Globe before hitting US screens. The antidote is, and has always been, independent and international cinema – and this year Latin American and US Latino offerings are among the best of the crop.ĭuring the first six months of 2016, a few dozen of these titles were theatrically released in the United States to great acclaim. Granted, some of these turkeys did line executives’ pockets, but the critical response has been savage. Scores of characters in spandex and capes fought to capture this summer’s box office, but their efforts were unsuccessful, as 2016 has become a dismal symbol of studio productions gone wrong. ![]()
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