KIDNAP

KIDNAP

You and a guest are invited to an advance screening of KIDNAP! Follow this link http://www.gofobo.com/WAOKG66246 for your chance to download an admit-two screening pass to see the film on Monday, July 31 in Denver! Seats in the theater are first-come, first-serve so PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY! KIDNAP opens everywhere August 4. #KidnapMovie

KIDNAP (Aviron Pictures)
Release: August 4, 2017
Director: Luis Prieto
Writer: Knate Lee
Cast: Halle Berry

A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson (Academy Award winner Halle Berry) when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. A relentless, edge-of-your seat chase ensues, where Karla must risk everything to not lose sight of her son. In this tense, action-fueled thriller, directed by Luis Prieto and from the producers of SALT and TRANSFORMERS, one mother’s heroic attempt to take back her son leads her to ask herself how far she will go to save her child.

#PotTalk – 05/31/17 – Breaking the Grass Ceiling TAKEOVER

The authors of “Breaking the Grass Ceiling”, Ashley and Lauren, invited three of the subjects featured in their book about women in cannabis to a TAKEOVER of the WorldViral studios! Wanda, dispensary owner, Genifer, cannabis jewelry company owner, and Julie, edible company owner, discuss their involvement in an industry changing the “norms”.

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

By: Kevin Jordan

Oh, dear god.

Imagine if Jupiter Ascending and John Carter had a baby.  Then, imagine if they used that baby as the ball in a game of kickball.  Finally, imagine the two star players of the game had all the chemistry, charisma, and playing skills of the goose poop scattered on the field.  That is Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Rating: Ask for extra money back on top of the money you spent for this film.  I continue to underestimate Luc Besson’s ability to deliver worse crap than his previous crap.

 

Special Ruthless Ratings:

Number of minutes into the movie before Cara Delevingne puts on shirt:  50

Number of times you realized her breasts were her only redeeming quality in this film:  49

How many times did Delevingne’s facial expression change?  Negative-8

How old do you think Dane DeHaan is?  17

How old is he really?  31

How believable was the romantic relationship between the leads?  Wait, that was supposed to be romance?

How many times did you wish they would shut the hell up about their relationship?  29

How sexist was it that DeHaan’s character’s rank was major and Delevingne’s was just a sergeant?  Very

Number of minutes of screen time for Rihanna:  5

Number of minutes Rihanna spends pole dancing:  4

Number of times Rihanna acts a scene out like she thinks she’s getting an Oscar nod:  1

Number of times you caught yourself falling asleep:  9

Dunkirk

By: Kevin Jordan

The war-iest of war movies.

We’ve all seen what Christopher Nolan is capable of and it’s almost always been fantastic.  We’re at a point now where “Directed by Christopher Nolan” is all that needs to be said to peak interest in a new movie.  In other words, the opposite of “Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.”  We’ve also come to expect a certain type of movie; one with a well-written and intriguing story featuring rich characters, dazzling visuals, and sounds/music that are almost a character unto themselves.  When Dunkirk was announced and the first trailers dropped, our immediate reaction was “YAAAAAASSSSSS.”  The thing is we haven’t seen a Nolan movie like this before.

For those of you who don’t have the slightest idea what Dunkirk refers to, stop reading now.  You are the only people who will be surprised by the events depicted in this film.  For the rest of you, Nolan dispenses with the rich characters and intriguing plot to focus on the final day (apparently) of the evacuation of the British Army at Dunkirk, France in June, 1940 during World War II.  Don’t get me wrong, there are characters in this film, but none of them are developed to the point where you might care whether they live or die.  And, the plot is just a telling of the event through the lens of a few anecdotes featuring some of those characters.  But, like I said, that isn’t the point of this movie.

Here’s the point of this movie.

The point of this movie was to put the audience on the beach with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers desperate to escape the oncoming German army, air force, and artillery (with Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, and Kenneth Branagh).  The point of this movie was to put the audience into the seat of a British Spitfire fighter plane (with Tom Hardy and Jack Lowden), dogfighting with German Luftwaffe.  The point of this movie was to put the audience on a civilian boat (with Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Cillian Murphy, and Barry Keoghan) making its way to Dunkirk to help rescue the soldiers.  And that is exactly where you, the audience, feel like you are.

If you intend on seeing this film, see it in IMAX or you will miss out on the full experience.  The movie was filmed with IMAX cameras in order to take full advantage of the technology and make you suspend your disbelief that you are sitting in a theater in 2017 and not a French beach in 1940.  Nolan and his visual team also filmed as many practical effects as possible, to the point in which (according to Nolan), there is no scene in the movie that is pure CGI.  Yes, that includes flying actual Spitfires (or replicas) and, in some cases, crashing them.

You should also sit in the back row near the speakers (which is where I was sat for the screening).  The sound and music (by Hans Zimmer) were amazing and our place in the theater was literally vibrating in tune with the movie.  It might very well be that everyone in the theater felt that as well, but I’ve seen a lot of IMAX movies and it’s the first time I felt like the music was literally moving me.  There’s also a ticking clock underscoring the music throughout nearly the entire film, which heightens the tension in the film.  The genius of the ticking is that there are stretches where you can’t hear it, but you know it’s still there.  And when it finally stops, it’s almost deafening in its silence.  Yeah, I’m totally geeking out over it.

I don’t remember his name, but he’s a hell of a pilot.

Speaking of tension, book a massage for after the film.  Even if you are familiar with the event, you can’t help but clench every muscle during the film.  Even though you won’t be emotionally connected to the characters, you are expecting them to eat it at any moment, which makes the film that much more tense.  Do not buy food or drink because you will forget you have those things.

The bottom line is Dunkirk is an excellent film from an extraordinary filmmaker.  Dunkirk shows us the height of technical filmmaking while delivering a harrowing experience for audience members, regardless of how historically literate one might be.  You would be forgiven for expecting something closer to Saving Private Ryan or Titanic, but embrace the fact that you are getting an extremely well-funded history lesson that will make you duck and cover in what may be the best, pure war movie you have ever seen.

Rating: Worth triple what you paid for it, especially for the IMAX surcharge.