Movies
These are video movie reviews, movie trailers, and websites of the latest movies. The C1N Movie section includes Dan Culberson’s Hotshots Movie Reviews with a new review every week. We also show our C1N trailer pick of the week by Aaron Smith which is about 40 years younger than Dans taste. Show times and ticket avails are up. Look for film festivals, movie news, events, and news about the pictures here too.
22 Jump Street – Movie Trailer
Jun 24th
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
The Fault In Our Stars “LOVE STORY for Teenagers”
Jun 12th
(“LOVE STORY for Teenagers”)
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS takes its title from Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR and not ROMEO AND JULIET, which would be more appropriate, except that this movie comes nowhere near the quality of any Shakespeare work.
In fact, the movie is based on the highly successful novel for young adults by John Green, and keep that in mind if you are any sort of adult other than the “young” kind.
Otherwise, you might be sucked into the story that you have seen many times before and think “Been there, seen that, took out my hanky.”
Shailene Woodley stars as Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is 17 years old and has thyroid cancer, which causes her to wheel around an oxygen tank with her wherever she goes.
However, don’t feel sorry for Hazel, because she certainly doesn’t, and in her narration she says, “Depression is not a side effect of cancer; it’s a side effect of dying.”
We learn that Hazel takes eight prescription drugs three times a day and that support groups are not her “thing,” although she is persuaded to attend one for other teenagers with cancer, because the reason she does anything these days is to make her parents happy.
Hazel’s mother is Frannie, played by Laura Dern.
At the first group meeting, Hazel meets Augustus Waters, played by Ansel Elgort, who takes an immediate interest in Hazel and flirts with her.
Gus used to be a basketball star before he lost his leg to osteosarcoma, and he makes jokes about everything, claiming that he is at group meetings only in support of his best friend, Isaac, who lost an eye to cancer and is in danger of losing his remaining eye.
Hazel and Gus become close friends, avoiding any talk of love, and they exchange their favorite books for the other to read, Hazel’s being AN IMPERIAL AFFLICTION, about a girl with cancer that ends infuriatingly in the middle of a sentence.
Then Gus helps Hazel get a response from the author, Peter Van Houten, an American now living in Amsterdam and played by Willem Dafoe, who responds that if Hazel is ever in Amsterdam to look him up.
And then here come the surprises, right and left, and then the tragedies, up and down.
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS is just a LOVE STORY for teenagers.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
The Fault In Our Stars – Movie Trailer
Jun 11th
Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them – and us – on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, based upon the number-one bestselling novel by John Green, explores the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love.
