{"id":35423,"date":"2015-01-22T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35423"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:13:12","slug":"new-releases-january-23-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/22\/new-releases-january-23-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: January 23, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-poster-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"strange magic poster\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-poster.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>1. Strange Magic (Disney, 3,020 Theaters,99 Minutes, Rated PG for some action and scary images, Rotten Tomatoes rating as of press time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/strange_magic\/\">14% Fresh<\/a> (21 reviews)):\u00a0 <\/strong>When was the last time the phrase &#8220;From the mind of George Lucas&#8221; caused you to get excited? Before\u00a0<strong>Return of the Jedi<\/strong>?\u00a0 <strong>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, this one is coming from that mind, and I&#8217;m not very excited. The ads make it out to to be a war between elves, fairies and goblins, but it really is a modified musical version of <strong>Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream <\/strong>with pop songs jury rigged to provide the soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>While this is a Disney movie with less than Disney caliber animation, keep in mind that this film was put into production before the House of the Mouse bought Lucasfilms.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/97224\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mortdecai-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mortdecai-poster-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"mortdecai poster\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mortdecai-poster-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mortdecai-poster.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>2. Mortdecai (Lionsgate, 2,648 Theaters, 106 Minutes, Rated R for some language and sexual material. Rotten Tomatoes rating as of press time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/mortdecai\/\">5% Fresh<\/a> (20 reviews)):\u00a0 <\/strong>I seem to recall a younger Johnny Depp, around the time he was in <strong>21 Jump Street<\/strong>, complaining in interviews that he wanted to transcend that show and become a real actor. I wonder how that version of Depp would view this present day counterpart, and actor with three modes: wide-eyed, mostly heavily made up weirdo; dour, mostly makeupless sourpuss: and Captain Jack Sparrow.<\/p>\n<p>The first Johnny Depp seems to be on display here, as he plays a roguish British art dealer who finds himself involved in an international plot to recover a priceless painting. But think less Daniel Craig <strong>Casino Royale <\/strong>and more the Woody Allen<strong> Casino Royale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This film adapts the first book of Kyril Bonfiglioli&#8217;s cult <em>Mortdecai <\/em>book series. There are four books in all, but with a 5% fresh rating, probably only one film is all you&#8217;re going to get.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/96816\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boy-next-door-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boy-next-door-poster-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"boy next door poster\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boy-next-door-poster-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boy-next-door-poster.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>3. The Boy Next Door (<\/strong><strong>Universal, 2,602 Theaters, 91 Minutes, Rated R for violence, sexual content\/nudity and language, Rotten Tomatoes rating as of press time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_boy_next_door_2015\/\">16% Fresh<\/a> (50 Reviews): \u00a0<\/strong> Ah, here comes J-Lo, reminding us why she needs to return to\u00a0<strong>American Idol <\/strong>each season.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez plays a recently divorced woman who engages on a one-night stand with new neighbor&#8211;a much younger man. The frisky business sours as the boy becomes obsessed with her. In other words, it&#8217;s gender reversed <strong>Fatal Attraction <\/strong>with a MILF-porn twist.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t really seem to offer anything that we haven&#8217;t seen before. However, it was made for a crazy-low $4 million, so it would have to really, really bad at the box office not to be a hit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/94414\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The films being released this week have an 11% fresh rating as of the writing on Rotten Tomatoes. It think &#8220;Watching Paint Dry&#8221; has a higher percentage of good reviews.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/22\/new-releases-january-23-2015\/\" title=\"New Releases: January 23, 2015\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[270,7593,7880,7511,7594],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-george-lucas","9":"tag-mortdecai","10":"tag-new-releases","11":"tag-strange-magic","12":"tag-the-boy-next-door"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35423"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=35423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}