{"id":35613,"date":"2015-03-06T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35613"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:12:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:12:28","slug":"new-releases-march-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/06\/new-releases-march-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: March 6, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chappie-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35617\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chappie-poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chappie poster\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chappie-poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chappie-poster.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>1. Chappie (Sony\/Columbia, 3,201 Theaters,122 Minutes, Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity, Rotten Tomatoes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/chappie\/\">31% Fresh<\/a> [98 Reviews]): <\/strong>So, judging on the reviews that this film received, it appears the world has caught on to Neil Blomkamp. The reviews have gotten worse from <strong>District 9 <\/strong>to <strong>Elysium <\/strong>to this film, taking the director from critical darling to utterly predicable.<\/p>\n<p>Blomkamp&#8217;s policy of using sci-fi genre to address societies ills was novel at first, but for some, the novelty has worn off. I don&#8217;t know what the critics want&#8211;better sci-fi? Less message? Message without the nihilistic future dressing?<\/p>\n<p>This film focuses on a police state that uses robot troopers to patrol the streets. However, when one of the robots gains sentience, the oppressive system might be toppled from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/96544\" 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\/03\/unfinished-business-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unfinished-business-poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"unfinished-business poster\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unfinished-business-poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unfinished-business-poster.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>2. Unfinished Business (Fox, 2,777 Theaters, 91 Minutes, Rated R for some strong risqu\u00e9 sexual content\/graphic nudity, and for language and drug use, Rotten Tomatoes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/unfinished_business_2015\/\">10% Fresh<\/a> [59 Reviews]): <\/strong>If Neil Blomkamp has experienced a bad turn with the critics, it is nothing like the trainwreck Vince Vaughn&#8217;s career has become. He once was the funniest part of any film he was in, be it a supporting role or as a lead. But since <strong>The Watch<\/strong>, everything has become a case of diminishing returns with him, as he tries to find projects that allow him to play into his wise-ass persona he built up over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Then you have this film, which was release into the wild with a relative whisper, not a bang. Vaughn plays a business owner whose business trip to Europe goes off the rails in the most lurid and prurient ways possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping his rest stop on TV in HBO&#8217;s <strong>True Detective <\/strong>recharges his batteries or at least makes his decision making skills a little bit better.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/97365\" 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\/03\/secondbestexoticmarigoldhotel-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/secondbestexoticmarigoldhotel-poster-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"secondbestexoticmarigoldhotel poster\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/secondbestexoticmarigoldhotel-poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/secondbestexoticmarigoldhotel-poster.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>3. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight, 1,573 Theaters, 122 Minutes, Rated PG for some language and suggestive comments, Rotten Tomatoes: 63% Fresh [106 Reviews]): <\/strong>It is always nice to see a little film do well enough to to a seque. Of course, with the cast that\u00a0<strong>The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel\u00a0<\/strong>had, there&#8217;s no wonder why audiences flocked to it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, almost all the cast is back for a second go round, and the business has become so successful that a second location is opened. This gives us the chance to catch up with all the characters from the first film to see how they&#8217;ve gone along in their new home.<\/p>\n<p>The film is this week&#8217;s best reviewed film. Even if you think you might not be its target demographic, you should think about checking it out anyway.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/93499\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Big weekend for Dev Patel. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/06\/new-releases-march-6-2015\/\" title=\"New Releases: March 6, 2015\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35614,"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":[7660,7662,7880,7661,7613],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chappie","9":"tag-neil-blomkamp","10":"tag-new-releases","11":"tag-the-second-best-exotic-marigold-hotel","12":"tag-unfinished-business"},"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\/35613","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=35613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35613"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=35613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}