{"id":39091,"date":"2016-08-12T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=39091"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:08:13","slug":"new-releases-august-12-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/12\/new-releases-august-12-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: August 12, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Petes-Dragon-Poster-229x339.jpg\" alt=\"New Releases Petes Dragon Poster\" width=\"229\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Petes-Dragon-Poster-229x339.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Petes-Dragon-Poster.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>1. Pete&#8217;s Dragon (Disney, 3,702 Theaters, 102 Minutes, Rated PG for action, peril and brief language, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/petes_dragon_2016\/\">87% Fresh <\/a>[97 Reviews]): <\/strong>I don&#8217;t know how this one will pan out. Disney has had a lot of success turning its classic animated films into live-action movies. However, the original <strong>Pete&#8217;s Dragon <\/strong>wasn&#8217;t really a classic and wasn&#8217;t completely\u00a0animated either. Will that matter?<\/p>\n<p>A young boy is found living in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. When asked how he could survive out there on his own, he answers he wasn&#8217;t alone. He was with his friend Elliot. Who just happens to be a dragon.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery paints a target on Elliot and there is a race against time to keep him safe from poachers who wish to do him harm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"outer-embed-ta\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-ta\" src=\"\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/113015\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Suasage-Party-229x339.jpg\" alt=\"New Releases Suasage Party\" width=\"229\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Suasage-Party-229x339.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Suasage-Party.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>2. Sausage Party (Sony\/Columbia, 3,103 Theaters, 89 Minutes, Rated R for strong crude sexual content, pervasive language, and drug use, <b>Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/sausage_party\/\">83% Fresh <\/a>[84 Reviews]): <\/b><\/strong>Okay, we have to set one thing straight. This film claims to be the first computer animated feature film. It isn&#8217;t. You might have seen this elsewhere, but it bears repeating: both 1999&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>South Park: Bigger, Longer and<\/strong> <strong>Uncut<\/strong> and 2007&#8217;s \u00a0<strong>Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters\u00a0<span id=\"titleYear\"><\/span><\/strong>were animated by use of computers.<\/p>\n<p>The film features anthropomorphic food living in a grocery store who think being bought and taken home by customers to be the next best thing to nirvana. The truth, however, is far more disturbing, as a hot dog named Frank (Seth Rogen) finds out. Frank takes it on himself to warn his other foodstuffs that all they have ever known is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>I do think the premise is a good satire on Disney\/Pixar&#8217;s habit of giving inanimate objects human characteristics, and the trailer generated some chuckles from me. But there&#8217;s something about the film that doesn&#8217;t grab me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"outer-embed-ta\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-ta\" src=\"\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/112419\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Florence-Foster-Jenkins-Poster-232x339.jpg\" alt=\"New Releases Florence Foster Jenkins Poster\" width=\"232\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Florence-Foster-Jenkins-Poster-232x339.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/New-Releases-Florence-Foster-Jenkins-Poster.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>3. Florence Foster Jenkins (Paramount, 1,528 Theaters, 110 Minutes, Rated PG-13 for brief suggestive material, <b>Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/florence_foster_jenkins_2016\/\">89% Fresh <\/a>[109 Reviews]): <\/b><\/strong>The story of Florence Foster Jenkins is just fascinating. She was a socialite who used her money and connections to foster her dream of becoming an opera singer. Through determination and perseverance, she made it all the way to Carnegie Hall, a place where professional musicians often only aspire to perform at.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that Jenkins couldn&#8217;t sing. She was awful. And the success that she enjoyed wasn&#8217;t from fans who loved her voice, or appreciated her talent, but rather from people who had a good laugh at how awful she was.<\/p>\n<p>The film has a great cast and director, and is getting good reviews, but you get the feeling that Paramount is pretty much burying it. I mean, it is not playing in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the city of Jenkins&#8217; birth, and somewhere it should have opened. That&#8217;s a dropped ball there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"outer-embed-ta\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-ta\" src=\"\/\/v.traileraddict.com\/110514\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">New Releases this week include PETE&#8217;S DRAGON, SAUSAGE PARTY, and FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/12\/new-releases-august-12-2016\/\" title=\"New Releases: August 12, 2016\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39095,"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":[3853,751,8256,7880,286,8419,8418,519,1340],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-columbia","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-florence-foster-jenkins","11":"tag-new-releases","12":"tag-paramount","13":"tag-petes-dragon","14":"tag-sausage-party","15":"tag-seth-rogen","16":"tag-sony"},"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\/39091","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=39091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39091"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=39091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}