100 Movie Challenge 2016 - # 91: Demolition

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Runtime: 100 minutes
Year: 2015
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper

Description: A successful investment banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep (Naomi Watts) and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.

Review: Davis Mitchell is in the car with his wife. They get into a crash and his wife doesn’t survive the accident. When he tries to get a bag of M&M’s from a vending machine, and the candy gets stuck, it’s the start of a chain of letters between him and a customer’s service rep.
Davis comepletely loses his way when he loses his wife. He realizes that his job, for his wife’s father, and their ultra modern house, doesn’t really fit him. They are all things that happened because of his relationship with Julia. Now she’s gone, Davis is trying to find a new identity.
Jake Gyllenhaal is a great actor and he proves that again here. Both in the dramatic and comedic scenes. Especially that last surprised me. I also liked him together with Naomi Watts. Her character doesn’t have the depth I hoped for, but she is still strong. The movie is original, but at the more dramatic moments it can’t escape the clichés.
Overall I really liked “Demolition”, mostly because of Gyllenhaal and Watts.

Rating: 3,5/ 5

Movie Trailer Sunday (223)

Here are this week's trailers.

Neighbors 2

Director: Nicholas Stoller

Description: Now that Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne) have a second baby on the way, they are ready to make the final move into adulthood: the suburbs. But just as they thought they'd reclaimed the neighborhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a sorority even more out of control than Teddy (Zac Efron) and his brothers ever dreamed of being. Forced to turn to the one ex-neighbor with the skills to bring down the new Greeks, the Radners - alongside best friends Jimmy and Paula - bring in charismatic Teddy as their secret weapon. But if they think that their neighbors are going down without a fight, they have severely underestimated the power of youthful ingenuity and straight-up crazy.

Starring: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Chloë Grace Morets, Selena Gomez, Dave Franco, Lisa Kudrow

Trailer: Trailer "Neighbors 2"

Comment: I love the first movie, but comedy sequels hardly ever work. I hope they break the curse.

Backtrack

Director: Michael Patroni

Description: Psychologist Peter Bower's (Adrien Brody)life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right.

Starring: Adrien Brody, Sam Neill,

Trailer: Trailer "Backtrack"

Comment: Creepy, chilling....

Term Life

Director: Peter Billingsley

Description: A guy (Vince Vaughn) wanted around town by various hit men hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld).

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld, Bill Paxton, Taraji P. Henson, Jon Favreau, Terence Howard, Annabeth Gish

Trailer: Trailer "Term Life"

Comment: Vince Vaughn as an action hero?

Suicide Squad

Director: David Ayer

Description: A secret government agency recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in exchange for clemency

Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Scott Eastwood, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, ben Affleck, Common, Jay Hernandez

Trailer: Trailer "Suicide Squad"

Comment: Second trailer, I'm a little bit more excited about this now.

Demolition

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Description: A successful investment banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper,

Trailer: Trailer "Demolition"

Comment: Jake and Naomi together!

Movie Trailer Sunday (204)

Here are this weeks trailers.

Our Brand is Crisis

Description: A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Director: David Gordon Green

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy

Trailer: Trailer "Our Brand is Crisis"

Comment: Bullock is back!

Demolition

Description: A successful investment banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper

Trailer: Trailer "Demolition"

Comment: Jake and Naomi!!!!

The 5th Wave

Description: In the new film The 5th Wave, four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.

Director: J Blakeson

Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Liev Schreiber, Maika Monroe, Nick Robinson, Maria Bello

Trailer: Trailer "The 5th Wave"

Comment: We call them the others.... ooehoooe.

I Smile Back

Description: Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman) does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants, disappears when she wants. Now, with the destruction of her family looming, and temptation everywhere, Laney makes one last desperate attempt at redemption.

Director: Adam Salky, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski, Mia Barron, Billy Magnussen

Starring: Sarah Silverman

Trailer: Trailer "I Smile Back"

Comment: Sarah Silverman just got serious

The Program

Description: An Irish sports journalist (Chris O'Dowd) becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's (Ben Foster) performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.

Director: Stephen Frears

Starring: Ben Foster, Chris o'Dowd, Lee Pace, Bryan Greenberg,

Trailer: Trailer "The Program"

Comment: The story behind a deception that shocked us all.