Movies Opening This Weekend – August 12th – 2016 [videos]

Families in some parts of the country have already gone back to school, while others are trying to cram as much fun in their final days of summer as they can. Hollywood is accommodating this weekend with a family film about Pete and his best friend a dragon, a WWII Third Reich assassination film and a scary funny paranormal movie.

Our pick of the litter this weekend features legendary actresses and actors, Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, in an auto biographical movie about Florence Foster Jenkins, a rich New Yorker who had the time, money and influence to be the seasons new opera star. Everyone is getting rich helping her career; the one quality this 70 year old aspiring singer doesn’t have is the voice, and that’s when the fun begins.

Enjoy the movies this weekend – I always do!

Ghost Team (2016)
(PG-13) 83 min – Comedy
Director: Oliver Irving
Stars: Jon Heder, David Krumholtz, Justin Long, Melonie Diaz

Imagine a movie that deals with the paranormal in a comedic way? That’s the ‘Ghost Team.” A security guard investigates a nephew that is having a ghostly episode; this is not your fathers’ ‘Rosemary’s baby.’ [watch trailer

Edge of winter (2016)
(R) 89 min – Thriller
Director: Rob Connolly
Stars: Shaun Benson, Shiloh Fernandez, Patrick Garrow, Tom Holland

Two brothers find themselves in the dead of winter with a father they barely know. The plot thickens as they begin to be hunted by a predator that may actually be there to protect the boys from their very own past. [watch trailer

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
(PG-13) 110 min – Biography
Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson

Based on a real life rich person’s experience, a New York heiress desires to be an opera star. Hey, she’s rich with all the time in the world, so this should be a snap. Unfortunately, the woman has an unbelievably bad voice – wretched. Watch how money can make anyone a fan. [watch trailer]

Hell or High Water (2016)
(R) 102 min – Crime
Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine, William Sterchi

Cut from the cloth of ‘No Country for Old Men’,’ a divorcee and his troubled brother with a criminal record resort to crime to save all their worldly possessions set in West Texas. [watch trailer]

Anthropoid (2016)
(R) 120 min – Thriller | War
Director: Sean Ellis
Stars: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr.

‘Valkyre’ meets ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in this WWII feature film. The operation was called Anthropoid, and its goal was to stop the Third Reich once and for all. If you’re a military or war buff, this is the best war/action movie of the year. [watch trailer]

Pete’s Dragon (2016)
(PG) 102 min – Adventure
Director: David Lowery
Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence

Life is good for Pete and orphan, and his new friend Elliot – a dragon. You see Jason Bourne and drop the kids off at the screening next door to see Pete’s Dragon. [watch trailer]

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