Favorite Movie Posters from 2018

What attracts you to a film? Is it the actors, the director, the trailer…most of us are exposed to the movie poster first and first impressions are extremely important. Here are a few of our favorites from the past year.

How did Reese eat her ice cream?

Witherspoon…of course…rimshot!

We have lots of great titles starring Reese Witherspoon including her Oscar winning Best Actress role as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line”.

Explore these other Reese Witherspoon titles:

What are we watching at Movies Anywhere?

We LOVE movies at Movies Anywhere and, in fact, a lot of us participate in a weekly movie club where we watch an agreed upon title and then meet each week to discuss it. We’d love you to join us…at least virtually…this week we’re watching the Coen Brothers “Miller’s Crossing.”

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Be sure to tune in next week to see what we’re watching here at Movies Anywhere!

Did you like Blackkklansman?

Are you a fan of Spike Lee’s Oscar nominated film “Blackkklansman”? If you answered yes to this question be sure to dive into Lee’s outstanding body of work, much of which can be found on Movies Anywhere.

Explore the incredible range of this filmmaker: from extremely personal stories rooted in his Brooklyn neighborhood like “Do the Right Thing,” “Mo’ Better Blues” and “Crooklyn” to other New York stories that explore some of the seedier side of the city like “Clockers” and “Summer of Sam.”

As of this writing Spike Lee has been nominated for over 100 different awards and has at least 74 wins under his belt - and that includes an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for this year’s “Blackkklansman.”

Genre Spotlight: Film Noir

Hollywood turned out some of the darkest film noir titles in the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Film noir is a cinematic term used to describe Hollywood crime dramas. These titles were made up of dark stories, often involving characters on the fringe of society.

Stories centered around cops and private detectives, gangsters and con men, society’s elite and those struggling to make end’s meat.

Much of the aesthetics of film noir is rooted in the arts of German Expressionism and many filmmakers familiar with this art movement made their way from Germany to Hollywood in the years before World War 2.

Dive into the film noir genre with this varied selection of titles from Movies Anywhere…

Week of Feb. 25, 2019 - Pre-Order

Be sure to pre-order these great upcoming titles! Watch Rebel Wilson navigate the troubled waters of being trapped inside a real-life romantic comedy in “Isn’t It Romantic” or switch gears and fall into a deja vu of a deja vu with “Happy Death Day 2U” and who can deny the charm of the heroes of Bricksburg in the new “The LEGO Movie: the Second Part”?

Week of Feb. 25, 2019 - New Releases

Movies Anywhere is thrilled to announce that the following films are now available for purchase!

Kick-off your evening with the Oscar Best Picture “Green Book” which also garnered awards for Actor in a Supporting Role for Mahershala Ali and another Oscar for Writing (Original Screenplay). Then, shift gears to this year’s Oscar award for Animated Feature Film with “Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse”. Also, now available from Producer Peter Jackson, “Mortal Engines,” a fantastical roller coaster ride!

Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"

(FPO copy lifted from Wikipedia)

The Shining is a 1980 horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. The film is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name.

The Shining is about Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic, who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Wintering over with Jack are his wife Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd). Danny possesses "the shining", psychic abilities that enable him to see into the hotel's horrific past. The hotel's cook, Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers), also has this and is able to telepathically communicate with Danny. The hotel had a previous winter caretaker who went crazy and killed his family and himself. After a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound, Jack's sanity deteriorates due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel, placing his wife and son in danger.

Production took place almost exclusively at EMI Elstree Studios with sets strongly based on real locations. Kubrick often worked with a small crew which allowed him to do many takes, sometimes to the exhaustion of the actors and staff. The new Steadicam was used in several scenes, giving the film an innovative and immersive look and feel. Because of inconsistencies, ambiguities, symbolism, and differences from the book, there has been much speculation into the meanings and actions in the movie.

There were several versions for theatrical releases, each being shorter than the prior, with about 27 minutes cut. Although contemporary responses from critics were mixed, assessment became more favorable in following decades, and it is now widely regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made. The Shining is widely acclaimed by today's critics, and has become a staple of pop culture. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Movies Anywhere has a great selection of Stanley Kubrick films for your viewing pleasure: