Make Up Your Own Mind

This week was a first for our Sneak Preview group: Our cinema actually had picked a horror — or at least horror-ish — movie called Winchester [IMDb, Trailer (YouTube)].

When I hear about Scandinavian cinema, I immediately think of movies like In China They Eat Dogs [IMDb], The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [IMDb], The Green Butchers [IMDb] or Adam’s Apples [IMDb]. All of them are either known for their bluntness, an excessive amount of unconcealed violence or just…

We saw Logan Lucky [IMDb, Trailer (YouTube)] today. When you just look at the facts, this movie has quite a lot going for it. The director, Steven Soderbergh, is known for Ocean’s Eleven and the sequels. Those — especially the first one — were very entertaining and genuinely amusing movies…

According to my companions we had seen the trailer for Table 19 [IMDb, Trailer] a couple of weeks ago. I did not remember anything about it and even the title itself did not ring a bell. Therefore I had zero expectations going into this week’s Sneak Preview.

Today, the mighty gods of the Sneak Preview brought us a movie written and directed by Dax Shepard, who also plays one of the lead roles. CHIPS [IMDb, Trailer] is a movie based on a TV series from the 70s about the California Highway Patrol.