Will Martinez's Film & TV Blog

  It might be difficult to believe, but 2021 is near its close as we have only three months of films left for the year. I think 2021 has been a really solid year for films overall, but looking at the release date calendar for October, November and December, the last half of this year is shaping up to be very special as we have many exciting big budget blockbusters and potential Oscar players left in store for us film fans. Assuming the Covid pandemic doesn't mess things up again and cause more release dates to move once again, I'm going to practically be living at the movie theaters with these remaining months. With that out of the way, I figured I would run down the 10 films I'm most excited about while also singling out plenty of notable honorable mentions.  Keep in mind though: Since I was at the Toronto International Film Festival a few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to have already seen Last Night In Soho, The Power of the Dog, Titane and Belfast amongst others so t

  Copshop is definitely one of those films that has been flying under my own radar. I had seen a few ads start to pop up for it in the last couple of weeks while watching TV, but other than the fact that Frank Grillo & Gerard Butler both headlined this film, I was still getting the sense that this will be another throwaway action film that everybody quickly forgets about after its release. However, once surprisingly strong early reviews came pouring in and I also realized that director Joe Carnahan was helming this one, I knew this was one that I had to ultimately see. Carnahan has always been a solid director and certainly knows how to make a ridiculously entertaining action film. And while Copshop is no game changer by any means, I'm thrilled to report that it is indeed yet another ridiculously entertaining feature from the filmmaker. He's batting a 2 for 2 in 2021.  Something that stood out to me with this one that I happened to really like was just old school it felt. S

  Just this past week, I was lucky enough to attend the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time ever. And one of those very big films I was fortunate enough to secure a ticket for was director Edgar Wright's latest genre bending film Last Night In Soho which was easily one of my most anticipated films of this entire year. Edgar Wright has long been one of my filmmakers in the world from films such as Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and The Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End), so to hear him now dive into a full on horror film and really branch out obviously really excited me. Not to mention the first teaser that was released is honestly one of my favorite trailers from the past few years. And now having seen it, I'm so happy to say that at least for my money Edgar Wright has delivered yet again a relentlessly entertaining and also wonderfully crafted psychological horror film that really illustrates how far he's evolve