Weekend Movies: Fists, Planes and Videogames
This weekend’s three nationwide releases are all about wrecking things. While one is bound to wreck the box office, the other two are simply train wrecks.
This weekend’s three nationwide releases are all about wrecking things. While one is bound to wreck the box office, the other two are simply train wrecks.
Believe me, nobody wanted to see Robert Zemeckis gloriously return to live-action filmmaking more than I did. From the trailers alone, I expected ‘Flight’ to be one of the finest films of the year. I refuse to re-watch...
Disney and Pixar have flip-flopped positions in 2012. This summer, Pixar made an animated movie (‘Brave’) that only reached Disney’s typical heights, and now Disney Animation has made one that rises to Pixar̵...
After opening, most nationwide movies drop down the Top 10 week after week. Some titles will occasionally climb up the ranks, but that doesn’t happen very often – especially not with a three-week-old film. Yet such is the ca...
With Halloween just around the corner, this weekend is like a kid’s pillowcase after a lengthy night of trick-or-treating. It has some new movie releases comparable to a King Size candy bar, some more like the giant orange f...
Few press screenings start with attached trailers. Usually, unless I actively search out trailers, TV spots are the only chance that many films get to wow me prior to their screenings. Such was the case with ‘Chasing Maveric...
What a sad weekend for the two wide releases. Let this be a lesson to the studios behind them: Yes, you can make too many sequels in a franchise, and most of us are smart enough to stay away from horrible-looking prequels.
None of the movies opening wide this weekend curb my anticipation-slash-curiosity for next week’s ‘Cloud Atlas’. In the meantime, all we get are yet another found-footage sequel and Tyler Perry’s attempt to...
Walking into ‘Alex Cross’, I already knew that it would be a dumb thriller with a one-dimensional hero and villain, a clichéd and cheese-filled plot, and lots of mild violence and action. Yet I didn’t expect such...
Liam Neeson’s ‘Taken’ sequel has successfully beaten five new releases with a $22.5 million second weekend. Ten days into its run, ‘Taken 2’ has grossed $86.7 million. Its 55% drop in attendance was a...
Do you have plans this weekend that will keep you from going to the movie theater? Cancel them. Three new films deserve your attention. I make no promises for the others, though.
Thanks to ‘Sinister’, I’ve finally learned my lesson. No longer will I believe any premature buzz for genre flicks. More often than not, early hype for a movie like this is the result of the studio screening it f...