Box Office Pick’em: January 2013
I play a lot of fantasy sports. I like the competiveness of it and enjoy trying to predict what will happen. That led into an idea for the following contest: Box Office Pick’em.
I play a lot of fantasy sports. I like the competiveness of it and enjoy trying to predict what will happen. That led into an idea for the following contest: Box Office Pick’em.
In last week’s Monster Madness battle, the demonic Balrog proved too much for the mysterious Mist Walker. Meanwhile, we also found out that even the Devil himself can be beat when a master hunter like the Predator is lurking...
I’m getting all my plans finalized for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which starts on January 17th. As always, my schedule is packed as I plan to see as many movies as I possibly can before I either burn out or si...
The first weekend of January only gave us two new nationwide releases, four noteworthy expansions, and not a single limited opening. Of the two wide releases, only one has had its numbers announced (so far), so this will be a shor...
With the beginning of the new year, it’s time to do some looking back at what 2012 brought us. For today’s Roundtable, we offer our picks for some of the most underrated films of last year. Perhaps these movies receive...
When I first saw the trailer for ‘The Impossible’ as I walked into a movie theater, I stopped mid-aisle and watched the whole preview because the on-screen action mixed with Damien Rice’s cover of U2’s R...
It’s over. Every good movie that the studios were trying to shovel out in time for Academy Awards consideration has been released. Now we get the leftovers. It’s a good thing that nobody takes the first weekend of a ne...
Although the young adult genre is nothing new and the ‘tween age group has been identified as a real demographic since about the late 1980s, not until Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ books did these pre-adoles...
We had a couple bloodbaths in the last Monster Madness match-up. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. Neither Chucky nor the Tire bleed. So, that contest simply ended with what smelled like burning rubber. The other battle sa...
2012 went down as one for the books. At this time, it’s estimated that the year-end domestic box office has closed around the $10.8 billion mark. That’s billion with a “B.” The Top 5 contributors to this be...
This week, three new movies opened on Christmas Day: ‘Django Unchained’, ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Parental Guidance’. The first two performed very well on Christmas, so don’t expect any of to...
Quentin Tarantino is back at it again, mixing genres and re-writing history, all while purposefully touching on taboo topics and using blatantly inappropriate dialogue. Don’t expect another Best Picture contender here, but &...