Weekend Box Office: The Horror, the Horror…
For the umpteenth time this year, a tiny horror movie has destroyed another title that should have done much better. With the genre still going strong, don’t expect the scary streak to end anytime soon.
For the umpteenth time this year, a tiny horror movie has destroyed another title that should have done much better. With the genre still going strong, don’t expect the scary streak to end anytime soon.
This summer was one for the books. Tentpoles flopped while horror thrived. Fittingly, this Friday the 13th offers another horror sequel, as well as a mobster comedy infused with action. Which will you choose?
The next Machete adventure packs more over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek action and a larger cast, but the sequel to the surprising ‘Insidious’ looks largely like a repeat of the first. Meanwhile, French Canadian filmmaker ...
Here we go. It’s the beginning of the year, and you know what that means: Lists. Lots of them. You see them everywhere you go. That’s okay, because we love looking at them and then disagreeing with them. So come on in ...
Yes, it’s another slow summer week for new Blu-ray releases. Even the title I’ve most eagerly awaited appears to have arrived on the format in a compromised form. Will I be able to resist buying it anyway? Honestly, pr...
For the second weekend in a row, the furry appeal of ‘Hop’ was too much for audiences (perhaps sedated or heavily drugged) to resist. The Russell Brand-voiced Easter Bunny movie made it to the #1 spot again. That’...
The three big movies that opened this weekend couldn’t be more different: a spooky haunted house thriller, a high concept kids film about the mythical inner life of the Easter Bunny, and a trippy sci-fi film about time trave...
A trio of biggish movies open this weekend, some of them better than others. If you aren’t jonesing for some mainstream multiplex fare, some oddball art house pics and some smaller films also expand wider. Oh, and there̵...
Something I’ve heard, when describing ‘Insidious’, the new ooh-spooky horror film from the ‘Saw’ team of director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell (who also acts), is that it’s a horror...