Weekend Roundtable: Magical Thinking
Between ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts’, magic appears to be one of the dominant themes of the fall movie season this year. Excluding ‘Harry Potter’ (too easy), what are your favorite mo...
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The Netflix Stream: Week of April 27th, 2011
We’ve had a few rough weeks, but things are finally getting easier for Netflix fans. We may be losing a pretty big crop of movies from the stream this week, but they’re generally pretty bad ones. In exchange, we get a ...
Blu-ray Highlights for 11/30/10: What Are You Buying?
It’s the last day of November. There are officially only 25 shopping days left until Christmas. The studios know this. You’d think they’d release a more interesting batch of movies to buy on Blu-ray today.
Weekend Box Office: Stuck in the Dream World
Well, it looked for a minute there like ‘Dinner for Schmucks,’ the high-concept comedy from DreamWorks that’s a remake of an already mediocre French farce, was going to come out as the king of the weekend box off...
Weekend Box Office: ‘Inception’ Stays On Top
This weekend, it looked like Angelina Jolie’s miserable spy thriller ‘Salt‘ was poised to take the top slot. There was great buzz surrounding the movie and a number of the country’s top critics gave the fil...
Weekend Box Office: America’s Got Taste
Wonder of wonders! A smart, complicated movie that undoubtedly alienated and confused those looking for “a trippy movie from the dude that did Batman” actually won the weekend roller derby! All right! Christopher Nolan...
Weekend Movies: Dream A Little Dream of Me
This weekend’s big new movies – Disney’s ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice‘ and Warner Bros’ ‘Inception‘ – are big, hulking, hugely budgeted behemoths. And both are pretty diverting pop ent...
Now Playing: ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ Isn’
When I went to a press screening of the latest Jerry Bruckheimer/Walt Disney Pictures visual effects extravaganza ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,’ I sat a few seats down from someone who introduced himself as having ...
Weekend Box Office: Never Underestimate the Power of Minions
This weekend saw the debut of a pair of high profile releases, some smaller indie gems making their way into the market, and some heavy-hitters trying to stick around and make a few more bucks before being cast off into home video...