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It’s been a bad summer. I keep saying that, mostly because it’s true. It’s been overrun by loud, obnoxious studio movies that appeal to little kids (‘Marmaduke,’ ‘Shrek Forever After’) or ...
It’s been a bad summer. I keep saying that, mostly because it’s true. It’s been overrun by loud, obnoxious studio movies that appeal to little kids (‘Marmaduke,’ ‘Shrek Forever After’) or ...
If this weekend’s box office numbers prove anything, teenagers love to go to the movies. Between the weekend gross and the extended openings (both ‘The Last Airbender’ and ‘Twilight’ opened BEFORE Fri...
July Fourth weekend is typically one of the biggest for the Hollywood studios. This is, after all, the lucrative weekend that Will Smith spent many a summer lording over with effects-filled extravaganzas. (This year, he seems to h...
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Last Airbender,’ adapted from the sixty-odd episode Nickelodeon animated show, begins with a title card that reads “Book One: Water.” What it should really say is, “Thi...
Most of the reviews of this week’s surefire box office juggernaut ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ are proclaiming that this, the third entry in the chaste vampire saga, is the best of the bunch. I guess it is, in it...
Some pretty big heavy-hitters were added to the box office roller derby this weekend. Yet the combined star wattage of Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and a bunch of unfunny, pot-bellied has-been comedians (Kev...
Well, the (potentially) biggest movie of the week, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s goofy fun ‘Knight and Day,’ opened on Wednesday. That leaves this weekend to a bunch of numskulls, and some potentially potent indi...
Michael Winterbottom’s uncompromising crime thriller ‘The Killer Inside Me’ is a micro-budgeted indie that has stirred up controversy for its shocking depiction of violence. It was probably my favorite thing that...
Fox is worried about ‘Knight and Day,’ the high-impact action comedy that’s opening across the country today. It’s been widely reported that the film, which stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, just isn’...
If, like most people, you’d never heard of the character before, ‘Jonah Hex’ is that huge-ass Hollywood movie based on a coveted comic book property that opened this past Friday and tanked over the weekend. I cou...
The weekend panned out like pretty much everyone (myself included) expected it to: ‘Toy Story 3’ made (deservedly) a whole bunch of money while ‘Jonah Hex’ made (deservedly) very little. But the story, and ...
If it seems like there’s really only one movie opening this weekend, there are in fact a couple of hidden gems and other things I haven’t gotten to talk about yet. But if you do only get to see one movie this weekend, ...