Weekend Roundtable: Toy Stories
‘The Lego Movie’ opens in theaters this week, and another ‘Transformers’ sequel is on the way this summer. For today’s Roundtable, we offer Hollywood some helpful suggestions for other favorite childh...
‘The Lego Movie’ opens in theaters this week, and another ‘Transformers’ sequel is on the way this summer. For today’s Roundtable, we offer Hollywood some helpful suggestions for other favorite childh...
This weekend brings another famous toy to the big screen, a drama that got kicked out of an awards season slot, and yet another adaptation of Young Adult book series. Can you guess which two might be worth checking out?
It’s always a bad sign when a movie gets bumped from a prestigious awards-gobbling fall release into the January/February dumping ground. It’s an even worse sign when that movie is a Hollywood superstar packed affair a...
On paper, ‘The Lego Movie’ should be a heartless blockbuster toy advertisement, much like ‘Transformers’ or ‘Battleship’. Thankfully, the project fell into the hands of co-directors Phil Lord an...
Arguably, the best part about the Super Bowl is the commercials. Every year, movie studios love to join the fun with half-minute sneak peeks at their upcoming releases. For this week’s selection of previews, we’ll look...
The Super Bowl inevitably brings down theatrical box office numbers, as people stay home to watch the game rather than go to the movies. This weekend’s two under-performing wide releases sure didn’t help to put people ...
I can’t believe that I have to start the week with such devastating news. The great Philip Seymour Hoffman died over the weekend at the age of only 46.
About fifteen years ago, ‘That Awkward Moment’ still would have been a bad movie, but at least it would have been a failed entry in a common ’90s genre. As it stands now, the film is dull, derivative and out of d...
Writer/director Jason Reitman burst onto the scene with the indie-twee equivalent of a bang with ‘Thank You for Smoking’ and ‘Juno’. Unfortunately, the quirky charms of those flicks faded fast on repeated v...
That awkward moment will be when Jason Reitman’s new drama tanks this weekend.
The last couple of weeks have been pretty slow in terms of new movie trailers. With little else to discuss, let’s look at a few potentially interesting movies coming soon.
No, the jokes about commas aren’t done yet.