Weekend Box Office: ‘Pain’ Gains an Audience
Michael Bay’s weekend win would typically be big news, but this one is overshadowed by the international debut of ‘Iron Man 3’. The third movie in Marvel’s franchise (fourth if you count ‘The Avengers...
Michael Bay’s weekend win would typically be big news, but this one is overshadowed by the international debut of ‘Iron Man 3’. The third movie in Marvel’s franchise (fourth if you count ‘The Avengers...
Sometimes, we just can’t properly appreciate a movie on first viewing. Perhaps the marketing misled us into expecting something entirely different than what we’d actually get, perhaps we set impossibly high expectation...
In his new film, ‘Mud’, Jeff Nichols (director of ‘Take Shelter‘) brings us a coming-of-age story about two best friends in the South who bond with a homeless fugitive. With amazing performances and a great...
When does ‘Iron Man 3’ come out? That’s the only thing I can think about this weekend.
Michael Bay made a new movie for $25 million. He hasn’t worked with a budget that low since his first ‘Bad Boys’ in 1995. Since then, his budgets have ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars, and he’s ...
In this week’s new trailers, the premise for ‘Men in Black’ gets re-imagined to incorporate the undead, while two highly anticipated action sequels promise to finish the year with a really big and loud bang.
Tom Cruise’s career took a hard hit in the early 2000s. Over the past four years, his personal life has slipped back out of the public eye and, in the process, the actor climbed back up to the top of the box office. This wee...
As Sam Jackson once said, “Hold onto your butts.” Summer starts two weeks early this year. Today we get just one wide release – an expensive visual effects-filled star vehicle. Tom Cruise fans, be sure to soak it in, b...
It’s been a great couple of years for science fiction fans. The genre has shown its big head again, and the masses seem to be eating it up. As we gear up for ‘Elysium’, ‘Pacific Rim’ and ‘Star T...
March wasn’t pretty (for Luke). In April’s round of Box Office Pick’em, Aaron gets to draft first… again.
Sometimes, in Hollywood, movies lose money. That’s just the way it goes. ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ proved to be a killer for Luke’s totals in March’s round of Box Office Pick’em.
Here in the U.S., the Jackie Robinson bio-pic hit a home run this weekend. But the domestic market is apparently oblivious to what’s going on overseas.