Weekend Box Office: Turtle Power!
This weekend marks the second in a row for huge August debuts. Last week’s was due to consumer confidence in the Marvel brand and this week’s was due to nostalgia.
This weekend marks the second in a row for huge August debuts. Last week’s was due to consumer confidence in the Marvel brand and this week’s was due to nostalgia.
The future of the Galaxy is at risk of being upset by Michael Bay’s second waste of time this summer.
When Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey team up to produce a movie, you know that schmaltz is inevitable. Toss in ‘Cider House Rules’ director Lasse Hallstrom and you’ve got super-schmaltz. The studio really shou...
‘Into the Storm’ is a lean 90-minute ode to the joys of watching stuff get smashed and go boom. Sure, it has a plot and some characters, but those pesky dramatic elements are little more than a distraction for both the...
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have returned, possibly signaling the moment when ’90s nostalgia hits the mainstream. There’s a problem with nostalgia, though. Fond memories tend to make things seem better than they w...
When a film opens with a priest being told that he will be killed in a week as punishment for centuries of sin by the Catholic Church, you wouldn’t expect the movie that follows to be a comedy. Yet that’s exactly what John Michael...
While July’s box office was down considerably from last year, this week’s record-setting opening may push August towards becoming more lucrative than last August. Also of note, thanks to China’s ongoing turnout, ...
August movie releases are typically pretty mild, signaling the end of yet another summer blockbuster season. However, this year has been interesting and unpredictable. July’s box office was down quite a bit from last year...
James Brown’s insane and turmultuous life is just too grand and bizarre for a conventional bio-pic. Thankfully, the folks behind ‘Get On Up’ don’t even try to fit that square peg into a round hole, deliveri...
Marvel Studios expands out of superhero yarns and into the realm of goofy space opera with ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. The movie is a rip-roaring adventure that’s silly without feeling slight, and dark without fee...
If you like Woody Allen enough to follow his career, you know that since the 1980s he’s alternated between interesting films and minor wisps. With last year’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ qualifying as possibly his best ...
Although this weekend was down yet again compared to last July’s box office numbers, the results held some surprises.