Weekend Box Office: Not Enough Happy Thoughts
Last week’s reigning champions continued their successful runs. Meanwhile, no amount of pixie dust could save this weekend’s two biggest new movies.
Last week’s reigning champions continued their successful runs. Meanwhile, no amount of pixie dust could save this weekend’s two biggest new movies.
Given the devastating effect it had on the U.S. economy, it’s a bit of a shock how few movies have been made about the credit-crunch housing crisis. ’99 Homes’ is the first to take it on directly. Ramin Bahrani...
This weekend’s new movie destinations include a trip back to Neverland, or to the 1970s and the days before Apple was a trendy behemoth.
Apparently it’s necessary to resurrect and remake ‘Peter Pan’ every five years. The cycle has come around again and this time fell into the unlikely hands of ‘Atonement’ and ‘Hanna’ direct...
The core of ‘Labyrinth of Lies’, Germany’s official entry in this year’s Best Foreign Language Film race, is intriguing and relevant. The film is about the court case that brought officers from Auschwitz to...
Eli Roth’s fifth feature hits screens only a few weeks after his fourth thanks to the two-year delay that held up the release of ‘The Green Inferno’. As a change of pace, ‘Knock Knock’ is an erotic th...
As expected, Ridley Scott’s science-fiction disaster flick took the top spot at the box office, but that wasn’t the weekend’s only success story.
Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated sci-fi survival movie is technically the only new wide release of the week, but the nationwide expansion of Emily Blunt’s gritty cartel-busting film hopes to steal away an audience of ...
After a few years away as an unexpected director of kung-fu epics (‘Hero’, ‘House of Flying Daggers’, etc.) and the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, director Zhang Yimou returns to his roots. That means...
There have been so many gangster movies at this point that the only way to make an entry in the genre appealing is through some sort of stunt. ‘Black Mass’ recently rescued Johnny Depp from his mountain of scarves to g...
Bleak, vicious and unrelenting, ‘Sicario’ is a Hollywood thriller by which all other entries in the genre should be measured this year. It’s proof that artful, socially conscious films can still qualify as mainst...
Not many Ridley Scott movies can be described with words like “light” or “fluffy,” but ‘The Martian’ comfortably fits those terms in the best possible way. Undoubtedly, screenwriter Drew Goddard...