Weekend Box Office: Clobbered
Five movies in, nothing is impossible for Tom Cruise’s spy franchise. However, after four attempts, what does seem impossible is delivering a ‘Fantastic Four’ movie that’s actually enjoyable.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 9th, 2015 – Running Cold
It’s another week in which the Blu-ray release slate is dominated by new movies of questionable merit. If you’re looking for something to buy, perhaps keep your eyes on catalog titles from the likes of Criterion or Twi...
Weekend Roundtable: Superheroes Who Deserve Better Movies
As of this weekend, we’re already on our second movie iteration of the ‘Fantastic Four’ (third if you count the unreleased Roger Corman cheapie), and it seems like the popular comic book team still hasn’t b...
Weekend Movies: A Flash in the Pan
This, the first weekend of August, is the congested and desperate sign that summer fun is decidedly behind us.
‘The Gift’ Review: A Clear and Present Danger
Generally speaking, directorial debuts from actors should be approached with absolute dread. Just because an actor reaches a level of fame that makes it possible to get a movie made doesn’t mean he or she really has the chop...
‘Ricki and the Flash’ Review: So Many Streeps
Some of the best movies by director Jonathan Demme (‘Melvin and Howard’, ‘Rachel Getting Married’) serve up oddballs and outcasts with such love and humor that you feel like you know the characters as frien...
‘Shaun the Sheep Movie’ Review: Wholly and Wooly Lova
For all the talk about Pixar’s remarkable track record, not nearly enough love is spread over to Aardman Animations, the British claymation studio behind ‘Wallace and Gromit’, ‘Chicken Run’ and now &#...
‘Fantastic Four’ (2015) Review: An Intriguing Mess
If there’s one thing that can be said about the new ‘Fantastic Four’ reboot, ‘Chronicle’ director Josh Trank certainly had a unique take on the material. This isn’t the dysfunctional family supe...
The Trailer Park: Spectre of the Fun
This week’s collection of movie trailers center around the wonderful theme of espionage, including a mercenary who can’t his mouth shut, a sleeper agent from the most unlikely of places, and the legend that all spies a...
Poll: Rank the Impossible Missions
As ‘Rogue Nation’ burns up the theatrical box office, how does it rate compared to the franchise’s earlier entries? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to vote for the best ‘Mission: Impossible...
An Ultra HD Blu-ray Q&A!
It’s time to throw your Blu-ray collection in the trash! That junk is old hat. There’s a new video format coming out really soon that’ll be everything Blu-ray is and more. More pixels! More colors! More expensive...
SteelBook Alert: One Possible Future
This summer’s sequel/reboot ‘Terminator Genisys’ may not have terminated the box office competition like a lot of people hoped, but it’s still the type of movie that appeals to SteelBook collectors, especia...