Weekend Box Office: ‘Gone’ Definitely Not Forgotten
Even with four new nationwide releases offering (somewhat) stiff competition, great reviews and stellar word of mouth kept David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ at the top of the box office again.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 12th, 2014 – Future Ten
Time travel seems to be a major theme on Blu-ray this week. From mutant superheroes to talking dogs, everybody’s zipping back and forth from past to future, or vice versa.
Weekend Roundtable: Worst Cinematic Origin Stories
This week, pop culture’s most famous vampire, Dracula, returns to cinema screens with a new prequel/reboot that tries to retcon the evil bloodsucker as a misunderstood superhero. To put it lightly, the film looks a little ha...
‘The Flash’ Pilot Recap: “You Need to Believe i
Flash – ah ahhhhhh, Saviour of the Universe… Oh wait, sorry, wrong Flash. The CW’s new superhero drama series ‘The Flash’ is of course based on the famous DC Comics character, and is positioned here as a spin-off...
Weekend Movies: You Be the Judge
In both nationwide and limited release, there are way too many movies opening this weekend.
‘Kill the Messenger’ Review: Dulled Paranoia
For a film that serves up a tragic true story for righteous indignation, ‘Kill the Messenger’ sure is surprisingly dull. The material is interesting, even incendiary. Yet somewhere between the facts and the drama, some...
‘Dracula Untold’ Review: Dracula Defanged
When you think of Dracula, you conjure up of one of the great personifications of evil in pop culture. Romantic? Sure. Tragic? I suppose. But still a villain and certainly a figure of evil. Yet Universal’s new Dracula reboot...
‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Da
Based on the popular children’s book of the same name, ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ can essentially be summed up by its title. It’s a slapstick family comedy about a bad day...
‘The Judge’ Review: Painless Oscar Baiting
Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall star as a broken father/son combo who need to make things right. And with that, we officially enter Oscar season, folks. ‘The Judge’ is a movie made purely and blatantly to win awar...
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 2.03 Recap: “The Highe
Just the other day, I wrote a post which said that watching ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ feels more like an obligation than something I truly enjoy. Of course, the show then has to go and air a pretty good episode that I e...
SteelBook Alert: Hooked on a Feeling
By this point, fans and collectors probably take it for granted that movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe will get SteelBook editions on Blu-ray. Few of them are as truly inspired as this artwork for the franchise’s lat...
‘Gotham’ 1.03 Recap: “Where Do You Think They F
I think one of the reasons that some viewers haven’t embraced Fox’s ‘Gotham’ is a matter of tone. The show has a very heightened and, for lack of a better word, “cartoonish” vibe that may seem f...