Videogame Releases: Week of January 19th, 2014
The January doldrums are still in full effect with this week’s videogame releases, but at least Vita owners can learn how to olli.
Weekend Box Office: Audiences Get Taken For a ‘Ride’
Two of this weekend’s new movies opened better than expected. The other two opened under expectations. One title in each category surprised me.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 19th, 2014 – I Am the C
Happy MLK Day, everyone. I suppose that I could have used the holiday as an excuse to take another long weekend, but this week actually brings us a few new Blu-rays of interest. Let’s take a look.
Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Buddy-Cop Movies
They’re partners. They’re friends (sometimes). They bust the criminals while busting each other’s balls. The buddy-cop formula is a reliable staple of Hollywood’s output. This week, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube ...
Weekend Movies: The Hunt for a Good January
While the last few weekends only saw one wide release debut, this weekend is slammed with four titles claiming a collective total of more than 11,000 screens across the nation. Among them are another found-footage horror flick, Ke...
Now Playing: Move ‘Along’
Once or twice a year, another buddy-cop movie will come along where two unlikely partners are paired up to take out the world’s most dastardly criminals. Very few of these are worth watching, and most are almost instantly fo...
Now Playing: Footloose and Clancy Free
Despite what Hollywood believes, not all successful film franchises need to be rebooted. Sometimes the success of a certain series has as much to do with the time of release as anything else. Case in point would be ‘Jack Rya...
Statuesque: 2014 Oscar Nominations
A lot of movie award ceremonies happen this time of year, but let’s be honest that the only one anybody really takes seriously is the Oscars. This morning, ‘Thor’ star Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Pictur...
Full Metal Jackets: Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Fans of Disney’s new animated hit ‘Frozen’ have a couple of good reasons to consider importing the upcoming Blu-ray release from abroad rather than buying domestically. Not only will UK retailer Zavvi sell an exc...
Mid-Week Poll: Do You Sell Old DVDs When Buying Blu-rays?
Here’s a question for the Blu-ray collectors out there: If you upgrade a movie to Blu-ray that you previously owned on DVD, what do you do with the DVD? Do you keep it? Do you sell it? Do you make an art project out of it? T...
‘True Detective’ Pilot Recap: “A Man without a
From its opening credits to the final shot, the first episode of ‘True Detective’ proves to be the best TV pilot I’ve seen in a long time. HBO’s new anthology series (which will only run eight episodes, the...
Videogame Releases: Week of January 12th, 2014
In this second full week of January, new videogame releases continue at a trickle. This time around, a female Assassin returns, reborn for the consoles.