Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Animated Film
We’ve got a pretty straightforward Roundtable topic this week. With ‘Rango’ at the top of last weekend’s box office, and ‘Mars Needs Moms’ opening today, this seems like an appropriate time to t...
March Movie Madness: Doom vs. Wallace – Pilgrim vs. Hawk
March Movie Madness is moving along quite nicely now. We’ve ended the Batman debate (congrats to gruff-talking Christian Bale), and we’ve even figured out our first two winners who are moving on to the next round. In t...
Weekend Movies: ‘Mars Needs Moms’, Wolf Needs Red Rid
Maybe it’s the close proximity to the summer movie season, which seems to leap forward every year based on the marketing needs of the studios (Universal is claiming that the April 29th release date for ‘Fast Five’...
Can I Get a Price Check in Theater 3, Please?
Looking for a way to spruce up the décor of your home theater room without relying on those traditional standbys of movie posters, popcorn makers, or the usual memorabilia? Try thinking outside the box a little with these abstract...
‘Idol’ Worship: A Baker’s Dozen
I had to do some travelling last week, so I didn’t get to recap the final Hollywood Week where ‘American Idol’ whittled the field down from 24 contestants to 13. Fortunately, nothing terribly unpredictable happened. This wee...
Even Michael Bay Thinks His Last ‘Transformers’ Movie
It was just a little under a year ago that star Shia LaBeouf made some surprisingly frank statements to the press about to the widely-derided sequel ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’, in which he admitted: ” ...
The Netflix Stream: Week of March 6th, 2011
The Netflix gods are kind to us this week. Our sacrifice of one horror franchise nets us a wealth of comedy to enjoy, including new ‘MST3K’.
Just How Many “Ds” Do We Need, Anyway?
With all the fuss that’s been made about the introduction of 3D to home theater, Stewart Filmscreen decided to do that one better (or two better, as the case may be), with the recent introduction of its “5D” proj...
March Movie Madness: Potter vs. Zurg – Grinch vs. Wilkes
I’ve decided that in order to differentiate the various brackets in the March Movie Madness tournament, we’re going to have to give them names. The NCAA gives each bracket a directional name (East, West, South, and Nor...
An Insidious Cobra Plot – ‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel Doomed Ag...
Back in January, I posted the potential good news that Stephen Sommers had been fired from directing the sequel to his atrocious live action ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra‘ movie. I speculated that – with a new director,...
Bad Movie Night Poll: Pick Your Poison
We’re planning to start up some community events here at The Bonus View. First up will be a Bad Movie Night. The only problem is that we have two ways we can go about this, and we need some help deciding.
The Bonus View Is Going to PAX!
The Penny Arcade Expo, also known as PAX, isn’t a gaming convention. It’s not a tradeshow or an expo. It’s a celebration, a Mecca and the biggest party of the year all in one. And we’re going.