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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 22nd, 2015 – Baaa to the Bone

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:00:06 +0000

This Thanksgiving, if you’re bored with the traditional turkey dinner, perhaps consider mutton on your menu? Mmm, lamb chops… so yummy… New Releases ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie‘ – Although not as well known on this side of the pond as ‘Wallace and Gromit’, Aardman Animations’ woolier mascot is nearly as beloved in his native England....

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Weekend Box Office: Ultra Letdowns

Luke Hickman — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:00:04 +0000

As expected, none of this weekend’s three biggest new movie releases put up much of a fight against the reigning box office champs. Even though it dropped an unexpected 55% in its second week, ‘Straight Outta Compton‘ maintained the top spot. Universal’s attempt at helping the holdover by increasing the film’s screen count from 2,757...

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Weekend Movies: Take a Hit

Luke Hickman — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:00:44 +0000

Looking at this weekend’s new movie releases, it’s shocking that this is still technically part of summer. I’m certain that the only thing anyone remembers about the 2007 videogame adaptation ‘Hitman‘ is that it starred the always-excellent Timothy Olyphant. For some reason, eight years later, Fox thought it was about time to pump $35 million...

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‘American Ultra’ Review: The Stoner Supremacy

Philip Brown — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:00:07 +0000

The challenge in creating a cross-genre mashup is delivering a movie that manages to satisfy while going out of its way not to fall back on certain genre expectations. ‘American Ultra’ teeters on that very thin line throughout and comes out the other side reasonably unscathed. You can’t say the movie is perfect, but nor...

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The Trailer Park: Spectre of the Fun

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:00:29 +0000

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 aspire to be. ‘Deadpool’ Poor Ryan Reynolds. Has anyone had as much bad luck appearing in a comic book...

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