The Trailer Park: A Growing Temptation
This week, we have a couple of trailers that give away a few more details about the movies they’re promoting. Fortunately, they do a decent job of increasing my desire to see them.
This week, we have a couple of trailers that give away a few more details about the movies they’re promoting. Fortunately, they do a decent job of increasing my desire to see them.
How is it that DreamWorks Animation can pump out gems like ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, yet utterly fail over and over again with the ‘Madagascar’ franchise? Don’t belie...
For some reason, movies about adults who we would perceive as losers make for great comedy. The next couple of trailers have grown men who never grew out of their “Hall Monitor” days, and who simply failed at getting t...
Surprisingly, ‘Puss in Boots’ held onto the #1 spot at the box office with another $30+ million weekend. The family-friendly ‘Shrek’ spin-off only dropped an unheard-of 3% from its opening weekend, which br...
If you thought the early October releases were weak, I don’t think it gets any worse than this.
Full disclosure: I cannot stand Brett Ratner. ‘Red Dragon‘ is the only of his films that I find worthy of re-watching. Even before learning that ‘Tower Heist’ was a Ratner movie, I dreaded it based on that ...
The last few weeks have been flooded with new trailers. A good chunk of them feature ensemble casts likely intended to drive up the box-office numbers. In the fall, we’re getting a comedy heist to tickle your funny bone and ...
I’m writing this post late on Sunday night. Besides my laziness and procrastination (the twin devils of writing, as far as I’m concerned), this weekend’s box office tally was something of a nail-biter. Yesterday,...
There weren’t a whole lot of interesting movies for people to rush out to see this holiday weekend. Sure, there were some prestige pictures, but those were mostly relegated to the art houses. And the big Hollywood fare wasn&...
What can you do when your family has gotten so annoying that you have to physically remove yourself from the equation for fear of causing bodily harm to someone that you’ll probably have to see a weekend later for New Year...
This is a pretty slow week on the Blu-ray front. The biggest day & date title is kind of terrible. Fortunately, there are a couple of more interesting art house pictures, and a decent catalog title or two to catch up with. Le...