Weekend Roundtable: Flatlining
This week, we use the excuse of the ‘Flatliners’ remake to give some thought to our favorite movie or TV death scenes. This may well be the only useful thing ‘Flatliners’ is ever good for.
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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Airplane Movies
With the true-story drama ‘Sully’ opening in theaters this week, it might perhaps be in poor taste to do a Roundtable about favorite plane crash scenes in movies. Let’s broaden the topic out a bit to cover any mo...
“Super Cutz: The 100 Best Kills” Review
Recently, I attended “Super Cutz: The 100 Best Kills” at the Alamo Drathouse, which contained way more than a hundred onscreen deaths from a gamut of movies, many obscure but some mainstream. Read on to see how the eve...
Blu-ray Highlights for 12/27/11 – The Post-Holiday Cooldown
Welcome back from the Christmas break. We hope that you all had a nice holiday. As is typical for this time of the year, the week after Christmas is a very slow time for new Blu-ray releases.
Weekend Box Office: ‘Apes’ Need No ‘Help’
Considering how “blah” this weekend’s four new films appeared, it’s no surprise that ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ held onto the #1 box office spot for its second weekend. Neither a preachy w...
Weekend Movies: Four Genres Fight for First
It’s always fun to watch niche audience flicks open against each other. This weekend ought to be even more fun because we get four different genres: an R-rated crude comedy, a 3D horror splatterfest, a 3D concert movie, and ...