Weekend Roundtable: Burtonize This!
Tim Burton has a new movie in theaters today. Needless to say, it’s a “re-imagining” of a famous existing property made over in the director’s signature visual style and starring Johnny Depp in the lead rol...
Tim Burton has a new movie in theaters today. Needless to say, it’s a “re-imagining” of a famous existing property made over in the director’s signature visual style and starring Johnny Depp in the lead rol...
After the record-smashing $207.4 domestic opening weekend for ‘The Avengers’, the only studio movie going against Marvel’s superhero juggernaut is a remake of a late-’60s/early-’70s soap opera. A few ...
When I first saw the theatrical trailer for ‘Dark Shadows’, I got really excited for Tim Burton’s new film. Even though I knew absolutely nothing about the old soap opera upon which it’s based, that wasn...
Adding to the list of questionable and possibly disappointing movies that will be released this summer, we have two more trailers that don’t inspire me to watch their films. Ever. Sadly, they come from two filmmakers that I ...
Summer is almost here and Alliance Canada is getting the party started with four new Blu-ray SteelBooks that will be available in June.
I find it vaguely interesting that there are basically no love- or romance-themed movies being released on Blu-ray this Valentine’s Day (unless you’re the kind of sicko who finds ‘The Human Centipede’ roman...
This week, in addition to some of the expected new titles, VUDU also adds a notable new documentary that is apparently not getting a Blu-ray release. Times like this are why a good streaming service is useful to supplement a disc ...
As the title suggests, we have some trailers for new movies about adults who refuse to grow up. Why anyone finds such a concept appealing for a movie, I don’t have the slightest idea. The plot device is nothing new in film, ...
Some weeks, Netflix goes through massive content changes, forcing us to add and subtract things from our queues to reflect the new landscape. Then there are weeks like this one, with barely any changes worth talking about. I guess...
Shame on Adam Sandler, and shame on everyone who makes a cameo in this daft movie. Shame on Regis Philbin, on Tim Meadows, on Nick Swardson, on Katie Holmes, on Drew Carey, on Shaquille O’Neil, on Kobe Bryant, on Norm MacDon...
It’s not all that uncommon for a big movie to open in the U.S. before it opens overseas, but it’s rare that a movie (let alone a potential blockbuster from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson) should open around the wor...
Oddly enough, of the three wide openers this weekend, the movie with the biggest star (Johnny Depp) is getting the smallest release. An animated feline outlaw is opening the widest, while Justin Timberlake’s futuristic sci-f...