Weekend Box Office: Hold on to Your Butts
Breaking into record-setting territory, Steven Spielberg’s 22-year-old dino franchise is far from extinct.
Breaking into record-setting territory, Steven Spielberg’s 22-year-old dino franchise is far from extinct.
We may never get to see living dinosaurs in real life, but movies and TV have resurrected the prehistoric monsters for decades. As the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise stampedes back to theaters this weekend, we look at some ...
This weekend should end any anxiety caused by the unanswered question: “How will a fourth ‘Jurassic Park’ movie compare to the 22-year-old original?”
It’s amazing how a few decades can change standards in moviegoing. In 1993, simply seeing Steven Spielberg throw credible dinosaurs up on the big screen qualified as an unprecedented success of cinematic spectacle. These day...
Could the most interesting Blu-ray release of the week be a famously cheesy television series from the 1970s? If so, what does that say about everything else?
Due to the holidays, we took a couple weeks off without any Roundtables. Now that the new year is here, it’s time to get things going again. We’ll start off with an easy topic: What movies, TV, home theater goodies or ...
The past couple weeks have brought us some new movie trailers that got viewers giddy with excitement, but the small glimpses into these upcoming features also raise a few concerns.
Last week, we looked back at the best movies released during the years we were born. For this week’s Roundtable, I thought it would be interesting to jump forward a decade and identify our favorite movies from the time we ea...
In last week’s Roundtable, we looked at some of the TV clichés that annoy us the most. This week, let’s pick apart plot holes in popular movies.
As you’re no doubt aware, the Big G – Godzilla himself – returns to movie theaters this weekend in a new American reboot. (Let’s hope this one is better than the Roland Emmerich version.) In anticipation of that, let...
When it comes to the depiction of computers or the internet in movies and TV, Hollywood screenwriters almost universally have no concept at all of what computers do or how they work. Pretty much any time you see a computer in a mo...
Last year, Universal issued a batch of Blu-ray catalog titles in a line of comic book-styled SteelBook cases called the “Reel Heroes.” Many of them were quite ugly and had nothing to do with either comic books or heroe...