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Blu-ray Highlights for 2/14/12 – There’s a Storm Coming Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen

Josh Zyber — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:34 +0000

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’ romantic). We seem to have gotten all of those out of the way last week. Today’s focus falls instead to some of last...

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New to VUDU: Week of February 5th, 2012

Josh Zyber — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:42 +0000

It’s time for some monkey business. This week, VUDU offers up one of last year’s most acclaimed documentaries, which was inexplicably passed over by the Academy Awards and doesn’t seem to be getting a Blu-ray release either. The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week: ‘Fireflies in the Garden’ (2/7) ‘Knuckle’ (2/7) ‘Project Nim’...

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The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2011

Luke Hickman — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:00:36 +0000

As the publication does every year, The Hollywood Reporter has made a list of the Top 15 box office bombs of 2011. The definition of “bomb” is based on a comparison of each movie’s budget versus its worldwide box office total. However, as we know, just because a movie didn’t make any money doesn’t mean...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Puss’ Wins North American B.O. Kitty

Luke Hickman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:28 +0000

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 world nearly a month and a half before it hits North America. Apparently, there’s a reason...

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Weekend Movies: Shakespeare, Jack Sparrow and a Talking Cat Walk into a Bar…

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:00:27 +0000

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-fi thriller falls somewhere in between the two. Knowing that ‘The Rum Diary‘ is based on another Hunter S. Thompson novel,...

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Now Playing: Fear and Loathing in Puerto Rico

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:00:17 +0000

Based on the trailer, you’d probably expect ‘The Rum Diary’ to be little more than ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas‘ with some new scenery and the drugs swapped out for alcohol. While there are definitely similarities between the two, ‘The Rum Diary’ is (somewhat) more driven by plot than random actions, which makes it...

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Posterizing: Alcohol, Babysitters and the Future

Aaron Peck — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:49 +0000

Are you ready for another edition of Posterizing? You can’t judge a book by its cover, but quite often you can judge a movie by its poster. ‘The Rum Diary’ Who other than Johnny Depp would take on a Hunter S. Thompson-inspired script? I haven’t read the book, so color me confused when I look...

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The Trailer Park: Shakespeare and Other Adaptations

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:00:24 +0000

Next to remakes and reimaginings, movie adaptations of popular books or plays can draw quite a bit of controversy and debate. They’re often compared to the original sources, and unreasonably rejected for not being “faithful” enough. In the coming months and through the early part of next year, we have a slew of film adaptations...

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