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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...
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...
The ‘G.I. Joe’ sequel just can’t catch a break. Despite an expensive ad campaign that featured commercial time during the Super Bowl, an imminent line of tie-in action figures and a scheduled release date barely ...
James Cameron made a bold and unexpected announcement this week. The director of the two highest-grossing movies of all time, as well as several more extremely popular and beloved films, will from this point forward devote the rem...
Anyone who’s seen the trailers for today’s theatrical release of ‘Lockout’ should easily recognize it as a thinly-veiled knockoff of ‘Escape from New York’. The ads aren’t even a little bi...
I know that plenty of people out there believe that the ‘American Pie’ movies are some of the funniest R-rated comedies around, but I’m not one of them. The first movie was funny enough, but not three – and espec...
There are literally three things I remember about ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth‘: First, two members of the cast stuck out in my mind because I remember thinking, “Poor Brendan Frasier has fallen a long way...
It’s barely even the start of winter and already we’re seeing trailers for next year’s summer blockbusters. While there are many to choose from, only one can really be considered the most anticipated film of the ...
Theater attendance was down for the third week in a row this weekend. Like many others, I assumed that the release of three major sequels would pick the box office back up. Oddly enough, the film four entries deep into its franchi...
With the previous two ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ movies, I was fortunate enough to miss those screenings. Sadly, as much I tried finding a way to avoid ‘Chipwrecked’, I just couldn’t get out of it. Her...
Please note: While ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ technically opens today, it can only be seen on IMAX, XD and other larger-than-usual premium screens until the film expands on December 21st. Even with the infl...
For the third film in a row, Guy Ritchie has proven that he’s back in fine form. ‘A Game of Shadows’, the follow-up to Ritchie’s 2009 ‘Sherlock Holmes’ flick, magnifies everything that worked in...
Bring on the holiday gobbledygook! This weekend, three sequels (two of them among the most anticipated films of the year) and two indies take stage. Let’s get the worst of the sequels out of the way first.