Blu-ray Highlights for May 1st, 2012 – As If!
Happy May Day, everyone! Does anyone even know what May Day is about? Personally, I don’t have a clue. I guess we’re supposed to celebrate that it’s the start of a new month. If that’s so, why don’t w...
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Weekend Roundtable: Underrated Movies of 2011
Last week, we had a Roundtable about 2011’s most overrated movies. This week, per reader request, we’re going to flip that around and look at some of last year’s most underrated or overlooked films.
Weekend Box Office: January Sucks
Since Luke is out covering the Sundance Film Festival, seeing great movies and partying with celebrities as we speak, it looks like I’ll fill in on the box office update today. Long story short: We’re still stuck in th...
Weekend Movies: An Action-Packed Weekend
I don’t know if it’s the fact that the Sundance Film Festival is underway locally or if it’s just because January movies are typically bad, but most movies that open during the two weekends of Sundance aren’...
Blu-ray Highlights for 1/17/12 – Beware the Ides of January
Welcome back from another long weekend. We needed the extra day to rest up from the Golden Globes live-blog, but we’re ready to get back into the swing of things today with a look at this week’s Blu-ray releases. Unfor...
New to VUDU: Week of January 1st, 2012
January is a slow time of year. After the holidays, consumer spending drops precipitously. As a result, studios release fewer movies, either to theaters or video. The pickings on Blu-ray were pretty slim this week, and VUDU follow...
Blu-ray Highlights for 1/3/12 – It’s the End of the W
Welcome back from another long weekend! It’s a brand new year, and if you believe in any of that Mayan calendar hokum, this may even be the last year that we as a species survive on this planet. That being the case, what mor...
Weekend Box Office: ‘Contagion’ Spreads, but Not Wild
The weekend following Labor Day is usually known as one of the worst of the year. Two of the four movies opening this weekend tanked, one was slightly off track, and the other not nearly as successful as it should have been – all ...
Weekend Movies: A Sports Drama, A Biological Thriller and Two You
If the box office numbers from the last few weeks haven’t tipped you off by now, let me break the news to you that summer is over. Instead of each weekend featuring an anticipated blockbuster or two, we’re now getting ...
Now Playing: ‘Contagion’ Spreads Mediocrity
If you’ve seen ‘Outbreak‘, you’ve already seen the unpretentious, less cluttered, less manipulative version of ‘Contagion’. Considering that ‘Contagion’ is a star-studded affair dire...
WTF Is Steven Soderbergh Up To?
In what must be one of the strangest announcements to come out of Hollywood in some time, it was revealed on Friday that Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will be joining the production of ‘The Hunger Games’, t...
The Trailer Park: Women Can Be Badass Too!
This week we have ladies doing what they do best . . . kicking ass and taking names, especially when the men chasing after them deserve it! While the first seems to waste time before the character comes into her heroism, the other...