Weekend Roundtable: The Big Game
If watching the Super Bowl this weekend isn’t your thing, perhaps you can occupy that time playing a different type of competitive game. What are your favorite board games?
If watching the Super Bowl this weekend isn’t your thing, perhaps you can occupy that time playing a different type of competitive game. What are your favorite board games?
If I’m not mistaken, a sporting event of some significance will happen this weekend. I believe it involves football – the American kind, not that soccer crap. As a tie-in, let’s look at some of our favorite movies eith...
While I’m sure others tuned in to see the Broncos pull off a win over the Panthers on Sunday, I watched the Super Bowl for the commercials – more specifically, for the movie trailers.
As expected, the big game kept many moviegoers at home and out of theaters over the weekend. Estimates projected the rough patch, but even the studios didn’t foresee the blow being as heavy as it was.
No matter which team wins, the Super Bowl and its over-hyped commercials will be a bigger winner than any of this weekend’s theatrical releases. Between the big game and the continued juggernaut of ‘American SniperR...
For as much as we may seem preoccupied with nerdy stuff like superhero movies, TV shows about zombies, or videogames around here, for many viewers the main purpose of owning a big-screen HDTV is to watch sports. And for most Ameri...
Arguably, the best part about the Super Bowl is the commercials. Every year, movie studios love to join the fun with half-minute sneak peeks at their upcoming releases. For this week’s selection of previews, we’ll look...
The Super Bowl inevitably brings down theatrical box office numbers, as people stay home to watch the game rather than go to the movies. This weekend’s two under-performing wide releases sure didn’t help to put people ...
I’m made to understand that a big sporting event will take place this weekend, one that often inspires people to run out and buy new televisions in order to experience the action on the largest screen possible. Of course, we...
While the Super Bowl always marks a huge money-making weekend for television, it typically signifies a soft weekend in theaters. However, the box office actually held up pretty well this year.
Tradition has it that the network airing the Super Bowl usually schedules a high-profile show immediately afterwards in the expectation of a ratings bump. This year, Fox programmed ‘Glee’ for the coveted time slot. Tha...
As I understand it, there was some sort of significant sporting event on television over the weekend. I believe it was called the Super Dish, or Wonder Plate, or something like that. Because it tends to do pretty well in the ratin...