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Blu-ray Highlights for 4/24/12 – All Engines, Full Stop

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:00:05 +0000

Pardon the pun (given one of the titles being offered), but the Blu-ray release schedule comes to a crashing halt this week. Even in comparison to recent slow weeks, there’s not much today that catches my attention. Perhaps you’ll feel differently? Here’s the release slate: ‘1900 (Novecento)‘ (Olive Films) ‘Adele: Feel My Love‘ (IMV BLueline...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 3/20/12 – It’s Time to Play the Music, It’s Time to Light the Lights

Josh Zyber — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:00:39 +0000

Did you burn through your Blu-ray budget for March last week? I hope you set at least a little money aside for today, because we still have a few notable new releases to look at. Here’s the weekly release slate from now through Friday: ‘The B-52s with the Wild Crowd! Live In Athens, GA‘ (Eagle...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Sound Categories

Aaron Peck — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0000

The Oscars are only days away and I’ve found myself running through the nominees, wondering who will take home the statuettes. I have no real reason for caring as much as I do about these awards, but something deep inside me wants to, at some point, predict every category right. In this post, we’ll discuss...

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Mid-Week Oscars Poll: Best Actor & Actress 2012

Josh Zyber — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:51 +0000

This year’s Oscar race is fully in swing. In anticipation of the big ceremony on February 26th, let’s vote for our predictions in the big acting categories. Please read these instructions. This post contains four polls, two for Best Actor and two for Best Actress. Pay attention to the criteria for each poll before you...

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Weekend Movies: It’s January, So Nothing Promising

Luke Hickman — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:00:52 +0000

Well, folks, it’s that dreaded time of the year: January. Every movie that the studios didn’t have faith in hits the big screen in January. Occasionally, we’re blessed with a ‘Cloverfield‘ or a ‘Zodiac‘, but this sure isn’t shaping up to be one of those years. At least, definitely not this weekend. Will Hollywood please...

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Weekend Box Office: Two of Three Franchises Fumble

Luke Hickman — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:00:57 +0000

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 franchise performed the best, while the other two made considerably less than their high-grossing...

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Critical Mass: ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’

Aaron Peck — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:00:39 +0000

Critical Mass is a new feature here on the blog where Luke and Aaron argue about newly-released movies. It’s simply a free-flowing conversation where emails are exchanged, battles are waged, and tempers flare. It’s all in fun, of course. We kick off the inaugural edition with a discussion of the new John le Carré adaptation...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘New Year’s Eve’ Drops the Ball

Luke Hickman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:00:08 +0000

This weekend featured the worst collective box office total in over three years. The cumulative estimated tally was only $78 million. The last time the totals were this low was the first week of September, 2008, during which ‘Bangkok Dangerous’ took first place with $7.7 million, ‘Tropic Thunder‘ was in the second spot in its...

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Weekend Movies: Rip-Offs and Overrated Indies

Luke Hickman — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:00:09 +0000

While the end-of-year season is usually filled with high-quality flicks fighting for award nominations, this December so far isn’t quite reaching the caliber of years past– especially not this weekend’s releases. The widest release this weekend is ‘New Year’s Eve‘, the second film in Garry Marshall’s series of highly formulaic, holiday-centric ensemble rom-coms that started...

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Now Playing: An Espionage Drama Not Worth Tinkering With

Luke Hickman — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:00:47 +0000

Since it started building buzz on the festival circuit and in the U.K. (where it opened nearly three months ago), I, along with many other film lovers, have been looking forward to ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.’ Although my expectations were high, they weren’t so high that they couldn’t be met – but that didn’t stop...

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Mid-Week Poll: Most Anticipated December 2011 Movies

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:26 +0000

December is traditionally a big movie season, as the Hollywood studios unleash a slew of prestige pictures looking for Oscar attention and potential blockbusters hoping to draw the holiday crowds. Which of this month’s movies are you looking forward to? I’m dying to see ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’. It has a great cast, great source...

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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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