Weekend Movies: The Calm Before the Summer Storm
What a wasted opportunity. Today is 4/20 and not a single studio thought to release a stoner comedy. I’m more shocked about that than I am about the weak movies that actually open today.
What a wasted opportunity. Today is 4/20 and not a single studio thought to release a stoner comedy. I’m more shocked about that than I am about the weak movies that actually open today.
On my Facebook profile page, in the section that asks for political preferences, mine says, “Who cares? What movie is opening this weekend?” When it comes time to vote, that’s when I pay attention to politics… bu...
‘How I Met Your Mother’ star Josh Radnor made his directorial debut at Sundance last year with ‘happythankyoumoreplease‘. He’s back this year with a more mature, more refined effort, ‘Liberal Ar...
Last year, New Line put out the highly successful chick flick ‘Valentine’s Day‘, an ensemble story about more than a dozen people in Los Angeles on the romantic holiday. The result was a formulaic, poor man’...
Highlighting movies coming to the Netflix stream as well as those leaving makes this list a lot less depressing. In fact, things look pretty promising, even if some of the movies we’re losing this week are incredibly good.
Well, it looked for a minute there like ‘Dinner for Schmucks,’ the high-concept comedy from DreamWorks that’s a remake of an already mediocre French farce, was going to come out as the king of the weekend box off...
So, I didn’t see any of the trio of big studio releases opening this weekend, mostly because they all look really awful. (Plus, I didn’t get invited to ‘Charlie St. Cloud‘). The summer has been lousy on the...