Weekend Box Office: Jessica Chastain & Jessica Chastain Come
If this weekend proved anything, Oscar nominations can truly boost a film’s performance, movies with lesser MPAA ratings make more money, and star power doesn’t mean as much as it used to.
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Mid-Week Poll: How Many 2013 Oscar Nominees Have You Seen?
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has named its picks for the best films of last year. This begs the question: How many of the Oscar-nominated movies have you actually seen?
Weekend Box Office: ‘Zero Dark’ Assassinates All Comp
This weekend was a major upset for Friday’s new releases. One performed better than expected, but the other highly underperformed – and both lost to the expansion of an Oscar nominee. ‘
Weekend Movies: Wars on Crime and Terror
It’s finally here. You can now see the movie that many critics’ circles (including the Utah Film Critics Association, of which Aaron and I are members) have deemed as one of the very best of the year: ‘Zero Dark ...
2013 Oscar Nominations Make Ben Affleck Sad
This year’s Oscar nominations were announced this morning by ‘Ted’ director Seth MacFarlane (who will also host the telecast on February 24th) and ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ star Emma Stone. While, on the o...
Box Office Pick’em: January 2013
I play a lot of fantasy sports. I like the competiveness of it and enjoy trying to predict what will happen. That led into an idea for the following contest: Box Office Pick’em.
Weekend Box Office: Two Movies Enter, One Movie Leaves
The first weekend of January only gave us two new nationwide releases, four noteworthy expansions, and not a single limited opening. Of the two wide releases, only one has had its numbers announced (so far), so this will be a shor...
Christmas Weekend Box Office: ‘Unexpected’ Disappoint
The first installment of the ‘Hobbit’ series held onto the top box office spot over the Christmas holiday. However, by falling 56.3% in attendance, the film has failed to maintain the ‘Lord of the Rings’ le...
Weekend Movies: Awards Season Is Upon Us!
With only two weekends left before the end of the year and, more importantly, the end of awards eligibility, a tidal wave of great movies are opening this week. Ready to run through this weekend’s huge list?
Now Playing: The Osama bin Hidin’ Movie
In my opinion, Kathryn Bigelow’s last film didn’t deserve the praise and accolades that it was given. She didn’t deserve the Best Director Oscar and ‘The Hurt Locker‘ certainly didn’t deserve to...
Posterizing: Redacted
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Posterizing article here in the blog. That just means there are plenty of interesting new posters to choose from!