Spectre Review
I love me some Skyfall. Mixing up the formula proved to be genius as director Sam Mendes and screenwriters John Logan, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade replaced mindless action and dopey gadgets with...
View ArticleThe Peanuts Movie Review
There's not a single person on this planet who thinks the Peanuts are "just cartoons." They bring us back to our most nostalgic period through a charm that is practically unparalleled. Which is why it...
View ArticleBox Office: 'Spectre' Falls Short of 'Skyfall', 'Peanuts' Opens Well
Daniel Craig's fourth Bond had the second biggest opening of the franchise while The Peanuts Movie is off to a good start. Burnt held over terribly, Our Brand is Crisis did even worse, and Scouts Guide...
View ArticleBox Office: Soft New Releases Are No Match for Bond and Snoopy
007 easily stayed in first with a relatively solid drop, while The Peanuts Movie surprisingly fell quite a bit in its second weekend. Love the Coopers opens well enough while The 33 will need some help...
View ArticleThe Night Before Review
Twas the month before Christmas, when all through the movie house Teens and young adults were screaming, scared away the mouse. The overpriced popcorn was spilled all over the floor, Leaving a minimum...
View ArticleBox Office: Final 'Hunger Games' Has Lowest Franchise Opening, 'Night Before'...
Katniss' last hurrah opened just above $100 million, while The Night Before and Secret In Their Eyes open soft and the holdovers fall hard. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 debuted in first with...
View ArticleCreed Review
With the first film considered a classic, and five sequels with varying degrees of quality that followed, there weren't any demands to continue the Rocky films. But, shockingly, Hollywood thought on...
View ArticleSpotlight Review
"How do you say 'no' to God?" That question, proposed by a victim of sexual assault by a priest in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, hangs over the film like a dark cloud. Some people love the rain, and will...
View ArticleThe Little Prince Review
It's hard to think of another literary adaption more creatively translated to the big screen than Mark Osborne's The Little Prince, a stop-motion and CGI animation based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's...
View ArticleThanksgiving Box Office: 'Good Dinosaur' Opens Low for Pixar, 'Creed' Excels
The final Hunger Games film remained safely on top over the Thanksgiving weekend while the new releases opened to varying levels of success. The Good Dinosaur has one of the worst openings for Pixar,...
View ArticleBrooklyn Review
Telling the moving story of a confused and homesick young woman named Eilis (Saoirse Ronan), Brooklyn is directed by John Crowley (True Detective) with Nick Hornby (Wild, About a Boy) adapting Colm...
View ArticleBox Office: 'Krampus' Opens Above Budget, 'Good Dinosaur' Performs Low for Pixar
Mockingjay - Part 2 remained in first place yet again, while Krampus opens well in second. Meanwhile, The Good Dinosaur is set to be the lowest grosser for Pixar domestically while Creed is enjoying...
View ArticleBox Office: 'Star Wars' Still Isn't Out, Whale Movie Flops
Mockingjay - Part 2 stayed strong in first while Chris Hemsworth's whale epic looks to be another sting to Warner Bros. this year. The Christmas flicks both did very well, with Krampus being the 13th...
View ArticleStar Wars: The Force Awakens Review
Who do you think you are J.J.? You think you can walk in here with your fan fiction and call it lore? Am I supposed to believe for a goddamn second that 32 years after Luke, Leia, and Han threw a...
View ArticleThe Big Short Review
If you don't know who Adam McKay is, where have you been throughout the 2000's? After writing for Saturday Night Live in the 90's, McKay went on to direct and co-write little comedies such as Talladega...
View ArticleBox Office: 'Force Awakens' Slaughters 'Jurassic World's' Records
Star Wars: The Force Awakens took everything Jurassic World worked so hard to achieve, setting benchmarks for a slew of records. Meanwhile, The Road Chip has the weakest opening the Chipmunks have seen...
View ArticleJoy Review
Most of the people I talked to about American Hustle didn't understand why they didn't enjoy the movie. "It was okay" and "yeah, I enjoyed it" was the extent of their reviews. Some brave ones went as...
View ArticleThe Hateful Eight Review
If your weakest movie is Jackie Brown, you're doing pretty well for yourself. Eight films in and Quentin Tarantino is still on his game. His dialogue remains articulate, his anti-heroes are still...
View ArticleBox Office: 'Star Wars' Continues Its Reign Over New Year's Weekend
The first weekend of 2016 had Star Wars shattering the third weekend record while Daddy's Home, Sisters, and Chipmunks served as solid counter-programming. The only new wide release is the expansion of...
View ArticleThe Revenant Review
Fur trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is wandering through the forest minding his own business when he stumbles across a cub, which leads to its mother beating the poor man a millimeter away from...
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