Review: Warm Bodies
I’ve reviewed movies for almost two decades now, but this will be a first for me as I’ll conditionally endorse a movie I didn’t like. It’s unusual, but “Warm Bodies” easily fits that category as it’s...
View ArticleBox office roundup – Feb. 3, 2013 – Audiences hot for “Warm Bodies” while...
1. Warm Bodies – $20 million [debut week] I rarely have any real interest in what film wins the box office, but I was salivating at the ways I can work in the irony of a movie called “Bullet to the...
View ArticleBox office round-up – Feb. 10, 2013 –“Identity Thief” nabs top spot
1. Identity Thief – $36.5 million [debut week] The Melissa McCarthy/Jason Bateman comedy received awful reviews, but audiences still came out in 2013-best opening droves to see the collaboration...
View ArticleFirst look at “Jack the Giant Slayer” starring Nicholas Hoult
This is the year’s second fairy tale turned into action/adventure film. I’m not sure if I’m all that excited about “Jack the Giant Slayer,” but it wouldn’t take much to be more entertaining than...
View ArticleReview: Jack the Giant Slayer
Director Bryan Singer (“X2”) still seems to be chasing the greatness that’s eluded him since 1995’s “The Usual Suspects,” his second film and modern cinematic classic. His latest, “Jack the Giant...
View ArticleBox office roundup – March 3, 2013 – Jack hardly makes a giant slaying at the...
1. Jack the Giant Slayer – $28 million [debut week] This did slightly better than “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters,” which only managed $19 million its opening weekend, but this has little chance of...
View ArticleBox office roundup – March 17, 2013 –“Oz” stays on yellow brick road, “The...
1. Oz the Great and Powerful - $42.4 million [2nd week; $145 million] The family fantasy film had no trouble retaining its top spot for a second week and seems on track to hold it through the rest of...
View ArticleFirst look at Beast in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Bryan Singer revealed on Twitter a close-up of Nicholas Hoult’s Beast from “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” From first glance it doesn’t look to be very different from Beast’s look in “X-Men: First Class”...
View ArticleNew on Blu-Ray/DVD for June 4, 2013 –“Warm Bodies” heats up, “Die Hard 5″ DOA
Warm Bodies – This zombie romantic comedy proved an unlikely hit as its unique spin on Romeo and Juliet cast as a thinking zombie (Nicholas Hoult) and a zombie killer (Teresa Palmer) scored with...
View ArticleNew on Blu-Ray/DVD for June 18, 2013 – Don’t reach for “Jack,” but tune in to...
Jack the Giant Slayer – Bryan Singer isn’t approaching M. Night Shyamalan territory just yet, but you’d have to go back to 2003′s “X2″ for his last unqualified success. This more action-oriented take...
View ArticleSDCC’13: X-Men: Days of Future Past character portraits – 1st look at Bishop,...
While I’ve been pretty excited about the action figure reveals from San Diego Comic Con, there’s also a lot of interesting movie reveals as well such as this character portraits of the cast of “X-Men:...
View ArticleThe cast of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” hit the Big Apple for the New York...
One of the most anticipated summer blockbusters this year is “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and most of the film’s stars, including Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence,...
View ArticleReview: “X-Men: Days of Future Past” #XMenDaysOfFuturePast
If your X-Men experience is limited to the cinematic universe Director Bryan Singer introduced mainstream audiences to back in 2000, chances are you’re going to love “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” an...
View ArticleHere’s your new Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm for “X-Men: Apocalypse”
We knew Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart wouldn’t be reprising their roles as Magneto and Professor X in “X-Men: Apocalypse” as the 2016 flick will be more or less a relaunch of the franchise. And now...
View ArticleNo more Mystique for Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence is done turning blue for the X-Men franchise. MTV News asked Lawrence if her latest spin as the blue skinned mutant in “X-Men: Apocalypse” would be her last hurrah and she replied “It...
View Article‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ review – say hello to the new king of the road
The problem with most action movies is there’s an imaginary line that most filmmakers won’t dare cross as they’re too worried — in some cases rightfully so — that the audience won’t buy the movie if it...
View ArticleReview: Jack the Giant Slayer
Director Bryan Singer (“X2”) still seems to be chasing the greatness that’s eluded him since 1995’s “The Usual Suspects,” his
View ArticleBox office roundup – March 3, 2013 – Jack hardly makes a giant slaying at the...
1. Jack the Giant Slayer – $28 million [debut week] This did slightly better than “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters,”
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View ArticleX-Men: Apocalypse review – hardly the fittest
X-Men Apocalypse suffers from major deja vu Midway through X-Men: Apocalypse, a group of characters leave a theater complaining that The post X-Men: Apocalypse review – hardly the fittest appeared...
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