Fast Five is frankly something of a miracle. Here is the fifth entry of a 10-year old franchise that has rarely surpassed mediocrity, but which now offers up a chapter that borders on genuine greatness. Here is a sequel that pays explicit attention to what came before and rewards viewers...
7 Comments | Posted April 24, 2011 | 08:43 PM (EST)
It was another 'everybody wins' at the box office this Easter weekend, as every major new release opened at or above expectations, while most of the older movies had strong...
16 Comments | Posted April 20, 2011 | 08:48 PM (EST)
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Scream 4
2011
110 minutes
rated R
It is rare that a film spends such a large chunk of its running time basically admonishing its own existence. Yet Wes Craven's return to the world...
1 Comments | Posted April 17, 2011 | 10:38 PM (EST)
As expected, 20th Century Fox's Rio followed its stunning $55 million overseas debut last weekend with a $39.2 million domestic opening weekend here. Rio is officially the biggest opening weekend...
21 Comments | Posted April 10, 2011 | 08:18 PM (EST)
For the second weekend in a row, Universal's Hop was the number one film of the weekend. The Easter Bunny animated epic dropped 42% in its second weekend, grossing $21.6...
36 Comments | Posted April 5, 2011 | 08:35 PM (EST)
David Gordon Green was once set to become the next Terrence Malick. His sober dramas of lower or middle class Americana (George Washington, Snow Angels,...
18 Comments | Posted April 5, 2011 | 09:04 AM (EST)
I know when I saw that fantastic Green Lantern footage on Saturday, my first thought was "Wow, I can't wait to watch that in my home just sixty days after...
21 Comments | Posted April 3, 2011 | 05:53 PM (EST)
190 Comments | Posted March 29, 2011 | 04:10 PM (EST)
It is more than a little ironic that Sucker Punch (review) is taking a critical beating for merely being an example of the very things that it's actually most critical...
24 Comments | Posted March 27, 2011 | 09:01 PM (EST)
185 Comments | Posted March 26, 2011 | 10:09 AM (EST)
There's a choice quote in this Emily Browning interview over at Nylon Magazine, which was reported by Cinemablend that merits a mention. Its implications are kinda shocking. The crux is the discussion of changes that Zach Snyder had to make in order to ensure Sucker Punch (review) would...
11 Comments | Posted March 24, 2011 | 06:15 PM (EST)
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5 Comments | Posted March 21, 2011 | 01:17 PM (EST)
I often complain about the lack of big-studio, adult genre pictures while pointing out that the few such...
45 Comments | Posted March 17, 2011 | 04:58 PM (EST)
10 Comments | Posted March 13, 2011 | 12:14 PM (EST)
As expected, the heavily-hyped Battle: Los Angeles (teaser/review) topped the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $35.7 million. If that number holds, it will be the twelfth-biggest...
11 Comments | Posted March 11, 2011 | 09:39 AM (EST)
Battle: Los Angeles
116 minutes
Rated PG-13
Rare is the movie that loses points for being too realistic. But Jonathan Liebesman's alien invasion picture feels less like an epic and more like a genuinely plausible war picture....
9 Comments | Posted March 10, 2011 | 10:38 AM (EST)
Red Riding Hood
100 minutes
rated PG-13
Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood is a picture that works in spite of itself. Much of the acting is overly formal and stilted, the...
5 Comments | Posted March 9, 2011 | 05:28 PM (EST)
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