Weekend Movie Preview: 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,' 'Just Go With It,'...
Filed under: New Releases, Weekend Movie Preview The new Justin Bieber concert movie, Adam Sandler's romantic comedy 'Just Go With It' and the animated romance 'Gnomeo & Juliet' all have two...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Finishes One Floppy Hair Behind Adam Sandler: Box Office Report...
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases This was a good weekend at the box office if your movie's title started with the letters J-U-S-T. At press time, Adam Sandler's 'Just Go With It' and...
View ArticleWhy the Oscars Aren't Dead Yet
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic, Oscar News, Awards Really, the Oscars were supposed to be dead by now. The Academy Awards ceremony was supposed to have withered away, a victim of its own irelevance....
View ArticleWeekend Movie Preview: 'Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,' 'I Am Number...
Filed under: New Releases, Weekend Movie Preview February isn't necessarily a time just to fill the multiplex with throwaway genre movies. This weekend, for instance, it's a time when an amnesiac Liam...
View ArticleNeeson and Gnomes Outdraw 'Number Four': Box Office Report February 18 - 21
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases In this weekend's box office battle between youth and age, age pulled an upset victory. Newly-minted 18-year-old action star Alex Pettyfer was widely...
View ArticleThis Week in Movies: '9 1/2 Weeks' Turns 25; Happy Birthday, Professor Snape!
Filed under: Features, New Releases, Weekend Movie Preview This Week in 1986: '9 1/2 Weeks' The erotic drama '9 1/2 Weeks,' released 25 years ago this week (on Feb. 21, 1986), wasn't a big hit in...
View Article'Hall Pass' Moves Past 'Gnomeo' in Final Numbers: Box Office Report February...
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases UPDATE: According to actual numbers released on Monday, 'Hall Pass' was the number-one movie of the week, with $13.5 million. That puts the Owen...
View ArticleThis Week in Movies: 'Pretty in Pink' Is 25; 'Rango,' 'Adjustment Bureau' Hit...
Filed under: Features, New Releases, Weekend Movie Preview This Week in 1986: 'Pretty in Pink' You don't need us to tell you what an iconic movie 'Pretty in Pink' was. (Well, if you do, read this.) A...
View Article'Rango' Wins Four-Way Shootout: Box Office Report March 4 - 6
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases We're off to see the lizard! Johnny Depp's heroic chameleon led 'Rango' to a No. 1 debut at the box office this weekend with an estimated $38.0...
View ArticleThis Week in Movies: Corey Haim Remembered, Aliens Attack Theaters
Filed under: Features, New Releases, This Week in Movies This Week in 2010: Corey Haim Dies Among those upset by the snubbing of Corey Haim in the "In Memoriam" montages at both this year's Oscars and...
View Article'Los Angeles' Wins Weekend Battle: Box Office Report March 11 - 13
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases We prefer our invading aliens to be ruthless and genocidal, not animated and funny. That seems to be the box office lesson of the dueling...
View ArticleTop 25 Courtroom Dramas Ever: Order in the Court!
Filed under: Top 25, Features What are the elements of a great courtroom drama? A case that's more complicated than it appears, lawyers who grapple with moral quandaries, witnesses who offer surprises...
View ArticleThis Week in Movies: 'Godfather' Anniversary, Slacker Alien, McConaughey in...
Filed under: Features, New Releases, This Week in Movies This Week in 1972: 'The Godfather' It's the Corleones' world; we just live in it. It's hard to overstate the impact of 'The Godfather'...
View ArticleWho Should Direct 'The Wolverine'?
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic With Darren Aronofsky dropping out of 'The Wolverine,' ostensibly because he didn't want to spend up to a year working in Japan away from his family, 20th Century Fox...
View Article'Limitless' Leapfrogs 'Lincoln Lawyer': Box Office Report March 18-20
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases If you could tap into all your unused brain power, like Bradley Cooper does in 'Limitless,' maybe you could have predicted who would win the box...
View ArticleWhy Aren't There More Movies About Kick-Ass Girl Gangs?
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic Whether or not it lives up to expectations, 'Sucker Punch' is succeeding in striking a blow for one of the most maligned subgenres: the girl-gang movie. Here at...
View ArticleThis Week in Movies: 'Star Wars' Begins, 'Sucker Punch' Girls Meet 'Wimpy Kid'
Filed under: Features, New Releases, This Week in Movies This Week in 1976: 'Star Wars' Begins Filming A long time ago, in a desert far, far away ... Thirty-five years ago this week, on March 22,...
View Article'Wimpy Kid' Outslugs 'Sucker Punch': Box Office Report March 25-27
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases He's not that wimpy. Kiddie sequel 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' outslugged action fantasy 'Sucker Punch' to rule the box office this weekend....
View ArticleThis Week in Movies: 'Rocky Horror' History, Animated 'Hop,' 'Black Swan' on DVD
Filed under: Features, New Releases, This Week in Movies This Week in 1976: The 'Rocky Horror' Cult Is Born Midnight may be the hour that Cinderella turned from a princess into a peon, but it's also...
View Article'Hop' Leaps to Biggest Opening of 2011: Box Office Report April 1 - 3
Filed under: Movie News, Box Office, New Releases Never underestimate the power of a talking bunny. In case Jake Gyllenhaal hadn't learned that lesson a decade ago in 'Donnie Darko,' he was schooled...
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