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Box Office Results: Cars 2 Outraces Poor Critical Reception
Part of looking at movies does involve the business side of show business. We try to have a little fun with it, as each week Tim makes his predictions as to how movies will perform at the Box Office. Then, on Sundays, we look at how Tim’s predictions fared.
Earlier this week Tim made his box office predictions, expecting Disney’s Cars 2 to take the box office top spot, albeit not with as great...
Weekly Blend #272 – Fanchastic!
How excited are we to be back after a few weeks? So excited that Margaret coins a new word in the first half of the show. While our format may be off (it has been a few weeks), we bring you reviews of X-Men: First Class, Super 8, and Green Lantern. We’re also using our time to catch up on old movies, so you finally get to hear what Margaret thought about Friday Night Lights, Brick, and Knowing,...
Box Office Results: Green Lantern Only Dimly Lights Box Office
Part of looking at movies does involve the business side of show business. We try to have a little fun with it, as each week Tim makes his predictions as to how movies will perform at the Box Office. Then, on Sundays, we look at how Tim’s predictions fared.
Earlier this week Tim made his box office predictions, anticipating that DC Comics’ entry into the summer would finally be the movie to break...
Tim Takes on the Box Office: Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern – Nuff Said!
You’ve heard Tim make his weekly predictions on our podcast, guessing how the box office numbers are going to play out as we discuss each week’s estimates. Now we’re putting them down in text just to see how good Tim’s track record winds up. Tune in each week as we compare Tim’s predictions against the actual numbers from the box office weekend, as Tim takes on the Box...
Box Office Results: Super 8 is First Original Box Office Leader of the Summer
Part of looking at movies does involve the business side of show business. We try to have a little fun with it, as each week Tim makes his predictions as to how movies will perform at the Box Office. Then, on Sundays, we look at how Tim’s predictions fared.
Earlier this week Tim made his box office predictions, expecting that this weekend’s big release, Super 8 wouldn’t be as big a release as...
Super 8 [Review]
Borrowing a plutonium-powered DeLorean from Dr. Emmett Brown, J.J. Abrams travels back to 1979 to capture on celluloid a film that lovingly recreates the cinematic worlds of Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), Richard Donner (The Goonies) and Steven Spielberg (E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind). Wrestling with multiple themes and genres, Abrams returns to the present with the excellent...
Tim Takes on the Box Office: Expect a Less Than Super Entrance for Super 8
You’ve heard Tim make his weekly predictions on our podcast, guessing how the box office numbers are going to play out as we discuss each week’s estimates. Now we’re putting them down in text just to see how good Tim’s track record winds up. Tune in each week as we compare Tim’s predictions against the actual numbers from the box office weekend, as Tim takes on the Box...
In Theaters: June 10th
You can have all of the pirates, super heroes, and deities summer has delivered so far. This is one of the weekends I’ve been looking forward to the most. This Friday brings up a powerhouse team up between two generations of powerful storytellers with a film that looks like it fires on all cylinders. It’s easy to lose track of the fact that it’s not the only movie coming out this weekend, however.
Before...
Doc Rotten’s Anticipated Fantasy Films of 2011
This spring and summer horror films are getting the shaft with very few making their way to the theaters during the busiest part of the season: Insidious (April 1), Scream 4 (April 15) and Priest 3D (May 13). Most of the scariest genre films are set for late summer or fall release dates, even The Thing prequel was moved to October 14. So what is a horror fan supposed to do? Hang on to related genres,...
