I really loved 2012 as an overall year for film. There were so many groundbreaking films in various genres, whether they were the biggest of blockbusters or the smallest of independent productions. Yet, they can’t all be gems. Every year has its stinkers and, while there were a limited amount of them, the ones that really stung hurt like hell. Might as well try to heal the wounds by going down my... 

The title refers to a question Rafe asks this week. We’ve made some serious botches over the past few weeks, both with technical issues and misattributing roles within movies, and nobody has called us on it. C’mon folks, this is the Internet; you’re supposed to be all over us for the slightest mistake! Regardless of whether we actually have an audience or not, this week we discuss... 

It feels like only yesterday that we moved out on our own, set up WidescreenWarrior.com, and shortly thereafter celebrated our 200th episode. Now it’s 100 episodes later… but the more things change, the more they stay the same. We deal with the technical troubles of adding a few more seats as we gather together the current iteration of the show along with the Queen of the Podcast to talk... 

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. As I mentioned on this week’s podcast, it’s been a hectic week – the kind of week where a hobby like this website has to take... 

There’s a superstition in teaching about the effects of the full moon on students, and Rafe thinks that’s definitely something he saw this week, with the effects carrying into the show. The full staff of this episode talks about John Carter‘s loss to The Lorax at the box office, the surprisingly well-received upcoming 21 Jump Street, our early anticipation for The Hunger Games, and... 

Walt Disney and the director of Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ pulp hero from Mars to the big screen with the big-budget, 3D extravaganza John Carter. Big on effects, grand in scope, the film paints a high-action, pulpy science-fiction saga full of spectacle, beauty and romance with curious underlining father-and-daughter themes. The film struggles to get all its pieces... 

You know how there are those direct to video or made for tv movies that play off of blockbusters coming to theaters? Like how C. Thomas Howell was in a television version of War of the Worlds the same time Spielberg and Cruise brought their version to theaters? Or how the 1994 movie Oblivion is being remarketed to capitalize on Cowboys & Aliens? Well, that’s how Battleship feels – it looks... 

Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies, and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitschas Lt. Alex Hopper, a naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and...