Poll: Avengers vs. Deadpool vs. Solo
Looking at the current box office results, three big franchise blockbusters have dominated the past month or so and look to hold on well into this coming weekend. Assuming you saw them, which did you...
View ArticleSteelBook Alert: One Is the Loneliest Number
It may not have set the box office on fire the way every previous ‘Star Wars’ movie did, but this summer’s ‘Solo’ spinoff will still make its way into collectors’ hands with SteelBook packaging you can...
View ArticleLate to the Party: ‘The Last Jedi’
Due to my longstanding ‘Star Wars’ ennui and all the vehemently negative word-of-mouth surrounding the movie, I feel like I must be one of the last people on Earth to see ‘The Last Jedi’. When a window...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of September 23rd, 2018 – Alone Again
It used to be that the release of a new Star Wars movie to either theaters or home video was a major event. Has Disney’s plan to churn out new Star Wars content non-stop in perpetuity already triggered...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Erased from Canon
If the new Halloween can ignore and contradict all of the other Halloween sequels that came after the original movie, what will be the next franchise sequel to erase prior entries from canon? Jason...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: 2019 Movie Anticipation
A new year is coming, and with it, a whole bunch of new movies. If we’re lucky, a few of them might even be great. Which 2019 films are you looking forward to? Wikipedia has a list to give you some...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: From Indie to Payday
After her Oscar win for Room, Brie Larson jumped right into the gargantuan Kong: Skull Island and is now headlining a mega-budget Marvel superhero flick. Our Roundtable this week looks at other actors...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Least Believable Screen Couple
The new rom-com Long Shot would have us imagine the stunning Charlize Theron falling for schlubby Seth Rogen. That movie plays the mismatch for laughs, but it reminds us of other screen romances that...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Turning to the Dark Side
As one of our picks in this week’s Roundtable explains, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” While Dark Phoenix flies into theaters, let’s look at some...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: The Toy That Got Away
As both the Toy Story and Child’s Play franchises return to theaters this weekend (brilliant counter-programming on United Artists’ part), this seems like a good time to look back at our own...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Erased from Memory
The plot of the movie Yesterday involves an alternate timeline where nobody remembers The Beatles. Let’s apply that premise to movies. Is there a particular movie you wish could be erased from memory...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of September 22nd, 2019 – All My Troubles Seemed So...
It’s been a hard day’s night preparing this week’s Blu-ray and Ultra HD update. The massive list of new titles may be so overwhelming that you’ll either call out for “Help!” or decide to just let it...
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