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Movie Review: Ride Along 2
It made sense that we got the buddy cop film Ride Along (2014) starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. A film for them to work off such different personalities; they always seemed like a perfect duo. Coming from director Tim Story, who should be most remembered for making one of the few misses in the Marvel Universal with Fantastic Four (2004), Ride Along was such an unoriginal ride that it wasted both ...[Read More]
Eight Things We Want From Star Wars: Episode VIII
In only its fourth weekend of release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to demolish box office records and demand most of the chatter on the internet. As fun as The Force Awakens is, it does leave many of its characters in interesting places and sports a lot of unanswered questions. Star Wars: Episode VIII may not be arriving until May 2017, but it’s never too early to start our wish list fo...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Star Wars Wins Again, Though Revenant Strong Competition
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has had a busy week, surpassing Avatar as the highest-grossing domestic film of all-time as well as having a $51 million opening in China, and it shows little sign of slowing down with an estimated $41.6 million weekend take. Leonardo DiCaprio had a strong wide release weekend as well, with an estimated $38 million for The Revenant. However, the well-regarded frontier ...[Read More]
Exploring the Humanized Puppets of Anomalisa
From writer Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Duke Johnson (Moral Orel, Frankenhole) comes Anomalisa. Now, you can watch and share the new “Peopling Anomalisa” featurette (see above) on how Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson humanized the puppets of Anomalisa. Anomalisa tells the story of Michael Stone (David Thewlis), husband, father, and respected au...[Read More]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Becomes Highest Grossing Domestic Film Ever
As of Wednesday, Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the highest grossing film of all time in the domestic market, surpassing the $760.5 million lifetime gross of Avatar (2009) in a record-shattering twenty days of release. In addition, the film crossed the $800 million mark at the international box office. The Force Awakens still has a ways to go to topple Avatar’s overall $2.78 billion at the gl...[Read More]
Life & Death: Ranking the Films of Alejandro González Iñárritu
Most filmmakers spend the duration of a career emphasizing one walk of life over the infinite others, but occasionally there is an artist who seeks the truth through universality: the common thread that unifies a Mexican intersection, a Moroccan village, or an American theatre into a snapshot of what it truly means to be alive. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is one such artist, pursuing the ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: The Force Awakens to Boast Highest Domestic Gross of All Time
Happy New Year! And it looks to be a very happy new year for the box office as well. Star Wars: The Force Awakens remained in first place, to likely the surprise of no one, though its success is far and away going to put Avatar to shame…in its third week, it earned an estimated $88.3 million, and is only about $20 million shy of being the highest earning domestic grosser in history…and...[Read More]
Interview with Jeremy Strong and John Magaro, Stars of The Big Short
Director Adam McKay’s new film, The Big Short, tells the story of a group of outsiders who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the 2000s and how betting on the collapse of the economy led them to some disturbing revelations on the nature of modern banking. The film, based on the best-selling book by Michael Lewis, stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Jeremy ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Enter the World of Japanese Mythology in Kubo and the Two Strings
Happy New Year, dear readers! I hope you all had a good holiday, whatever it is you celebrate. I’m sure a lot of you have also seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens by now, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. And for the last Trailer Trashin’ column of 2015, I’m taking a look at one of the previews I saw in front of Star Wars – the teaser trailer for Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings. Premise: ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: The Force Awakens Still On Top
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has only been in theaters for ten days, but not only is it still far and away the box office champ with a whopping $152.5 million estimated total for the weekend, but is also the fastest film to $500 million in revenue, best second weekend total on record, best opening of all-time, and is on track to potentially being the highest earning movie of all-time as well (amon...[Read More]
Everybody Wants Some Trailer Gets Back to the 1980s
Paramount Pictures has released a trailer for writer/director Richard Linklater’s new film Everybody Wants Some. The film is said to be a spiritual follow-up to Linklater’s cult-classic Dazed and Confused (1993). You can enjoy the trailer above! Set amidst college life of the 1980s, the film follows a group of college baseball players as they attempt to navigate their way through the freedoms and ...[Read More]
