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Box Office Weekend: Star Wars Blasts Box Office Records
With all the hype surrounding it and (the critical praise lavished upon it), is it any wonder Star Wars: The Force Awakens would do anything but succeed? Well, it did, and then some, with the best opening weekend in history with an estimated $238 million. No debut had a chance against it, even with the other big debuts trying to appeal to different audiences. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip...[Read More]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens needed to do two things. First of all, it needed to erase the sour memory of the prequels, at least in the minds of ardent Star Wars fans. Secondly, it needed to prove it could stand with the original trilogy as a fitting sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983). Amazingly, it does both. From the opening crawl, which packs more excitement into it than any of the crawls from...[Read More]
Five Christmas Movies That Should Be Part of Your Holiday Tradition
To some, the Christmas season is all about family, celebration, fun, presents, and the birth of Christ. Those are all important things, to be sure, but to me it just isn’t a proper Christmas unless I get to a specific batch of Christmas movies. Call it obsessive if you will, but tradition feels a bit more polite. My “traditional” Christmas flick picks are a tad on the eclectic side, ranging ...[Read More]