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The Preview Reel: What Movie You Should See This Weekend
As we approach the summer movie season when studio blockbusters will flood the cinemas seemingly every week, we at CinemaNerdz are here to help you with your decision on what you should see in theaters. Every week, we will break down each film that is enjoying a wide release, offer our thoughts and concerns, discuss the buzz surrounding the film, what you might expect from it, and exactly what mov...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Third Week a Charm for Jungle Book
The Jungle Book may have been out for three weeks, but it barely shows any signs of slowing down. With an estimated $42.4 million, it held its first-place post at the box office yet again, and by a similarly wide margin as it did the week before…The Huntsman: Winter’s War remained in second, but dropped to an estimated $9.4 million. It held nearly even against the well-reviewed Keanu (...[Read More]
Movie Review: Ratchet and Clank
I would feel dishonest writing this review if I didn’t mention my attachment to the game series on which this film is based: I am a massive fan and have been playing them since Ratchet and Clank was first released in 2002. I have played every single entry in the franchise and have almost always been completely satisfied with my experience. Naturally, when I heard my beloved duo was making the tran...[Read More]
Movie Review: Mother’s Day
Garry Marshall likes two things late in his directorial career: holidays and large casts. He first tackled Valentine’s Day with the star-studded film Valentine’s Day, then New Year’s Eve with an even more star-powered New Year’s Eve, and now Mother’s Day in his new film, you guessed it, Mother’s Day. Although the cast is not as large as his other two holiday romantic comedies, there’s still no lac...[Read More]
Movie Review: Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
At the beginning of Papa: Hemingway in Cuba, Ed Meyers (a lackluster Giovanni Ribisi), a thirty-something journalist with the Miami Globe in 1959, claims that Ernest “Papa” Hemingway (Adrian Sparks), saved his life. He says the author helped him become a writer and provided him with hope during an orphaned childhood. After Ed was fired for misspelling “maybe,” he stayed up nights during his probat...[Read More]
Movie Review: Midnight Special
Anticipation for Midnight Special was high heading into the film’s release. Perhaps, even a little too high. So much had been said about director Jeff Nichols and haunting muse Michael Shannon that the Internet had many thinking it would rocket off into another dimension of quality. That it would be this generation’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. (1982), and Starman (1984) wrappe...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Jungle Book Remains Top Banana
Disney provided a second week of first place entertainment, as The Jungle Book remained the big winner at the box office with an estimated $60.9 million; it towered over the competition and has brought in $191.5 million domestic gross and $528.5 million worldwide. The Huntsman: Winter’s War came in second, but it was not a close second with an estimated $20.1 million. While it may try to bre...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Huntsman: Winter’s War
It’s easy to forget about 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Even though the film went on to gross nearly $400 million worldwide and was moderately received, it got lost in the shuffle of other huge blockbusters like The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hunger Games, and Skyfall. It was just not very memorable, and although the announcement of a sequel from Universal was not very surprising, ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Strong Opening Chapter for The Jungle Book
It may have a $175 million budget to make up, but Jon Favreau has directed another winner for Disney as The Jungle Book opened with an estimated $103.6 million. It was certainly a “cut above” the estimated $20.2 million for Barbershop: The Next Cut, but both films have benefited from strong critical praise…praise lacking for third-place finisher The Boss, which slipped from its first-place p...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Return to the Galactic Civil War in the New Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer
It’s a good time for movie fans, dear readers. Jon Favreau’s new version of The Jungle Book is now out, and the summer movie season is only two weeks away. And in the spirit of blockbusters, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the new teaser for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, coming to theaters this Christmas. Premise: Shortly before the events of A New Hope (1977), a wayward band ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups tells the story of a Hollywood screenwriter (Christian Bale) who laments his purpose in life. Strippers, parties, money, family dysfunction, the works. Each interaction he shares comes and goes with ghostly ease, stepping up to drop their two cents of disgruntlement before receding back into the evening’s debauchery. Vice and vulgarity become a source of addiction, a cocktail that g...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Melissa McCarthy Takes Weekend Like a Boss
The critically divisive Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice fell to second place with an estimated $23.4 million…topped by comedienne Melissa McCarthy and The Boss. With an estimated $23.5 million, it just barely bested the superheroes, but is seeing much worse critical response overall. Zootopia, in the meantime, fell to third with an estimated $14.4 million, and in a shocking turn of events...[Read More]