The lull that began June has ended. Jurassic World may not have been the critical darling the original film was over twenty years ago, but its opening weekend box office numbers blew past those of all three previous films and even bested Avengers: Age of Ultron with an estimated $204.6 million. Meanwhile, Spy, the hit of last week, barely made a ripple this weekend with an estimated $16 million, a...[Read More]
I was twelve years old when I first saw the original Jurassic Park in the theatres. For a kid obsessed with dinosaurs, it was a cinematic experience to remember. Based on the Michael Crichton novel and directed by Steven Spielberg, Jurassic Park was the movie event during the summer of 1993. Surely a big-budget remake helmed by a relative unknown director couldn’t capture the same magic as t...[Read More]
Lionsgate released the official trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 this week and it looks like it will bring the series to a satisfying close. Panem is now engulfed by a war between the Capitol and the various districts. In the trailers, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) are closing in on a final confrontation as Katniss and her closes...[Read More]