SAFE HOUSE: Watch It At Home – You’ve Seen It SAFE HOUSE feels like a remake, even though technically it’s not. It’s a little bit Training Day, a little Bourne, a little Man On Fire (and ev...
STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D, to give it its fully identifying title, has the distinction of being the most successful movie ever made that is generally agreed to be terrible. Over $900M in ticke...
GONE: Not Even For Free – Gone? Not Soon Enough When was the last time you saw a non-ironic, non-parody movie where someone was sneaking around in a room belonging to a possible villain, se...
WANDERLUST: Watch It At Home – Hippy Jokes Thawed Out From 1966 The new WANDERLUST demonstrates the strengths and limitations of amiability in movies. Its stars, Jennifer Aniston and Paul R...
ACT OF VALOR: Watch It At Home – Fast Forward When They’re Not Shooting If there were a genuine national military crisis, and a small group of expert soldiers were needed to protect t...
> According to Deadline‘s preliminary numbers, it’s going to be a stronger than expected weekend for both CHRONICLE (20th) and THE WOMAN IN BLACK (CBS). Keeping in mind that Sunday will be a very slow day at t...
> Based on the preliminary numbers at Deadline, the race between CHRONICLE (20th) and THE WOMAN IN BLACK (CBS) is still too close to call at $21-22M each. No matter who claims victory on Sunday morning, the final weekend ...
> According to Deadline, ACT OF VALOR (Relativity) is reporting a mild 5% Saturday bump. That’s modest, but still less frontloaded than The Expendables’ 10% drop on its 2d day, and if the number holds, could m...
CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket – “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–ha...