Ted 2 Mere Appetizer for Jurassic World
Someday, when paleontologists dig through the rubble of our current age, they’ll discover the fossilized box office receipts for this June. They’ll carefully brush around the remnants of our days with their specialized whisk brooms, examine the strata and utter low whistles. “Yes,” they will say to each other. “This was truly the age of […]
Jurassic World Turns Inside Out Upside Down
The day of the dinosaurs has lasted for another epoch. Or, at least, one more weekend. Despite facing a new warm-blooded challenger in Inside Out, Jurassic World roared to another victory, ripping and tearing its way to a truly monstrous $102 million (estimated, of course), bringing its North American total gross to $398.2 million. If […]
Inside Out: Will It Be One of Pixar’s Best?
Inside Out, Pixar’s newest film, is coming out tomorrow. You can read our full review later today, but the other reviews I’ve seen have been, safe to say, glowing. Not that we expect anything less of Pixar, Disney’s wildly inventive animation adjunct. Ever since the studio blasted to prominence with 1995’s Toy Story, Pixar has […]
Jurassic World Takes a Big Bite Out of the Box Office
Let’s face it: No one wants to tangle with a T-rex, genetically modified or not. So when the technically enhanced dinosaurs of Jurassic World started rampaging through multiplexes around the world, we all knew there was going to be some pretty serious carnage left in its wake. But no one expected anything quite like this. […]
What Do Mirrors Have to Do With Earthquakes?
When I walked out of my San Andreas screening last week, there were a lot of things on my mind. I was thinking about the movie’s special effects and all the ancillary destruction and what I was going to say in the review. I was thinking about how Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson nearly cried in […]
San Andreas Shakes Things Up
Well, it wasn’t exactly the biggest box-office tremor of the year. Avengers: Age of Ultron still has that title sewn up for the year. Still, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s San Andreas proved to be a stone-cold winner, shaking moviegoers out of an estimated $53.2 million to shimmy up to the top of the box office. […]
The New VR We’ve Been Waiting For?
Oscars: The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same
This year’s Oscars telecast was perhaps the first I remember where the actual telecast seemed a little anticlimactic at first. Kevin Hart’s going to be our host! No, wait, never mind! But we WILL have a popular movie category! No, no, scratch that, too! But we FOR SURE will hand out awards during commercial breaks! […]
The Terrible Truth of Beautiful Boy
“I need to find a way to fill this big, black hole in me.” Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet) says this in Beautiful Boy, speaking in a meeting to family, friends and fellow addicts. He’s talking about his own addictions, especially to crystal meth. “I felt complete,” he says of the aftermath of taking the drug. […]
