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Tomorrowland Rides to Weekend Win
It wasn’t exactly a win for the ages. But hey, maybe that means hard cold cash won’t be so important in the future. Tomorrowland strapped on a currency-powered jet pack and then bounced and tumbled across the box office field this weekend with an estimated $33 million take ($40.7 million if you count Memorial Day […]
Finding Tomorrowland
Disney’s Tomorrowland opens today. If you’d like to read about it, check out my review. But in this space, let me just say this is the most optimistic rumination on the future that I’ve seen in a long, long time. Seems we don’t do optimism very well these days. I saw Tomorrowland hot on the […]
Pitch Perfect 2 Hits High Note
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby says of his great love, Daisy, “Her voice is full of money.” Perhaps the same can now be said of Fat Amy. In an appropriately pitched battle at the box office, Pitch Perfect 2 took on two lauded actioners and warbled past them both, trilling its way […]
Ultron Foils Hot Pursuit
Reese Witherspoon’s Hot Pursuit tried to chase down the superheroes. The comedy flipped on its lights, cranked the siren and radioed for backup. But let’s face it: There’s only so much you can do when your quarry flies a quinjet. Avengers: Age of Ultron kept its hulkish grasp on the box office crown this weekend, […]
Seeing Age of Ultron’s Vision Clearly
Avengers: Age of Ultron has been out for, oh, about 90 seconds, and already you’re seeing them: T-Shirts, bumper stickers and mugs bearing the slogan “Jarvis Is My Co-pilot.” We see the bumper sticker ever so briefly when Tony Stark’s flying the Avengers’ quinjet. It’s a quick glimpse, but it speaks volumes—Tony’s reliance on his […]
Lifting Our Vine-Entwined Spoons
Scotsman Ryan McHenry died Sunday after a two-year struggle with osteosarcoma. He was 27. Some of you might not have heard of McHenry. But in the world of Vine, a YouTube-like social network that allows users to share six-second video clips, he was a star, best known for his “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal” […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron Zooms to Financial Stratosphere
Yeah, you know your movie is saddled with some superhuman expectations when $188 million draws a collective “meh.” That’s the bittersweet fate of Avengers: Age of Ultron. The superhero movie zoomed to a massive $187.7 million opening (estimated, of course)—the second biggest opening ever. And to be clear, no one’s crying over Ultron’s box office […]
When Demons Go Viral
At play practice one night when I was a high schooler in the late ’80s, some friends broke out a Ouija board. Though I’d grown up in a Bible church and had professed faith in Christ as a child, I definitely wasn’t walking with God at the time. If anything, I was running the other […]
The Avengers Get Judge-mental
Warm up the cash registers and credit card swipe machines. The Avengers: Age of Ultron will roar into theaters this Friday, and I think its weekend will look a little like founding member Hulk: big and green. I’m eagerly awaiting Adam Holz’s review on Marvel’s latest blockbuster (it’ll land on the site later tonight). But […]
