Movie Monday: A Good Day to Die Hard
We’ve just moved past Valentine’s Day weekend, a time when our thoughts turned to love. And while we tend to celebrate the occasion in different ways (some with gallons of ice cream), most couples do tend to stick with some time-honored traditions. They give each other candy in heart-shaped boxes. They go to romantic dinners. […]
Do We Judge a Man by His Moviegoing?
It’s been interesting to read the comment string beneath Kevin Simpson’s post last week (“Advice From My Wife (Sort of Like Plugged In“). Little did Kev know that it would throw the doors open for a critique of all things Plugged In. As always, we’re so appreciative of our readers—your courtesy, your thoughtfulness and your […]
Movie Monday: Identity Thief
Either Identity Thief had a good weekend, or star Melissa McCarthy is getting pretty adept at using that credit-card maker. Identity Thief, an R-rated comedy with McCarthy in the titular role, pilfered an estimated $36.6 million from moviegoers this weekend—a boffo opening for an original R-rated comedy (particularly one released in the traditionally fallow month of […]
Confusion, Thy Name Is Television
I know there are people who can’t stand to be kept in suspense. They read the first 20 pages of a murder mystery, then skip to the back to see whodunit. They purposefully ignore the first three-and-a-half quarters of a basketball game, then tune in to the last five minutes. They might watch the first […]
Super Bowl Commercials: The Best and Worst
A whopping 108.4 million people watched the Baltimore Ravens eke out a narrow victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday—though for a lot of folks, the game was an afterthought. I know, as a football fan, it’s hard to believe. Some people couldn’t care less whether the Ravens stopped the 49ers on San Fran’s […]
Movie Monday: Warm Bodies
With much of America preoccupied with the Super Bowl this weekend, movie theaters across the country were pretty dead. Fitting, then, that a zombie flick should take the box office crown. Warm Bodies, an undead romcom, lurched to the top of the podium, shuffling to an estimated $19.5 million worth of grayish-green bills. Sure, it’s […]
Let’s Gather ‘Round The Super Bowl Tree, Children …
A Tennessee man has filed a White House petition, asking the United States government to declare the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday. I know, I know. It might seem a little strange. Given the current state of professional football in Tennessee, you’d think the guy would want to move on. And some […]
Movie Monday: Hansel & Gretel
A fairy-tale weekend, it wasn’t. Granted, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters claimed the weekend’s box office tourney, grimly collecting an estimated $19 million en route to its rather witchy win. But while that may be enough to build a great gingerbread condominium complex somewhere in the woods (each unit equipped with a state-of-the-art oven), it […]
Curses! Foiled Again!
On Jan. 22, ABC unceremoniously booted its comedy Don’t Trust the B‑‑‑‑ in Apt 23 after two suitably abbreviated seasons. The network has no immediate plans to air the show’s eight remaining episodes. “You’ve got to give ABC props for ever picking us up in the first place,” tweeted James Van Der Beek, who starred in […]
Movie Monday: Mama
They say if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy. But if a psychotic maternal specter can be made happy through the tabulation of box office receipts, we should have nothing to worry about. Mama, the creepy PG-13 thriller starring the ever-busy Jessica Chastain, brought in an estimated $28.1 million (not, obviously, counting the potential […]
