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 […]
Movie Monday: Zero Dark Thirty
Nothing like a little controversy and some Oscar buzz to stir curiosity among moviegoers. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s much ballyhooed (and occasionally maligned) tale of the finding and killing of Osama Bin Laden, steamrolled to an estimated $24 million this weekend (its first in nationwide release) and thumped two newcomers for the week’s box […]
Playing God on Hawaii Five-0
On Jan. 14, Hawaii Five-0 will give its fans a chance to determine the outcome of its show. The whodunit—where the team must solve the murder of a prominent professor—will (according to Entertainment Weekly) feature three different endings, each with a different killer: The professor’s boss? A student? A teaching assistant? One of ’em will […]
Movie Monday: Texas Chainsaw
What’s the buzz in Hollywood? Texas Chainsaw, that’s what. The 3-D sequel of 1974’s venerably vile Texas Chainsaw Massacre brap-brap-brapped its way to the top of the box office, chopping down an estimated $23 million in an otherwise sleepy week at the multiplex. The horror flick benefitted by being the only wide release of the […]
The Parable of the Good Celebrities
Taylor Swift is America’s most philanthropic celebrity, according to the charity-minded website dosomething.org. According to the site, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter donated $4 million to the Country Hall of Fame Museum and has worked tirelessly to help youth battling cancer. She’s also the youngest person to ever be named top dog on the site’s annual list. […]
Movie Monday: The Hobbit—One Movie to Rule Them All
Next big thing in Hollywood? Furry feet. There are probably some entertainment executives who believe that those tousled toes must be the secret to the success of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. I mean, it couldn’t be the story or CGI, could it? No, people just love a little fuzz on the […]