Quit f*@%ing around! It’s Box Office Wizard! Predict which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. It’s that easy. I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
In the end the richness of the human imagination is best exploited on the big screen. Ergo, alien invasions have been the subject of film fodder. Given the incredulous topic, these movies are rarely serious and almost exclusively filled with action, adventure, terror, and unintentional laughter. Not surprisingly, the subgenre is so oversaturated with clichés it is easily satirized. We’ve decided to assemble the good, the bad, and the ugly of this favored cinematic storyline.
Unstoppable marks the fifth collaboration between Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott, a team that has given us films that span the entire spectrum of quality. From inane to intense, we’ll take a look at the movies they’ve worked on together.
Are you feeling teary-eyed? Do you have a craving for ice cream and smell scented candles everywhere you go? It must be Rom Com Roundup on Trailer Tracker, a special feature this week thanks to a surge of romantic comedy trailers hitting the web.
Whether or not you consider Todd Phillips] Due Date an homage to or a rip-off of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles depends largely on if you think it’s funny. I do. Both are great examples of a road trip comedy, featuring excellent performances from both leading actors.
I thought the right thing to do would be to focus on the road-trip films that have tickled our funny bones over the years. It’s hard to talk about road trips and leave off Thelma & Louise, Almost Famous and True Romance, but this post will celebrate the often ridiculous shenanigans that can happen when two or more people hit the road. The films might not always be great (or good, for that matter), but you’re sure to remember them.
Predict which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. It’s that easy. I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
Welcome to Movie Supervillainy for Dummies, your step-by-step guide to unadulterated evil. Thinking off tossing away that death ray? Well fear not! During the course of this handy manual, you will learn how to go from hilarious to nefarious in no time at all!
It’s a Trailer Tracker with a foreign flavour this week on Player Affinity with two British crime thrillers:
Truth be told, I hate these movies. Admittedly, I was partial to the first Saw, which exercised just a little bit of restraint in what I considered an interesting story and had that rather cool twist at the end. The sequels however I felt devolved into little more than the epitome of the gorno genre, creatively disgusting ways to disfigure a human body dropped into a crappy ready-made story. I still can’t fathom a reason for the success or appeal of this kind of film.
