The Preview Reel: Game Night and Annihilation
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, wherein we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Black Panther obliterated box-office records last weekend as it earned over $192 million during the three-day weekend, good enough for the second biggest superhero opening ever behind The Avengers (2012). That is insanely impressive, and the king of Wakanda is likely to continue his box-office...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Black Panther and Early Man
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, wherein we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Fifty Shades Freed ended the franchise on a high note with a first-place finish, but its reign will be short-lived with a new Marvel film storming into theaters. Black Panther is riding a huge wave of hype as early reactions have it pegged as one of the best superhero movies ever, but there is...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Fifty Shades Freed, Peter Rabbit, and The 15:17 to Paris
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, wherein we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Last week was an especially slow week as Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) regained the top spot from Maze Runner: The Death Cure. That likely won’t happen this week as there are three big releases aiming at different demographics. The final chapter of the Fifty Shades series whips into th...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Winchester
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Maze Runner: The Death Cure ended Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’s reign last week as it opened with an impressive $23.5 million. It won’t have much competition this week as there is only one new wide-release film, Winchester, due to the big football game on Sunday. Is the Helen Mirren-led horro...[Read More]
The Preview Reel—Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Both 12 Strong and Den of Thieves performed better than expected last weekend, but neither could top box-office juggernaut Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. That movie’s January reign may come to an end this weekend with the final installment of the Maze Runner trilogy hitting theaters. That is the only n...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: 12 Strong and Den of Thieves
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at this week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle continues its hot streak at the box office, and with two soft contenders entering the ring this week, we don’t see why its reign won’t continue. There’s the based-on-a-true-story war flick 12 Strong and Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves, neither of which is premiering with m...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Commuter
Liam Neeson’s filmography hasn’t been all that interesting for the past ten years. Ever since Taken was an out of nowhere hit in 2008, Neeson has been seen in almost every action thriller imaginable. From cop thrillers (Run All Night in 2015), to mistaken identity thrillers (Unknown in 2011), airplane thrillers (Non-Stop in 2014, which was also directed by the same guy who does The Commuter), and ...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: The Commuter, Proud Mary, and Paddington 2
Last week saw the reign of Star Wars: The Last Jedi come to an end as not one, but two movies placed above the mega blockbuster. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Insidious: The Last Key look to keep their box-office winning streak alive, but will have to deal with three different wide-release films this weekend. We have another Liam Neeson action-thriller in The Commuter, the family-friendly seq...[Read More]
Nine Things We Want to See in Star Wars: Episode IX
It’s been a few weeks since Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi) took us back to a galaxy far, far away, and that film is still one of the only things the internet can talk about these days. From people loving it(like this writer) to fans getting so upset that they started a petition to strike it from the official cannon, writer/director Rian Johnson’s vision of the Sta...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Insidious: The Last Key
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, wherein we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. The 2017 holiday season was kind to movie fans as there were plenty of films to choose from, and audiences showed up in droves. Star Wars: The Last Jedi predictably made an enormous amount of money, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle made more money than expected, and even The Greatest Showman sho...[Read More]
Movie Review: Band Aid
Making a movie is incredibly hard work. First, you should have a good script to work with. Then, you must find a director who can take the words off the page and somehow translate them to the visual media. Finally, you must find actors who can connect to the written words on the page and understand the director’s vision. There are, of course, thousands of other things that also must go right, but ...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Greatest Showman
Entertainment is a wonderful thing. Whether it’s going to the movies, a concert, or even the circus, people have this innate desire to see something that will bring joy to their lives. Entertainment forms have certainly changed over time, but the bottom line remains: people want to experience some form of escapism, whether it is in front of a theater screen, in a concert venue, or around the circu...[Read More]