The Preview Reel: Will Dunkirk Win the Week?
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. With Baby Driver opening three weeks ago, followed by Spider-Man: Homecoming, War for the Planet of the Apes just last week, and Dunkirk this week, we are unquestionably in the best stretch of this summer’s wide releases. Enjoy it, because August looks bleak. This is also a rare week where we do...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: War for the Planet of the Apes vs. Wish Upon
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Spider-Man: Homecoming swung into theaters last week with a huge $117 million debut, making it the second biggest Sony opening since Spider-Man 3 in 2007. The movie world is still abuzz over the new iteration of Peter Parker, but another one of the most anticipated movies of the summer opens thi...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Spider-Man: Homecoming
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Despicable Me 3 put up some mild fireworks last weekend at the box office with $72.4 million, while Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver over-performed with $30 million during its five-day opening. Hurray for original movies! This week sees one of the most anticipated movies of the summer open in Spider-M...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Gru and the Minions Stand Tall at Box Office
Despite delivering approximately $10 million less than the opening weekend total for its predecessor, Despicable Me 3 finished atop the weekend’s box office with just over $75 million. The third film in the popular franchise led the box office heading into the final two days of the five-day Fourth of July weekend. Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver defied studio expectations, finishing in second with $21 ...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Despicable Me 3, Baby Driver, and The House
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. North American audiences showed their growing tiredness of the Transformers series when it opened to a measly $69.3 million over five days last weekend. That might seem like a lot, but in comparison to the third installment opened to $162.6 million over five days in 2011, it’s not good news for ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Transformers: The Last Knight
I’ll get this out of the way now: Transformers: The Last Knight is by far the worst movie of the year, and quite possibly, of the last few years. It’s headache inducing, overlong, incomprehensible, and offensive. I would say that this movie was edited for children who couldn’t keep their attention span focused for more than five seconds, but based on some of the film’s “humor” and language, I woul...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Transformers: The Last Knight
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming movie releases. Cars 3 zoomed to the top spot this past weekend with a decent $53 million showing, but there’s a new beast debuting this weekend that should easily take over the top spot. Studios fled at the sight of the latest Transformers movie as The Last Knight is the only wide release debuting this weekend. Wil...[Read More]
Movie Review: 47 Meters Down
Movies set in one location can be tricky. Films like Phone Booth (2002), Buried (2010), and arguably the best of the bunch, Locke (2013), know how to create suspense and tension by changing the stakes and situation without multiple locations. They gave the protagonists little tasks throughout the film that brought them one step closer to getting out of their situation. It can make for simplistic, ...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Cars 3, All Eyez on Me, Rough Night, and 47 Meters Down
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. Last week saw Tom Cruise and The Mummy stumble with a disappointing $30 million opening, while Wonder Woman continued to show her muscle with one of the best holds for a blockbuster ever. This week features a very crowded marketplace as four new releases hit the screen. There seems to be somethi...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Mummy
Shared universes are all the rage these days. Marvel started the trend almost a decade ago and each major studio now seems eager to establish their own. While Marvel has perfected the formula in which you focus on a specific character’s story first and then slowly introduce them into a larger universe, this is an element that other studios have chosen to ignore. Warner Bros. couldn’t wait to get t...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: The Mummy Comes at Night
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Last weekend we saw history as Wonder Woman set the record for the biggest opening for a featured helmed by a female director. This week features two of the summer’s more intriguing releases with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy, and the horror flick It Comes at Night. Let’s see if either release will be able to ...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Captain Underpants Takes on Wonder Woman
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. After last weekend gave us the worst Memorial Day weekend results in almost twenty years, things look slightly brighter this weekend. One of the more anticipated movies of the summer debuts with DC’s Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, DreamWorks looks to garner another hit in Captain Underpants: The First...[Read More]