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The Top Five Found Footage and Faux Documentary Films
[pullquote_right]“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain[/pullquote_right] Found footage/faux documentary film...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tony Stark Lives Again in Iron Man 3
Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s the time for candy, costumes, trick-or-treating, parties, and watching horror and monster movies. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first trai...[Read More]
The 10 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made
Is there anyone out there that doesn’t enjoy a good zombie movie? The infiltration of zombies into our popular culture and continued success of the cinema of the undead suggests that there isn’t. Whil...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: No Films are New Films; Newcomers Can’t Topple the Favorites
With three major new releases, it is a little surprising that only one ended up in the top three, and barely at that. Cloud Atlas, with an estimated $9.4 million, was the highest grossing of the new r...[Read More]
The Top Five Exorcism and Possession Films
For ages mankind has held the belief that in the aether resides an evil with the ability to enter our physical realm and possess a human being, occasionally giving it superhuman abilities: ESP, or kno...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Cruise versus Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher
This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the second trailer for Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming book-adapted thriller Jack Reacher. Premise: In an innocent heartland cit...[Read More]
Fun Size Stars Visit Mall Of America!
On the morning of Saturday, October 20, 2012, the stars of the new Paramount Pictures comedy Fun Size, Victoria Justice and Thomas Mann, joined special guest Carly Rae Jepsen at the Mall of America fo...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Paranormal Activity 4 On Top, But Only Finds Ghosts of Its Former Success
For a movie costing only $5 million, a weekend estimate of $30.2 million would normally be a phenomenal thing…and to be fair, it still is…but for Paranormal Activity 4, that is a drop from the record-...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Master of Suspense Lives Again in Hitchcock
With the release of Argo this past week, we’re officially in the season of prestige films and Oscar contenders. With that in mind, this week breaks new ground for Trailer Trashin’, because...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Taken 2 Holds Box-Office Captive for Second Week
The critics say Taken 2 is a simplistic rehash, but that has not stopped the movie-going public from making the Liam Neeson-helmed actioner top at the box office for a second week in a row. Its estima...[Read More]
Cinema Revisited: The Films of the Beatles
Since Beatlemania seems to be going stronger than ever these days, and interest in the films the band made has peaked yet again (the Magical Mystery Tour film joins Yellow Submarine as a new DVD relea...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Saddle Up with the Lone Ranger
It may only be the beginning of October, but it’s never too early for the studios to start hyping their slate of 2013 movies. On this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’, I aim my...[Read More]