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Weekend Box Office: The Possession Not Exorcised During Slow Weekend
The Possession remained at #1 at the box office, though with only one new release, it had little in the way of fresh competition. It also caps what is shaping up to be a major box office slowdown, as ...[Read More]
Retro Trailer Trashin’: The Baddest Man Alive is Named Black Dynamite!
With the end of the summer movie season, I’ve decided it’s time to debut Retro Trailer Trashin’, which I hope will become a recurring occasional supplement to the main Trailer Trashi...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Possession Takes Over the Box Office on Labor Day
The lot of the PG-13 ghost story has been tough of late, with entries such as The Apparition disappearing almost as fast as its namesake, but The Possession, despite critical panning, drew in crowds h...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Blood and Blades Go Flying in The Man with the Iron Fists
With the end of August, the summer movie season finally ends with the last handful of releases. Of course, ridiculous B-movies are in no way restricted to the summer months, and the subject’s of...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: The Expendables 2 Still Knocking Off the Rest
They still have pull, though probably not as much as they would like…The Expendables 2 held the crown of the top draws at the box office, but at an estimated $13.5 million this week and $52.3 million ...[Read More]
Ten Actors Who Should Be In The Expendables 3
As a product of the 1980s and 1990s, I grew up on a steady diet of cheesy action movies. Plot didn’t matter. I just wanted big explosions and awesome fight scenes (thankfully, my cinematic palate has ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Murder and Mirth Come Together in Seven Psychopaths
There’s only about two weeks left in August, the 2012 summer movie season is almost over, and soon we’ll be in the prestige seasons of fall and winter. This week on Trailer Trashin’,...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Expendables 2 Tops the Box Office, But with an Opening Less Stellar Than Its Cast
With a lineup of legendary action heroes (including a handful who only made cameos in the first film in the series), hype was big for The Expendables 2, and critically was more well-regarded than the ...[Read More]
Cinema Revisited: The Brave New World of Gattaca
We have always been stargazers. We look into the night sky and wonder what is out there and if future generations will travel to far away worlds. And we wonder what kind of world we will see in our li...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Clint Eastwood is Back in Trouble with the Curve
Sports movies have been a staple of Hollywood for a long time, all the way back to the silent era. And considering that the 2012 Summer Olympics just wrapped up, it is appropriate that this week marks...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: A Legacy Continues as The Bourne Legacy Opens On Top
Could the Bourne series survive without star Matt Damon? Quite possibly…though rising star Jeremy Renner has proven himself quite handily in other films (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The A...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Suspense, Style, and Smarts Come Together in Skyfall
We’ve reached August, and the summer movie season is starting to wind down, with only a handful of notable releases left. But even if there aren’t as many movies, there are still some grea...[Read More]