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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Has Release Date and New Teaser Trailer
Fans of the early 1990s British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous have reason to be excited these days. Fox Searchlight recently set loose a new teaser trailer on the world. The producers of the film also confirmed a 2016 release date of July 22. Location filming in the U.K. and France is complete for the film that finds, appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joan...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Deadpool Rides High for Second Week
Considering its big opening last week and critical praise, there was not much room for doubt that Deadpool would score big once again. Pulling in an estimated $55 million, it finished head and shoulders over the competition, keeping Kung Fu Panda 3 in second place with an estimated $12.5 million. While still not the success of the previous films, Kung Fu Panda 3 has still pulled in $117.1 million ...[Read More]
Greater Farmington Film Festival Releases 2016 Schedule
Farmington-Hills based nonprofit organization kickstART farmington announced the film lineup and schedule for the 2016 Greater Farmington Film Festival earlier this month and it looks like they will be offering a great selection of films this year. The Greater Farmington Film Festival takes place March 3-6, 2016 with a selection of recently released feature films and documentaries that engage the ...[Read More]
The 20 Best Detective Movies of All Time
From a pop culture perspective, private detectives stand for all that’s memorable about film noir. The indifference, the wittiness, and the moral ambiguity that define each urban knight has since become the stuff of parodied legend. We’re talking about the mediators between the crooks and the cops, the embodiment of back alley grayness that’s so tough to pin down. P.I.’s could cooperate with the l...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Deadpool Wins Hearts and Big Time Box Office
An R-rated superhero movie is always a bit of a gamble, for while many find their audiences in cult appeal long after the fact, few of them prove bankable at the box office, and even fewer prove hits with critics. However, Deadpool upped the bar with not only a smash opening for any movie, but critical praise as well. Its estimated $135.1 million broke past its $58 million budget and easily took t...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Super Bowl 50 Movie Spots
Another Super Bowl has come and gone, dear readers. Congratulations to the Denver Broncos on their victory, and my sympathies to the Carolina Panthers. And just like every year, the Big Game brought us a fine crop of TV spots for upcoming movies. There were eleven Super Bowl 50 movie spots, and in this roundup edition of Trailer Trashin’, I’ll be giving you my quick takes of some of the big ones. ...[Read More]
The X-Men Movies Ranked!
Superhero movies are all the rage these days, with endless sequels, spinoffs and team-ups hitting the screen seemingly every month. An argument can be made that the comic-book movie craze can be traced back to 2000 when director Bryan Singer’s X-Men became a box-office smash, raking in just under $300 million worldwide. There were huge, blockbuster comic book movies before that, but it became appa...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Kung Fu Panda 3 Holds Against a Conquering Caesar
While many may have skipped the theater on Sunday to catch the Super Bowl (as evidenced by the lowest box office earning weekend of the year), there is still a handful of debuts that tried their best to catch an audience. Critics are finding mostly good things to say about the latest Coen Brothers film, Hail, Caesar!, and though it did middling against its $22 million budget by opening in second p...[Read More]
The Secret Life of Pets Debuts New Trailer and Poster
For their fifth fully animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. The studios released the film’s new poster (see below) and trailer (see above) recently. Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, and Kevin Hart make their animated fea...[Read More]
DreamWorks Releases First Trailer for Trolls
DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox have released the first trailer for Trolls! From the creators of Shrek comes the most smart, funny, irreverent animated comedy of the year, DreamWorks’ Trolls. This holiday season, enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, an...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Family-Friendly Kung Fu Panda 3 Takes Weekend
There was no battle, no contest, nor were a flurry of blows necessary as Kung Fu Panda 3 took the weekend box office with no real competition with an estimated $41 million. Though the weakest start for the franchise domestically, the latest entry looks set to rake it in big in overseas dollars, as have the previous films, already bringing in $116.7 million in worldwide gross. The Revenant, too, is...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: DC’s Villains Go to War in the Suicide Squad First Official Trailer
We’ve reached the end of January, dear readers, and we’ll soon find out if that groundhog in Pennsylvania will curse us with six more weeks of winter. But while we wait for warmer weather, there are always new movies for us to look forward to. This week’s column takes a look at the first official trailer for Suicide Squad. Premise: The secret government agency A.R.G.U.S., run by Amanda Waller (Vio...[Read More]