Joyful Noise
Weekend Box-Office: Underworld Awakens to a #1 Finish
Vampires and werewolves won the weekend, but this time, Stephenie Meyer had nothing to do with them; the bloody Underworld: Awakening led the box office this time around, and though critics aren’t saying much good about it, moviegoers gave the $70 million budgeted film an estimated $25.4 million opening. While profits overall still continue to tumble since the beginning of the year, it was still a...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Mark Wahlberg Smuggles in a Win for Contraband
It may not be the traditional holiday weekend, with few getting time off for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as, say, Memorial Day…but for the three day take, the “one last job” crime film Contraband walked away the winner with an estimated $24.1 million. Though this is a definite drop in overall take from last week, perhaps it says something about the current crop of films that the next ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Joyful Noise
I’ll admit it: When I saw the ubiquitous trailer for Joyful Noise, I thought, this movie came out 10 years ago. It was called Sister Act. Then I thought. Wait – maybe it was called The Fighting Temptations, the God-awful 2003 movie about another small-town choir hoping to win a big competition. I’m happy to report, very quickly into the movie I learned the similarities between those fi...[Read More]