Mad Max: Fury Road
Ten Reactions to the 2016 Academy Award Nominations
The 88th annual Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning and just about everyone has an opinion. Although most of the nominations are what we expected, there were still some surprises and a few snubs that got the internet chatting. Here is a list of our ten biggest reactions to the 2016 Academy Award nominations. [divider] 10. Inside Out Is both Snubbed and Surprised Disney/Pixar’...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Jurassic World Avoids Extinction
Audiences still showed up for dinosaurs in droves, delivering a third-week win for Jurassic World. With an estimated $54 million, the film is now the fastest film to earn $500 million domestically and likely to do much better as time goes on. However, though it now sits as the fifth highest earning domestic release of all time, it still has to rely on longevity if it seeks to best the one-two punc...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: World Goes Jurassic Two Weeks In a Row
While it was only a few years ago that The Avengers was smashing box office records left and right, the sequel has now been overshadowed by the juggernaut of Jurassic World. The fourth film of the Jurassic Park series landed in the top spot for a second week in a row with an estimated $102 million and is likely to be the fastest movie to make $400 million by this week, the highest grossing film of...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Jurassic World a Dino-Sized Megahit
The lull that began June has ended. Jurassic World may not have been the critical darling the original film was over twenty years ago, but its opening weekend box office numbers blew past those of all three previous films and even bested Avengers: Age of Ultron with an estimated $204.6 million. Meanwhile, Spy, the hit of last week, barely made a ripple this weekend with an estimated $16 million, a...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Spy Biggest Hit of Slow June Start
If May started big and ended low, then maybe the opening lull of June will rise as the big hits of the summer start to arrive. It does look like a good time will be had by Spy; the Melissa McCarthy-starring, Paul Feig-directed action comedy is winning critics and audiences alike, opening with an estimated $30 million (though not releasing its costs as of yet). San Andreas slid to second with an es...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: San Andreas Shakes Up Weekend Box Office
May started with a bang, but ends on a whimper. After Avengers: Age of Ultron started things off with a massive weekend, only San Andreas rode high to finish things off with an estimated $53.2 million at the box office this past weekend, while little else made much headway. Not to say overall that there were no successful films. Pitch Perfect 2, in second, made only an estimated $14.4 million, but...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Tomorrowland Wins Memorial Day “Weak-End”
How did Disney and the star power of George Clooney do this weekend? The answer, a big resounding “meh.” Despite costing $190 million, the next Disney summer blockbuster led a very lackluster Memorial Day weekend, earning only an estimated $41.7 million. In comparison, Pitch Perfect 2 made an estimated $38.5 million for its second weekend, and has broken past the $100 million mark in revenue. Even...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Almost Perfect for Pitch Perfect 2
Critical acclaim is not always everything. This weekend, the highly acclaimed fell to second against the mildly acclaimed. Pitch Perfect 2 has received a warm reception and a whopping estimated $70.3 million in its opening weekend, beating out Mad Max: Fury Road, which had an incredible critical reception but only a mild estimated $44.4 million weekend – enough to get a head start on its $150 mill...[Read More]
Movie Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
I went into Mad Max: Fury Road excited as could be for two hours of the eye-popping, death-defying sci-fi road-rage lunacy the movie’s trailers had promised me. So why did I feel so unfulfilled when I got exactly that? I’d been on board with the striking imagery and overblown stunts of the movie’s marketing campaign from square one. But there are certain things movie trailers can’t really deliver,...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Unearthing the New Mad Max: Fury Road Trailer
We’re halfway through April dear readers, and that means the summer movie season is closer than ever. On this week’s Trailer Trashin’, I take another look at one of my most anticipated films of the year, George Miller’s action extravaganza Mad Max: Fury Road. Premise: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, loner “Mad” Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) meets Imperator Furiosa (Charlize ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Welcome Back to the Wasteland in Mad Max: Fury Road
After another longer-than-expected absence, I’m back, dear readers, and I’m hoping to get this column back on something approaching a regular schedule. More importantly, this week finally sees the release of Guardians of the Galaxy, which I hope to be watching by the time you’re reading these words. But it’s never too early to look ahead to what’s coming out next year, and ...[Read More]