After two weeks on top, Hop finds itself lagging behind another family friendly CG film, and one decidedly much less friendly. Rio, the story of a macaw from Minnesota who finds himself in hot water when he visits Rio de Janeiro, made it to the top spot with $40 million. Not doing so well? The #2 spot, the debut of Scream 4 (or Scre4m, depending on your tolerance for numbers in titles), which didn...[Read More]
This weekend marks a hardly known Federal holiday that commemorates the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. As a lover of history and of this particular President, I was anticipating the telling of a little known story that took place after the assassination of the President. The Conspirator is both an historic telling of Mary Surratt, the owner of ...[Read More]