Your Highness
Weekend Box-Office: Rio Soars and Silences Scream 4
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]
Weekend Box-Office: Hop Still On Top!
The Easter season is still a good time to be a bunny … the family romp Hop remained at #1 for the second week in a row, making $21.7 million and making a profit domestically. But the top ten has been a mixed bag all around, with half of the titles being winners in the eyes of the critics and half losers. Hop, despite its numbers, hasn’t wowed critics, and neither did the 2nd place finisher, Arthur...[Read More]
Movie Review: Your Highness
What do you get when you mingle the sophomoric, self-deprecating, and sometimes tasteless humor of Danny McBride with a 1980s sword & sorcery epic? Well, you sort of get an action adventure film, Your Highness, with a lot of R-rated material that is never quite as funny as it could or should be, while being more action-packed and epic than it has any right to be. Prince Fabious (James Franco) ...[Read More]