Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday Night Drive-in: DVD Review of Drive Angry
by Locke Peterseim | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, MoviesDVD Review: Last winter before a late-night screening of Drive Angry, a fellow critic and I may or may not have had a handful of berry Mojitos we found on special at the theater bar. The next 90 minutes were… unsettling. There follows here a reprint of my best attempt at bearing witness to what I saw. [...]
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What’s New at Redbox This Week?
by Erika Olson | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: Movies, Redbox InsiderOoohhhh, yeah! We’ve got double the Cage Hair for you this week, folks! What more could you ask for in this life? Here’s the rundown of six movies hitting redbox kiosks today: Drive Angry All you really need to know is that Cage plays an undead dude who busts outta Hell to avenge his murdered [...]
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The Freeze Frame Answers (and The X-Men: First Class trailer), Starring Kevin Bacon
by Erika Olson | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, TrailersI can’t blame the majority of you for wanting to enjoy your Memorial Day weekend and not put the ol’ noggin’ to work. But by the same token I must give extra-big props to the movie fans who did take a time-out from the BBQ and/or pool to rise to the task of identifying these [...]
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Movie Trivia: Your Tuesday Threes
by Locke Peterseim | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, ThreesDespite what your internal post-holiday weekend clock might be telling you, it is Tuesday, not Monday. And that means Threes! Here’s how it goes: I give you three films, you tell me what single actor was in all three of them. Enter your guess in the comments section directly below this post, and if you are the first with the [...]
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DVD Review: The Dilemma
by Erika Olson | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, MoviesDVD Review of The Dilemma: There’s a little bit of everything in Ron Howard’s latest — slapstick gags, bromantic interludes, un-PC humor, unflinchingly raw drama, and even a Blackhawks game in the middle of the summer. If you simply want to laugh, sit this one out. But if you’re OK with a wildly veering story [...]
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Movie Trailer: Crazy Stupid Love, Starring Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling
by Erika Olson | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: TrailersLet’s talk about Ryan Gosling for a moment, shall we? He’s one of those actors who flew under my radar for the past decade, even though his “breakout role” was supposedly in 2000′s Remember the Titans. I saw that film and don’t remember his part — I had to look up film images and still [...]
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The Hobbit Films Get Titles and Release Dates! (Plus “Legolas” Bloom is Back)
by Locke Peterseim | May 31st, 2011 | Filed under: Movies, NewsNo big surprises in the news out of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth (aka New Zealand), but it’s geeky cool all the same: The two films that make up his long-awaited adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (which cameras are finally rolling on after years of legal, financial, personnel, and even union labor issues) will be titled [...]
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The Hangover II Party Dominates the Holiday Box Office
by Locke Peterseim | May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Box Office News, News1) The Hangover Part II — $86 / $105.7 / $137.4 million over 3-, 4-, and 5-day weekend Blowing past all Industry expectations and predictions, since its release Thursday, the dark-comedy sequel has hauled in almost $200 million worldwide on a $80 million budget. That makes it the second-highest opening for an R-rated film after 2003′s The Matrix [...]
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Movies That Get Me in the Mood for Summer
by Erika Olson | May 30th, 2011 | Filed under: In My Humble Opinion, Movie ListsAlthough Fast Five, Thor, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides kicked the summer movie season off a bit early this year, I still consider today to be the official start of summer itself. Maybe that’s because it’s the first hot, sunny day (without any 40-degree nights looming in the forecast) we’ve had here [...]
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Locke’s “What Tha…?!” Movies of the Week
by Locke Peterseim | May 29th, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, Movie Lists, MoviesOccasionally I dive into some of the odder titles in the recent redbox release catalog–those movies that just looking at their cover art or brief descriptions leaves you wondering, “What tha… heck is this?!” Well, here’s what they are. At least as far as I can tell: – Visioneers One of the things that makes Zach [...]
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