I have to say that I’m entirely confused. Was the Summer 2008 popcorn summer movie season a good one or wasn’t it? The batpod-tastic success of The Dark Knight certainly seems as though we can mark this one in the “win” column, but on reflection I realize that I saw about a third fewer movies [...]

Once again, I’ve been startled out of my self-induced blogging malaise by something wonderful, shocking and/or disturbing.
Last week, Ray at the simply delightful blog The Rec posted a very clever contest in which he’s soliciting your picks for this summer’s movie box office champions via NCAA-like tournament brackets. What a frigging great idea! Here [...]

RopeofSilicon.com has done a very nice job of putting the summer-release movies into one ginormous preview with links to trailers, stills, cast info and more. With a resource like this, you shouldn’t have to do any of your own thinking when it comes to making movie choices for the next four months.
Personally? Out of the [...]

After Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings hat trick, you’d think that anything the man touched next would automatically flip the switch on both the money- and Oscar-making machines. So why am I feeling so completely indifferent to seeing the big ape? And despite the current 83% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, I know I’m not [...]