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Box Office Report: ‘Zootopia’ rules the box office again in Week 3, ‘Allegiant’ flounders
ZootopiaThree new releases, but (as expected) not one of them was able to unseat Zootopia as the box office champ. One of them, in fact, was a massive for-the-ages flop. Zootopia came in at #1 for the third week in a row, passing $200 million in the process. This is ... -
What’s New: Weekend of March 18
Three very diverse new films open on this third weekend of March, though I don’t expect any of them to be able to take down Zootopia. The “biggest” film opening this weekend is The Divergent Series: Allegiant, the third film in the YA franchise based on Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy. ... -
What’s New: Weekend of February 26
It’s Oscar weekend! New Year’s Eve for cinephiles. And, between brushing up on Oscars trivia and filling out predictions ballots and spending hours in the kitchen making Academy Awards-themed snacks for the viewing party you’re hosting, there’s very little time remaining to go to the movies this week. But if ... -
The 5th Wave
When it comes to film franchises based on young-adult fiction, we have seen the supernatural trend (Harry Potter, Twilight) of the aughts gradually give way to the dystopian craze sweeping theatres today. The Hunger Games is obviously the genre standard-bearer with its enormous box office returns and great reviews (and ... -
Box Office Report: ‘Maze Runner’ wins the weekend, but ‘Everest’ huge in IMAX-only release
The fall movie season finally swung into action this weekend with three new releases reaching the Top 10. Two limited releases stunned with huge results, while one little-marketed wide release predictably flopped. Dystopian YA sequel Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials took the #1 spot this weekend, opening only $2 million ... -
Capsule Reviews: March 2015 Wide Releases
Chappie Inferior mash-up of RoboCop and A.I. set in a dystopian Johannesburg where robots act as the police force. When a programmer illegally reprograms one of them to be sentient, the robot is "raised" by a couple of wannabe-gangsters (Ninja and Yolandi Visser from the South African band Die Antwoord, ... -
Capsule Reviews: Winter 2014 releases
Bad Words Not funny enough to redeem its detestable lead character nor to justify its preposterous premise, coming across instead as just plain offensive. But I did love the adorable little boy. Grade: D+ Divergent Does a fairly interesting job of world-building... but script is so predictable and supporting characters ...
