“Fast & Furious 6” (or just “Furious 6,” if you go by the title card) is Justin Lin’s fourth film in this cash-machine of a franchise, and by any objective measure, the director has perfected the form. As the series has expanded its focus from street racing to action-heists with street racing involved, Lin has …
“Big” and “loud” are two adjectives that have become synonymous with Michael Bay productions over the years, but usually they refer to cars, shootouts, and alien robots, not actual human characters, as in “Pain & Gain,” the filmmaker’s lowest budgeted film by several fold since his 1995 debut “Bad Boys.” Despite the smaller pool of …
Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office results. I’m in Hollywood covering the TCM Classic Film Festival, so I’m short on number-crunching time, but I figure I’ll quickly throw together some analysis and figures in hope of sustaining my accuracy from last week …
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” has nary a single moment in its 110 minute runtime that doesn’t qualify as idiotic in some capacity. It’s yet another mega-budget film that serves as an assault on logic and realism, with each scene seemingly trying to top the previous one in terms of how ridiculous it can get. This process …
Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office results. After a slow start, it looks like we’re finally in a financially successful part of the year for Hollywood, with the recent big openings of “Oz the Great and Powerful,” “The Croods,” and the surprise …
Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office results. Most moviegoers’ eyes will be on the Oscars this weekend, so there isn’t much happening in the way of new wide releases; just two films open and both would be very lucky to come near …
The continued adventures of G.I. Joe, despite what a plethora of ads have been telling you, won’t be coming to screens this summer. In a shocking move, Paramount has pushed back G.I. Joe: Retaliation‘s release date by a whopping nine months. Originally due on June 29, the film will now be storming theaters March 29, …
The new trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation is heavy on ninjas, explosions, gadgets, and The Rock. Will it be the number one toy movie this summer, or will that honor fall to Battleship? Either way, action junkies and rowdy children should be pleased. The film opens June 29.
