Eagle Eye topped the box office last weekend with an estimated gross of $29.2M. The romance Nights in Rodanthe was in second place with an estimated $13.6M. Last week’s top film Lakeview Terrace dropped to third place with an estimated gross of only $7M. As for the week’s other new releases, Spike Lee‘s WWII drama […]
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Paul Newman was considered on the great actors, but I have only seen a handful of his films, all of them from the last 20 years of his life. In fact, I think the only film I saw theatrically with him in it was Road to Perdition in 2002. Still you can’t ignore all the
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This week we are going to look at the trailer for the latest film by Guy Ritchie. RocknRolla Guy Ritchie was in a bit of a rut after the double success of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch. I didn’t mind the cerebral film Revolver, which I saw at the Toronto Film Festival
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It seems that Samuel L. Jackson can still draw at the box office as Lakeview Terrace opened at number one with an estimated gross of $15.6M. Burn After Reading dropped to second with an estimated gross of $11.3 million. Even though it was the best reviewed film of the weekend, the Ricky Gervais comedy Ghost
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This week will be looking at the trailer for the latest video game adaption. Max Payne I’m a fan of the original Max Payne video game, so the prospect of a movie intrigues me. However, there are also a few iffy things with the film. First of all, it is a little hard for me
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The Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading topped the weekend box office with an estimated gross of $19.4M. I missed the film due to the film festival, but I expect to see it sometime within the week. Tyler Perry‘s The Family That Preys opened in second with an estimated $18M. The Robert DeNiro/Al Pacino team-up Righteous
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Tropic Thunder has topped the box office for the third week in a role with an estimated gross of $11.5M. Babylon A.D. came in second place with an estimated gross of $9.7M. With the other new releases, Traitor opened in fifth with $7.9M and Disaster Movie was in seventh with $6.2M. The Dark Knight finally
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With the Toronto International Film Festival starting next week, I thought I would take a look at the trailer to one of the films I most want to see at the festival. The Brothers Bloom In this follow-up to Brick, writer/director Rian Johnson moves from a high school noir to a heist comedy. This film
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The box office estimates for the weekend are too close to call with Tropic Thunder ($16.1M) edging out The House Bunny ($15.1M) to top the box office for the second week in a row. As for the other new releases, Death Race opened in third with $12.3M, The Longshots opened in eighth place with $4.3M,
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This week we will be looking at the trailer for Jim Carrey‘s latest comedy. Yes Man I was only 12 when Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came out 14 years ago, so I pretty much grown up being a fan of his. I enjoyed Carrey’s more serious roles, such as The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine
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