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opening weekend Archive
Opening Weekend: Scream 4, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Rio, and Daydream Nation
Posted on April 15, 2011 | No CommentsScream 4 – What can I say, I’m a geek when it comes to the Scream series. I remember stumbling upon the first film back in high school and then...
Opening Weekend: Insidious, Hobo With a Shotgun, Hop, and Source Code
Posted on April 1, 2011 | No CommentsInsidious – Written by Leigh Whannell and directed by James Wan (the duo behind the original Saw film), and produced by the people responsible forParanormal Activity, Insidious is a very unsettling...
Opening Weekend: I Saw the Devil, The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, Amazon Falls, and Cosmonaut
Posted on March 19, 2011 | No CommentsI Saw the Devil – Holy crap! Those were the exact words I said after viewing Jee-woon Kim’s intense Korean thriller I Saw the Devil. After his pregnant wife is...
Opening Weekend: Sweet Karma, Red Riding Hood, Mars Needs Moms, and Battle: Los Angeles
Posted on March 12, 2011 | No CommentsSweet Karma – Playboy Playmate (and Canadian gal) Shera Bechard puts on some clothes and kicks some ass as Karma; a mute Russian woman who comes to Toronto to hunt...
Opening Weekend: The Adjustment Bureau, Curling, Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Funkytown, Rango, and Beastly
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Adjustment Bureau – What if your destiny was determined by a secret committee that followed you around making sure you stayed on track? That’s the premise of The Adjustment...
Opening Weekend: Drive Angry, Hall Pass, and Of Gods and Men
Posted on February 25, 2011 | No CommentsDrive Angry – I’m a sucker for big, action-packed B-movies, and Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry is one of the most over the top, hilarious, wickedly crazy flicks to come along...
Opening Weekend: I Am Number Four, Small Town Murder Songs, Unknown, A Wake, and Lemmy
Posted on February 18, 2011 | No CommentsI Am Number Four – It would be easy to take a number two all over I Am Number Four. The writing is horrendous and most of the acting is...
Opening Weekend: Biutiful, MODRA, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Cedar Rapids, Just Go With It, The Eagle, and Gnomeo & Juliet
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 1 CommentBiutiful – Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Amores perros), on the surface Biutiful is a typical long and depressing festival film. But if you spend time with it you’ll...
Opening Weekend: The Mechanic, Dogtooth, Casino Jack, and The Rite
Posted on January 29, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Mechanic – Is Jason Statham the Charles Bronson of this generation? After seeing The Mechanic, a remake of the 1972 Bronson film about a hitman who takes out his...
Opening Weekend: The Way Back, No Strings Attached, The Company Men, The Illusionist, Attenberg, and Incendies
Posted on January 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Way Back – Directed by Peter Weir, and based on Slavomir Rawicz’s memoir The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, The Way Back is an...
Opening Weekend: The Green Hornet, Another Year, and The Dilemma
Posted on January 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe Green Hornet (2011) - I was never a fan of The Green Hornet TV series from the ’60s and had absolutely no excitement for this big screen adaptation. I...
Opening Weekend: Blue Valentine, Somewhere, Season of the Witch, and Country Strong
Posted on January 7, 2011 | No CommentsBlue Valentine – In retrospect, Blue Valentine should have been on my Top 10 Films of 2010 list since I saw it last year, and like Rabbit Hole (which was...
Opening Weekend: True Grit, Barney’s Version, Little Fockers, and Gulliver’s Travels
Posted on December 24, 2010 | No CommentsTrue Grit – I was really excited to see what the Coen Bros. would do with a remake of the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit (itself based on the...
Opening Weekend: TRON: Legacy, The Fighter, Rabbit Hole, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Posted on December 17, 2010 | No CommentsTRON: Legacy – Hey naysayers, what did you really want from a sequel to TRON (1982)? Forget story, TRON: Legacy is a 3-D special effects extravaganza that is breathtaking, sexy,...
Opening Weekend: The King’s Speech, The Tourist, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Posted on December 10, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe King’s Speech – Chronicling the struggle and subsequent treatment that Queen Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, had with a speech impediment during his life before taking the throne, The...