Featured Film Reviews

Blu Ray / DVD New Releases

Newly out on Blu Ray / DVD: The Cabin in the Woods: 5 friends go to a remote cabin for a little getaway, when everything goes awful.  If you think you’ve seen this story a thousand times before, this time you’d be way off.  Avengers’ Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard come together to give you something new. All 4 of …

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Weekend Box Office Sep 14-16

Milla Jovovich has saved the world AND the box office, all in one fail swoop.  Thanks to her flagship franchise, Resident Evil: Retribution opened to an estimated $21 million and a CinemaScore rating of C+, which is about average for the series.  That’s a little lower than the last couple films in the franchise, but it’s still a solid start and apparently …

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Box Office Weekend Sep 7-9

The worst weekend at the box office since 2008.  WOW.  That just sucks.  Honestly, where we normally go into this film and that film, not this weekend.  Obviously you didn’t care, so why should we, ha.  Suffice it to say, The Words opened awfully with only $5m and The Cold Light of Day opened in 12th with $1.8m.  The best …

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Ep 58 Trailers

Here are the trailers from the next Ep of The Hollywood Outsider: Hansel and Gretel The Company You Keep

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Weekend Box Office Aug 31 – Sep 2

Labor Day Weekend is typically one of the slowest at the Box Office, but one film managed to buck the trend as The Possession took the #1 spot with $17.7 million according to studio estimates.  The low-budget horror flick starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as divorced parents of 2 young girls and 1 happens to get possessed by, …

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New Releases: Labor Day Weekend

New Releases, as discussed in Ep 56: Lawless – Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy star as bootleggers in Prohibition-era Virginia, trying to get rich and stay alive.  Currently at 65% positive ratings.  Scott’s choice for Pick of the Weekend The Possession – ‘BASED on a true story’ Jefferey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick are parents who’s little daughter becomes obsessed with …

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DVD Releases Aug 28

New Releases on Blu Ray / DVD Tuesday Aug 28th: Movies: Think Like A Man; Battleship; The Lucky One; Pirates; Headhunters; Life Happens; The Moth Diaries; Starship Troopers: Invasion TV: Boardwalk Empire S2; Homeland S1;  In Plain Sight S5; Jersey Shore S5 (REALLY?); Once Upon A Time S1; Sons of Anarchy S4; Walking Dead S2   Here are 2 reviews from …

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Weekend Box Office Aug 24-26

Stallone’s old-men-0n-a-mission opus ‘The Expendables 2’ repeated #1 at the North American Box Office this weekend with $13.4 million, according to final numbers.  That puts the film at $52.2m to date…about $12m behind the total of the 1st Expendables, but the 2nd weekend hold was roughly the same.  Look for Expendables 2 to end up about $80m, or about 20% …

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New Releases – Weekend Aug 24-26

Want to know what the new releases are this weekend?  Well here you go: Premium Rush: Joseph Gordon-Levitt darts around town as a bike messenger trying to get a package delivered and also the hell away from villain Michael Shannon.  Currently at 70% positive reviews.  Very impressive for this kind of thriller. The Apparition: Ashley Green & Sebastian Stan star …

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RIP Tony Scott

We normally use Facebook and Twitter for any news items and keep the website strictly for the Podcast, but Tony Scott is a director that receives very little credit for his works.  Scott is the lesser known of the Scott brothers, Ridley is the big fish, but Scott has had a strong career of his own.  Top Gun, Beverly Hills …

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Weekend Box Office Aug 17-19

The Expendables 2 opened to $28.5m  this weekend, according to final numbers.  While that’s a good opening, it’s weaker than the original film…most attribute that to the novelty wore out as well as a very crowded slate of flicks.  That said, the Cinemascore’s for the sequel are much higher than they were for the original, and word-of-mouth as well as critics …

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Weekend Box Office Aug 10-12

Jeremy Renner’s assuming the lead in The Bourne Legacy from franchise stablemate Matt Damon, seems to have started off strong…with an estimated $38.1 million   opening this weekend.  Industry experts predicted a much higher opening, but this film is a reboot and a spin-off, it has more in common with Casino Royale than it does a Bourne sequel.  We’ll have our review …

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Weekend Box Office – Aug 3-5

The Dark Knight Rises held the #1 slot for the 3rd week in a row.  Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his epic Dark Knight trilogy is holding strong and will have no problem breezing past $400 million domestic, and has already cleared $730 million worldwide.  The film has done well enough that you can rest assured someone, somewhere, is writing a new …

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The Threatening of the Theater Experience

A terrible tragedy happened in Aurora, CO during the midnight showing of the remaining film in the Dark Knight trilogy – The Dark Knight Rises.  A masked gunman interrupted the showing and riddled the audience with gunfire – killing some and maiming many.  Our thoughts and hearts go out to those that are affected by this incident.  We will not …

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