Shocking audience members as well as every Box Office analyst yuppie across America was The Purge, which stole #1 with a whopping $36 million, according to studio estimates, this past weekend, doubling even the boldest predictions. People apparently love the idea of getting to torture for 12 hours straight. Maybe we’ll see a new Amendment soon. Slowing …
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Weekend Box Office – Earth Disappears
Well, Fast & Furious 6 continued to zip past everyone else, even as it dropped 64% to $34.5 million for $170m total so far. By next week, Diesel and his crew should easily pass the $215m of Fast Five for the biggest film yet in the long running franchise. Worldwide, it’s already past $400m …
Read More »Weekend Box Office – Darkness Wins
Star Trek Into Darkness took #1 at the weekend box office, as expected. Unfortunately, its estimated $70 million opening was smaller than the previous film’s $79m opening in 2009. As the film officially opened on Thursday, some of that number was offset and in total, Trek 2 took in $84m since its Thursday …
Read More »Iron Man 3 – A HO Film Review
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle Directed by Shane Black Iron Man 3 begins shortly after the events of The Avengers, with Stark holing himself up in his workshop all the while attempting to hold off his increasing insomnia. This incessant insomnia is causing him to slip …
Read More »Episode 89 – The HO’s Beyond the Pines
We're reviewing 42 and A Place Beyond the Pines; discussing upcoming releases Pain and Gain, Mud, and a listener asks us what crimes we would commit for the Purge and we discuss Bad Movies We Love.
Read More »42 | Film Review
Every year, in Major League Baseball, all players unite for one day to wear the number 42 on their uniforms. 42 is also the only number retired by all of baseball. But do you know why? Don’t feel bad, many of this generation do not know the story of one of the most important men not only in baseball, but …
Read More »Episode 87 Trailers
Episode 87 is right around the corner, and here are the trailers we’re talking about, 2 Guns & Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, for our all new Episode of the HO! To hear this past week’s show, you can listen HERE! 2 Guns Percy Jackson & the Sea of Monsters
Read More »Grown Ups 2 Trailer
Remember that Adam Sandler classic ‘Grown Ups’? Well now you get a sequel. Here it is, cinemaniacs – Grown Ups…2!
Read More »An Interview with ‘Camp’ writer / director Jacob Roebuck
On this Special Edition of The Hollywood Outsider, Aaron sits down with Camp writer / director Jacob Roebuck and talk about his new film ‘Camp’, the true stories that influenced the film, the camps that inspired the film, as well as the trials of an independent filmmaker to get his film made. Camp is a story about Ken, a …
Read More »Episode 84 – The HO’s Behind the Curtain
Upcoming releases Olympus Has Fallen, Admission and The Croods; review of Oz the Great and Powerful; trailers for Kick-Ass 2, The Hangover 3 & Much Ado About Nothing; and Our From the Outside In topic this week: a listener suggested topic on if classic films would benefit or suffer from modern special effects. As always, we also bring you the …
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