The Hollywood Outsider

Here are the trailers we’re going to be talking about on this week’s episode of The Hollywood Outsider.  One is Johnny Depp as Tonto in The Lone Ranger, one is the latest, more coherent trailer for Stallone’s new Bullet to the Head, and the other has Bridesmaid’s Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman…and just see for yourself: The Lone Ranger Identity Thief   Bullet …

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Looks like Adam Sandler found a way to get back on top of the box office.  After back-to-back under performing (and just awful) flicks Jack & Jill and That’s My Boy, he decided he was better heard and not seen and BAM! Nailed a #1 opening with animated kid pic Hotel Transylvania. The ‘Dracula runs a spa for other monsters’ flick did …

Time for new releases.  This week, there’s 3 wide releases – 1 for Sci-fi fans, 1 for kids and 1 for people that need a little F the System! in their weekend. You can hear more about them here on last week’s Ep 60:  Looper – Joseph Gordon-Levitt tries to parlay his Dark Knight Rises mojo into an action hit of …

Another great episode of The HO as we look at upcoming releases Taken 2, Frankenweenie and Pitch Perfect; reviews of House at the End of the Street and Dredd 3D; new trailers Promised Land and Stand Up Guys; and our From the Outside In topic this week: What can Hollywood do to start scaring us again? As always, we also …

Here’s a look at the trailers we’re talking about on this week’s show.  This week it’s 2 dramas that caught our eye – one about Matt Damon working for a shady corporation trying to take over all the land in an area, and the other about old bitches living their youth one last time. Promised Land Stand Up Guys

In case you haven’t seen any advertising, The Avengers hits Blu Ray / DVD Sep 25.  If you are one of the 3 people on the planet who haven’t seen it, watch our review…then buy it.  

You know it’s an interesting weekend at the box office when estimates are in and #1 could’ve really be one of 3 different movies – House at the End of the Street and End of Watch are BOTH claimed a $13 million weekend, while Trouble with the Curve is claimed $12.7m.  Well final numbers are  in and End of Watch won …

This weekend’s new releases: Dredd 3D – Karl Urban takes the helmet from Stallone as a futuristic lawman who takes the law into his own hands. We all thought it looked goofy, but reviews have been great and are currently at 79% positive. End of Watch – Cops on a beat filmed documentary style get into tiffs with gang members. …

It’s Ep 60 and this show is packed! Reviews of Resident Evil: Retribution, Finding Nemo 3D and The Tall Man.  Also, talking about the upcoming releases Looper, Won’t Back Down and Hotel Transylvania as well as trailers for Lincoln and Texas Chainsaw 3D. Our From the Outsider In topic this week: a listener suggested topic on seasonal or annual films …