Monthly Archives: January 2014

Disney’s biggest animated hit of this past year — passing Disney Pixar’s “Monsters University” — is “Frozen,” which will have hit the $300 million mark by Sunday if Friday’s numbers predict the whole weekend. Maybe $22-24 million, according to Deadline. … Continue reading →

It’s not a terrible movie, better than some installments in the franchise. And since the last film in the series did over $100 million, Paramount has high hopes for a movie it’s dumping on the first weekend of January. Maybe … Continue reading →

With “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones”, this found footage franchise abandons the lull you to sleep creepiness of found surveillance footage for full on shaky cam and an altogether more conventional horror movie plot. But as exhausted as this series … Continue reading →

Blockbusters by the score dominated the box office of 2013, sequels — “Iron Man,” “Star Trek,” “Despicable Me” and “Monsters University” and “Hunger Games” sequels dominated. “Grownups 2,” an Wizard of Oz prequel, “Fast & Furious 6” or whatever it … Continue reading →

Disney’s animated musical “Frozen,” with virtually no competition for the family film holiday dollar (“Walking with Dinosaurs” bombed), has moved back ahead of “The Desolation of Smaug” and seems destined to finish just shy of $300 million when all the … Continue reading →

There’s a sound Japanese men make that Westerners typically only experience in the movies, a guttural, testosterone-charged bellow meant to chastise, intimidate and terrorize. It’s the pitch the camp guard uses on Allied prisoners of war, the one we hear … Continue reading →