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Daily Archives: May 6, 2023
Movie Review: Remembering the Cellular Addiction’s Gateway Drug — “Blackberry”
My first experience of the phenomenon instantly-labeled “Crackberry” was near its Canadian source, at the Toronto Film Festival shortly after the turn of the Millenium. You couldn’t watch a movie there without scanning a sea of little green screens all … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: Tamping Down “Guardians” Expectations — a “Quantumania” opening, good not great
I’ve been reading Deadline.com’s reporting all week that has been shocked SHOCKED at steadily dropping expectations for the HUGE opening weekend for “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3.” The summer’s debut blockbuster was sporting $135-150 million prognostications. Early. And then … Continue reading
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