Pacific Rim and Grown Ups 2
Pacific Rim In the near future, giant monsters known as “Kaiju” have risen from a portal in a crevasse beneath the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a war that takes millions of lives and consumes humanity’s...
View ArticleTracking Movies: Hype in Hollywood
A couple of days ago, I was reading an article about Pacific Rim, a film we worked on that’s being released this weekend, only to learn that it had been tracking abysmally. Boxoffice.com projects a...
View ArticleThe Conjuring
Based on a true story, The Conjuring tells the tale of Roger and Carolyn Perron (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor) and their five daughters, who find that they’re not the only inhabitants in their newly...
View ArticleGoogle TV
It looks like Google is making moves towards TV. According to the Wall Street Journal, the search magnate has approached media companies with regards to licensing content for a service that would not...
View ArticleThe Wolverine
Summoned to Japan by a comrade from World War 2, Logan (aka Wolverine) is presented the opportunity to end his curse of near immortality. Born with a mutant healing factor that allows him to recover...
View Article2013 Box Office
After a slow start to 2013, it turns out that the sky isn’t falling for the box office. This summer has proven to be one of the biggest on record despite an unprecedented number of big budget flops...
View ArticleThe Smurfs 2
Set three-years after the first film, Gargamel (Hank Azria), last seen left in New York, has improbably become a celebrity sorcerer. Worse, he’s made two more ill-fated forays hoping to harness...
View ArticleWe’re the Millers
David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele consists of soccer moms and the like. But when he gets jumped by a group of punks, he’s out both product and cash leaving him in...
View ArticleThe Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
A seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she’s a descendant of a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors, known as Shadowhunters, locked in an ancient battle to protect...
View ArticleGetaway
In the Getaway, former race car driver Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) is pitted against the clock when his wife is kidnapped, and he’s forced to complete tasks set before him by her captor on the other end...
View ArticlePrisoners
When Keller Dover’s (Hugh Jackman) six-year-old daughter and her young friend are kidnapped on Thanksgiving, he decides to take matters into his own hands. After the sole suspect, Alex Jones (Paul...
View ArticleCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up right where its prequel left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood’s (voiced by Bill Hader) genius is finally being recognized as he’s invited by his childhood...
View ArticleGravity
Veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), on what is slated to be his last mission to space, and his colleague Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engineer on her first, are marooned...
View ArticleCaptain Phillips
It was just another day on the job for 53-year-old Richard Phillips, Captain of the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship carrying food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program among other things,...
View ArticleCarrie
A reimagining of Stephen King’s Carrie, Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a shy girl bullied relentlessly by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore). But when Carrie...
View ArticleThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
In the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy, the 12 dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), along with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), continue on...
View ArticleHer
Set in a future Los Angeles, Her is the story of Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a soft-spoken, bushy mustached writer who composes heartfelt notes-for-hire at a company called...
View ArticleRoboCop
Like our last featured film – RoboCop is set in the near future where drones manufactured by OmniCorp have become one of the dominant forms of policing worldwide but are barred by law from operating...
View Article3 Days to Kill
Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) is a spy – estranged from both his wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and daughter Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld) – who gets diagnosed with brain cancer early on in the movie. With...
View Article300: Rise of An Empire
300: Rise of An Empire takes place simultaneously as its box-office-smash predecessor, 300. As the Persian military draws closer to Greece, general turned politician Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton)...
View ArticleRio 2
Rio 2 finds our hero Blue (Jesse Eisenberg) living happily in Rio de Janeiro with his wife, Jewel (Anne Hathaway), and their three young chicks. But when an entire flock of their species, the...
View ArticleTranscendence
Researcher Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is one of the world’s most visible proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) along with close friend Max (Paul Bettany). When a group of Luddite, anti-technology...
View ArticleThe Other Woman
After discovering the man she’s been falling in love with, Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), is married, Carly (Cameron Diaz) tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets the...
View ArticleThe Amazing Spider-Man 2
In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), now graduating from high school, has a handle on his double-life, though his love Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), who knows Peter’s secret, is...
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