Weekend Box Office (12-09-12): Playing For Keeps bombs as the moviegoing world awaits the Christmas rush.

The decision by Warner Bros. to move The Gangster Squad ( trailer )  to January, 2013 and Universal's choice to move Les Miserables from...

Playing For Keeps versus... well everything that's already out in John Gosling's weekend movie preview (12-07-12).

The first weekend in December is generally noted as being one of the quietest of the entire cinema-going year. Studios are loathe to see a m...

Review: Hitchcock (2012) thinks you can't handle the truth.

Hitchcock 2012 95 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson It is telling that the opening frames of Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock  don't e...

Hitchcock (IE - The Making of Psycho) gets a trailer.

Well this looks like good fun, even if it tries to sell the making of a popcorn entertainment as an epic "Us vs. the World!" under...

Review: The Tall Man (2012) subverts genre expectations.

The Tall Man 2012 105 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson At its best, writer/director Pascal Laugier's The Tall Man is an examination o...

John Gosling previews the week's new releases (08/03/12).

Staring this week, Mendelson's Memos is proud and pleased to be presenting weekly new release previews from John Gosling.  Mr. Gosling ...

Total Recall trailer reminds you that you already saw this damn movie 22 years ago, and it was just fine, thank you!

Yes this trailer looks every bit as bland and generic as the teaser from early April.  And yes the lack of creative imagination that would c...

First look at Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock.

I wrote a piece last month detailing ten films I was eagerly anticipating post- Dark Knight Rises .  Had I waited just a few weeks, I damn-...

Total Recall remake gets a trailer not worth remembering, wholesale or otherwise.

I've seen this movie.  Several times in fact, and it has aged surprisingly well considering the reliance on 22-year old special effects ...