A problem from (cinematic) heaven: There are just too many high quality adult movies in the marketplace!

As most of you know, the ambitious and expensive Cloud Atlas  will be opening this weekend with around $10 million for the weekend.  Even wi...

Catch 22: The ironic failure of Alex Cross.

As I wrote two summers ago, there was a great irony in the idea of Super 8  being sold as the great summer original in a sea of mediocre seq...

Weekend Box Office (09-30-12): Hotel Transylvania scores record September debut while Looper opens strong and Pitch Perfect explodes in semi-limited debut.

As always, for historical trivia and additional context on the week's new release, John Gosling spells it out HERE . While the whole ...

John Gosling previews the weekend's new films (09-28-12)

Looper  is a new science-fiction feature from  Brick  director, Rian Johnson and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. L...

Review: Looper (2012) is thoughtful and intelligent sci-fi.

Looper 2012 119 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson Rian Johnson's Looper  is less an out-and-out original work as a hodgepodge made up f...

Why did no studio move their upcoming action films to September 7th after The Gangster Squad split?

Yes yes, last weekend's box office was the worst since after the 9/11 attacks.  Normally cumulative weekend box office doesn't mean ...

Good movie news in 2012: The return of the "movie".

I've written a bit about this over the last couple years, but this weekend is surely as shining an example as anything about how the mai...