Review: Cabin in the Woods (2012) is about as wonderful as you've heard.

Cabin in the Woods 2012 90 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson The problem with discussing a film like writer/director Drew Goddard and write...

Trailer: Looper looks like an old-school 'movie' in the best sense of the word.

Well, this looks like pure unadulterated genre fun.  Yes it looks not all-that different from any number of action thrillers, but I'm th...

Retrospective: The Avengers (no... the *other* Avengers).

No, I wasn't invited to see Marvel's The Avengers for last night's premiere, and I wasn't able to snag tickets to this Satu...

Why those 'dumb kids who thought Titanic wasn't real' stories don't mean a damn thing other than serve as an example of our own generational snobbery.

"Oh no!", shouts America.  There are kids on Facebook and/or Twitter who didn't realize that James Cameron's Titanic was...

Review: Lockout (2012) delivers distinctly 1990s-style B-movie action goods.

Lockout 2012 95 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson The funniest moment in Lockout , especially in hindsight, is a credit that appears wh...

New-ish 'column' at Mendelson's Memos: Box Office Speculation

I stopped doing overt box office guesstimates and speculation a few years back, after I realized A) I was caring more about if I was right t...

Box Office Speculation: With few real competitors, why The Hunger Games will likely end 2012 as its second highest-grossing film.

I made an offhand comment in yesterday's box office write-off stating that The Hunger Games was all-but certain to end the year as amon...