Friday Box Office: ‘Purge’ is dramatically overperforming, ‘Internship’ #3?

#1- The Purge- 16.5M Friday, 33M weekend The Purge is dramatically overperforming, headed for 16.5 million today causing the prediction to leap to 33M for the weekend. It managed to do 3.4 million last night in midnight screenings, outperforming even … Continue reading Friday Box Office: ‘Purge’ is dramatically overperforming, ‘Internship’ #3?

Movie Review: Now You See Me

STARRING: Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Melanie Laurent, Michael Caine, Michael Kelly, Common WRITTEN BY: Ed Solomon and Boaz Yakin DIRECTED BY: Louis Leterrier From the Director of Clash Of The Titans is not really a good way to entice people into thinking your movie is intelligent. I really enjoyed the trailers to Now You See Me, and thought it might be a sleeper hit of the summer. Then, some reviews trickled in, and it seemed like a truly divisive movie. Love It Or Hate It. The film now sits at a lowsy … Continue reading Movie Review: Now You See Me

The Day Before: What The Critics Are Saying About ‘After Earth’ and ‘Now You See Me’

AFTER EARTH: 15% on Rotten Tomatoes (currently) “Some of “After Earth” is intriguing, if you ignore the premise and the story and the direction and much of Jaden Smith’s performance.”- Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic “After Earth may lack the neck-swiveling awfulness of Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, but it quickly sinks in its logorrheic solemnity.”- Richard Curtis, Time “[Shyamalan’s] grasp of film fundamentals is so tenuous that this hot-air balloon gets blown into the rarefied air of the worst movies ever made.”- Joe Williams, St Louis Post-Dispatch “Nobody on-screen has much fun with “After Earth.” And neither do we.”- Chris Hewitt, … Continue reading The Day Before: What The Critics Are Saying About ‘After Earth’ and ‘Now You See Me’