The Croods: A New Age, Run and More in This Week's MPAA Ratings Bulletin
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/09/20 at 07:10 PM CT
Labor Day has come and gone and we can look forward to fall (or winter, if you've gone from high topping 100 to the forties in one day) - but what can we look forward to in movies? Well, if theaters manage to remain open in the coming months, the sequel to The Croods is on the horizon and, sticking to my guns in covering streaming titles of note, the thriller Run (a victim of these Covid times) …
New on DVD and Blu-ray Week of September 8 - September 14
Harley Lond - wrote on 09/07/20 at 11:40 PM CT
THIS WEEK'S BEST BETS
In "Graveyards of Honor" (1975/2002 -- Japanese) Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema - Kinji Fukasaku ("Battles without Honor and Humanity," "Battle Royale") and Takashi Miike ("Dead or Alive," "Audition") - present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita's gangster novel "Graveyard of Honor," each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period …
Labor Day Weekend Box Office: Tenet Breathes Life Into Theaters
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/07/20 at 08:05 PM CT
Christopher Nolan's long awaited Tenet opened in the U.S. to 65% of theaters (with New York and California still mostly off the table) and, while maybe not quite the smash hit it could have been, brought in enough to buoy a still-unstable industry. It also opened in China to somewhat muted numbers, being topped by The Eight Hundred (in its third weekend) that still looks like it will be the …
New in Theaters Sept. 04: Tenet
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/03/20 at 06:35 PM CT
Here we are: two weeks of tentative testing of the newly-reopened box office has seen decidedly mixed results. Unhinged and X-Men: New Mutants haven't exactly been monster hits, but have performed adequately given the circumstances. But adequate isn't going to be enough for Christopher Nolan's Tenet - no - this is the film that will determine if people are willing to go back to theaters, or if …
Judas And The Black Messiah and More in This Week's MPAA Ratings Bulletin
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/02/20 at 12:12 PM CT
Another somewhat underwhelming week on the ratings front, which, honestly, I'm expecting for awhile as things are still uncertain on the future of theatrical releases. Streaming is still and option as well, so I'll be keeping my eyes out for any titles of note. Thus I bring you the only film of note this week, Judas And The Black Messiah, which doesn't even come out until next year, but looks to …
New on DVD and Blu-ray Week of September 1 - September 7
Harley Lond - wrote on 08/31/20 at 06:35 PM CT
BUZZIN' THE 'B'S:
Written and directed by Jon Stewart, "Irresistible" (2020), starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Chris Cooper, Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace and Natasha Lyonne, is a comedy about what happens when a small Wisconsin town becomes the main attraction of our political circus. After the Democrat’s top strategist Gary (Carell) sees a video of a retired Marine Colonel (Cooper) …
Weekend Box Office: New Mutants Lands with a Yawn, Tenet Has Promising International Debut
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/30/20 at 08:23 PM CT
As the summer closes out and theaters begin to reopen, the long-delayed X-Men spinoff New Mutants finally opened after a series of delays. I'm sure Disney would have been more than happy to shift this to streaming, but with the merger it sound like that just wan't an option. What it means is that New Mutants, which didn't screen for many critics, didn't please those who showed up in theaters and …
New in Theaters August 28: The New Mutants
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/27/20 at 08:52 PM CT
The Long and Winding Road is one of the greatest songs ever written - and while I'm sure The Beatles didn't have The New Mutants in mind when creating the masterpiece, no other description best describes the path this film took to finally get into theaters. Made all the way back in 2017, New Mutants has suffered a series of delays (though, not emphatically for reshoots as director Josh Boone has …
Not Much in This Week's MPAA Ratings Bulletin
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/26/20 at 10:29 AM CT
The roller coast ride that is the MPAA Ratings Board has hit the down slope and we're now at the low point. How low you ask? Whereas most weeks I can stretch and parlay a streaming title or limited release into something to discuss this week offers absolutely nothing for me to work with. In fact, there is only a single film on the list that even has a release date at this point, thus most of …
New on DVD and Blu-ray Week of August 25 - August 31
Harley Lond - wrote on 08/24/20 at 11:40 PM CT
THIS WEEK'S BEST BETS:
In 1934, Jean Renoir stepped off the soundstage and headed to the South of France, where he captured vivid human drama amid the bucolic splendor and everyday social rituals of the countryside. Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, "Toni" (1934 -- France) follows the eponymous Italian …
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