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YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): The Equalizer 2 Mamma Mia 2 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Ant-Man and the Wasp Incredibles 2 I’m busy (and running late) today, so I’ll piggyback on BOM’s remark that eight sequels … Continue reading Box Office: July 20 – 22, 2018
Here’s a look at Shazam! So what ya’ll think Surprise! Here’s your first look at ‘SHAZAM!’ #SDCC #Shazampic.twitter.com/GCjqZBwCXP — SuperBroMovies (@SuperBroMovies) July 21, 2018 Continue reading First Look at DC’s Shazam! Thread
Ever thought about putting your house up for and AirBnB? If so, did you ever give a thought to the judgment potential renters might give you from your DVD collection? You don’t know how it got there. Maybe it was … Continue reading BnB Shame #1: GI JOE: The Rise of Cobra
Mama Mia Here We Go Again is a movie in 2018 about a woman who slept with a young Pearse Brosnan. They all sing these songs about it and he got her pregnant. Now her daughter is opening a hotel … Continue reading Movie Reviews Mama Mia Here We Go Again 2018
“Toad Style is immensely strong and immune to nearly any weapon. When it’s properly used, it’s almost invincible.” This sound clip appears at the beginning of “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’”, which is a song from the Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album, … Continue reading Made Overseas: Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
Ever since his great debut in Short Term 12 (though his actual debut came years earlier in the short version of it), Lakeith Stanfield has been building up quite a resume. He’s registered notable roles in such diverse films as Selma, Dope, Straight Outta Compton, … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
First of all, let’s pour one out for Sean O’Neal, who deserves a pre-emptive Snubby for his finally-completed Dan In Real Life 2 script. He took a chance on me at the mothership when I was years out of practice as … Continue reading Snubby Awards: 1971 Results/1970 Nominations
First off, a thanks for El Santo, who kindly stepped switched out his own review for this movie this week after learning that I had scheduled it almost two weeks ago, so that we would not step on each other’s … Continue reading WTF ASIA 14: The Raid (2011)
The release and massive success of Die Hard in 1988 ushered in a wave of imitators both large and smaller budget especially in the 90s. It got so egregious that “Die Hard on/in a [setting]” became a well-known joke as it seemed … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Skyscraper (2018)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Brother Bear
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Ant-Man and the Wasp Skyscraper Incredibles 2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom The unexpectedly good Hotel Transylvania 3 opened to $44M at 4,200 spooOOOooky theaters in the United … Continue reading Box Office: July 13 – 15, 2018
Shudder, a subscription based horror streaming service, is presenting a 24 hour marathon livestream of movies picked and hosted by Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) for Friday the 13th. Can you survive 24 hours of horror? Let’s watch together and … Continue reading The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs Live Chat
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Perhaps money cannot buy class, but class cannot buy money either. Available on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, Youtube. Approximately 99 minutes. Lord Biswambhar Roy is a pre-Independence princely landlord of vast tracts of land, but he does not do much lording these … Continue reading WTF ASIA 13: The Music Room (1958)
I think the first time I ever became aware of a production company’s involvement behind the scenes of the movies they created was when I became aware of Full Moon Entertainment. Obviously, I knew who Disney was and who Warner … Continue reading Full Moon Entertainment: A Love Letter
If I was thinking of films that I wish would get a sequel, Sicario would not be on that list. Released in 2015 and starring Emily Blunt, it was directed by the great Denis Villeneuve (then coming off Prisoners and Enemy) and telling of an … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: Superman
We here at The Avocado usually choose the films reviewed by the same methods you all do. It’s why films like American Animals or Tag get reviews weeks after release as they get neglected for other movies as life and Moviepass’s one … Continue reading Movie Reviews: 1/1 (2018)
The Terminator franchise hasn’t had the best of luck. After pulling off the rare feat of making one great movie and then a sequel that was even better, it’s struggled to recapture that magic. Repeating the formula of the first two movies … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: The Terminator Franchise
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