By Ashley Pauls Box Office Buzz On paper, I’m sure “Ant-Man” always looked like a tough sell. A superhero who discovers a suit that gives him the power to shrink to the size of an insect and control an army of ants isn’t an easy concept to pull off onscreen.
By Ashley Pauls Box Office Buzz I’ve never been to Comic-Con in San Diego, but as a sci-fi and superhero movie buff, it remains on my bucket list. However, since I’m not able to go in person, I always appreciate Entertainment Weekly’s annual Comic-Con issue, which gives readers a sneak
Although we’re still only halfway through July, it’s probably safe to say “Jurassic World” will likely end the summer as king of this year’s blockbuster season. It’s about a month since the movie’s release, and Chris Pratt and his team of dinosaurs don’t appear to be slowing down. In fact,
By Ashley Pauls Box Office Buzz I meant to post a review of “Jurassic World” a lot sooner, but I promise, I have a good excuse. I got married earlier this month and just got back from a honeymoon trip to Alaska, so I decided it was time to stop
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz As a concept, “the future” is both fascinating and frightening. It’s the ultimate unknown, left open to our speculation. Are we headed towards an exciting explosion of technology, the sort of world depicted in “Star Trek” where people head out to explore strange new
Although “Mad Max: Fury Road” is, in essence, a two-hour extended car chase, it’s also a surprisingly well plotted, thought-provoking and tense action film. Taking place in the post-apocalyptic Australian desert, the film follows an emotionally unstable drifter Mad Max (Tom Hardy), who finds himself fleeing with a ragtag band
Sometimes the worst enemies are the ones we create ourselves. That’s the difficult lesson the Avengers learn in “Age of Ultron,” as the team of superheroes face a genocidal artificial intelligence named “Ultron”… who was created by Tony Stark/Iron Man. Ultron was meant to protect the Avengers and the world
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz It’s that time of year again—summer blockbuster season is here, the time when superheroes and sci-fi movies rule the box office. So far, 2015 has gotten off to a bit of a slow start movie-wise; I’ve actually only been to see one 2015 movie,
It’s now less than a month to go until “Age of Ultron,” Marvel’s follow-up to its major 2012 blockbuster “The Avengers.” While the film firmly established Marvel Studios’ dominance of superhero cinema, the studio released a number of successful superhero films leading up to “The Avengers.” Before “Age of Ultron”
By Ashley Bergner/Box Office Buzz In recent years, Hollywood has become quite adept at transforming well-known fairy tales into something creative and unexpected. “Snow White and the Huntsmen” brought a sense of gothic grit to a famous children’s story. “Maleficent” turned a seemingly irredeemable Disney villain into a more sympathetic
By Ashley Bergner/Box Office Buzz There are good movies, OK movies and bad movies. And then there are movies so terrible, they transcend to a whole new level of bad. However, at some point a movie can be so awful, the acting so cringe-inducing, and the dialogue so cheesy the
Every January, I like to put together a list of my most anticipated films for that upcoming year. It’s fun to peek ahead, and it’s also fun to look back at that list at the end of the year, and see how many of my “most anticipated” actually ended up
