Category: Looking at the Weekend

With a small opening weekend, The New Mutants proved that in the heartland, where theaters are open, there is some modest amount of money to be made. It doesn’t, however, remove the doubt that the costs provide the vast majority of a film’s box office success. This weekend may either prove the low-number trend or…

After two years of delays, Fox’s final X-franchise film is finally seeing release. Clearly being dumped on the second weekend of theaters across the country opening, it’s obvious Disney does not and never has cared about the film and is merely wanting to get rid of it so it can drop everything old and move…

With two films this past weekend not appearing on release calendars universally, The SpongeBob Movie and Unhinged (thought it was only released in Canada), it’s possible something unexpected could drop in cinemas this weekend. However, that likelihood is limited and the supposed Unhinged wide US release this coming weekend is about all anyone can expect…

Another week with mostly virtual and limited releases. When we first prepared this week for consideration, The SpongeBob Movie hadn’t been scheduled. Normally, it would have been included. Here is my original preview of the film. There isn’t otherwise much to see here. Our Highest Rated Films: In the Life of Music Our Best Awards…

It’s another week with no wide releases and the trend doesn’t look to be stopping anytime soon. Our Highest Rated Films: Out Stealing Horses Our Best Awards Ratings: No consensus. OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Black Water: Abyss (Limited) Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine (Limited) SamSam (Limited) Trump Card (Limited) The Green Years (Virtual) You…

There was one wide release film scheduled for release this weekend (Unhinged), but like several others, it was pulled from release. All we have are limited releases this weekend. Our Highest Rated Films: The Cuban Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES 23 Walks (Limited) Boys State (Limited) The Fight (Limited) A Most Beautiful…

Another weekend of limited releases only with no end in sight. Our Highest Rated Films: Amulet Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Impetigore Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Yes, God, Yes

Another week of no releases sees yet more limited releases opening in scattered theaters. Here are our thoughts. Our Highest Rated Films: The Painted Bird Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES The Grizzlies (Limited) My Brothers’ Crossing (Limited)

Wide releases still appear to be on the distant horizon, but the uptick in coronavirus cases is no doubt worrisome to Hollywood studios and theaters alike. We’ll see if those currently scheduled for release in August will be moved again in the not-so-distant future. Our Highest Rated Films: Palm Springs Our Best Awards Ratings: None…

With the July film landscape continuously changing (all of the impending wide releases have been moved into August), there’s just not much to choose fun. What’s most palpable is the sense of dread having a July 4 holiday weekend, especially with most people getting the Friday before off, vacant of new wide releases. Our Highest…

Hollywood is still struggling to find a suitable pace at which to re-open production as well as release to the cinemas and those cinemas are likewise trying to figure out the best way to balance safety and profitability. We are seeing more theatrical releases than the prior three months, but wide releases have all been…

As theaters begin re-opening, we’re going to start highlighting what’s coming out in the following weeks. It will be a slow, but steady build back to what everyone had been expecting prior to the pandemic. OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy A Girl Missing Guest Artist Proud Quarantine Cat Film Fest…

With theaters shut down, this article will go onto hiatus until everything normalizes.

With all of the wide releases being pushed out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s nothing to say what will be on top of the charts this week, but we know it won’t be a new wide release. Our Highest Rated Films: The Infiltrators Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Bull (Limited) Chichinette:…

Four new films go up against the second weekend of Pixar’s Onward and it’s likely that one of them should be able to topple a film that had a rather unimpressive opening for a Pixar feature. Bloodshot is a sci-fi actioner starring Vin Diesel, which has some solid potential. The Hunt was held back from…