The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases. There are 2 wide releases and 4 limited releases hitting theatres on January 29th.

Have you ever heard about a movie, thought it was going to be a huge hit and wished you could participate in that films box office gross? Now you can. The Cantor Exchange is a new website where you can trade future contracts (think stocks with expiration dates) based on a movies box office potential. Do you think the latest Adam Sandler comedy is going to be a big hit? Buy the contract. Do you think the latest big budget action movie is going to be a box office bomb? Sell it short* and buy it back cheaper later on. Any way you slice it, for the first time ever, film lovers are going to have the opportunity to make money right along with Hollywood. Movies make a lot of money, now you can too.

The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases.  There are 3 wide releases and 3 limited releases hitting theatres on January 22nd.

With the Golden Globes set to air this Sunday night the 17^th on NBC it’s time for my annual predictions. This entry focuses solely on the movies. Who’s going to win? It’s anybody’s guess, but here are my picks.

After months of casting rumors and speculation about who the villains would be, Spider-Man 4 has been scrapped by Sony in favor of rebooting the series. That’s right, Sony is starting the not even decade old series over with a new cast and new filmmakers. A few days ago it was reported that Spider-Man 4 was being delayed due to the fact that there was no script yet, but all signs pointed that the film would still be made. It was reported by EW yesterday that Sony wants “a more gritty, contemporary redo of the series.” I don’t even know what that means. Spider-Man is supposed to be light and colorful; he’s not Batman. I don’t even remotely understand the contemporary comment. Sam Raimi’s version took place in the 2000’s, not the 70’s or the 80’s. What are they going to do, set it in the future?

The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases. There are 2 wide releases and 3 limited releases hitting theatres on January 15th. 2 films will also be expanding into more theatres.

Whether the new Sherlock Holmes movie is any good is a mystery that may be impossible for even the famous detective himself to solve. The truth is, director Guy Ritchie’s film is rather schizophrenic; at times fun and exciting and at others dreadfully tedious and boring. The plot or central mystery is all but incomprehensible, yet watching Robert Downey Jr. as the veteran sleuth solve said mystery is quite pleasurable indeed. 

The place where you can find movie trailers for upcoming releases. There are 3 wide releases and 5 limited releases hitting theatres on January 8th.

With 2010 upon us, it is time to pick my favorite films of 2009. Some of these films are givens that appear on many yearend lists, but there are a few that may surprise or even outrage some of you. Some of you might not agree with my choices and that’s okay…. Opinions are what make the world go round. You’ll notice that some films are conspicuously absent from my list, but remember these are my favorites. I’m not saying they are the best movies of the year, just the ones that I connected with the most.  Without further adieu, my list of the films that entertained me the most this year.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel is a harmless, cute and amusing family film. Sure the humor is puerile and sophomoric at best (toilet humor reigns supreme here), but while watching it, I realized that it really shouldn’t matter what I think of this movie. It’s not meant for me, it is quintessentially a movie for kids and therefore it should be reviewed by them. With that in mind, I’ve interviewed both my nine year old daughter and my six year old son to see what they thought of the movie.