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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/29/2009 11:42 AM
9 out of 10
After a decade spent filming the Spider-Man trilogy, director Sam Raimi returns to his Evil Dead horror roots with Drag Me to Hell, a terrifying movie that is no doubt the scariest film I’ve seen in ages. Raimi has created a horror film with too many to count jump out of your seat moments along with multiple gross out moments that will make you want to go home and take a shower. In fact, I jumped out of my seat more times during Hell than I have during the last 10 fright flicks I’ve seen combined.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/28/2009 2:20 PM
This weekend at the box office moviegoers are offered 2 new movies. The latest 3-D animated adventure, Disney Pixar’s Up, floats into theatres everywhere and director Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots with fright flick, Drag Me to Hell. With major competition from Night at the Museum can Up fly as high as prior Pixar hits? Will Drag Me to Hell kill at the box office? Let’s take a look.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/25/2009 1:29 PM
The battle for the 4 day holiday box office crown wasn’t as tight as some experts expected with Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian easily terminating Terminator Salvation by a distance of about $16M. Star Trek and Angels & Demons fought it out for third place while new comedy spoof, Dance Flick, boogied its way to fifth place.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/22/2009 3:08 PM
8 out of 10
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to 2006’s smash, comedy hit is just as good as the first. Many sequels tend to be the same movie with a bigger budget, but Smithsonian escapes that trap and tells a completely different story than the original. Smithsonian also manages to come up with fresh comedy rather than retread all the funny moments of the original, although some of the better bits do pop up again; the slap fight between Stiller and the monkey comes to mind.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/21/2009 5:52 PM
Welcome to the Memorial Day edition of predictions, one of the biggest box office weekends of the year. There are two big films opening, comedy sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Terminator Salvation, the fourth entry of the popular series. Dance Flick a spoof of dance movies from the new generation of Wayans also opens this weekend. The question is whether Ben Stiller can terminate Christian Bale at the box office. I believe he can. It should be noted that all predictions are for the 4 day span of Friday to Monday.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/21/2009 3:21 PM
5 out of 10
It pains me to say this but Terminator Salvation really isn’t very good. It is an action packed spectacle with absolutely no soul. All the prior Terminator films in the series, including the underappreciated third entry, are infinitely better than Salvation, in every possible way. Hell, even the recently cancelled television series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is far superior.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/19/2009 8:51 AM
After 4 seasons on the run, the adventures of Michael Scofield, Lincoln Burrows and friends has come to a gripping, satisfying conclusion with the 2 hour series finale of Prison Break which aired this past Friday on FOX. I’ve been a fan of this thrilling, ORIGINAL series since the very first episode and I can tell you for sure that the finale had more twists and turns than a season of Heroes; it was one hell of a roller coaster ride much like the entire series itself. If you haven’t yet watched it, I warn you there are major spoilers ahead.
After 4 seasons of watching Michael think his way out of every impossible situation imaginable, I was disappointed that the series ended with him dying from a brain tumor (presumably); what can I say, I’m a sucker for...
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/18/2009 12:18 PM
The only new release this weekend, Angels & Demons, the sequel to 2006’s The Da Vinci Code, opened at #1 with a decent debut. Star Trek continued to set the box office on fire, enjoying an amazing second weekend and after a huge drop off its second weekend, popular mutant superhero, Wolverine, clawed his way to a big third weekend.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/15/2009 3:20 PM
5 out of 10
Let me start my review by saying that I wasn’t a fan of 2006’s The Da Vinci Code, although I do love the book by Dan Brown. Understandably, I went in to Angels & Demons with lower expectations and I felt very much like I did during Code…. Bored. I will say that Angels is better than its predecessor, but truthfully that’s not saying much. Adapting both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons to the big screen seems like a no brainer on paper, but in reality it just doesn’t work.
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By Bill Bonfanti on
5/14/2009 7:45 PM
Just thought I’d share some random thoughts I’ve been having lately about FOX’s upcoming series, Glee, AI, the Lost finale, J.J. Abrams and the fate of Chuck.
As I was watching the American Idol results show with my daughter last night, we saw an extended commercial for FOX’s new fall series, Glee. Is it just me or should this be called High School Musical: The Series? I asked my daughter (who is 8 and therefore an expert on all things HSM) what she thought and she couldn’t agree more. In fact she seemed horrified that a new show was about to rip off her beloved franchise. I mean really, it has the same plot. The only difference is that a glee club stands in for the drama club. There’s the High School Jock (I think he plays football instead of basketball; major creative difference) who upsets the social status...
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