Guardian fatigue

And speaking of Rise of the Guardians (as I was yesterday), one of my first experiences with it, a few years back, was thinking the title s...

Adjectival

When I saw that the new horror movie Sinister was from the producers of the 2011 horror movie Insidious , it made me laugh a little. It al...

Boom boom boom, let's go back to my room

Question: Are there really two different movies with the word "boom" in the title opening on Friday? Answer: Yes. Yes there are.

A disproportionate amount of wrath

"Wrath" is not a word that comes up all that much in everyday conversation. In movie titles? That's a different story. The wor...

A multifunctional 2

Menace II Society . Jungle 2 Jungle . 2 Fast 2 Furious . Journey 2 the Mysterious Island ? Not so fast. It's Journey 2: The Mysterious I...

The miracle? That they went with this title

It certainly isn't the goal of most family movies to come up with the most original or clever title you've ever heard. In fact, you ...

Wake up! Quiz time.

The part of the title that comes after the colon is something I've written about numerous times on this blog. It's an increasingly...

Tyler Perry is bad at math

Nope, this is not just an opportunity to take an easy potshot at a sometimes easy target. In fact, I'm going to start today's post b...

The man with no name, the man with too much of a name

One thing that consistently gets my quills up is when characters in a movie have no name. You know, like the main character in Drive . In t...

Straight to the point

I thought up the idea for Cowboys & Aliens about ten years before producer Steven Spielberg, director Jon Favreau or the seven credited...

Seinfeld writers still hard at work

Death Blow. Cry, Cry Again. Rochelle Rochelle. Agent Zero. Brown-Eyed Girl. Source Code? Yes, I think so. Seinfeld went off the ai...

What does marriage have to do with school?

I think Hall Pass is a great name for a movie. I'm just not sure if it's a great name for this particular movie. What does having ...

Four wide releases, four snarky comments

As you are surely aware, I reserve Fridays for posts about new releases. After some friendly debates on the subject with other film bloggers...

What a ______ web we weave

If I end up seeing Tangled this afternoon, it'll be either because of this awesome poster, or because there's nothing else whose st...