Category: Looking at the Weekend

There’s one new wide release, a horror film, naturally. The others are all limited and not films that have been hotly anticipated, so it will be another dull weekend. Our Highest Rated Films: None Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Amigo Skate, Cuba (Limited) The Donut King (Limited) Fishbowl (Limited) Malibu Road

Without a single trailer announcing its release, a film called The Empty Man opens wide this weekend. It is a horror film from the Fox banner, which may explain why it’s being unceremoniously dumped into the pre-Halloween frame. What Disney hopes to accomplish with this move is uncertain, but a great weekend at the box…

With little else in the way of new releases, it’s clear Honest Thief will top the box office. If there’s one box office draw that appeals to audiences in middle America where theaters are open, it’s Liam Neeson as his movies tend to make decent money in those regions. Our Highest Rated Films: Shithouse Our…

The final nail in the 2020 box office may have been the move of No Time to Die into 2021 leaving only two big films yet to move, Dune and Wonder Woman 1984, but likely to do so, especially after Regal Cinemas’ parent company decided to shutter their theaters nationwide and in the United Kingdom…

It looks like the failure of Tenet to draw an audience has made studios skittish and they’ve pulled many of their new releases and pushed them either closer to the end of the year or into 2021 completely. So, there’s nothing new this weekend, except in limited reelase. Our Highest Rated Films: The Boys in…

Another weekend with no major new wide releases. Either this will become the trend through the fall or it’s a hiccup for the late-September period that is often weaker in terms of prominent releases. Our Highest Rated Films: The Glorias, Misbehaviour Our Best Awards Ratings: The Glorias (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Break the Silence The…

The only new wide release is a film starring Jim Caviezel that has no trailer available from legitimate, longtime sources. That lack of advertising suggests a film targeted at a very narrow audience and with few chances at major success. Tenet, The New Mutants, The Broken Hearts Gallery, and Unhinged are likely to continue persistent…

Tenet shouldn’t have anything to worry about from this weekend’s lone new wide release. The Broken Hearts Gallery may be the first romantic comedy to release wide at re-opened cinemas, but the film doesn’t seem like the kind that can translate into big box office. Our Highest Rated Films: The Broken Hearts Gallery, I Am…

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