Category: Looking at the Weekend

This week is a treasure trove of new releases, 3 wide and 4 limited. Wide: Due Date, For Colored Girls, Megamind; Limited: 127 Hours, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Fair Game and Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a…

Only one new wide release this week and six new limited release films. See our thoughts below. This week’s consensus is based only on three contributors’ opinions. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the percentage of our contributors who agree with…

On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and will post their responses here in the new What to See feature. Wesley Lovell 1. Would…

We have a rather brief week this time with only four new limited releases and one new wide one: Paranormal Activity 2. The four new limiteds are Inhale, Kalamity, Rising Stars and The Taqwacores. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the…

A smaller release load this week with two new wide openers and five limited. Wide: Jackass 3D, RED; Limited: Carlos, Carmo, Hit the Road, Conviction, Down Terrace and Hereafter. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the percentage of our contributors who…

Eleven films crowd this weekend’s box office, but only three are going wide: Life As We Know It, My Soul to Take and Secretariat. The limited releases are As Good As Dead, I Spit on Your Grave, Inside Job, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Nowhere Boy, Stone and Tamara Drewe.…

And here we are with nine new releases, three going wide and six in a mixture of distribution from limited to New York & Los Angeles. Check out this week’s consensus and note that the individual film discussions now fall below the line. Just click on the link to go to the rest. Consensus Below…

Looks like we’ll be having a lot of busy weeks for the foreseeable future. We have three wide releases (we previously previewed The Virginity Hit when it was originally supposed to show, so we won’t be doing it again this week): Wall Street 2, You Again and The Legend of the Guardians. There are three…

Another hectic week of new releases with no less than four new wide releases (Easy A, The Town, Devil, Alpha and Omega) and four new limited releases (Never Let Me Go, Catfish, Jack Goes Boating, Kings of Pastry) we’ll be talking about today: (Update, 9/15/10, 6:39p: added Wes’ comments & consensus) Consensus Below is a…

We have a rather busy week of new releases. We have two films going wide, the final Resident Evil and pseudo-documentary The Virginity Hit. Four limited release are going out: Bran Nue Dae, I’m Still Here, Legendary and The Romantics. Then there’s a film releasing only in New York and Los Angeles: Heartbreaker. (NOTE: Pending…

George Clooney takes on Danny Trejo at the box office this weekend and it’s bound to be a blow out match. The American stars Clooney as a hitman performing what he hopes to be his final job. Machete stars Trejo as a vengeance seeking vigilante promising to bring the pain. Trying to muscle into their…

There are two new wide releases this week, heist flick Takers and exorcist horror flick The Last Exorcism, and a new limited release, Roman conquering flick Centurion. It’s also an ultra-rare perfect strike out. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the…

A large number of new releases this week, all wide, all trying to take a weak weekend’s box office crown. This week finds the releases of kid-friendly Nanny McPhee Returns, horror fan-friendly Piranha 3D, spoof-friendly Vampires Suck, urban-friendly Lottery Ticket and woman-friendly The Switch. It covers nearly ever major demographic (except older viewers)…and with only…

Another heavy weekend at the box office with three big films vying for the box office top spot hoping to take down The Other Guys. This week, we have video game-inspired comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, spiritual romantic comedy Eat Pray Love, and Action Stars United feature The Expendables. Also coming out this weekend…

This week, we have a large number of new releases, each hoping to draw their demographic to the theater and become number one. There are also two limited release films opening this weekend. Wide: The Other Guys, Step Up 3D, Middle Men, Twelve; Limited: Flipped, Mao’s Last Dancer. Looks like we are short two contributors…