Lockout Reviews, Interviews & More

As the schedule for new releases seems to mirror that of their theatrical dates, we’re starting to see some of the spring films that either did okay, or completely missed at the box office. We’re also getting one of the best musicals of all time, and Martin Scorsese’s first masterpiece. Not that bad a week.

This was the first weekend since it opened that The Hunger Games was weak enough to be dethroned from the top slot. Fortunately for the film, it's competition was weak. Perhaps not as weak as originally thought, as The Three Stooges and The Cabin in the Woods exceeded some expectations, whereas Lockout...

The Three Stooges and The Cabin in the Woods aren't your only new options for the weekend – Guy Pearce is hitting the big screen with Lockout, a high-concept thriller about a convict who goes on a suicide mission into space to rescue the president's daughter from a futuristic Alcatraz-style prison....

This weekend a film that's been sitting in a can for nearly three years goes up against a reboot of a franchise spawned in the 1920's, only to have to face deadly Hunger Games competition. Yes, we are in April, and yes, the system is winding down after a record-setting March to deliver odd films that the system never figured out how to sell.

How’s this for badass popcorn movie fun—Luc Besson teams up with Guy Pearce to lift the basic premise of the Escape From New York/Escape From L.A. series and drops it in the middle of an outer space maximum security prison riot.  Not bad, right?  Not exactly the most original story—Pearce plays a wrongly disgraced and convicted government...

Is 2012 the year of Guy Pearce? The star of L.A. Confidential and Memento has been kicking around Hollywood for a while, and has yet to achieve the fame he so rightly deserves. Perhaps he's about to become the face of science fiction, as he's got a role in Ridley Scott's Prometheus, and is leading up...