the Call Reviews, Interviews & More
Though last year this weekend saw the release of The Hunger Games - which made a boatload of money by itself - the same weekend a year later proved to do pretty good without a gigantic blockbuster. Not only did The Croods open better than expected, but Olympus has Fallen bucked the trends of recent action movies and...
Though often there are films that succeed because of their inherent draw, just as often a film can win by being in the right place at the right time. Though Oz: The Great and Powerful was kids friendly, the only animated movie in recent weeks was Escape From Planet Earth. So The Croods has a very good shot of making...
Going into this weekend it looked like old comic hands might do better than a generic-looking Halle Berry thriller. But though neither The Incredible Burt Wonderstone nor The Call could outperform Oz: The Great and Powerful, the Jim Carrey-Steve Carell comedy flopped hard, while the thriller managed to outperform....
It feels like Warner Brothers was slow on their game with The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, but maybe that's just because there's not much of a movie there. The movie has Steve Carell and Jim Carrey as rival magicians, and that points out the duo starred opposite each other a decade ago in Bruce Almighty. But now Carell is more of a draw....
Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyer's long-shelved horror pic 6 Souls is finally hitting theaters and VOD. The Weinstein Company waited five years to release it, and normally that's not a good sign. But the first trailer hit the web this week, and you can judge it for yourself. Also, a new Ender's Game photo was released – it gives us the first look at...
Though in no way does The Call look good, it's nice to see a high concept thriller on the big screen again. The premise is that Halle Berry is a 911 operator who gets a call from a serial killer's victim and unintentionally exposes the victim's location. And then a while later gets a chance to save another young girl (Abigail Breslin) from the same killer. But will...
