Author: Steven Potgeter

It was a very strong Thanksgiving weekend at the box office as three titles were each able to be clear the $30 million mark. Leading the pack was The Hunger Games: Mockingjay –Part 2 which dipped 49.7% for an estimated $56.9 million and a grand total of $198.3 million. While that number is inarguably fantastic, it is nevertheless $27 million behind what Part 1 was at during this point in its run and a whopping $98 million behind the franchise’s biggest winner Catching Fire. Still, $300 million seems to remain within Part 2’s reach and that’s nothing to sneeze at.…

The final installment of The Hunger Games series debuted in first this weekend with $101 million. While it would be silly to label an opening that big as poor, it is, however, disappointing when compared to the other Hunger Games films with opened with (in chronological order) $152 million, $158 million, and $121 million. Mockingjay Part 2 is still a smashing success though and Lionsgate will make a boatload of cash on this. But cracks are starting to form on the YA novel franchises as this, Insurgent, and Maze Runner: Scorch Trials have all made significantly less than their predecessors.…

In a weekend that can only be described as disastrous, Ridley Scott’s The Martian has reclaimed the number one position at the box office. The Matt Damon lead sci-fi hit grossed $15.9 million for a grand total of $166.3 million stateside and $347.3 million worldwide. The domestic total puts the film in second place among Ridley Scott directed films above Hannibal ($166 million) and below Gladiator ($187.7 million). Look for it to take the number one spot in the weeks to come. Last weekend’s number one film Goosebumps settled for second place with $15.5 million. This number represents a nice…

The power of prayer has proven to be strong enough to defeat NWA, Robert Redford, and Not Jason Statham as Christian movie War Room takes the number one box office position in its second weekend with $12.5 million. The film, made for a reasonable $3 million is already a big financial success story at $27.8 million and is proof that there is still money to be made in the faith based genre despite recent flops like Left Behind and Little Boy. In second place, the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton continued its fantastic run with $11.2 million for…

Acclaimed filmmaker Uwe Boll (director of countless instant classics such as In the Name of the King, Alone in the Dark, and Blubberella) has a message for Marvel fans, young people, Robert Downey Jr, the Chinese, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Kingsley, and anyone who didn’t back his Kickstarter campaign for Rampage 3: No Mercy: “F**k yourselves.” In a couple of unscripted rants that he posted on his YouTube channel, the genius Uwe Boll truly gives Hollywood the complete verbal decimation it deserves. Watch the master wordsmith lay out everything he hates about the…

Every year, there are great films – and with great films come the films that will be overlooked. You can’t ever really be sure why it happens because it could be a lot of different things. The marketing (or lack thereof), star power, etc. We won’t ever know. What we do know, though, is that the following list is a list of films that we deemed to be the top 5 most underrated for 2014: 5. Snowpiercer This Korean apocalyptic action movie received high praise from the critics but was ignored for the most part by general moviegoers. Why? Couldn’t tell…

Yeah, this is a pretty late list – but we just launched our site. So, forgive us on these upcoming 2014 lists. Or don’t – we won’t mind. Anyway, here are the 5 films that we thought were the most overrated of 2014. 5. Inherent Vice I like my neo noirs complicated and twisty but Inherent Vice proved a bit too much for me. Scratch that. Inherent Vice is so unnecessarily complicated that my freaking brain split apart like the San Andreas fault line in that one movie that came out last week (I think it was called Aloha or something…)…

It doesn’t take very much imagination to picture earthquake movie San Andreas as a lost Roland Emmerich disaster flick from the 2000s due to the fact that a great deal of the director’s trademark characters and situations show up. A stammering scientist with glasses frantically tries to warn the world that Something Big is coming. A divorcee searches for his missing child during the biggest natural disaster of the century. People gasp for air near the ceiling of a flooding room. National landmarks topple. Thousands die. Child actors fail at acting. Out of place cutesy jokes make you groan. A…

Mad Max: Fury Road is hitting theaters this weekend and I couldn’t be more excited! Taking one of the greatest action franchises in movie history and casting Tom Hardy –one of the most talented and versatile actors of today- seems to be a recipe for greatness. Let’s hope it is! In anticipation of Fury Road, I have crafted for you a list of what are –in my opinion at least- the top five greatest movies of Tom Hardy’s career. For this list, I have decided to only include movies in which he is the lead or has a prominent role…