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Bill Wine’s Summer Movie Previews
What do moviegoers have to look forward to (or, perhaps, in some cases, dread) through the rest of May and into June, July, and August?
Movie Review: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’
Some movies sell movie tickets, some sell toys. This one is in the latter category.
Movie Review: ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
Mini-trend alert: ‘Olympus Has Fallen,’ the first of this year’s two Executive Mansion Under Attack thrillers, is here. Let’s hope it’s the lesser of the two.
Movie Review: ‘Side Effects’
Net effect: it outsmarts itself.
Bill Wine’s Winter Movies Preview
Look for these mainstream titles to open on theatre screens during the first few months of 2013.
Movie Review: ‘Step Up Revolution’
The performers can dance all right, but this fourth installment of the “Step Up” franchise has the acting equivalent of two left feet.
Cuddly, Raunchy Weekend At The Box Office
It was certainly a unique weekend at movie theaters, with a trash-talking teddy bear and male strippers lighting up the box office to the tune of nearly $100 million.
Movie Review: Magic Mike
‘Magic Mike’ is a dreary dramedy about naked ambition and struggling male strippers who are, literally and figuratively, making ends meet.
Your Summer Movie Preview
So what do June, July, and August have in store for us as mainstream attractions compete for box office dollars? Plenty!
’21 Jump Street’ Locks Up First Place At Box Office
The weekend’s only new mainstream attraction, a comedy about undercover cops based on the eighties TV series, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, arrested audiences to the tune of $35-million, good for a robust first-place finish on its debut weekend.
Movie Review: ’21 Jump Street’
No one’s been clamoring for a movie version of this property. But now that we’ve got one, we’re better for it.
Moviegoers Find Love At The Box Office
The romantic drama, ‘The Vow’, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, finished first at the box office on its debut weekend, by earning an estimated $41-million.
Movie Review: ‘The Vow’
“The Vow” is a sweet-natured strumming of the heartstrings with an interesting premise: an amnesiac who cannot remember her husband.
Movie Review: ‘Haywire’
Steven Soderbergh has gone Haywire, and the results are entertaining if uninspiring.
Movie Review: The Eagle
However well-intentioned they might be, sword-and-sandals epics struggle to look and seem real rather than fake, sober rather than silly. But that unfortunate intersection is where “The Eagle” has landed.
