Filmzee Box Office Top 10 – Mon May 26, 2008

Is it any surprise that Indiana Jones 4 – The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – made the top of the box office list this past weekend? It took in an enormous weekend gross of $126M ($151M if you include Thursday’s early previews). That’s more than the movies in spots #2-10 combined. And that’s despite [...]

Filmzee Movie Box Office Top – Mon May 19, 2008

Here is Filmzee’s box office top 10 list for the weekend starting Fri May 16, 2008. Titles in bold link to either a preview page on this site, a review at Film Pundits, or a profile page at IMDB. Numbers in brackets represent the previous week’s rank. (A hyphen, “-”, means a movie just opened. [...]

Filmzee Friday Film Preview – Movies Opening May 09, 2008

These are the movies opening this weekend, from Fri May 9th, 2008, onwards. For this week, I’m embedding the test pilot of a web video show covering movies. Because of technical difficulties, the show had to be split into two parts. There are also serious lighting problems for the host – a problem I hope [...]

Filmzee Friday Film Preview – Movies Opening May 02, 2008

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These are the movies opening this weekend, from Thur May 1, 2008, onwards. (Some cities received early previews of certain movies in the list.) Note: links for Friday Preview posts will no longer go to preview pages on this site. Instead, they go to IMDB, where [...]

Movies Opening This Weekend – Fri Apr 25, 2008

These are the movies that are opening this weekend across North America, for Fri Apr 25, 2008.

Baby Mama. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler.

Deal [limited]. Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison, Shannon Elizabeth, Charles Durning,
Jennifer Tilly, and numerous professional poker players including
Isabelle Mercier, Chris Moneymaker, and Joe Hachem. By the way, Maria Mason is not related to [...]

88 Minutes – Filmzee Friday Film Preview

Film: 88 Minutes.
Release: Wide.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller.
Opening: Fri Apr 18, 2008.
Director: Jon Avnet.
Writer: Gary Scott Thompson.
Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Benjamin McKenzie.
Rating: R
Runtime: 108 min.
Notes: Al Pacino is one of my all-time favorite actors. No matter what movie he’s in, even if it’s not a solid script, he gives it his all. That alone guarantees, [...]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall – Filmzee Friday Film Preview

Film: Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Release: Wide.
Category: Comedy, Romance.
Opening: Fri Apr 18, 2008.
Director: Nicholas Stoller.
Writer: Jason Segel.
Cast: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, William Baldwin, Jason Bateman.
Rating: R
Runtime: 112 min.
Notes: The trailers for this one have been playing nonstop on TV and in theatres, but it really looks like a load [...]

The Forbidden Kingdom – Filmzee Friday Film Preview

Film: The Forbidden Kingdom.
Release: Wide.
Category: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy.
Opening: Fri Apr 18, 2008.
Director: Rob Minkoff.
Writer: John Fusco.
Cast: Jackie Chan, Jet Li. Bingbing Li.
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 113 min.
Notes: Martial arts fans are very likely salivating, eager to see this movie. Not only has Jet Li thankfully not honored his promise to stop doing these types of movies, [...]

Pathology – Filmzee Friday Film Preview

Film: Pathology.
Release: Wide.
Category: Crime, Horror, Thriller.
Opening: Fri Apr 18, 2008.
Director: Marc Schoelermann.
Writer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. (Both wrote and directed the Jason Statham/ Amy Smart guy movie vehicle Crank.)
Cast: Alyssa Milano, Milo Ventimiglia, Keir O’Donnell.
Rating: R
Runtime: 93 min.
Notes: I’ve had a long-time crush on Alyssa Milano, but I know very little about this horror/ [...]

The Life Before Her Eyes – Filmzee Friday Film Preview

Film: The Life Before Her Eyes.
Release: Limited.
Category: Drama, Thriller.
Opening: Fri Apr 18, 2008.
Director: Vadim Perelman.
Writer: Emil Stern, based on the novel by Laura Kasischke.
Cast: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood.
Rating: R
Runtime: 90 min.
Notes: This movie centers on Uma Thurman’s character, Diana, showing in her life two different time periods: present, and fifteen years earlier, before she [...]