Cinemadness: Horror Movie ‘Get Out’ Scares The Prestige Out of Oscars Weekend
This coming Saturday, a few friends and I are resurrecting an old tradition. We’ll be going to see five of the Best Picture Nominees back to back to back to back to back. It’s a 15-hour affair that is...
View ArticleCinemadness: ‘Logan’ Attempts to Do The Impossible
17 years have passed since the first X-Men movie premiered in theaters. In the subsequent two decades, comic book movies have become the Western of the day – readily available and near inescapable....
View ArticleCinemadness: Will ‘KONG: Skull Island’ Be the King of Blockbusters?
Opinion monsters are raging inside me. Two arguments are battling in my gut, and I’m not sure which one I want to win. A new chapter in the King Kong legacy debuts this weekend. I want it to be good...
View ArticleNew Haven: The Literal Definition Of Pub Crawl
Like the majority of Connecticut, this past Tuesday I was snowed in…and it was glorious. I did nothing, I accomplished nothing, it was everything I hoped it could be and more. Truthfully, I watched a...
View ArticleCinemadness: Disney Wins at The Movies; A Tale as Old As Time
Via Rotten Tomatoes: Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary...
View ArticleCinemadness: Will ‘Power Rangers’, ‘Life’, or ‘CHiPs’ Top ‘Beauty and the...
I saw Beauty and the Beast last weekend, and it was… fine. It’s not my thing, and my favorite thing about seeing this movie on opening weekend was that realization: There are other pockets of...
View ArticleThe Fate of the Furious Reality Check
The non-Comic Book Intellectual Property Super Hero Team Up movie we’ve all been waiting for for premieres this weekend! The Fate of the Furious has been daring to leave us in their dust for months and...
View ArticleGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Premieres This Weekend
Marvel Studios has had the pop culture market cornered for years. In the summer of 2014, they took a break from the earth-bound heroic tales of Iron Man, Captain America, and their Avengers cohorts to...
View ArticleDefinitively Ranking 6 Retro Summer Movies At The Southington Drive-In
Believe it or not, drive-in movies are not strictly a thing of the past. Sure they’re retro, and odds are that you don’t even know where you can find one in 2017. But I’m here to tell you that there’s...
View ArticleFlamin’ Hot Cheetos: The Movie?
Everybody’s favorite spicy snack is getting its own movie! A movie about Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is coming to a screen near you, courtesy of Fox Searchlight. Now, to backtrack a bit, the snack itself isn’t...
View ArticleCuring Your Winter Movie Depression By Introducing Movie Trailer Superlatives
Firmly in the dregs of Winter and like an idiot, thinking my man Punxsutawney Phil would start February with the good news of an early Spring, I am looking for warmth, light, and good weather wherever...
View ArticleCinemadness: Is It The Great Wall or the Iffy Wall?
Synopsis (via Universal Pictures/YouTube): Starring global superstar Matt Damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers),...
View ArticleWarren Miller’s Face of Winter
This fall, continue the legacy as we pay tribute to the godfather of skiing in Volkswagen presents Warren Miller’s Face of Winter, the 69th installment from Warren Miller Entertainment. Visit some of...
View ArticleCINEMADNESS: Rogue One reboots the Movie Franchise System
WHAT’S IT ABOUT (via Wikipedia): After the formation of the Galactic Empire, the Rebel Alliance recruits Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) to work with a team including Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) to steal the...
View ArticleIs The Notebook 2 Filming in Connecticut?
It’s never a bad thing when Hollywood wants to do a bit of business in Connecticut. It bolsters our tax base, increases tourism, and lets us bask in the limelight for a little while. But when it’s a...
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