Magic is fun. Movies are fun. Combining the two to make a movie about a group of magicians who rob a bank? Even more fun! With a premise like that, Now You See Me, sets itself up from the start to be one heck of a ride - and quite an entertaining one at that!

The Magical Plot

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco star as four magicians of varying abilities who work alone. As we are introduced to each magician performing his/her solo act, we notice a hooded figure  in attendance at each performer’s show. Soon, the four are brought together, each having received a…

So, uh, this is a thing.

I sure hope the film is funnier than this because this isn’t going to cut it for me. I almost smiled once or twice, but I’m expecting a lot more humor than this. And I also hope there’s an actual story here. I don’t know, we’ll see, but after seeing the last Melissa McCarthy film and not liking it at all I don’t have a lot of hope for this.

Still, I like Sandra Bullock so I’m holding out hope.

Speculation has swirled ever since “World War Z”, the forthcoming zombie disaster movie starring and co-produced by Brad Pitt, was pushed from last winter to this summer by Paramount Pictures to allow for a wholesale rewrite and a reshoot of its final act. Such drastic changes so late in production rarely bode well for the success of a film, but some early reviews suggest “World War Z” might not end up dead—or undead—on arrival.

In a glowing review, Variety’s Scott Foundas says the film “emerges as a surprisingly smart, gripping and imaginative addition to the zombie-movie canon.” He…

Now You See Me appears to be failing to amaze and no one seems to want to come closer because a film in its second weekend outing has come out ahead of Now You See Me which is in its first weekend outing.

And yet again I am disappointed.

#1 - Fast & Furious 6

Budget: $160 Million
Totals: $34.5 Million Weekend Gross / $310.2 Million Current Foreign Total / $480.5 Million Worldwide Total
Week Number: 2

Alright guys, you were complaining about my complaining when I had not even seen the film. So I saw it last weekend. As you would expect, some things about the film were better…

While rumors have the movie being released in 2015, as of now, no director is officially attached, and no one is sure if the movie would work without introducing the other characters in their own movies first (like Marvel did before The Avengers).  So when I sat down with Snyder a few hours ago at the Los Angeles Man of Steel junket, I asked his thoughts the Justice League movie and if that would get his attention before a Man of Steel sequel.

And Snyder said:

“I feel like you need to get Superman a little further down the road before you can do a Justice League movie.”

Here’s the…

Man I’m telling you, this film looks like it has just enough plot to have an excuse to have big freakin’ giant robots battling aliens, smashing up cites, doing battle with boats as beating sticks (see the latest trailer) and in general crunching up big things as if they were small. That is to say I don’t detect a lot of movie here worth watching. I sure hope I’m wrong. I want to be wrong, but ever trailer, ever featurette, everything I see or can find out about this film is always talking about robots, the details of how or why they work or exsist, the sets, the technology, how it was done,…

Ever wonder if the actors who voice the villains are just as mean-looking as their on-screen counterparts? Wonder no more. For the most part, the answer is no—but there are definitely a few uncanny resemblances in the bunch.

This is fun and interesting, but what’s even more interesting: take a look at the year many of these were made. It amazes me that most of the good ones were back in the late 50s/early 60s. There are some good films later, but many of the good ones that we remember Disney for came from back then. I mean think about it. 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The…

This weekend Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Mélanie Laurent are going to see if they can work some magic at the box office (see what I did there?), and Will Smith, along with his son Jaden, are going to crash on an inhospitable future earth.

New This Weekend

After Earth - PG-13

I am not hearing good things about this new film from M. Night Shyamalan, which is not really surprising. He used to make a few good films but his efforts lately have been… shall we say lackluster? I’m still reserving judgment and…

The company has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by a man who claims that he came up with numerous elements of the hugely successful “Pirates” film series, including characters, supernatural elements, storylines, plots, themes, sequence structures and screenplay elements, according to court documents obtained by TheWrap.

In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Florida on Tuesday, Florida resident Royce Mathew claims that Disney infringed on a story that Mathew had written, and fraudulently procured a settlement from him when a previous lawsuit was filed.

In addition…