Time to sit back, grab the popcorn and enjoy some mindless entertainment with this week's new releases. Unfortunately, some of them are a lot more mindless than others...

Michael Pena and Alexander Skarsgard star in the upcoming bit of cinematic debauchery from writer-director John Michael McDonagh, the man behind the fantastic The Guard and Calvary

The Legend of Tarzan is one of those movies I thought I wouldn’t be interested in, despite its excellent cast, until seeing its surprisingly good trailer. The movie also does away with the standard origin story and instead drops us into the middle: It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of …

AAAAAAAAAAHUHUHUHUHAAAAAAAHHHHH!! No, I didn’t just see Nick’s morning face again, that’s just my impersonation of Tarzan’s famous ululating yell, which is called for as the first trailer for the new Legend of Tarzan has recently come swinging in. True Blood star (and as close to a real life freaking Viking that we have) Alexander Skarsgard is the latest in the …

It sure is a good time to be Duncan Jones. The world just got their first official glimpse at the filmmaker’s first major studio blockbuster in highly anticipated video game adaptation Warcraft and if you listen carefully, you can still hear the echoes of millions of fanboys’ jaws hitting the ground simultaneously. But as good as Jones’ epic fantasy tale …

This week, we get an early start on Halloween with Not Another Paranormal Activity Movie, Bradley Cooper’s career takes a bit of a scary nosedive, old Disney classics come back to haunt us, and two local movies have nothing to do with Halloween but they still look pretty good. Plus we have a highly-praised coming-of-age drama and a properly awful …

Twenty years. That’s how long Jeff Bridges has been trying to bring an adaptation of Lois Lowry’s acclaimed 1993 novel “The Giver” to the screen. He purchased the film rights two decades ago with the original intention of his father Lloyd playing the film’s titular Giver, but alas, his father passed away just a few years later while the film was …

Everybody needs a guilty pleasure; that one thing they know is bad for them but they do it anyway. I don’t do drugs of any kind, I’m a very moderate drinker and I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. So to balance out this wholesomeness, I read trashy Dan Brown novels and religiously watch True Blood. While there appears to …