Damn ants! First they were in my sugar! Then they started raiding the cat food! Now they’re in my cinema? IS THERE NO END TO MY SUFFERING? Ant-Man kicked the Phase 2 weekend off for Marvel, with an opening US weekend of just over $58 million. Disney projected around $60-$65 million on opening weekend for their smallest hero, so this …

Guys, there’s no easy way to break the news to you. If you wish that Despicable Me’s overexposed minions would die a horrible death after being shot into the cold, dark vacuum of space, then buckle: After this weekend, you can bet that more Minion movies are on the way. That’s because the predictably first movie starring the little yellow …

The fourth of July. Unlike every other weekend at the US box office, the July 4 Memorial Day weekend is usually the scene of some truly stupendous earning potential. After all, with an entire nation on holiday, this is the three day pass where summer tentpole movies were born. Only this weekend, it looks like the Terminator franchise has been…terminated. …

As far as new releases go, there are slim pickings this week, with only three new movies out in cinemas today. You’ve got a choice between a big budget sci-fi action explosion, male strippers and an artsy foreign language social drama on the Nouveau circuit. Terminator Genisys When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle …

Director Steven Soderbergh and star/producer Channing Tatum’s semi-biographical infectiously shlocky male stripper fest Magic Mike may have been a big hit at the box office (I’m guessing they were paid in a mountain of sodden $1 bills) but there were still lots of people – I’m looking at you, fellow hetero males – who refused to watch a bunch of …

When I was first told by a friend that I should watch the first Magic Mike movie I thought he was kidding because I don’t take anything Trevor says as being anything other than the ramblings of a madman. Nonetheless I went ahead and watched it and – to my surprise – thoroughly enjoyed it. I have always thought Tatum had a …

Confession time: I really enjoyed Magic Mike. The movie may have put off some folks with all the beefcake dude-ity and bumpin’ and grindin’, but once you got past those topless theatrics you actually found a surprisingly solid character drama that was occasionally kind of fun. The biggest surprise (that was not in somebody’s shorts)? Channing Tatum. Not only did ol’ Charming Potato actually …

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