The ball is dropped, the Christmas trees are down (or it will be soon if you are procrastinating like me). So let’s get into a new year of movies. A number of the movies that will be in the award show conversations will be expanding this month. But in terms of the wide release titles,…
Oh January, the month where the whole world is talking about how great the new year will be. Yet at the movie theater, that sentiment isn’t quite there. The bulk of audiences will be watching the blockbusters that came out in December or the award-show bound art house movies that will be slowly expanding to…
Is your New Year’s resolution to see more movies? Well if that is the case, then this January movie list may not be the one you’re looking for. We had a number of big franchise releases at the end of 2017. But the best January has to offer are some relatively low key sequels. My…
Every month when I prepare the movie preview, I expect somewhere around 12 releases to research and introduce to you. But January 2017 has taken that number and decided to inflate it to an unwatchable number of 18 films getting wide releases. There is a combination of standard action and family films along with a…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is still force choking all the competition at the box office, but let’s pretend for a few minutes that you may actually go and see something else this month. In actuality, it will probably be Star Wars for the fourth of fifth time. But there are some movies that look…
January at the box office tends to look like that Tupperware full of holiday leftovers in your fridge. There’s some good stuff, but it’s nothing compared to how good it was in December. The art house movies that will get some award show recognition are beginning to expand nationwide. There are also a few studio…