Nick McCaughey

Halloween time is fast approaching, children, and it launches in moviedom with a PG-rated Eli Roth flick starring Jack Black. What a world. Assassination Nation (Neon) https://youtu.be/vTmFKZmp1aEUpon watching the trailer…

This weekend wasn't very noteworthy for positive reasons, but drama is drama and we'll take what we can get. Four movies opened this weekend - one disappointed, one was fine, one was not quite fine, the other was a non-starter.In first,…

After Warner's The Nun blessed September with some coin, four new movies enter the fray, each looking to get a nice piece of that post-summer pie. Some of them are actually looking a-okay. A couple aren't, but don't knock them for trying.…

Lo and behold, leaves are falling, the grand Halloween season is beginning (who else is very excited for David Gordon Green's Halloween next month, by the by?), and horror has started spilling into our laps. Which is probably good for the…

Labour Day kind of sucked, movie-wise (maybe in other ways for some, but I don't make claims), though Warner's is looking to give it something of a jolt after they pretty well carried August. Some other movies come out, too, but we'll get…

This time of year is, uh, typically underwhelming and linear. The movies doing well continue to do well and the movies not doing well continue to--you get the idea. Luckily, there's also a yearly trend of a movie demonstrating some…

All work and no play makes this an incredibly dull Labour Day weekend, offering two wide releases - neither of which likely to make more than $10 million over their 3-day debuts - and an admittedly promising nationwide expansion. Let's dig…

Summer's winding down and we all know what that means - some ungodly movies will flounder while a gem here and there picks up the slack. And boy did these ungodly movies flounder.Before we get into that, Warner's Crazy Rich Asians kept…

There are a few guarantees I can offer you in this lifetime: we live, we're exiled to hideous humidity till the end of days, and there will be seemingly transgressive movies that just straight up blow. It is foretold. A.X.L.…

As has been hammered home these past few weeks, August is generally miserable - the dying gasp of summer box office, for the pessimistic of you. These past few years have contradicted that, giving us blockbusters like Disney/Marvel's …

This month's been at least slightly adventurous, giving us a very expensive giant shark movie earning over $45 million and... that's kind of it, but that's also kind of good enough for me. Alas. Alpha (Sony)…

Usually, August is something of an ether - nobody truly expects much from a majority of the month's offerings. And, sometimes, a movie or two breaks that mold. Like a Jason Statham movie. What a time to be alive.Debuting in first,…

August is usually in the doldrums. At least it gives us some hilariously bad movies to relish in before we're swept away by rapidly progressing cold (please God, give us some cold in this humidex-smashing Hell).Moving on.…

Like all good things, what is reaped lowers over time. Summers at the box office aren't too different - start massive (maybe an Avengers), keep going (maybe an Incredibles), go down a bit (maybe an Ant-Man), and eventually you're at a point…

Fourth of July frame tends to be lucrative, with studios throwing their "easy money" fare every which way. This time around, the easy money in question is a horror sequel and a Marvel flick. Let's dig in.Opening in first,…

It wouldn't be a true Fourth of July without some good ol' fashioned ultra-violent patriotism ('MURICA!). Plus a Marvel movie, because why not these days. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Disney) https://youtu.be/UUkn-enk2RUOne of…

Yeah, blockbusters are cool and all, but, like, the little guy, people. Don't forget them. Thankfully, we've had two mid-budget flicks fare well this weekend, capping off a most successful June that earned a whopping $1.03 billion.…

We've been ever so blessed to have two tentpole blockbusters in just as many weeks, so it kind of makes sense to have a respite. Or, to the lay - both movies this week aren't going to pull terrific numbers. Sicario: Day of the…

This is a summer that just won't quit, ladies and germs, as we're on our way to the third $1+ billion grosser of the season. This weekend only saw one new nationwide release, but it's a big one, and this June is pacing to be the largest…

It's only been a week since Disney/Pixar's Incredibles 2 shattered records with a $182.69 million opening, but yet another high-profile franchise will join what's been an interesting summer thus far, and it happens to be the follow-up to…