Monday, May 28, 2018 at 8:00AM 
Thank you to all those we've lost and anyone who serves. And, given the dire straits we're in with the country's current immoral treasonous leaders, thank you to anyone who upholds and personifies ideals that are worth living, working towards, restoring if lost, and fighting for. Be your best selves out there!
Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 8:00PM by Nathaniel R
Are you going to wait for the train downstairs? Why don't you wait here?"
-Katy Jurado to Grace Kelly in High Noon (leaves Filmstruck May 31st)
Y'all. I have a really really hard time with how quickly titles come and go on so many different streaming services. Ugh! I do not like other people curating my movies for me. I'm too much of my own cinephile for that. I want to see what I want to see when I want to see it and usually for highly specific reasons that don't go well with the timetables of corporations! Nevertheless the world is not made to cater to my personal whims (imagine that!?) so I've had to adapt. I have ponied up for FilmStruck and its Criterion Channel entirely because they have more classics than other streaming services. This still hasn't remotely solved all the "where to find things" woes. Though Hulu, Prime, and Netflix are okay for the majority of movies that aren't more than 5-10 years old, everything else remains super-patchy at best and you're stuck with whatever any of these services feel like streaming for you in a given month. This is ESPECIALLY true of movie musicals which literally no service does a good job with. The lack of musicals has always been my primary beef with the Criterion Collection
Enough complaining! Filmstruck/Criterion does have plenty of goodies. As with all the other streaming services they play peek-a-boo with the titles, though. So let's play Streaming Roulette for everything that's LEAVING the service shortly...
Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 1:27PM by Nathaniel R
| Holiday Weekend Box Office Estimates (May 25th-27th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Solo: A Star Wars Story |
 Disobedience |
| 1.🔺Solo $83 *NEW* REVIEW, BEHIND THE SCENES |
1. 🔺 RBG $1.1 on 415 screens (cum. $5.6) REVIEW |
| 2. Deadpool 2 $42.7 (cum. $207.4) | 2. Disobedience $368k on 224 screens (cum. $2.5) REVIEW |
| 3. Avengers Infinity War $16.4 (cum. $621.6) REVIEW |
3. 🔺 Pope Francis - A Man of His Word $290k on 385 screens (cum. $1) |
| 4. Book Club $9.4 (cum. $31.8) REVIEW |
4. 🔺 First Reformed $282k on 29 screens (cum. $425k) REVIEW |
| 5. Life of the Party $5.1 (cum. $39.1) |
5. 🔺 How Long Will I Love U $210k on 23 screens *NEW* |
These numbers will go up given that this weekend is extra long and there's still Memorial Day monday in which families are free to see movies if they'd like. But the numbers won't go high enough for Disney's taste. Now, $83 million in one weekend is nothing to scoff at but for a film within the Star Wars saga it's surprisingly low. Lots more on multiple films after the jump...
Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 10:00PM by Salim Garami
What's good? This is opening weekend for Solo: A Star Wars Story, a Disney/Lucasfilm production that saw a bit of behind-the-scenes drama. It's hardly the first production of the space opera franchise to be so contentious: Rogue One had Tony Gilroy take over post-production in lieu of director Gareth Edwards and the still in-production Star Wars Episode IX interrupted its development when Colin Trevorrow stepped down as director to J.J. Abrams, returning from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
After the jump, more on Solo and five films that had survived such a director change to a decent reception after the jump...
Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 7:15PM It's a Public Service Announcement.
← It's also False Advertising. Lady Bird as "Movie of the Week"? Try "Movie of the Year"! Lady Bird is currently 99¢ on iTunes. And we thought you should know in case by some mad and totally embarrassing chance you have not yet seen 2017's best movie.
We should probably check in on iTunes deals more often. They're better quality images than Amazon or Netflix after all. The "movie of the week" changes...uh... weekly (you might have deduced that) but we're not sure how short the deal period is on their other 99¢ deals and there's quite a lot of goodies right now if you want to program your own mini-fest. Here are a few things that caught my eye from their rental bargain bin...
