It’s a dead reckoning when two rivals navigate mermaids, spider-verses, and transformers to predict the biggest box office hits of the summer movie season and meet their dial of destiny.
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It’s a dead reckoning when two rivals navigate mermaids, spider-verses, and transformers to predict the biggest box office hits of the summer movie season and meet their dial of destiny.
Can today’s advanced AI generate blockbuster movie concepts? We test it to find out.
We watch every trailer that aired during Super Bowl 57 and rank them based on how much hype they produced.
Movie trailers don’t always paint an accurate picture. But when do they cross the line?
When it comes to home video cover art, you be hard-pressed to find more muscle than the films of Sly Stallone.
We honor the winners and losers of a rollercoaster movie season that delivered us everything from mavericks and minions to carnivores and crawdads.
Play along as we answer trivia questions about movies released in the month of August over the past 40 years.
Two maverick podcasters must confront the ghosts of their past to complete a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice: predicting the box-office winners of a thin 2022 summer movie lineup.
Nine Batman movies enter Thunderdome. Only one survives.
From Super Mario Bros. to Uncharted, dozens of video games have tried jumping to the big screen. But would they be better in multiplayer mode?
We’ve all been there: you go to rent “Transformers” and you accidentally rent “Transmorphers”. Welcome to the wonderful world of Mockbusters.
35 years ago a movie hit theaters that wildly blended genres and delivered an iconic Kurt Russel performance. It crashed and burned at the box office… but it’s legend has lived on.
We look back on lessons learned from a weird season at the box office and award the champion of our annual summer movie draft.
In honor of “No Time to Die” finally hitting theaters, we share our picks for top named films in the James Bond franchise.
We look back at a movie over twenty years old and rewatch Nic Cage and Angelina Jolie heist a ton of cars in one high-octane night. The verdict? It might just be our favorite guilty pleasure
He’s been making movies for 20 years. But how strong is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film career?
After a year without summer movies we’re back drafting our (suicide?) squads of summer movies we think will make the most bank at the U.S. box office.
They’re dying to save the franchise. Can the marketing for The Suicide Squad (2021) make us forget the horrors of watching Suicide Squad (2016)?
Many people rely on Rotten Tomatoes for their movie-watching decisions. But what does a Tomatometer score really mean? We conduct a test.
He’s made more than a dozen movies in the past three years—most of them completely bonkers. But what if Nic Cage’s recent films had to fight each other to the death?
We talk about our personal experiences renting out movie theaters for private watch parties.
No, we’re not talking about the biggest birds to ever grace the big screen. We’re talking about movies that crashed and burned the hardest at the box office.
Sometimes you don’t even have to see the movie to scream. In honor of the Halloween season, we share our picks for the four most frightening movie trailers of all time.
We travel through time with Bill & Ted’s latest adventure—sharing our excellent expectations before the movie, some radical reactions while watching, and our post-viewing takeaways on whether this trip was worth the 30-year wait.
Since the pandemic has put the brakes on the current summer movie season, we decided to look back on some of the high and lows of summer movies past.
With the short- and long-term future of summer movies currently hanging in the balance, we forecast whether the blockbuster season can return to its former glory.
With the coronavirus throwing the film industry for a loop in 2020 and possibly well beyond, we talk about what the future of movies might look like.
We were somehow able to make a reference to Point Break in our Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker review. That’s how we roll…
With society disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, what else can we do except talk about movies where viruses break out and disrupt society?
From The Hustler to Hoosiers to Happy Gilmore, we make our picks for the all-time greatest sports movie ad slogans.
Will The Hurt Locker get blown away when we rewire the 2010 best picture race a decade later?
As we move into a new decade, we explore how movies from previous decades imagined the future.
Any movie can be about Christmas, but what movies have done the best job injecting the holiday spirit into their trailers?
From Friday The 13th to Flatliners to The Darkness, we reflect on the meaty movie career of actor Kevin Bacon.
As the blockbuster season comes to a close, we crown the champion of our annual box office challenge and discuss the summer’s hits and misses.
After 30-plus years of service, Maverick flies back into our lives with a new Top Gun trailer. Does the trailer match our sky-high expectations?
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Alien and the return of Men in Black, we dissect some of the best & worst space creature movie marketing.
From Godzilla to Spider-Man to The Lion King, we draft our summer blockbuster teams to see who can rake in the most green.
Does this first glimpse of the new Wick relight our interest in returning to the world of neon, assassins, and non-stop action?
As the 21st Marvel movie hits theaters, we share our picks for the five most powerful marvel movie posters.
Sorry, Shakespeare in Love. With 20 years of hindsight, we can now more confidently say what movies should have really won Oscars in 1999.
We revisit the marketing behind the greatest movie ever made about surfing bank robbers and talk about why this flick has held up as a classic.
Two movies featuring otherworldly title characters are released on the same day, seemingly aimed at the same audience. Which one had the better marketing?
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