In my Scottish History class at university, my professor began the class by putting a picture of Mel Gibson as William Wallace up on the screen. “Who is this?” he asked. “William Wallace!” someone responded. “No.  THIS is Mel Gibson [...]

Where were you when it happened? Do you remember? Were you sitting in the car, listening to NPR on your way to work? Were you crouched before your television set at 5:30 in the goddamn morning, eating your Lucky Charms? [...]

In a typical year, I can count on seeing between eighty to a hundred of the movies released. In 2012, however, I barely managed fifty films! Sure, I did become a father this year which stunted my theater hopping somewhat, [...]

We never get to see all of the movies that we want to. Busy schedules, work, school, or all of the above keep me from getting to the movies as often as I’d like and every year, countless movies fall [...]

Slow box office weekend to wrap up October, but as we move into November, expect numbers to leap way up, especially with what we have coming our way. But until then… 1. Argo – $12.1 ($60.5 total) Ben Affleck is [...]

If you’re to believe Andy and Lana Wachowski, Hurricane Sandy washed away any hopes of Cloud Atlas performing to their expectations. Well, that and Ben Affleck’s rugged ’70s mop. “There’s no question in my mind, the hurricane dropped our numbers,” [...]

We didn’t have a LAMBcast on the schedule for last weekend, but as you may or may not know, Tom Clift made his way from Australia about six weeks ago to North America and has been catching up with LAMBs [...]

It looks like we’ve found the new version of Saw (not that we didn’t know this already…) 1. Paranormal Activity 4 – $30.2 (first week) The Saw movies (which I’m in the process of re-watching – man, the twists in [...]

If the domestic box office this weekend had a title attributed to it, it would have been called Taken Again… by what should have been called Taken Again! 1. Taken 2 – $22.5 ($86.8 total) So much for that whole [...]

I am a Ben Affleck fan. He is 2/2 in my book (2007′s way way way underrated Gone Baby Gone, which features one of my all-time favorite performances ever by Ben’s brother Casey, and 2010′s very entertaining The Town) and [...]