Box Office Democracy: xXx: Return of Xander Cage
In this Vin Diesel sequel, does xXx mean three strikes?
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Box Office Democracy: “Live By Night”
I’m sure everyone thought Live By Night was going to be a big deal— Ben Affleck directing his first film since Argo won Best Picture, and this time a crime story based on a novel by the same guy who wrote Mystic River. It feels like a sure thing; America loves prestige mafia stories— just…
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ComicMix Six: Box Office Democracy’s Worst Movies of 2016
Last time, I covered the best– and now it’s time for the flip side. Brace yourself.
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ComicMix Six: Box Office Democracy’s Top Six Movies of 2016
6. Captain America: Civil War – There are so many fantastic moments in Civil War. The easy one is the fight at the airport where we finally get that big super hero battle we’ve seen in a thousand different comic books (and acted out with action figures at least that many times) put on the…
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Box Office Democracy: Passengers
One of the easier ways of showing that you’re a sophisticated consumer of entertainment is to lament that nothing ever changes in Hollywood. It’s true that the entertainment machine doesn’t particularly care about artistry as much as it cares about profit, and that the easiest way to make that profit is by giving people what…
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Box Office Democracy: Rogue One
It’s very clear that barring some sort of production-related catastrophe, we will get a Star Wars movie every December until they stop being profitable. For the foreseeable future it seems that on the even years we will get “Star Wars Stories”— little asides not directly connected to the main movies but providing some backstory or…
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Box Office Democracy: La La Land
I like musicals and I think it’s a shame that the film musical is mostly a relic of the past, dusted off a couple times a decade for a big revival and then set in the back of the closet for a few more years. La La Land is a generally competent film that I…
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Box Office Democracy: Moana
It’s getting a little boring to talk about how consistently excellent Disney Animation’s features output has gotten. Moana is the eighth movie Disney Animation has released since 2008 that I would recommend to anyone without any qualification. It’s a great movie, a fun movie, and I enjoyed every minute of watching it. It’s a safe…
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Box Office Democracy: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
It’s hard to tell either Warner Bros. or J.K. Rowling that they should refuse to make any more money off the Harry Potter franchise. If they can pack people in to theme parks and sell out a theater in London for over a year in advance, why shouldn’t they put out more movies? They didn’t…
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Box Office Democracy: Arrival
I went in to the theater knowing less about what Arrival was and what it was about than any movie in recent memory. I had skimmed the first few sentences of the Wikipedia page but only knew the absolute broadest strokes. I was beyond pleasantly surprised; I can’t recall being so enthralled by a movie…
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Box Office Democracy: Doctor Strange
I assume at some point in the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe we’re going to come across a threat that unites every character in one movie to fight against it in some budget-busting assembly of talent. I am starting to dread this moment because between Tony Stark, Peter Quill, Scott Lang, and now Stephen…
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Box Office Democracy: Black Mirror: Season Three
I had very little idea what Black Mirror was before it was assigned to me this week. I was reasonably sure it was something a little spooky because of the way people talked about it on social media and from context clues I was pretty sure it was a TV show. That was all I…
