In all honesty, the Super Bowl probably won the box office this weekend. When a female-focused horror flick takes top honors, it’s an indicator of what people are up to. There was very little appeal to both new entries this weekend as well.

I watch the Super Bowl for the game, not the commercials, so the fact that there were probably somewhere near 20 movie advertisements that played during the intermissions of Super Bowl XLV was a nice bonus to my evening. Some of you, however, might have been more focused on waiting to see what Bud Light […]

Ever since 2002, Hollywood has had a case of mistaken “Bourne Identity,” pulling the trigger on any script that weaves government Intelligence with guns and combat and centers on a protagonist who doesn’t know his or her own strength. “Salt” is another byproduct of the “Bourne” era, yet barely executes half as well as that […]

Cobie Smulders, star of the hit CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” has been named the frontrunner for the role of SHIELD agent Maria Hill in Marvel’s “The Avengers.” Earlier this week, Samuel L. Jackson told “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that he would be reading with several actresses for an unidentified sidekick role to accompany […]

How easily we can forget the importance of these three categories. While some sets, costumes and makeup design stand out to us as breathtakingly impressive — especially in the genres of fantasy and science fiction — in the case of most films, it’s about creating the illusion of a specific place and time. Science fiction […]

Ever think about the fact that the Super Bowl has a major impact on the movies? Think about it. You have a movie you want to distribute that you really think has the potential to make some money. Are you really going to open it on a weekend when you’re virtually guaranteed to lose 20 […]

What a seemingly insurmountable task to adapt and execute the multiple story lines and brimming detail of Stieg Larsson’s novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Despite all the slicing and dicing (yet still a two-and-half-hour run time), credit belongs to this Swedish filmmaking team for still managing to replicate the novel’s extraordinary pacing.

Well, it’s Groundhog Day, and while Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow and spring will come early, Movie Muse will do nothing to cut short  you four more weeks of Oscar. The site enjoyed a golden age during Oscar month last year in terms of traffic, so I figured despite all the work involved […]