Showing posts with label doug liman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doug liman. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Johnny Deadline: THE INSTIGATORS

 by JB

Finally! What Rob D. has been lobbying for-- a genuine mid-budget, three-star movie.
There’s only one catch.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

To Bourne With Love

by Mark Ahn
With the summer release of the latest installment of one of my favorite action series, I was trying to figure out why Jason Bourne wasn’t inciting more personal excitement. I asked other action movie lovers (also Bourne fans), and found that we all shared the same sort of disinterest, as if we just couldn’t be bothered to watch it.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Dec. 13)

It's not even Chrimbus, and I feel like we're already drowning in previews for next year's summer blockbusters. I'm not complaining; just an observation. That's what I do around here: make dumb observations. I'm like the Andy Rooney of F This Movie! "Didja ever wonder why movie trailers are called trailers when they're shown BEFORE the movie?" RIP.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Riske Business: Box Office Bombs I Thought Would Be Huge

As mentioned way back on the Young Guns podcast, Premiere Magazine once predicted that the Julia Roberts sob-fest Dying Young would be the biggest movie of the summer of 1991. That did not turn out to be the case. Eighteen movies grossed more than Dying Young that summer. I’d make fun of the writers at Premiere, but that wouldn’t be fair. I’ve had many occasions where I thought a movie would be huge and it did not catch on. Here are some of my Dying Youngs.