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“Prisoners” takes in $21 million
TW Title (click to view) Weekend Gross Average Total Gross 1 Prisoners $21,430,000 $6,574 $21,430,000 2 Insidious Chapter 2 $14,500,000 $4,596 $60,855,000 3 The Family (2013) $7,000,000 $2,265...
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Prisoners
I often harp on the fact that I think most movies today are too long. And “Prisoners” is not a short flick: just a hair over 2½ hours. But it’s one of the rare films I think is exactly as long as it...
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Sam’s Top 10 Films of 2013
2013 was a fun, enriching year at the movies, a year that allowed us to have our popcorn and eat it, too. Of course, this list could change tomorrow, but here’s what my heart is now telling me were the...
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Nick’s Top 25, Worst 5 and Beyond of 2013
When a 10-best list isn’t enough and a 25-best list might not completely suffice, that’s a good problem for a film critic to have. Sound familiar? Well, in keeping with that spirit, such was the...
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Chris’ Top 10 Films of 2013
If you’d asked me what sort of movie year we were having at the end of August, I’d have told you 2013 was one of the worst on record. Based on the magnificent crop of films that arrived during the...
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The 2013 Yappies
Nick Rogers, Joe Shearer and Christopher Lloyd discover the 2013 Film Yap awards, affectionately known as The Yappies. See below for a complete list of nominees. BEST FILM 12 Years a Slave Before...
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Indy Style — Jan. 3
Click the image to watch this week’s Film Yap movie segment on Indy Style WISH-TV!
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Fearless Oscar Nomination Predictions
Oscar nominations close their voting tomorrow, Jan. 8, and will be announced Jan. 16. It’s looking like a particularly tough year for prognostication. “12 Years a Slave” seems to be the frontrunner...
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REEL BOB: Imitation Game
By Bob Bloom Battles are fought on land, sea and air. But wars are won or lost in nondescript, hidden away, back rooms where brain trumps brawn in creating ways to outthink the enemy. That is the...
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Boyhood
“Boyhood” is running away with awards for best film of the year from various regional film critic groups — including my own here in Indiana — but I’m not quite as high on it as others. It’s a...
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Sam’s Top 10 Films of 2014
2014 was a remarkably personal year at the movies. It offered intimate, emotional experiences that reminded me of what Roger Ebert once said about cinema: “The movies are like a machine that generates...
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Two Thousand Women (1944)
“Two Thousand Women” is one of those movies that was destined to be bad right from the point of conception. The notion of making a prisoner of war picture about a bunch of British women interred in...
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“Hobbit” still riding mountain of gold
TW Title (click to view) Weekend Gross Average Total Gross 1 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies $21,910,000 $5,654 $220,767,000 2 Into the Woods $19,066,000 $7,512 $91,209,000 3 Unbroken...
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Ben’s Top 10 Movies of 2014
For someone who has spent the better part of the last year reviewing movies, I actually hate ranking movies. When people ask me to name my favorite … well, anything … my default answer has always been...
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Inherent Vice
Inherent vice is a hidden defect in an object that, of itself, causes the object’s deterioration, damage or destruction — rendering the object an unacceptable risk to insurers or carriers. If the...
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Selma
“Selma” has been mislabeled as “the Martin Luther King Jr. movie,” which it is not, just as the three months of demonstrations for black voting rights in 1965 Alabama was not merely his doing. (Others...
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Evan’s Top 10 of 2014
Lucy I watched Lucy without many expectations, but I was utterly blown away by how confidently absurd it was. Scarlett Johansson plays her usual action-chick character, which is both a waste of her...
View ArticleINDIANAPOLIS!! Win Passes to “Blackhat”!
Hey there Yappers! Enter here for free passes to see the new movie “Blackhat,” starring Chris Hemsworth (“Thor”; “The Avengers”) and directed by Michael Mann (“Collateral”) in Indianapolis! For your...
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Dear White People
Dear White People: It’s not all about you. I mean, I get it. The title of writer-director Justin Simien’s feature debut, “Dear White People” might give you the idea it’s all about you. The trailer —...
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Jupiter Ascending
“It’s the sort of awful where you don’t even really want to complain or criticize. You just feel bad for everyone involved.” That quote is from me, answering an email from a colleague who missed the...
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