Weekend Preview 8/31-9/2/2012

Weekend Preview: 8/31-9/5/2012

There are NINE movies out this week in wide and limited release, including a comedy that is beginning to receive a good amount of attention, For a Good Time, Call..., a number of thrillers, a couple of docs, Paul Dano's third drama of the year, a martial arts movie, and an awful-looking kiddie dog movie.

Click "Read More" for trailers of The Ambassador, Doggie B, The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, For Ellen, For a Good Time, Call..., Girl Model, The Good Doctor, The Possession, and The Tall Man.

Battling Bootleggers

Review: Lawless

"Just the good ol' boys
Never meaning no harm
Beats all you ever saw
Been in trouble in the law
Since the day they was born."

Lawless is exactly what The Dukes of Hazzard would look like if, instead of being a family-friendly television show, it was an R-rated film.

The protagonists, the Bondurant brothers, are known for always being in trouble with the law. But they are certainly not good boys and definitely mean harm to any who get in their way.

Expendables Execute Weak Weekend

Weekend Recap: 8/24-26/2012

It was a SLOW weekend this past week. Out of all of the newly released films, the most successful of them debuted to only seventh place at the box office. This made the past few days a weekend of "leftovers," as audiences simply caught up on older movies they hadn't seen yet or perhaps wanted to see again.

Leading the slow-moving pack was The Expendables 2 (review here) in its second weekend, grossing $13.4 million. It is the first R-rated action film to have two back-to-back #1 weekends since the first Expendables came out in 2010. Made for approximately $100 million, the sequel is still trailing the original film (despite being much better!).