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Watch With Amanda: What’s On TV This Week? August 13 – 19
Even though my biggest fear in life is sharks, I have put together a special schedule for you Shark Week fanatics. The Discovery Channel celebrates its 25th year of Shark Week with a jam packed all new...
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Tony Scott R.I.P.
Tony Scott from the Unstoppable premiere in 2010. Yesterday we lost one of the greats in film, undeniably one of the giants in the action film genre, director Tony Scott. The British born younger...
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The Possession vs Lawless vs…Ooogieloves? Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Predictions
The last weekend of the summer typically doesn’t have much to show in the way of box office, so expect the new releases to not do much business. Regardless, here’s what you can check out in theatres....
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The Possession Takes Possession Of The Top Spot – Biff Bam Pop’s Weekend Box...
It was one of the slowest box office weekends of the year, which meant small returns for the new releases. Here’s how the weekend turned out. The Possession scared up enough money to become the number...
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Goood Evening? Emily McGuiness Reviews Hitchcock
Christmas is in the air and it’s time once again for the studios to throw whatever they have at us in hopes we’ll make it to the theater. It was with great enthusiasm that I sat down to watch...
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Tod Browning’s Tales of Tainted Love
February is Tainted Love Month here at Biff Bam Pop!, which means we are celebrating love, but not the way most of the mainstream Valentine’s Day crowd see it. We’re bringing you tales of twisted...
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Emily McGuiness thinks you might get a Hangover Part III
Dream crushed. Dream stomped on, chewed up, spit on. Hollywood, you fickle mistress, you have disappointed me again. Just once, once, I would like to see a sequel that lives up to the potential of the...
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Exclusive Interview: Andy Burns Talks To Director/Author John Landis
When you talk about legendary directors, it’s no stretch to put John Landis in that category. Let me just run down a few of the classic films he’s given us – National Lampoon’s Animal House. The Blue...
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John Carter Bombs Big Time While The Lorax Stays Strong – Biff Bam Pop’s Box...
Anybody around the world with the name John Carter is currently cursing the new release from Disney, as its arrival in theatres this week came with a gigantic thud. What may turn out to be one of the...
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March Madness – What Would You Do If There Was A War of the Worlds?
If I’m making a list of my top 10 favourite films, there’s one that always nabs an appearance and when mentioned, is received with a bit of shock. For some reason, amongst the company of The Godfather...
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Trailer Time: Prometheus
Ridley Scott returns to the world of sci-fi, horror and Aliens with Prometheus, one of the most talked about films of the upcoming summer blockbuster season. We’ve still got a few months to go before...
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March Madness: Time Obsessed Pop Culture Characters
Did you get a chance to check out Glenn Walker’s piece about the legendary Avengers time travelling villain Kang from earlier this week? It’s turned into quite the conversation starter out there on...
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The Hunger Games Catches Fire For Stellar Debut – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office...
Wow. That pretty much sums up the opening weekend for The Hunger Games. Take hype, add in stellar reviews and polish it off with great source material and you’ve got a huge gross that left every other...
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The Hunger Games Holds Off American Reunion and Titanic – Biff Bam Pop’s Box...
It’s safe to say that after this weekend, nothing can stand in the way of The Hunger Games. Not a romantic classic or an American Reunion. Instead, Katniss Everdeen and the Capital continued to...
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The Hunger Games Scores Four In A Row, The Three Stooges Surprise, The Cabin...
Apparently North America is still hungry for The Hunger Games, as the film managed top the box office for the fourth weekend in a row. In the meantime, The Three Stooges reboot managed to perform...
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Which New Release Took Down The Hunger Games – The Lucky One or Think Like A...
After four weeks at the top of the box office, The Hunger Games was finally toppled. But which new release managed the feat – the ensemble film Think Like A Man or the Zac Efron/Nicholas Sparks film...
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The Wicker Tree Tests My Faith
The Wicker Tree is the sequel to the cult classic The Wicker Man and if you were a fan of the original, writer/director Robin Hardy is also responsible for this curious theatrical follow up. Starring...
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The Pirates Is Just Ok, Safe, The Raven and The Five-Year Engagement Bomb Big...
With less than a week to go before The Avengers takes over the North American box office, four new movies tried to make an impact on audiences. All of them failed miserably. Here’s what went down:...
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“We Have A Hulk” Or How I’ve Warmed To The Avengers
In the comic book universe, it’s no secret that I fall on the side of DC Comics, the home of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. You know, the holy trinity of four-colour, sequential periodicals – the...
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Marvel’s The Avengers Assembles A Record-Breaking Weekend – Biff Bam Pop’s...
Wow. I don’t think anybody saw this coming, even when it looked like Marvel’s The Avengers was on track for a record breaking weekend. But this estimated number – totally unexpected. All the details...
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Dark Shadows Falters In The Shadow Of The Avengers – Biff Bam Pop’s Box...
You can’t stop The Avengers, that’s for sure. The film is breaking records all over the place, including this past weekend, which saw it become the first movie in history to gross over $100 million in...
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Trailer Time: Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem
As far as horror directors go, I think Rob Zombie is one of the best. Both House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects are brilliant, disturbing and original films, while his take on the Halloween...
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Saturday At The Movies: The Woman In Black
While I’m no actor (though I did play a brilliant Puck in an arts camp production of A Midsummers Night Dream when I was seven years old), I would imagine that the biggest fear for an actor is the idea...
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Battleships Bombs, The Dictator Disappoints – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office...
The weekend numbers are in and, as predicted, The Avengers held onto the top spot for the third weekend in a row. None of the three new releases ever came close to posing any sort of challenge to...
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Men In Black Return To Number One – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Wrap-Up Report,...
Men In Black returned to the big screen with a bang, knocking Marvel’s The Avengers from the top of the heap after a three week run. Here’s how it all went down: It’s Memorial Day long weekend in the...
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Snow White and The Huntsman Is The Fairest Of Them All – Biff Bam Pop’s Box...
Mirror mirror on the wall, which new release in theatres conquered them all? No real surprise really, as Snow White and the Huntsman made it’s presence felt this weekend. Meanwhile, Men In Black 3...
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Biff Bam Pop Exclusive: Dee Wallace on Rob Zombie’s Lords of Salem
This past Thursday I had the amazing privilege to talk to the legendary actress and horror icon Dee Wallace about her new film Exit Humanity, which makes its way onto DVD June 19th. The majority of our...
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Madagascar Rules, Prometheus Opens Strong – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Wrap-Up...
A very solid weekend at the box office as two new releases had strong openings, while last week’s number one still showed some legs. Here’s how the weekend turned out: As predicted, the family friendly...
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Is There Magic In Snow White and the Huntsman?
Is it possible to applaud and cringe at the same time? Can one movie really be so divided? Well, Snow White and the Huntsman proves that you can have a wonderful awful movie. It’s been a while since...
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Rock Of Ages and That’s My Boy Have Disastrous Openings – Biff Bam Pop’s Box...
It was an absolutely abysmal weekend for two new releases looking to connect with audiences. Just how bad was it? Find out after the jump! Once again, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted topped the box...
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Brave Any Line You Must To See Brave
I’ll start out saying that I’m biased. I’m utterly in love with Pixar and the movies that they make. I can even forgive them having to make a Cars 2. We all have to make money. So I was prepared to...
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Ted Is Tops But There’s Magic For Mike And Madea – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office...
A huge weekend at the box office, with two new releases proving to be incredibly popular with audiences. So popular was one of that it managed to knock last week’s champ from the top spot! Find out how...
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Saturday At The Movies – Total Recall 2012 vs Total Recall 1990
Dear movie studios, I hate to say this because I like the guy, but if you’re looking to make a splash at the box office during the summer movie season, you must not put Colin Farrell in your tent pole...
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The Bourne Legacy Rules – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Wrap-Up Report
Matt Damon may not be onboard, but audiences still responded in a huge way to the latest entry in the Bourne franchise. Meanwhile, two other new releases posted some excellent number. Here’s how the...
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The Ten Percent: Just Whistle
“Ninety percent of everything is crud.” – Theodore Sturgeon Hello, and welcome to another installment of “The Ten Percent,” a regular column where every other week we’ll take a look at the inverse of...
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The Ten Percent –“The Chair Recognizes – Senator Smith!”
“Ninety percent of everything is crud.” – Theodore Sturgeon The balloons have fallen, the confetti has been swept up and the “vote for” signs have (mostly) been gathered and tossed. Last week was...
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Superheroes’ Secret Recipe for Success
Everyone likes a good story. Now, to be fair, some of us like them written for us, and some of us like them drawn. Some want them up on the big screen, others in the pages of a comic book (either the...
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From Paper To Film (Part 1 of 5) – Japer’s Crop Of DC Comic Characters That...
Word is quickly leaking out in regards to DC Comics parent company, Warner Brothers and its new direction when it comes to mining their stable of comic book characters and turning them into films....
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Across The Universe 5 – It’s An East Coast/West Coast/On The Ledge Kind Of Thing
On the middle Wednesday of every month, regular Biff Bam Pop! contributor, JP Fallavollita, shares his musings on comic books, comic book art, comic book collecting and the overall comic book universe....
View ArticlePrime in the Dustbin: ‘The Executioner Part II’ (1984)
When you’re in the mood for a gritty, urban action movie set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, you could do much better than The Executioner Part II, a sequel for a movie that doesn’t actually...
View ArticleTrailer Time: ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’ Blends Fact and Fiction
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, the ninth film from director Quentin Tarantino, looks like a great pastiche of the real and unreal. The story of an actor, his stuntman, Sharon Tate, and Charles Manson,...
View ArticleR.I.P. Rutger Hauer (1944 – 2019)
Rutger Hauer has passed away at the age of 75. Even if you don’t know him by name, movie fans know what he looked like. That shock of blonde hair. His face, simultaneously austere and kind. His...
View Article‘Miss Virginia’ Arrives This October from Vertical Entertainment
LOS ANGELES, July 23, 2019 – Vertical Entertainment has acquired the North America distribution rights to Miss Virginia, a drama inspired by a true story of a struggling inner-city mother who...
View Article‘Once Upon A Time In…Hollywood’ Looking For A Fairy Tale Debut
This weekend sees the release of Once Upon A Time In…Hollywood, the ninth film from Quentin Tarantino. Will it be able to compete against last week’s number one film? I’m extremely excited to see Once...
View ArticleThe Week In Horror: All Heads Turn As ‘The Hunt’ Goes Bye
You want horror? Lose your phone and laptop at the same time and then scramble to fix it all with different/older devices. *shudders* Not a great day, fiends. Anyway, here. We. Go… Universal has...
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Review: Valiant Documentary, ‘This Changes Everything,’ Probably Won’t
This isn’t a review I wanted to write. Make no mistake: I had more than a passing desire to see This Changes Everything, a fascinating documentary about discrimination against women in Hollywood. Like...
View Article‘Joker’ Laughs First Again, ‘Parasite’ Surprises in Limited Release
The controversial Joker hit the top of the box office charts for the second week, keeping both Gomez Addams and Will Smith at bay. Joker pulled in an estimated $55 million, setting the record for the...
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