Box Office Failures Week: Zyzzyx Road (2006)
Editor’s Desk: Upon the news of his medical hardships, we’ve seen an uptick in our reviews of Tom Sizemore films, which is no way for anyone to discover an actor’s films. Regrettably, Tom—whose credits included the major studio films A Matter of Degrees, Natural Born Killers, True Romance, and Black Hawk Down—has died at the […]
Box Office Failures Week: Gods of Egypt (2016)
Remember Alex Proyas? He directed The Crow and the promise of that movie led to chance after chance, with films like I, Robot and Knowing baffling folks and still making money. He also made Dark City, a movie that I’m still kind of shocked emerged out of Hollywood. And in trivia that only my pal R. D Francis would […]
Box Office Failures Week: Hello, Dolly! (1969)
While Hello, Dolly would win three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Score of a Musical Picture and Best Sound — while also being nominated for four other Academy Awards including Best Picture — the movie was a failure and took years to finally break even. The filming of the movie was filled with arguments […]
Joe Stryker (2019)
There used to be a time when Joe Stryker was the best damn cop in the business. Then his wife got killed by a bunch of drug pushers and he spiraled out of control, just as the city he served fell apart. Now, Joe’s on the comeback, ready to make the people who made his life […]
Box Office Failures Week: Abduction (2011)
So this whole month is about flops. And this movie, well, it made $82 million worldwide against its $35 million production budget, so that’s anything more than a flop. But it’s also John Singleton’s last movie — a career that had the promise of Boyz n the Hood ended with a vehicle for the werewolf boy from Twilight. […]
Box Office Failures Week: Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
When I saw the first trailer for this movie, I thought, “No one but me is going to go see this movie.” But you know, it’s the most successful movie Robert Rodriguez ever released. And I guess it was a success — the film grossed $85.7 million domestically and $319.1 million in other territories for […]
Deadly Manor (1990)
Arrow Video put out José Ramón Larraz’s Edge of the Axe earlier this year and I loved every minute of it. While Deadly Manor isn’t quite as good, it’s still plenty strange. Just when you’re lulled into near-sleep by the numbers slasher plot, something absolutely and wonderfully bizarre happens, like the flashback to the bikers causing the […]
Box Office Failures Week: Sorcerer (1977)
We, the music and film loving dorks at B&S About Movies, remember Sorcerer for Tangerine Dream’s accompanying soundtrack*, which served as the Krautrocker’s first Hollywood film score and ninth album overall. The law-degree carrying Hollywood bean counters remember Sorcerer as a $22 million picture that made $15 million during its initial release and ended up […]
Box Office Failures Week: Glitter (2001)
Mariah Carey went into this movie as probably the biggest diva on the planet, having emancipated herself from her first marriage to Tommy Mottola and her contract with Columbia Records to become exactly who she wanted to be. She also pretty much lost her mind. As she started the publicity tour for this movie, she’d […]
Kill Ben Lyk (2018)
Three Ben Lyk’s have been murdered in London, so Scotland Yard puts all of the people with that name together until it can figure out why. Yes, a masked killer with a strange mask is wiping them all out. And that would be a bad thing for anyone but one of the Ben Lyks (Eugene Simon, […]
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