TRAILER: Crime is legal for one day a year in ‘Purge’
What if unemployment was 1% and crime was at an all-time low, all because all crime was legal for one day a year? That’s the question posed by The Purge, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey (aka...
View ArticleThis Week in Posters: The Rock is Still Super Buff
First up on This Week in Posters, Brad Pitt in World War Z. I think I heard the new tagline for this somewhere, but it must’ve been too long to fit on the poster:It’s not a journey. Every journey ends,...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Purge, Year One
The Purge, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, opens tomorrow, and the plot of that one is that crime is legal for one day a year, which lets people get their urges out of their systems and makes the...
View ArticleWeekend Movie Guide: Much Ado About The Internship
HAHAHAHAHAHA, GROWN MEN RIDING BIKES!Opening Everywhere: The Internship, The PurgeOpening Somewhere: Much Ado About NothingFilmDrunk Suggests: This is not what the ancient Romans would refer to as a...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘The Purge’ earned 12 times its budget this weekend, Internship...
I don’t pretend to understand the appeal of horror movies, but at this point it seems clear that horror fans are the most enthusiastic and least discerning of all moviegoers, which coincidentally are...
View ArticleFive Non-Blockbuster SF Movies To Look Forward To In 2013
Often, the best science fiction and fantasy movies are not the ones with enormous budgets. They’re the mid-budgeted movies. For example, Dredd choked in theaters but it turned up on a surprising number...
View ArticleWatch The Nightmarish New Trailer For ‘The Purge’ Starring Ethan Hawke
Words By Dr Hip-Hop | @DrHipHop85 Summer time is easily the best time of the year when it comes to movies. Sure the winter is when all the Oscar buzz-worthy flicks hit the big screen but the summer is...
View ArticleMemorial Day Movie Showdown: ‘After Earth’ Vs. ‘The Purge’
Memorial Day is shaping up to be the weekend of SF throwbacks, both to ecopocalypses and crime apocalypses. In one corner, we’ve got huge would-be blockbuster After Earth, and in the other, we’ve got...
View ArticleUPROXX Video: The Purge, Year One
According to the new horror-thriller The Purge the United States in 2022 has become a country almost devoid of crime thanks to an annual 12-hour period of time where anything goes without punishment,...
View ArticleThe Summer Of Nerd: How Geeky Movies Did At The Box Office
This was a somewhat low key box office season; by all accounts receipts were mediocre, with only a few movies really taking in the gold. And a lot of them were movies for geeks. Now that the last SF...
View ArticleThis New Couple Is Sh*t Out Of Luck In ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ Trailer
Next up on the list of wildly successful horror films with modest budgets to receive a sequel is The Purge, which earned a whopping $89 million worldwide on a budget of just $3 million. While it’s not...
View ArticleA Louisville Teen Tricked The Cops Into Thinking A ‘Purge’ Was Coming
Universal Pictures The idea of The Purge is better than the 2013 movie of the same name. Basically, for one night only, anything goes — you can murder someone, you can steal a car, you can loiter under...
View Article‘The Purge 3′ Is Happening Because It’s Easier Than Printing Money
Universal Pictures (original) Writer and director James DeMonaco probably didn’t need very much convincing from the studios and productions companies to sit down and fire out the screenplay for a third...
View ArticleIt’s Your Civic Duty To Watch The Latest Trailer For ‘The Purge: Election Year’
No matter your political affiliation, it’s fair to concede that the current race for the White House has been a non-stop carnival of batsh*t crazy. It’s the sort of climate that makes the world of The...
View Article‘The Purge’ Franchise Named As The Inspiration For An Accused Killer’s Crimes
Universal Pictures (original) Every now and then you might see a news story where someone commits a crime and states that they were inspired by some sort of pop-art. We’ve seen this with the Grand...
View Article‘The Purge: Election Year’ Is Another Waste Of A Clever Idea
Universal Once upon a time — three years ago, to be exact — The Purge was merely a derivative home invasion thriller with the skein of political relevance, using a dumb hook about a night of national...
View ArticleExclusive: Hear the first sounds from the ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ soundtrack
Fans of 2013's “The Purge” should ready themselves with round two from “The Purge: Anarchy,” to the strains of the same composer from the first scary flick. Nathan Whitehead returned to score the...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ improves on first film, but not enough to make...
Universal Pictures It's safe to say I was not a fan of “The Purge.” James DeMonaco, who wrote and directed the first film, is back to do both jobs again this time, and I think he's made leaps and...
View ArticleBox office: ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ tops ‘Sex Tape’ and ‘Planes’ on Friday with...
Universal Pictures The annual Purge is being felt at the box office. Universal's horror sequel “The Purge: Anarchy” was No. 1 with moviegoers on Friday night, scaring up a solid $13 million, but...
View ArticleBox office: ‘Lucy’ outsmarts the competition with $17.1 million Friday
Universal Pictures It was brains over brawn at the box office Friday night, as “Lucy” easily topped “Hercules” for first place. The Scarlett Johansson thriller — about a synthetic drug that massively...
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