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Blog Entries by Scott Mendelson from 04/2010

Review: Clash of the Titans: The 2D 35mm Experience (2010)

| Posted 04.02.2010
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Filmed in revolutionary 2D with 35millimeter film, this groundbreaking epic allows you to view a technological breakthrough using just your own two eyes.

Clash Takes Top Spot, While Tyler Perry Soars and Miley Cyrus Opens Well: Weekend Box Office (04/04/10)

| Posted 04.05.2010
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Everyone won during a crowded Easter weekend, as three major new releases faced off against several strong holdovers for a whopping $177 million total.

Blu Ray Review: The Lord of the Rings

| Posted 04.06.2010
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They are the finest fantasy films ever made. Yet when the time came to tally up the cinematic achievements of the past decade, the one trilogy to rule them all was strangely missing from many of the lists.

Review: Kick-Ass (2010)

| Posted 04.09.2010

Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass is a film constantly at war with itself. It pertains to be a realistic story about what would happen if people decided to become masked avengers in a real big city, but it quickly gives way to implausibility.

Weekend Box Office Review (04/11/10)

| Posted 04.11.2010

Since the top three movies are uncommonly close this weekend, rankings could be affected by the final numbers when released tomorrow. There was only one new release this weekend, Date Night.

The Chronology of the $300 Million Movie

| Posted 04.13.2010

Disney's tentpole became just the eighth film to cross $300 million that was not released in either May, June, or July.

TV Review: Mega Piranha (2010)

| Posted 04.15.2010
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Mega Piranha 2010 90 minutes not rated by Scott Mendelson Mega Piranha is everything Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus wanted to be but wasn't. It is co...

When Unrealistic Expectations Attack: Kick-Ass Opens to $19 Million Debut Weekend

| Posted 04.18.2010

To the surprise of many who obviously had no idea how the movie business works, Kick-Ass did not in fact set the movie-going world on fire this weekend.

Forest for the Trees: How Some Critics Missed the Complexity of Hit Girl

| Posted 04.21.2010

We all say we want empowering female characters who can play in the action sandbox. Yet we collectively cringe when said female heroes receive the same kind of brutal violence that is visited upon male action heroes.

Amanda Seyfried: the Official Superhero Counter-Programming of our Time

| Posted 04.23.2010
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Apparently the only weapon that rival studios have against the onslaught of major genre pictures is one Amanda Seyfried.

Weekend Box Office in Review

| Posted 04.26.2010

If at first you don't succeed... After narrowly missing a return to first place last weekend, Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon easily took the top spot in its fifth frame.

HuffPost Review: The Human Centipede

| Posted 04.27.2010
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While The Human Centipede smartly holds its gore in reserve, giving you only enough gruesome imagery to dread the gruesome moment, the fact remains that the picture has no real purpose beyond being 'shocking.'

The Revolving Door of Twilight Directors

| Posted 04.29.2010

It is quite interesting that Summit is so determined not to maintain the slightest bit of directorial consistency with a series that none the less maintains a rigorous narrative continuity.