Film Review: ‘The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature’ Starring Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature is the sequel that nobody asked for, and is the follow-up to its 2013 predecessor (you guessed it!), The Nut Job. Did you know it even existed? I didn’t. In this film, we follow Surly Squirrel: an egotistical purple squirrel voiced by Will Arnett (whom I found to be quite a […]
Review: ‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ Starring Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson
In February of 2014, the first full-length feature LEGO movie took the world by storm. The film made an incredible $469 million worldwide on a budget of only $60 million. The film solidified two absolutes. One, the directors of the film (Chris Miller and Phil Lord) were not one hit wonders with their brilliant adaptation […]
190: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows… allow us to be the first to point out that they never actually exit in said shadows. And it’s all downhill from there. The film starts stupid and gets stupider. Tom and Dan have no childhood nostalgia for TMNT, but that didn’t help Kevin and Michael much. […]
189: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’ Box Office (6/3 – 6/5)
This week Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows tops a weak box office. Joe is out but Michael Haffner returns. We talk about the X-Men billboard controversy, why Alice Through the Looking Glass is tanking, and what exactly constitutes an “Old Timey Reference.” It’s Reel Spoilers 189: Box Office Report (6/3 – 6/5). […]
Movie Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
For the past few months, fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been blasting producer Michael Bay and director Jonathon Liebesman about their reboot of the popular franchise. While a lot of the comic purists cringe at the thought of Bay heading another unnecessary reboot, the outcome is actually pretty enjoyable. Lieberman’s TMNT is […]
32: ‘The LEGO Movie’ Starring Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett
This week on Reel Spoilers everything is awesome. And if you’re one of the people who helped The Lego Movie rack up $69 million in its opening weekend then that song is now stuck in your head. You’re welcome. But it’s veritable love-fest on the show this week as we all take turns gushing over […]
THE LEGO MOVIE opens February 7! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pass for four! This original 3D computer-animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a […]
THE NUT JOB opens January 17! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pass for two! In animated 3D, THE NUT JOB is an action-packed comedy in fictional Oakton that follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much […]
Despicable Me
Despicable Me is a bland effort around an interesting idea that barely salvages itself from travesty with a pretty decent finale. The film follows Gru, a villain of the world who hasn’t had a note worthy diabolical scheme in some time. Added to this he has been recently upstaged by a young and upcoming villain, […]
Jonah Hex
The latest, and possibly most under the radar, comic book film this summer is the adaptation of Jonah Hex and the results are a mixed bag as the films focus seems to be in a lot of wrong places. Hex is a Confederate soldier of some rank but when he turns on his regiment and […]
