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The summer of 2010 was a bit underwhelming as far as movies went — but summer 2011's looking like the craziest of them all, with the densest concentration of nerd-candy ever. At least, Jon Favreau is calling it a "bloodbath." More »
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2010 was a hideous summer for movies. This got us wondering: When did the truly great summer movies come out? So we did some research - and created a chart that will make you weep with joy. More »
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With Summer 2009 well and truly behind us, it's worth taking a look back and wondering: What movies were the big hits of the season? The answer may depend on how you define "big hit," but here's our guide. More »
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With District 9 a bona fide hit and GI Joe amazing all by not crashing and burning, the summer movie season of 2009 has ended just as it began: Surprising a lot of people. What lessons can we learn? More »
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A lot of underdog movies are coming out this summer (and some of them will be just plain dogs.) Which of these scrappy up-and-comers will tear out your wallet with its bloody celluloid teeth? More »
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Some of the biggest icons in science fiction are battling for your dollars this summer, including Star Trek, Terminator and Transformers. Who's going to lose? More »
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Now that the summer movie juggernaut is starting to sputter, we can start to see which movie franchises are bursting with potential, and which ones are just bursting. Of all the summer blockbusters that helped keep your popcorn-eating arm in motion, which is most badly in need of a vacation? Not a summary execution, mind you, just a nice, long, relaxing stay on a farm somewhere. With goats and a fishing stream. More »
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You might have noticed a distinct lack of female heroes at the movies this summer, Sex And The City aside. It's almost as if the studios decided women couldn't carry a big movie — but nah, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Luckily, the summer's big movies have a wealth of female supporting leads, and almost any one of them could carry a movie of their own. (Let's just pretend Catwoman and Elektra never existed, 'kay?) Which one of these sidekicks deserves to kick up her heels in her own film? More »
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With more big summer spectacles exploding, laser-blasting and CGI-ing all over the place, is serious, thoughtful science fiction being pushed out? Have movies like Transformers or Star Wars tractor-beamed the genre of science fiction away from perceived as serious literature, even in the book world? And which giant battle cruiser of a movie deserves the most blame for turning the genre into an amusement park ride instead of an exploration of our place in the universe? Vote for your scapegoat below. More »
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This summer will be the biggest "blockbuster" movie season ever, with no fewer than 23 would-be smash hits coming out between early May and mid-August. It didn't used to be this way. Back in the mists of time — like, say, in the late 1990s — there were only one or two big science fiction movies per summer, and only a handful of huge summer movies total. But summer movies have gotten bigger and more franchise-driven in the past decade, and science fiction is at the center of that transformation. We chart the rise of summer-movie gridlock, with a list of every summer scifi hit since 1980. More »
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Out of a dozen or so scifi movies coming out this summer, only four of them are absolutely bulletproof, according to you, our readers. Ten of this summer's science fiction films are in danger of falling into obscure-cult-classic territory — or worse. But there's also an excellent chance that at least one underdog will become a smash hit that nobody could have predicted. Which movie do you think will be the most surprising hit of the summer? More »
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This summer movie season will be like a traffic jam of Transformers wannabes, with more sequels and potential franchises coming out than ever before. And it's just barely possible that every single one of these films will be a mega-smash hit. It just doesn't seem very likely somehow. Click through to vote for the biggest box-office disappointment of summer 2008. More »
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The summer movie season now officially begins in early May, thanks to last year's blockbuster May releases: Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. This May, there are no fewer than 23 movies coming out, including "tentpole" films Iron Man, Speed Racer, Narnia and Indiana Jones. And the schedule is overcrowded with wannabe blockbusters all summer long, raising the chances that we'll see some high-profile flops. [Variety] More »
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Those teaser posters that claim Star Trek will beam into theaters this Christmas will be collector's items some day. Paramount has delayed the film until the summer of 2009. The 2008 summer crop of films looks like a geek traffic jam: Iron Man, Indiana Jones IV, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy 2, X-Files 2, Quantum of Solace, and Wall-E will all be competing for your box office bucks. But Trek's only real competition in summer 2009 may be the Wolverine movie and Angels and Demons, the Da Vinci Code prequel. It's also possible that with the writers' strike finally over, J.J. Abrams hopes to do some rewrites and reshoots. More »
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