Showing posts with label This Weekend in Pop Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This Weekend in Pop Culture. Show all posts

Saturday, September 5, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: September 4-6

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

By Any Means
A hitman and an FBI agent team up to investigate the killings of civil rights leaders.

Fall 2: Deadpoint
After her sister dies in a climbing accident, a woman and her friend climb a mountain on a plank walk, because stupidity apparently runs in their family.

Onslaught
A mother protects her daughter from an unstoppable killing machine.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, August 29, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: August 28-30

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Coyote vs. Acme
The movie that Warner Bros. didn't want you to see gets released... no, not "Batgirl," the other one.

The Dog Stars
In a post-apocalyptic world, two men hope for a better life. Good luck with that.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, August 22, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: August 21-23

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Insidious: Out of the Further
Now competing with "Metallica: Through the Never" for the Most Ridiculous Subtitle award.

It Ends
A group of friends drive down a seemingly endless road.

Mutiny
Jason Statham kills people, part 300.

Spa Weekend
A quartet of ladies get together for a spa weekend. What? That's the entire plot, I swear.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, August 15, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: August 14-16

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

The Brink of War
The story of the Reykjavik Summit of 1986.

The End of Oak Street
A neighborhood is mysteriously transported from suburbia to the time of dinosaurs or something.

The Rivals of Amziah King
A girl returns to the care of her foster parent, a beekeeper, and investigates the disappearance of his beehives.

The Wrong Girls
Two stoners get wrapped up in a case of mistaken identity.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, August 8, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: August 7-9

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Ice Cream Man
A horror film about an evil ice cream man. No, Clint Howard isn't playing the ice cream man.

One Night Only
Set in an alternate reality where single people are only allowed to have sex on one night every year... what? It's a comedy, not a horror film!

Super Troopers 3
There is no franchise so stupid that Hollywood will not fund a sequel to it.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
A director hired to reboot a horror franchise becomes obsessed with the actress who played the series' original final girl.

Tony
The story of how Anthony Bourdain came to work in a kitchen.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, August 1, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: July 31-August 2

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

I Want Your Sex
A young man becomes an artist's sexual muse.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Spider-Man fights to prevent Sony from trying to reboot "Madame Web" and "Morbius."

What have you been watching?

Saturday, July 25, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: July 24-26

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend. (Not that there's much, seems everyone's scared of "The Odyssey.")

Her Private Hell
Nicolas Winding Refn goes all Nicolas Winding Refn over Tokyo.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, July 18, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: July 17-19

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

The Odyssey
The latest excuse for some IMAXes to break out their film projectors arrives.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, July 11, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: July 10-12

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Evil Dead Burn
More "Evil Dead" antics, without the leavening Ash Williams ingredient.

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
A Midwestern couple has a celebrity "hall pass" agreement... but what happens when one of them actually uses it?

Moana
Remember that animated movie you liked? Here it is regurgitated in live-action.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, July 4, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: July 3-5

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Minions & Monsters
What a strange sequel to "Gods and Monsters."

Young Washington
George Washington, depicted before his Presidency or the Revolutionary War or anything else most people would care about.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, June 27, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 26-28

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

The Invite
A bickering couple gets an unusual invitation from their neighbors.

Jackass: Best and Last
A bunch of idiots hurt themselves to try and amuse the audience... but now they're really old.

Supergirl
Superman's cousin has to save the world, because apparently every other superhero was busy.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, June 20, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 19-21

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

The Death of Robin Hood
Robin Hood, um, dies?

Girls Like Girls
A girl has a sexual awakening with one of her friends.

Toy Story 5
The toys return to tackle screen addiction in a movie that a lot of people will probably watch on a tablet.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, June 13, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 12-14

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Disclosure Day
Aliens exist? Maybe?

Stop! That! Train!
A parody of disaster films set on a train. It can't be as bad as "Scary Movie" looked, right? Right?

What have you been watching?

Saturday, June 6, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 5-7

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Masters of the Universe
A live-action adaptation of the cartoon rip-off of "Conan the Barbarian."

Scary Movie
Prepare for more horror films to be mocked in a way that shows that the writers probably didn't watch the movies!

What have you been watching?

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Saturday, May 23, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: May 22-24

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

I Love Boosters
A shoplifter gets revenge on the mogul who ripped off her design.

Passenger
A demonic entity stalks a young couple on a road trip. Not to be confused with the Chris Pratt-Jennifer Lawrence movie "Passengers." (Sorry for reminding you of that one.)

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
As usual, the Onion hit the nail on the head.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, May 16, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: May 15-17

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

In the Grey
A trio of agents set out to recover billions stolen from a rich man.

Is God Is
Two young women are instructed to kill their evil father by their dying mother.

Obsession
A young man makes a wish for a girlfriend, and soon comes to regret it.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, May 9, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: May 8-10

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Mortal Kombat II
Fighting!

The Sheep Detectives
A shepherd's flock investigates his murder.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, May 2, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: May 1-3

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Animal Farm
Orwell's allegory of life under Communism is made into a fart-joke-laden family film. I dread what they'll do for "1984."

The Devil Wears Prada 2
A sequel? In May? Groundbr... oh never mind.

What have you been watching?

Saturday, April 25, 2026

This Weekend in Pop Culture: April 24-26

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Michael
The life and times of Michael Jackson, as embodied by his just-close-enough-in-appearance-to-be-creepy-but-not-close-enough-to-be-convincing nephew!

What have you been watching?