Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend Star Trek into Darkness Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto If you’re wondering who’s been handed the keys to the kingdom, it’s J.J. Abrams. After executive-producing two of television’s biggest hits of the last decade (Fox’s Alias and ABC’s Lost), he turned his attention to film directing with Mission:...

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend   The Great Gatsby Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire Following the success of the visually and musically striking Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrmann could have set his sights on pretty much any property. Soon after, he announced that his next project was going to be a bio-pic of Alexander the Great...

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend   Iron Man 3 Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow Blind Faith. Humble Pie. Power Station. The Honeydrippers. The Traveling Wilburys. These are what music fans call supergroups, glorified garage bands stuffed with more over-the-hill rock stars than an episode of Celebrity Rehab. But what about comic book...

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend   Pain & Gain Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson OK, there’s an elephant in the room. True, Mark Wahlberg began his career as Marky Mark, lead rapper of the Funky Bunch. That’s ancient history, however. You see, he’s earned some good vibrations from Hollywood. The rapping gig and a short stint as an...

Reel Report By Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend   Oblivion Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman The 21st century didn’t start out so well for the biggest movie star in the world. After Tom Cruise’s headline-grabbing departure (ahem, firing) from Paramount in 2006 (he and producing partner Paula Wagner had been producing movies at the studio for 14 years),...

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend 42 Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight With 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, moviegoers championed the return of a film icon and the Hollywood legend that brought him to life. Indeed, after years of starring in substandard fare (K-19: The Widowmaker, Hollywood Homicide, Firewall),...

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend Jurassic Park 3D Sam Neill, Laura Dern In Hollywood, it takes a special filmmaker who can teeter between popcorn blockbusters and award-baiting fare. But legendary director Steven Spielberg seems to have perfected this art. In 1984, filmgoers enjoyed his twin offerings of Indiana Jones and the Temple Doom and...

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend   G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson After years of dishing his signature ‘People’s Elbow’ move on countless testosterone-fueled WWE opponents, pro wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson probably never thought that his career would go the way of Don Knotts (The Incredible Mr....

Reel Report by Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend Admission Tina Fey, Paul Rudd Over its nearly 38-year run, NBC’s Saturday Night Live has launched more than a few movie careers. When one reads through a listing of the legendary program’s alumni, the roster is like a ‘Who’s Who’ of comedy superstars—John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dan...

Reel Report By Jeff Boam   Opening This Weekend The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Steve Carell, Jim Carrey When NBC remade the hit BBC comedy The Office for U.S. audiences, Steve Carell (Anchorman, The 40 Year-Old Virgin) was the most marketable name in the program’s cast. There was no telling how successful this re-do would become, however. After nearly...