January and February are often described as being black holes for movie watching. The more prestige movies have all been released in time for the awards season, leaving the studios to fill the screens with the dregs left at the bottom of their barrels. Well, we here at the Lambcast seem to follow a similar schedule because, just as last January we celebrated the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Timecop, this month we get down and confused with...
This week on the LAMBScores we’ve an eclectic trio of films – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Mr. Turner and Annie. Check out the reviews below and don’t forget to have your own say in the forums.
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We’ve got new set of reviews for you this week, with a pair of releases from opposite ends of the quality spectrum. Chris Rock’s new comedy Top Five is also a Top Ten, finding a spot among the year’s highest LAMBScores. On the other hand, the controversial biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings failed to impress. Check out what the LAMB...
While the box office is heated this week for the holidays, the LAMBScores only brings us one new gift. Found out below if Reese Witherspoon brought joy to the lammies with her new film Wild.
Rotten Tomatoes: 4.65...
The latest Movie of the Month has been decided upon!
2014 may be coming to a close, but right around that corner there’s a whole new year, full of months just waiting to have movies assigned to them. As usual, the first of these will be January, and once again a bunch of movies were vying for the coveted title of Movie of the Month. There were a few films that took an early lead, but right near the end there was a sudden...
We’re back this week a new set of reviews for you. Check out what the lammies had to say about The Theory of Everything, The Babadook and Horrible Bosses 2:
Rotten Tomatoes: 4.05 (81%)
We’ve only got one new release on top this week, but it’s a big one. It’s none other than The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Did the lammies dig this first part of the franchise’s conclusion? Find out below and don’t forget to add your reviews in the forums.
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’twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except… for the five of us on this podcast talking about Die Hard 2.
It’s the first ever festive-special Movie of the Month (not counting Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which won regardless of its Christmas-setting) and the character-actor filled action sequel won the poll, allowing Will Slater to take another turn in the...
We’ve got a jam-packed lineup of new releases for you this week, so let’s dig right in. Check out the reviews below for: Birdman, Whiplash, Beyond the Lights, Foxcatcher, Rosewater and Dumb and Dumber To.
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One of the more fascinating box office match-ups played out recently with a pair of high profile November releases. In the end, it was Big Hero 6 that came out on top with its opening weekend gross over Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Of course, this doesn’t speak to the relative quality of either film. Check out the reviews below to see...
The latest Movie of the Month has been decided upon!
Seeing as we’re rounding the snow-covered, fairy-lighted, tinsel-bedecked corner of the Holiday Season, we’re having a special festive-themed Movie of the Month for December. I put the call out for movies and champions, and a decidedly eclectic mix of Christmas movies were entered. We had everything from classic family to foreign warfare, forgotten horror to...
We’ve got a creepy double feature on tap for the LAMBScores this week. First up, we have a gaunt Jake Gyllenhaal playing an overzealous journalist in Nightcrawler. We also have Daniel Radcliffe in a strange predicament with Horns. Check out the reviews below and don’t forget to submit yours in the forums.
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