Share Earlier this year a new premium cable channel called Epix was announced as a joint venture between Viacom (Paramount), Lionsgate and MGM. This initiative was partly motivated by pressure of Showtime in 2008 to lower the fees it paid to these same three movie studios, who will likely also move their movies away from Showtime in the long [...]

Share I’ve always been a Star Wars fan. I adored the first Star Wars when I saw it, but fell asleep at Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The latter was probably too sophisticated for a seven year old, but I never really got into the franchise when I grew older. Still, I find myself pretty [...]

Share Last night I went to see the new Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie, which incidentally was pretty good. However, given recent mixed reviews and the underperformance of Mission: Impossible III, I wondered just how this movie stacked up to Tom Cruise’s previous starring roles. Utilizing Rotten Tomatoes scores I complied the following historical graph showing [...]