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It’s giving meme-craft.  “A Minecraft Movie” left Hollywood in a state of giddy shock when the final box office numbers for its opening weekend arrived.  The Jack Black-Jason Momoa movie, which has already become the highest grossing movie adaptation of a video game ever, ended up taking home $162.7 million in the US and $150.7 million internationally —for a combined opening haul of $313.4 m...[Read More]

A Minecraft Movie, based on the best-selling video game in the world, is, to put it lightly, an abomination. It currently sits at a “rotten” 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and Rolling Stone’s own review was far from glowing, calling it an “expensively cheap, 100-percent corporate mess.” But despite the lackluster critical reception, it had the biggest video game movie opening weekend ever, with a...[Read More]

2024 was a great year for horror. That was made abundantly clear when a film like The Substance managed to earn Best Picture and Best Director nominations at the Oscars. Now, The Substance was far from the only great horror movie last year, it just happened to be the biggest awards winner of a very stout lineup. 2024 was responsible for some incredibly chilling entries, one of which just found its...[Read More]

The two words “chicken jockey” from “A Minecraft Movie” are sparking mayhem among moviegoers, causing at least one movie theater to speak out and institute a new policy for the movie’s teenage fanbase.The “chicken jockey” rallying cry pops up in the film before Jason Momoa’s character Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison fights a child zombie who rides a chicken aka a “chicken jockey.”Scene from "A ...[Read More]