Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘TANGO AND CASH – Armed and Definitely Dangerous’ Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘DREAMCATCHER – A Bad Case of Alien Hemorrhoids’ Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘IDIOCRACY – We’ve Got What Listeners Crave’ Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘THE BIG LEBOWSKI – The Pod Abides’ Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘FACE/OFF – Whee! What a Predicament!’ Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH – Lost in Space’

There’s no avoiding that Terminator: Dark Fate was a flop. Within two days of its release, the writing was not only on the wall, but in print. Outlets like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter pegged it to lose upward of $100 million. That projection was due, in no small part, to Dark Fate‘s abysmal opening. It made just $131 million worldwide in its premiere weekend. No amount of foresight or heroics from the future could prevent the disaster ahead. To date, it’s grossed…

Transformers: The Movie is an interesting study. It’s undeniably a flop. Finishing 14th in its opening weekend—behind About Last Night, which was in its sixth week of release—it barely cracked the top-100 for 1986. Carrying a $6 million price tag, its cost was six times greater than the budget used to create 90 minutes of the regular cartoon series. Expectations were clearly high, which is what makes its decision to kill the bulk of the primary characters from the…

We live in a day and age where people love to question and debate everything. And in certain geeky circles, it’s become popular to act like Superman, and the very idea of him, is in need of reinvention. So I thought I’d ask myself: Who is Superman to me and what does he represent to modern pop culture today? The answer can be many things and the great thing about Superman is you can see him…

“Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in, where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?” In 1989, everyone knew about Batman. He was that colorful fellow played by the now late Adam West who hung out with a young man in green short-shorts and a yellow cape who made puns while KA-POWing evildoers. He was a fun fantasy for children and adults worthy of a chuckle…