"The Popcorn Champs"

• film The first Harry Potter movie preserved everything in the book… except its magic By Tom Breihan December 11, 2020 | 6:00am
• film The 20th century ended with the creative whimper and box-office bang of The Phantom Menace By Tom Breihan November 13, 2020 | 6:00am
• film Saving Private Ryan brought some gravitas to a summer of loud, dumb Hollywood spectacles By Tom Breihan October 30, 2020 | 11:00am
• film At the height of the cynical ’90s, Titanic’s heartfelt spectacle became king of the world By Tom Breihan October 16, 2020 | 5:00am
• film For better or worse, Independence Day supersized the blockbuster spectacle By Tom Breihan October 2, 2020 | 5:00am
• film Tom Hanks helped mythologize a whole generation in the boomer blockbuster Forrest Gump By Tom Breihan September 4, 2020 | 5:00am
• film Jurassic Park gave the whole world the Spielberg Face By Tom Breihan August 21, 2020 | 5:00am
• film Loaded with Robin Williams riffs and killer songs, Aladdin was a whole new world for animated movies By Tom Breihan August 7, 2020 | 5:00am
• film Schwarzenegger hit his apex as a movie star and an actor in the record-breaking Terminator 2 By Tom Breihan July 24, 2020 | 11:00am
• film Home Alone made a generation of kids cheer—and probably scarred them for life By Tom Breihan July 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
• film Rain Man’s movie-star chemistry holds up better than its depiction of autism By Tom Breihan June 12, 2020 | 11:00am
• film Somehow, bogus big-screen sitcom Three Men And A Baby became the biggest hit of 1987 By Tom Breihan May 29, 2020 | 11:00am
• film Top Gun is the sleekest, horniest recruitment ad of the 1980s By Tom Breihan May 15, 2020 | 11:00am
• film Though set in two bygone eras, Back To The Future is timeless blockbuster fun By Tom Breihan May 1, 2020 | 11:00am
• film Eddie Murphy crashed through a glass ceiling of Hollywood stardom with Beverly Hills Cop By Tom Breihan April 17, 2020 | 11:00am
• film The ’80s blockbuster era really began with Return Of The Jedi and the millions of toys it sold By Tom Breihan April 3, 2020 | 11:00am
• film With E.T., Steven Spielberg channeled his own pain into a soulful all-time smash By Tom Breihan March 20, 2020 | 11:00am
• film Indiana Jones made his Nazi-punching debut in the ultimate Disneyland ride of a movie By Tom Breihan March 6, 2020 | 12:00pm
• film Sequels got deeper and more ambitious with The Empire Strikes Back By Tom Breihan February 21, 2020 | 12:00pm
• film A young John Travolta made Grease watchable—and a huge box-office smash By Tom Breihan January 24, 2020 | 12:00pm
• film The first Star Wars is still the weirdest trip to the galaxy far, far away By Tom Breihan January 10, 2020 | 12:00pm
• film More than mere schmaltz, Rocky tells an underdog story of mythic force By Tom Breihan December 27, 2019 | 2:00pm
• film From the depths of a disastrous shoot swam Jaws, the ultimate summer blockbuster By Tom Breihan December 13, 2019 | 2:00pm
• film Blazing Saddles punched up—knocking out horses and a racist America in one swing By Tom Breihan November 1, 2019 | 11:00am
• film For all its blood, vomit, and obscenities, The Exorcist was a blockbuster of traditional values By Tom Breihan October 18, 2019 | 11:00am