Jim Dixon is a writer, retired lawyer and unapologetic, lifelong movie geek. He firmly believes that virtually everything you need to know in life you can learn at the movies. Jim is also the Fanboys Examiner.
June 6th will be National Drive-In Movie Day. America’s first drive-in movie theatre opened in Camden, New Jersey June 6, 1933. It was a radical idea at the time, but what keeps people coming...
Focus Features has released the official trailer for "Hyde Park on Hudson," a movie that stars Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. You can watch the trailer here for yourself, by clicking the lower box on...
Leisurely almost to a fault, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is a talk-heavy movie that gets away with it largely due to a cast of THOSE BRITS who shine at making talk sound good. Based on...
Parents usually dread “family movies,” and not without reason. “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” is one they don’t have to. "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" looks like a kids...
There are odd echoes of “First Blood” in “The Lucky One,” which is basically a big-budget Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie. Zac Ephron is, to be charitable, cast against type as Logan, an ex...
Lee Hirsch’s documentary “Bully” is probably going to make you mad. Hopefully it will make you mad as hell and determined not to take it anymore. In any event, Hirsch's movie pulls...
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that the New York Yankees are the latest in a long list of celebrities and public figures stepping up to support the documentary “Bully.” The team recently shot a public service announcement...
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that the MPAA has lowered the R rating, given for some language, for “Bully” to a PG-13 in time for the film’s April 13th expansion to 55 markets.The...
“American Reunion,” the third direct sequel to 1999’s “American Pie,” is a class reunion of the original "American Pie" cast, and it does revolve around a high school reunion. High school...
Smart and sweet aren’t adjectives that often get applied to the same movie, but they both apply to “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” the new movie by Lasse Hallström (“What’s Eating Gilbert...