Couch Potato Commentater Blog

Box Office Psychic: May 25th Weekend

As I sit in my chair and close my eyes and enter my box office psychic plane, which is really just my office with the door closed, I’ve come to the conclusion that Earth’s Mightiest [...]

2012/05/24

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Moms Love The Avengers Too

If you read my box office psychic column last Friday, I predicted The Avengers to fall short of the $100 million mark for the film’s second weekend in U.S. theaters. I thought our heroes would [...]

2012/05/14

Box Office $$ Psychic: May 11th Weekend

It’s time for me, the Couch Potato Commentater to read the tea leaves and look into my crystal ball and predict the box office winner for the weekend of May 11th. The Avengers smashed through [...]

2012/05/11

Adam Yauch and the Beastie Legacy

A little after noon this past Friday while sitting in the theater preparing to watch The Avengers, I began to receive text messages that Adam Yauch may have died. Soon after the credits rolled I [...]

2012/05/08

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Box Office Heroes

The Avengers assembled a ton of cash over the weekend to break the boy wizard’s record from last summer for biggest opening weekend ever. Earth’s mightiest heroes Hulk-smashed their way past box office expectations pulling [...]

2012/05/07

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The Avengers: A Nerds Fantasy

If you have read my columns on CW44.com you may have realized I’m a huge nerd. As corny as this sounds, The Avengers opening this weekend is one of my fan boy dreams come true. [...]

2012/05/01

Bieber Respect

I know how this looks. You read the title of this column and think that someone has hijacked CW44.com and has taken of over the Couch Potato page. No, it’s me, and I’m actually going [...]

2012/04/23

$200 Million and Rising

In the summer of 1995, poor Kevin Costner was getting destroyed by the media for starring in and producing the film Waterworld, which had an estimated budget of 180 million dollars. Movie-goers had never seen [...]

2012/04/17

Lockout: Movie Review

This week I got to see a sneak peek on the movie Lockout… here’s what I thought about it! When I saw Memento over 12 years ago, I thought Guy Pearce was going to be [...]

2012/04/12

Will “Arrow” Hit Its Target?

Ever since The CW announced that the network was moving ahead with a planned Green Arrow TV series called Arrow, I have been excited with the prospect of another cool superhero getting his own series. [...]

2012/03/28