After last week’s middling offerings, audiences were “game” for something different. It doesn’t get much more different than a cuddly, yellow, fluffy, wise-crackin’, caffeine-addicted, pokemon with Ryan Reynolds voice. Well, minus the yellow, that might describe Seth Rogen in Long Shot too.

There’s an age-old studio tradition of giving two weeks for “mega” films before you launch another potential blockbuster. The only reason you waiver from this is either you believe that the film before you isn’t really going to do that well or you arrogantly believe you’re the one with the “big” film. I’m not saying someone who titled their film Uglydolls thought their film was going to be big, but then, wow... did they underestimate how many people wanted to see the culmination of 22 superhero films in the past 11 years.

I almost felt like I should just cut-and-paste last year’s Week 1 recap which just babbled on and on about Avengers: Infinity War breaking all these records, because, basically, history just repeated itself… but in a Marvelous way. You see, Endgame not only topped Infinity War’s $257.7 million opening weekend… it beat it by $100 million!!!

The Shamrock Shakes are gone, the Super Bloom is Super Over, and Khloe Kardashian hasn’t had a man cheat on her in the last, um, wait for it… three seconds, so it's time for the 23nd Annual Summer Movie Pool!

The Oscars Nominations have come out, the Golden Globe Winners have been announced, and, most importantly, the Razzie nominations have been lit up for all to see. It’s nice to see the things that matter can still get accomplished despite politicians shutting down everyone’s federally paid salaries except their own.

In honor of this time of year and Melissa McCarthy joining a very select group of people to voted for a Razzie and Oscar in the very same year, it’s time for the 2018 Holiday Movie Pool Final Report!!!

Ten new movies flooded the December’s landscape over the last couple weekends. People responded by saying “yes” to $25 for a movie ticket/soda combo and “no” to one-day shipping prices from Amazon. When these many films are released only some can float and others are doomed to sink. It only makes sense that the biggest hit was the one that could breathe underwater.

The weirdest part of the whole Holiday pool is the mini-break that always happens after the Thanksgiving movies. What’s often a two-week span of November leftovers became a three-week span this year due to the early Thanksgiving and the lack of any studios having any faith in their films to open during the Holidaze shopping period. You don’t think if Black Panther or Star Wars came out on November 30 people wouldn’t go see it?! If people can find a way to get porn without Starbucks, I’m pretty sure they can find a way to get to the theaters for something they actually want to see.