DON'T PANIC!! This should be a very familiar phrase. It's inscribed in big friendly letters on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, be...

Sad news happens all the time around the planet, and each sad story is of different proportions. I can't say that the news that shook my world (and some of yours, who are reading this) this week could be considered terrible in regards to what many societies are going through every day. The fact is, ...

Greetings, Moguls! With Thanksgiving just a day away, and the unfortunate news that Fantasy Moguls is being discontinued, this week's column marks a sort of deviation from the norm, for me. Tossing price and strategy analysis aside, and focusing instead on personal opinion and the holiday's theme of...

Steve Mason is now on Facebook and also on Twitter (For immediate box office updates, "follow" me.)   TUESDAY 9:30 p.m. (Pacific): The general consensus is that, although Four Christmases (Warner Bros) is a flawed movie (I’m being kind), it is going to open. It is very well cast wit...

[NOTE: Shrykespeare submitted this column prior to Monday's announcement regarding the future of Fantasy Moguls.] Good day, fellow intrepid travelers of the murky moors of Fantaversia, and welcome to the latest installment of Bard's Eye View. The calendar year is winding down, and studios are hoping...

Steve Mason is now on Facebook and also on Twitter (For immediate box office updates, "follow" me). FRIDAY 9:30 p.m. (Pacific): Vampire Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, the leading characters in the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, may be models for abstinence and chastity, bu...

Steve Mason is now on Facebook. Steve Mason is also on Twitter with user name SteveMason323. For immediate box office updates, "follow" me. A housewife in suburban Phoenix is responsible for the movie that will dominate America's multiplexes this weekend. Twilight (Summit) is a phenomenon ...

America is a nation of proud people. Proud of their country, proud of their image, proud of their beliefs. The feeling of collective confidence is probably more developed than in any other nation on the globe. That pride does not skip the cinema, and by the calendar alone, it is easy to guess which ...

Hello, good day to you all, and welcome once again to Bard's Eye View. Being Fantay Moguls's second-most-tenured weekly columnist (after the August Mister Informative) gives me a unique perspective. On the one hand, I'd like to think my position commands a certain amount of respect, but there are al...

Steve Mason is now on Facebook. SUNDAY 12:00 p.m. (Pacific): The audacious reboot of the James Bond franchise paid off big with 2006's Casino Royale, and now Quantum of Solace (Sony) has hit an even bigger box-office jackpot. Whereas Daniel Craig's 007 debut opened with $40.8 million, the new Bond, ...