Mendelson's Memos

It would be all too easy to detail the ways in which Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park  was a game changer in the realm of summer bloc...

Disney announced two days ago that their new plans, having previously purchased Lucasfilm for $4 billion, aren't just to make a new ...

For much of the last six months, many hardcore  Star Trek  fans have been somewhat annoyed that the upcoming  Star Trek Into Darkness  has b...

As I  mentioned last week , the success of Guillermo del Toro's large-scale monsters vs. robots action tale  Pacific Rim  is at least...

I could easily spoil the vast majority of  Oblivion  merely by listing the various science fiction films from which it cribs.  From vis...

Just a few years ago, had I written a piece entitled "There are no films guaranteed to gross $1 billion this year", you likely wou...

Here's an odd statistic: Despite baseball being theoretically America's national past time and being the subject of any number of...

As I  mentioned last week , the success of Guillermo del Toro's large-scale monsters vs. robots action tale  Pacific Rim  is at least p...

Neill Blomkamp's Elysium holds the distinction of being among the very last, if not *the* very last major summer tentpole picture ...

Writer/director Brian Helgeland's 42 is an openly earnest and sentimental bit of old-school hokum.  It is the kind of studio programmer ...