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Greg W. Locke

Greg W. Locke

Whatzup Features Writer

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Memorial Day box office starts to float

This year’s Memorial Day Weekend box office was up 41,000 percent over last year’s. That is not a typo. While most weekends this year have been averaging from $10-$20 million, […]

Predicting the 2022 Oscar nominations

The box office isn’t exactly a hot topic in the U.S. We’re all still feeling let down by the recent Oscars telecast. So I figured I’d take this week to […]

Horror franchise isn’t able to bring crowds yet

The latest film in the Saw universe, Spiral, took the No. 1 spot at the box office for the second consecutive week, selling another $4.5 million and upping the flick’s […]

Tough-guy flicks help anemic box office numbers

With the movie theater industry doing everything it can to get things up and running again before summer hits, I figured it was time to see what a column covering […]

A week in the life of our ScreenTime writer

After writing last week’s Screen­Time column about the Steven Soderbergh Oscars, I had Sodey on my mind. I skimmed his Wikipedia page in awe of what a valuable, creative life […]

The weird ’21 Oscars with one big misstep

The Steven Soderbergh-produced 2021 Oscars are in the books and, welp, they sure were unique — unique to such a degree that the program resembled the loose shagginess of a […]

Looking ahead at this weekend’s Oscars

Here we finally are, better late than never, The COVID-Era Oscars. This coming Sunday, April 25, the 93rd annual Academy Awards will air worldwide following the strangest movie season. Steven […]

Tragedies are the most human of stories

This past weekend I saw Our Friend, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s film adaptation of Matthew Teague’s beloved Atlantic essay, “The Friend.” I was blown away. The filmmaking itself was only slightly above functional, allowing […]

Let’s hear it for big, dumb blockbusters

Welp, it’s happening. People are slowly starting to go to the movies again. This past weekend came in at $44 million. And no, that doesn’t sound like much but, considering […]