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It’s opening day, and “Money” only has nine reviews so far. None of them are positive. All nine reviews came from a mixture of mainstream critics and onliners. Frank Scheck of the Hollywood Reporter thinks the film is “woefully executed.” Online critic Dustin Putman agrees with Scheck, calling the filmmaking “inept” and “reeking of rote desperation.” Peter Howell of the Toronto Star goes a bit further saying, even compared to a sitcom, it’s “an insult to sitcoms.” Another onliner Brian Orndoft thinks people who aren’t fans of the novel should “walk away.” That’s just a sampling of what appeared on Rotten Tomatoes so far.

The movie that pops out at me for Best Picture noms is “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” a 9/11 drama about a kid dealing with the loss of his father. Film critics didn’t think much of it. The film’s Tomatometer is 47%. There are lots of other deserving movies that the Academy could have chosen for this list.

This week at the box office, both “Underworld: Awakening” and “Red Tails” performed at the upper end of predictions. “Haywire” did as predicted, but gets trashed by audiences.

It’ll be a major victory for George Lucas and the Black community if the film wins the weekend. Lucas has been developing the project for about twenty years. None of the studios wanted to fund the war movie about the Tuskegee airmen, reportedly because they didn’t think a film with a mostly Black cast would make enough to justify the $58M budget.

At this rate, Donnie Yen will never find time to make “Ip Man 3.” He just signed up for another actioner titled “Special Identity,” in which he’ll take on Vincent Zhao. For those not in the know, Zhao played Beggar Su in Yuen Woo-Ping’s “True Legend.” He also took on Jet Li in “Fong Sai Yuk” (a.k.a “The Legend”).

Today, I spotted another review from Renuka Vyavahare of Times of India. “If you like video game-esque action, blood and gore, gothic fiction this is your film,” she says. Overall, it’s a solid endorsement. That’s why Screen Gems isn’t forcing her to take it down.

While researching movies nominated for the Golden Globes, I noticed that the Iranian family drama \"A Separation\" was the only movie on the list with a perfect score on the Tomatometer. What\'s more amazing is that it did it with 68 reviews.

George Lucas put a lot of his own money into making and marketing “Red Tails,” a war epic about a group of African-American pilots who fought against the Germans in World War II. There’s reportedly an hour of spectacular aerial battles. Yet, I don’t think that’s enough to put enough people in seats to make back his investment.