So we're back with another look at the movies coming out in two months or more. Originally I wanted to look at the two movies pening on the weekend of April 12, but then Screen Gems moved their horror remake of Evil Dead up a week to April 5, meaning it wouldn't open directly against Dimension Films' return to horror spoofs with Scary Movie 5. Undaunted, we're going to still look at both of their box office prospects and how this move might potentially help both of them.

Both movies have seemingly been in development or talks for years, at least since the middle of the last decade with Scary Movie 5 following nearly seven years after the last installment in a series that saw four movies released in four years. Even though it opens one week later, we're going to look at that one first since it's somewhat of a known quantity.

I was really hoping something would change in the last few weeks so I could avoid having to write this piece but something seems to be happening right now where a once tried and true genre has been stumbling at the box office while at the same time, the return of some of the biggest and most popular action stars from yesteryear isn't creating any sort of interest, not even nostalgia, among the fans of said genre. Of course, we're talking about two of the biggest bombs of the year so far, the new movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, which failed to find even close to the success of the last two "Expendables" movies.

Mind you, I've never been a huge fan of '80s and '90s action movies but I do believe that the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis have a place in our pantheon of movie heroes and that old school action movies—the kind that rely on real car chases, shoot 'em ups and hand-to-hand combat—can still be entertaining fun and a good reason to go to the movie theaters.

Okay, so you've all made it pretty clear you're not interested in action movies starring heroes of the '80s or '90s, so we're going to give you a brief respite from the action movies and instead give you a comedy and a psychological thriller, hoping you finicky moviegoers will give one or both of this week's offerings a chance. Oh, yeah, and they're both Rated R.

Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy face-off in Seth (Horrible Bosses) Gordon's Identity Thief (Universal) while Jude Law and Rooney Mara do the same in Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects (Open Road Entertainment).

Anyone who has been reading these semi-regular columns about this year's Oscar race has probably already noticed the last-minute sea change of opinions where early winners like Zero Dark Thirty (Sony) and heavily-predicted winners like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (DreamWorks) have suddenly fallen away to allow Ben Affleck's Argo (Warner Bros) to rise to the top.

While the Writers Guild (WGA) is still a couple weeks away from announcing their awards, Argo has already swept all the previously announced guild awards from the producers (PGA), actors (SAG) and last night's Directors Guild (DGA) win. When you add those to the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award wins for Argo, it's looking pretty good that support for the movie following Ben Affleck's directing Oscar snub is pervasive enough to continue right through Oscar night.

By now, we already know Affleck's snub was probably an oversight and that Argo has enough support to win Best Picture but someone's still going to have to win Best Director and that's now an open field with five contenders who haven't won a single award up until this point.

It's Super Bowl weekend and you know what that means, right? Football! No, wait, it means more than that because this isn't a sports preview column. Even so, you can't ignore the fact that on Sunday, more people will be hanging out with friends and family in front of the television set for one of the biggest sports events of the year. Still, there have been a number of solid genre hits as well as a couple targeted directly to young girls like Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds and Dear John, both which opened over $30 million over the sports weekend.

This week's offerings including the zombie rom-com Warm Bodies (Summit Entertainment), starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer, and Sylvester Stallone's new action-comedy Bullet to the Head (Warner Bros.). We also have a "CHOSEN ONE" for the first time in a while with the documentary KOCH (Zeiteist Films).

After two weeks off for everyone to recover from the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes, we're right back into the awards season fray with the announcement of the annual awards by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). As you probably know, Ben Affleck's Argo won the top prize from both groups.

Let's face it. As we predicted, Ben Affleck's Argo has gained a groundswell of support in recent weeks after Affleck being snubbed for his direction at the Oscars and that's helped to influence voters in the guilds. Because of this, winning the PGA's top prize wasn't too surprising. Argo was a successful box office coup after all. Winning the SAG Ensemble on the other hand was even bigger because that shows a support for the movie among actors, which makes up the biggest percentage of Oscar voters.

After a few weeks respite following the Golden Globes, awards season kicked back into high gear with a weekend where both the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) would announce their prestigious industry awards. Last night, the PGA announced its winners and Ben Affleck's period suspense thriller Argo continued its awards season streak as it took the producers' top honor, the Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Picture.

Walt Disney Animation Studios' Wreck-It Ralph won the respective award for Animated Theatrical Motion Picture, while Searching for Sugar Man took the PGA's award for Documentary.

February is normally another slow winter month although there's been a lot of big movies over the past couple years with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ still holding the record with an $83.8 million opening, but lots of other movies opening in the $30 to 40 million and higher range.

The one this month that looks the most likely to join them is Bruce Willis' fifth movie as Sgt. John McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard (20th Century Fox - Feb. 14) which takes the always-in-trouble police detective to Russia to help his son Jack, played by hot up ‘n' comer Jai Courtney from the popular show "Spartacus: Vengeance."

This week, we're looking at another movie that was supposed to be released last year, but instead got shifted to this coming March and that's Paramount's sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, another attempt to bring the popular Hasbro toys of the ‘80s to the big screen. This one is opening on March 29 which also happens to be Good Friday and there being no school that day should definitely help it bring in a lot of business in a month that's becoming better for tentpole releases.

The first movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, directed by The Mummy's Stephen Sommers, was released in early August 2009 and brought in $54.7 million its opening weekend, helped by the huge fanbase for the toys, comics and cartoons. One also would imagine that it was helped by the earlier success of Hasbro's Transformers earlier in the summer. Paramount and Hasbro knew that the characters were too popular with too rich a history to not give it another try, so that's what Paramount and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura have decided to do.

After the first four-day holiday weekend (for some) we’re back to the grind and to be honest, there really isn’t anything that big or exciting for a couple weeks, not until the next four-day weekend that starts on Valentine’s Day. Even so, we still have three new movies, all R-rated, nothing for the kids, and we’ll have to see which ones appeal to the teen and older moviegoers that may feel like going to the movies even if there’s nothing that looks like a must-see.

This week offers Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Paramount), starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, the comedy anthology Movie 43 (Relativity Media) and Jason Statham's latest crime thriller Parker (FilmDistrict).