Moviegoers found themselves, uh, taken by Taken on Friday.

Super Bowl weekend has often been considered one of the dead zones on the box office calendar, though some studios have countered this with clever counter-programming in recent years.

Why is Leah still here? Can someone explain that to me?

Now that Twilight has gone on and become the highest grossing vampire movie ever ($185 million), it is time to take a look back at the film that proved the genre could be highly profitable.

Freeloaders

Eat Pray Love

Law Abiding Citizen

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I

Gulliver's Travels

The Resident

Masters of the Universe

Cold Souls

Broken Horses

Puss in Boots

The Hammer stars Adam Corolla as boxer/handyman Jerry Ferro.

Gran Torino marks the fourth directorial effort from Clint Eastwood to be released in theatres since 2006.

In the past, we've challenged you on the topic of all things Firefly by offering quizzes for each individual episode as well as the movie. Since these have proven to be among the most popular pop culture tests on our site, we wanted to give something back to the Firefly fans. This led us to a pair of new quizzes about the entirety of the show. One of them is intended to be easy and fun. The other is intended to challenge even Joss Whedon himself. Once and for all, how well do you know Firefly?

There was a lot of "news" this week: a new Miss America was crowned, a new actor for an iconic role, new director and producers joined The A-Team, and a new unlikely film-to-musical production was announced. Also, we had someone denounce the merits of Oscars, try to give a WWII history lesson, and make an unusual challenge. Let's see how well you were paying attention.

Fleming

The Thing

Centurion

Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC - The Authorized Biography

Girlfriend in a Coma

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Sitter

1066

Rango

The Inn at the Edge of the World

Leap Year

Astro Boy

Untitled Tomb Raider Sequel

Final Crisis 7 hits this week, so hopefully this series makes sense - though I highly doubt it.

This week: John Malkovich goes insane, Eric McCormack exposes his affinity towards camp and Jason Statham runs around.

What a shame it is that more people aren't going to see, or aren't going to be able to see, the Swedish-language vampire film Let The Right One In.

In our continuing efforts to test your knowledge of filmdom, we turn our attention once again to movie soundtracks. Given the names of three tracks, can you name the film? How well do you know your movie soundtracks?

A Woman of No Importance

The A-Team

Lowriders

The Sigma Protocol

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were announced on January 25th, and there were few real surprises in the proceedings.

When will Hollywood retire its confidence in the bumbling fat man?

This week: Penelope and Scarlett make out, Bill Murray relives a holiday way too many times and Samuel L. Jackson goes berserk.

In the past, we've challenged you on the topic of all things Firefly by offering quizzes for each individual episode as well as the movie. Since these have proven to be among the most popular pop culture tests on our site, we wanted to give something back to the Firefly fans. This led us to a pair of new quizzes about the entirety of the show. One of them is intended to be easy and fun. The other is intended to challenge even Joss Whedon himself. Once and for all, how well do you know Firefly?

The Adventures of Tintin

The Book of Eli

Betty Anne Waters

Furry Vengeance

After what was actually a historic weekend in the last frame, we roll into the post-Oscar nomination weekend with a little less fanfare. It's now updated for actuals.

The dust has cleared, and it's now been a few days since the nominations for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced.

Bratz? Does John Seal seriously suggest Bratz?

This week on Top Chef: Trials of a bewitching banshee.

We're quite verbose this week.

This week: Australian Open madness, all star hockey, and athletic president .....oh, and the greatest figure skating story *ever*! Here is edition number 5 of our sports week-in-review quiz.

The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Stan's Cup

Everyone's favorite background artist returned to HBO and BBC for a fresh batch of six episodes in 2006. And this time around he was no longer a struggling actor but the star of his very own sitcom: When the Whistle Blows. Though more serious than the first season, season two proved the series ages quite well. How well do you know it?

London Boulevard

Spread

Torso

How to Talk to Girls

Master Harold...and the Boys

The third entry in the Underworld series comes in easily on top of the box office in Friday with $7.9 million.

This week's slate of releases won't match up to the surprising and stealthfully strong Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in terms of box office, but there will be a compensation.

The nominations for the 2009 Academy Awards are in. That means it's time for freshly updated power rankings. Want to get a jump on winning your Oscars pool this year? We've got the intel you need.

Obama or Spider-Man? Who ya got? Oh wait, you don't have to decide thanks to some shameless Marvel marketing!

Notorious does what any movie based on real-life people should do - it urges viewers to learn more about the actual subjects.

A dead robot, a chastity pledge, an Italian vampire and 99 desirable women. The cauldron of pop culture news boiled over this week, and that was before we factored in the inauguration and the Oscars. We hope you were paying attention.

No sooner than the Oscar nominations are announced each year, we rush to mention performances and pictures that didn't make the cut. Be they ineligible or just overlooked, some films and roles are doomed to be denied consideration for the highest film honor. Here you'll find a list of questions listing four performances or pictures. Can you spot the one that was not an Oscar nominee?

Rango

The Wild Bunch

Zombieland

Frankenweenie

Sympathy for Delicious

Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a hit. Our staff ponders the madness of this statement.

After watching Let the Right One In, the oddly beautiful Swedish film about a 12-year-old vampire, I got to thinking about how effective serious movies with child protagonists can be.

This week: Dennis Quaid gets himself in a pickle, Eddie Murphy turns a corner and Americans invade another world.

We conclude our look back at the famous names and faces who left us in 2009.

Let's face it. Some movie titles are weird. And we're not even talking about the Star Wars prequels here. Producers get this weird idea in their heads that substituting in some numbers or symbols for letters and words makes a title seem edgier. We've compiled a list of 20 movies with very strange names. The question will be the same for each one. All you have to do is look at the four options and recall/deduce the right answer. How well do you know these (very quirky) movie titles?

Preacher

It's Complicated

New in Town

The Cabin in the Woods

Tom and Jerry

The Ghost (2010)

The BOP predicts the Oscar nominations in major categories.

This week: CBS lodges a stake into its vampire drama, Saw fills the pockets of Lionsgate fat cats and Syracuse wins a football game.

More coaching changes, a golfing phenom, and the strange case of Eddie Curry. It's edition #4 of our weekly sports quiz.

2012

Brooklyn's Finest

The Drop-Out

The Extra Man

The Winning Season

Humpday

Adam

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend takes its place among the big, big box office weekends on the calendar.

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

Spike Lee announced his presence within the cinematic community with 1989's Do the Right Thing. Equal parts humorous, touching and enraging, Do the Right Thing brought took an unflinching look at race relations in America. You may need 20 D Energizers for your boombox, but how well do you know Do the Right Thing?

Hollywood is on a roll. After opening 2009 with two extremely successful weekends, Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend is already upon us, and we have a blowout weekend at the box office.

Leslie Charteris' character Simon Templar was given an update to the 1990s with Val Kilmer in the role of the Saint, a master thief who wears so many disguises that Ethan Hunt thinks Templar is just showing off. How Well Do You Know... The Saint?

Leading the way on Friday with an astounding $9.7 million is Kevin James' Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

I don't know about you, but Hung was never one of my favorite contestants from past seasons of Top Chef.

Like a guilty divorced parent, Hollywood must feel like it's been neglecting us and is over-compensating. Six films hit wide release between new and expanding ones...

Fifteen years ago, one actor had it all. He was respected by men and adored by women.

#6: Twilight
#5: Mamma Mia!
#4: DreamWorks
#3: Iron Man
#2: HD-DVD Gone
#1: Duh (New)

Funnyman Ricky Gervais followed up his critically-acclaimed Office series with an equally brilliant television show: Extras. Co-produced by HBO Stateside and BBC across the pond, the comedy revolved around the life of "background artist" Andy Millman and his female sidekick and friend, Maggie Jacobs. The first season featured Kate Winslet, Ben Stiller and other guest stars, and ended with Andy landing his own sitcom on BBC. How well do you know it?

This week: startling injuries, the origins of technology, a girl in a bikini and Alan Alda's doppelganger. Plus: proof that the Golden Globes makes for an entertaining evening. As the winter winds howl, curl up with our our weekly pop culture review. We hope you were paying attention.

Jack Goes Boating

Watchmen

Iron Man 2

Zombieland

Cowboy Bebop

Daemon

Untitled Michael Gilio Project

Locke and Key is back. BOP is happy.

The BFCA handed out their awards and Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner, coming out with awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writer, Best Composer, and Best Young Actor.

This week: Sandra Bullock falls for more bland comedy, yet another horror film is resurrected (but with positive results this time) and Nia Vardalos mounts the Acropolis.

As sure as Terrence Howard is not keen on using public restrooms, there will be another in our series of That's Not My Movie quizzes. Four films listed - in which did the named actor not appear?

This week: Ed Harris duels with Aragorn, Canada gets bloodthirsty for Valentine's Day and Keifer Sutherland keeps things secure (as per usual).

The Producers Guild Awards held very few surprises - unless you'd be shocked to see Batman rubbing elbows with Harvey Milk and Richard Nixon.

Mirrors have been given a bad rap in horror movies. There's always something ominous lurking behind them, within them or around them. Why can't mirrors ever be viewed as hopeful or auspicious?

The past ten years have seen Johnny Depp go from quirky character actor to certifiable star. He has managed to become one of the most bankable actors working, while receiving critical acclaim for his work. You may try to work the word "parlay" into a sentence at least once a week, but how well do you know Johnny Depp?

Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel

East of Eden

Spanking Shakespeare

Untitled Ron Burch and David Kidd Comedy

13

The Karate Kid

Mother Trucker

The Field (2009)

Opposites Attract

The Crazies

If I Stay

Watchmen

Intoxication, Tracy Morgan, veiled threats and Drew Barrymore....the Golden Globes broadcast was a blast. Here's our staff blog from the evening.

Three years after bringing his superb drama, Six Feet Under, to a close at HBO, Alan Ball resurrected himself on the pay cabler with True Blood.

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

As long as you were Kate Winslet, or helped make Slumdog Millionaire, the Hollywood Foreign Press was nice to you.

The group talks Gran Torino, TD Jakes and the horror that is Bride Wars.

Good news for the Eagles (NFL), bad news for the Eagles (NCAA), strange hockey fights and really old baseball cards. Here's edition number 3 of our weekly sports week-in-review quiz.

It took only 12 days to deliver a huge surprise for the new 2009 box office.

This is January, right?

With no eliminations last week, two chefs were imperiled at the start of this episode. Also, a bitchy new judge was introduced.

Another season of Survivor closes down with this, Jim's final recap of the season. He's talking about not doing them next time. Pout until he changes his mind.

We had to wait until the second weekend of the year for the first new releases of 2009, but it's hard to say it was worth the wait.

The Year in Film quizzes are always among the most popular that we run. We draw from box office, awards, records, themes and other areas of cinema. If you know your House Bunny from your Beverly Hills Chihuahua, your Rambo from your Son of Rambow, your Baghead from your Towelhead, you should be ready to prove how well you know 2008: The Year in Film.

This week: Rock star lawsuits, questionable PR campaigns, dictator's offspring and the best and worst in movies. Plus: why are we cringing at a Tulip and a Rose? Another week in popular culture having gone by, it's time to see if you were paying attention.

The Way Back

Tyson

Nowhere Boy

Quantum of Solace

Minimum Wage

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Watchmen

With actors making up the largest guild in Hollywood (and why shouldn't they?), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards have been a major TV event since 1995.

Hello, good people, and welcome to the extremely late Survivor: Gabon finale recap. Hopefully, you were all glued to BOP for our first ever Survivor finale blog.

Each year, we document the past twelve months in pop culture and present it in a pleasing quiz format. Celebs, gaming, books, comics, stupid baby names....all are fair game. The past year in popular culture did its best to pummel you senseless. Here's your chance for payback. How well do you know: 2008: The Year in Pop Culture?

It doesn't take a box office prophet to see that you can't judge a film's merit by how many awards it took home.

The Secret Invasion TPB is out this week if you want to see what the fuss is about.

The crippling effects of American suburbia have long been a topic of discussion in Hollywood movies.

This week: Clunkers! Nothing reviewed this week earned higher than a C+ grade.

The Year in Film quizzes are always among the most popular that we run. We draw from box office, awards, records, themes and other areas of cinema. If you know your House Bunny from your Beverly Hills Chihuahua, your Rambo from your Son of Rambow, your Baghead from your Towelhead, you should be ready to prove how well you know 2008: The Year in Film.

Bye Bye Birdie

Jack the Giant Killer

Law Abiding Citizen

Jonah Hex

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo

The Expendables

Iron Man 2

TRON: Legacy

The Adventures of Tintin

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

This week: Seth Rogen and James Franco become the new Cheech and Chong, Battlestar Galactica comes to a close (sort of) and Dexter gets even more gruesome.

When it comes to the nominating process, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is spot-on with nominees; however, if you're looking for an accurate gauge of Oscar winners, look elsewhere.

Each year, we document the past twelve months in pop culture and present it in a pleasing quiz format. Celebs, gaming, books, comics, stupid baby names....all are fair game. The past year in popular culture did its best to pummel you senseless. Here's your chance for payback. How well do you know: 2008: The Year in Pop Culture?

John Seal is my hero. He should be your hero as well. After a week off, he's back to tell you what is good on the movie channels.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the epic story of a man who ages in reverse.

For some reason, a lot of people I've run into these days tell me they had no idea Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire was adapted from a novel.

Cards were wild, coaches were canned, hockey was outdoors, a Buckeye was AWOL and streaks were snapped. Enjoy our review of the last seven days in sports, presented in a pleasing quiz format.

The Expendables

Cleo

The Beautiful and the Damned

Inglourious Basterds

Despite being the first movie going weekend of 2009, studios presented zero new product in wide release.

With nothing opening wide this weekend, here's a quick glance how the Christmas openers have performed as the Twelve Days of Box Office comes to a close.

We recap the top stories of the year.

If movies like Freddy vs. Jason, Kramer vs. Kramer, Alien vs. Predator, Ecks vs. Sever and King Kong vs. Godzilla have taught us nothing else, it's that everything is somehow better in battle format.

BOP offered one impression of the movie to start the week and now we offer a quick dissenting one to close out the week.

2008 was an interesting year for me. I adopted a little boy, got promoted, joined this Web site as a writer and won the world series of poker.

While you were enjoying the week between Christmas and New Years, celebrities were moving across country, losing millions in scams, changing their names and driving way too fast. Some also found time to hit the beach in skimpy swimwear. We hope you were paying attention.