A week after this column exploded with over 2,000 words on some 15+ releases, we get some downtime. It’s difficult to say whether it’s the slim pickings on the release schedule or the fact that there were several titles that weren’t received for review. Either way, this should be brief.

Because I hate myself, I’ve taken on the task of watching Z-grade crap for an entire day. This is supposed to prove something, I think, but at this point I don’t have the mental capacity to figure it out.

Rob Hunter loves movies. And as a test to see if anyone actually reads these intros he’s hidden a contest within the post. One lucky winner will win a brand new copy of A&E’s 3-disc set of The Sherlock Holmes Collection starring Peter Cushing. It collects the five surviving episodes of the 1960′s BBC series, and fans of the great detective will not be disappointed.

The $48 million weekend for Avatar clinches the box office title against all 2009 releases, almost $27 million ahead of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And it’s far from being finished.

It promises to be another weekend of Avatar domination. Yes, there are three new movies rolling out wide: Daybreakers, Leap Year, and Youth in Revolt. But who is really kidding who here?

Another weekend, another big haul for Avatar. If James Cameron isn’t king of the box office world right now I don’t know who is.

Chances are that you might have gone out to a theater for a showing of Sherlock Holmes over the Christmas weekend. And if it left you yearning for more Holmes, we’ve got you covered.

This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we decide never to do the show ever again in 2009.

Merry Christmas, James Cameron! Customers packed the cinemas bigtime to see Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Sherlock and Dr. Watson — but mainly Avatar, which repeated its big haul from last week to earn $75 million for a second weekend in a row topping the box office.

Well, Merry whatever you celebrate. Because no matter what it is, we’ll be there to celebrate (and drink heavily) right alongside you. All of you. Seriously.

Merry Christmas from the Fat Guys! Kevin got Neil the gift of respect for just one episode, and Neil got Kevin the gift of seeing only one movie. The Fat Guys rip through the next Christmas movies, including Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, It’s Complicated and Sherlock Holmes.

Kevin Carr sits his chubbiness down and sees if Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Sherlock Holmes and It’s Complicated can make the grade.

2009 comes to a close at the movies not with a whimper, but with a bang. And while you may think it’s due to a blockbuster movie featuring beautifully animated CGI characters that leap off the screen and impress with their stunningly life-like appearances, Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel actually has nothing to do with it.

Welcome to a pre-Christmas edition of the REJECT REPORT! We have a crowded next few days in store at the box office. On Wednesday we have Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel plus the expanded release of Up in the Air, starring George Clooney. Then on Christmas Day we have Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated plus the expanded release of Nine.

Put this on your to-do list today, right between eating lunch and telling your boss where he can stick that not mandatory, but implied mandatory Saturday meeting.

It is important that we make ourselves ready for the onslaught of video mashups and montages for the year that was 2009, as it’s bound to happen.

If you’re like me, you like to get to the movies early for the previews — or trailers. And if you’re like me, this is part of the reason why you’re looking forward to Sherlock Holmes.

Last month I reported on a Twitter-induced rumor that a new trailer for Iron Man 2 would be running this holiday season in front of Sherlock Holmes, which is due out Christmas Day. And after much digging, it turns out that my intuition was right.

There goes my pitch to make the cross-over sequel A Couple of Dicks in a Box.

This is a vague assumption, but one that could very well turn out to be right in the end — you watch.