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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 22nd, 2019 – All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:00:24 +0000

It’s been a hard day’s night preparing this week’s Blu-ray and Ultra HD update. The massive list of new titles may be so overwhelming that you’ll either call out for “Help!” or decide to just let it be. If you’ll let me, I wanna hold your hand to guide you through it. New Releases (Blu-ray)...

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Weekend Roundtable: Erased from Memory

Josh Zyber — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:00:21 +0000

The plot of the movie Yesterday involves an alternate timeline where nobody remembers The Beatles. Let’s apply that premise to movies. Is there a particular movie you wish could be erased from memory so you’d never have to think about it again? What movie would the world be better off if it never existed? Yes,...

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Weekend Roundtable: The Toy That Got Away

Josh Zyber — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:00:49 +0000

As both the Toy Story and Child’s Play franchises return to theaters this weekend (brilliant counter-programming on United Artists’ part), this seems like a good time to look back at our own childhoods. When you were a kid, what was the one toy you most coveted but were never lucky enough to actually own? Deirdre...

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Weekend Roundtable: Turning to the Dark Side

Josh Zyber — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:00:35 +0000

As one of our picks in this week’s Roundtable explains, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” While Dark Phoenix flies into theaters, let’s look at some other famous examples of characters making a heel turn from the light to the dark. A heel turn should...

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Weekend Roundtable: Least Believable Screen Couple

Josh Zyber — Fri, 03 May 2019 17:00:43 +0000

The new rom-com Long Shot would have us imagine the stunning Charlize Theron falling for schlubby Seth Rogen. That movie plays the mismatch for laughs, but it reminds us of other screen romances that were less than convincing. David Krauss Sandra Bullock and… a couple of guys. You’d think it would be a cinch for...

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Weekend Roundtable: From Indie to Payday

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:00:03 +0000

After her Oscar win for Room, Brie Larson jumped right into the gargantuan Kong: Skull Island and is now headlining a mega-budget Marvel superhero flick. Our Roundtable this week looks at other actors who’ve made the leap from indie acclaim to blockbuster stardom. David Krauss Though opportunities for black actresses are growing (it’s about frickin’...

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Weekend Roundtable: 2019 Movie Anticipation

Josh Zyber — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:00:24 +0000

A new year is coming, and with it, a whole bunch of new movies. If we’re lucky, a few of them might even be great. Which 2019 films are you looking forward to? Wikipedia has a list to give you some idea of what’s scheduled for the year. Shannon Nutt I’d love to give some...

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Weekend Roundtable: Erased from Canon

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:00:33 +0000

If the new Halloween can ignore and contradict all of the other Halloween sequels that came after the original movie, what will be the next franchise sequel to erase prior entries from canon? Jason Gorber For a film that could somehow provide an exceptional follow-up, ignoring what came after the first and plowing forward with...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 23rd, 2018 – Alone Again

Josh Zyber — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:00:44 +0000

It used to be that the release of a new Star Wars movie to either theaters or home video was a major event. Has Disney’s plan to churn out new Star Wars content non-stop in perpetuity already triggered franchise fatigue among fans? New Releases (Blu-ray) Solo: A Star Wars Story – As was extensively publicized,...

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Late to the Party: ‘The Last Jedi’

Josh Zyber — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:00:26 +0000

Due to my longstanding ‘Star Wars’ ennui and all the vehemently negative word-of-mouth surrounding the movie, I feel like I must be one of the last people on Earth to see ‘The Last Jedi’. When a window of opportunity opened the other day, all that hectoring from one of our readers must have gotten to...

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SteelBook Alert: One Is the Loneliest Number

Josh Zyber — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:00:56 +0000

It may not have set the box office on fire the way every previous ‘Star Wars’ movie did, but this summer’s ‘Solo’ spinoff will still make its way into collectors’ hands with SteelBook packaging you can safely file away on your shelf next to all the others. USA Best Buy gets the American exclusive with...

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Poll: Avengers vs. Deadpool vs. Solo

Josh Zyber — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:00:03 +0000

Looking at the current box office results, three big franchise blockbusters have dominated the past month or so and look to hold on well into this coming weekend. Assuming you saw them, which did you like better, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘Deadpool 2’ or ‘Solo’? From both word of mouth and box office totals, ‘Infinity War’...

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