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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 21st, 2019 – Search and Destroy

Josh Zyber — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:00:17 +0000

I hope the Easter Bunny brought you a lot of good candy over the holiday weekend, because he didn’t bring many new movies on Blu-ray. Thankfully, some of the week’s catalog titles and 4k upgrades look promising. New Releases (Blu-ray) Destroyer – Nicole Kidman demonstrates her range as an actress by playing someone who is…...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie Pets

Josh Zyber — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:00:26 +0000

As audiences return this weekend to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, let’s look back to some of our favorite movie pets of the living variety. (At least, they were alive when these films were made. I can’t promise that a dog from 1939 is still kicking today.) David Krauss My favorite movie pet has to be...

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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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Weekend Roundtable: Action Movie One-Liners

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 May 2018 12:00:25 +0000

Deadpool, who returns to theaters this weekend, is known for his snark-filled dialogue while dispatching bad guys. Our Roundtable this week celebrates some other great (and some not-so-great) action movie one-liners. Yippee Ki-Yay! Note: Sorry, we will not have a review of ‘Deadpool 2’ this week. Jason is still off cavorting in the south of...

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R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton

Josh Zyber — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:00:44 +0000

After having just wrapped up the new revival of ‘Twin Peaks’, veteran character actor and beloved screen presence Harry Dean Stanton passed away on Friday at the age of 91. With nearly 200 screen credits spanning from the 1950s to present, Stanton had a long and prolific career. Some of his most memorable roles included...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 13th, 2017 – Thou Shalt Not Covenant (or Shalt Thou?)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:00:52 +0000

New Blu-rays this week are inundated with terrifying bloody carnage, soapy teen romance, and drunken clowns. Geez, sounds like my seventh birthday party all over again. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Alien: Covenant‘ – The trailers for Ridley Scott’s new xenomorph splatterfest all made it look like a shameless retread of the original ‘Alien’ movie. Depending on...

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Weekend Roundtable: Lamest Movie & TV Robots

Josh Zyber — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:00:10 +0000

Robots are a staple of sci-fi movies and TV. Unfortunately, for every Terminator or Iron Giant (or Transformers, if you’re into that), a janky ‘bot crawls onto the screen as well. Because we’ve done Roundtables about favorite robots once or twice before, it’s time to call out some of the lame ones for ridicule. Shannon...

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Weekend Box Office: Dead Man Walking

Luke Hickman — Tue, 30 May 2017 16:00:16 +0000

Although this holiday weekend wasn’t a bust for either of the new wide release movies, both fell very short of expectations. The fifth installment to Disney’s tentpole pirate franchise won the box office, but delivered the series’ lowest opening since the original film. At the same time, even though The Rock has proven to be...

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Weekend Box Office: Mother Facehugger

Luke Hickman — Mon, 22 May 2017 16:00:05 +0000

The #1 movie in America is currently Ridley Scott’s return to facehuggers and xenomorphs. However, that may not be the case when the weekend actuals are announced later today. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ put in mad effort to retain its two-week reign at the top of the charts. While it’s barely sitting $1 million behind...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie of 1979 (Not ‘Alien’)

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 May 2017 19:00:03 +0000

Even as amazing as it was, the original ‘Alien’ was not the only great movie released in 1979. Our Roundtable this week looks at some other notable titles that hit theater screens that year. As a refresher, Wikipedia has a list of movies released in 1979. Shannon Nutt I was too young in 1979 to...

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Weekend Movies: Nothing, Nothing

Luke Hickman — Fri, 19 May 2017 12:00:17 +0000

Three big new movies come out this weekend, yet it feels like there aren’t any good options. Ridley Scott has a disappointing ‘Alien’ prequel / ‘Prometheus’ sequel on 3D and IMAX screens, while a fourth ‘Wimpy Kid’ movie (featuring an all-new cast) and yet another YA teen romance adaptation play elsewhere. With each title beating...

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‘Alien: Covenant’ Review: Prometheus, Now with More Aliens

Philip Brown — Tue, 16 May 2017 17:00:04 +0000

‘Prometheus’, Ridley Scott’s return to the ‘Alien’ franchise, was supposed to reignite excitement and deepen the series’ mythology. Instead, it was beautiful to look at but stumbled through failed grasps at profound themes and irritatingly stupid writing. The long-delayed sequel, ‘Alien: Covenant’, at least improves and expands on what ‘Prometheus’ hoped to accomplish, even though...

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