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2017 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:55:02 +0000

The Oscars ceremony last night was marked by high drama, controversy and a stunning upset. Honestly, I’m having trouble believing it myself, but indeed the shocking fact remains that Lin-Manuel Miranda did not EGOT… … yet. I’m sure he’ll get another chance in the future. In the meantime, despite the enormous pressure from seemingly the...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 12th, 2017 – They’re Heeeeeeeere…

Josh Zyber — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:00:04 +0000

After last week’s avalanche of Blu-rays, this week eases off considerably. Strangely, even though Tuesday is Valentine’s Day, I don’t see many romantic movies in the latest assortment of discs – unless you accept Amy Adams’ love affair with language and symbols. Wait, she doesn’t get busy with aliens in that movie, does she? New...

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Poll: Which 2017 Oscar Nominated Movies Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:00:33 +0000

As Hollywood continues to gloat all through awards season about the quality of the movies it makes, the fact remains that many of the Oscar nominees have simply not been widely seen by audiences outside industry voting circles. With just short of a month to cram the rest in, how many of this year’s selection...

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2017 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:00:46 +0000

This year’s Academy Award nominations were announced today and, as fully expected, the Oscar voters are gaga for ‘La La Land’. The musical scored 14 nominations in all, tying the record with ‘All About Eve’ and ‘Titanic’. More surprising: ‘Suicide Squad’ landed more nominations than Pixar’s latest blockbuster. The ‘Suicide Squad’ nomination was for Makeup...

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Weekend Box Office: Still Sailing

Luke Hickman — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:00:06 +0000

With ‘Moana’ topping the charts for a third consecutive week and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ opening this weekend, it’s likely that Disney’s record year will include reigning the box office for the last six weeks of 2016. One of this weekend’s new movies came close to dethroning the island princess, but the other...

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Weekend Box Office: You’re Welcome

Luke Hickman — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:00:09 +0000

Light on new releases, there wasn’t much change in this weekend’s box office Top 10. Aside from two older movies holding over very well, most titles performed almost exactly as expected. Disney’s record year continues. The animated musical ‘Moana‘ saw a slightly larger second week drop than anticipated (50%), but it still had no problem...

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Weekend Box Office: Thanksgiving Stuffing

Luke Hickman — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:00:47 +0000

The long holiday weekend bore box office gifts for several holdover movies, but only one of the new releases found success. One saw so-so returns, one flopped, and one really flopped. Could Disney possibly perform any better this year? To think that ‘Rogue One’ hasn’t even opened yet… sheesh. Disney Animation struggled for several years,...

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Weekend Box Office: Oh Oh, It’s Magic!

Luke Hickman — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:00:53 +0000

The fans turned out this weekend for the latest offering in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, but that was the only movie to perform as expected. Not only did the other wide releases miss the mark, but the expanding limited releases under-performed and all other holdovers dropped harder than usual. Of the expected moviegoers, only the...

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Weekend Box Office: Strange Daze

Luke Hickman — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:00:42 +0000

What a weekend! Although none could topple last week’s Top 2, three of the four new movies performed exceptionally well. On top of that, last week’s releases held over superbly. November is looking up – especially for Disney, the studio that has turned 2016 into a record year. ‘Doctor Strange‘ managed to hold onto the...

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Weekend Movies: Close Encounters

Luke Hickman — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:00:03 +0000

One new must-see film storms theaters this weekend. However, I’m guessing that only half of the moviegoers who see it will leave as head-over-heels in love with it as critics are. Those folks have two other new options: a PG-13 thriller and the season’s first Christmas comedy. Although there are three of them, each of...

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‘Arrival’ Review: Intelligent (and Moving) Invasion

Philip Brown — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:00:24 +0000

Generally, when giant alien spacecraft appear out of nowhere around the globe, it’s a bad thing. If ‘Independence Day’ proved nothing else, it’s that those ET ain’t friendly and deserve to be greeted with a mixture of firepower and one-liners. Then there are the more thoughtful outings in this particular genre, like Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’,...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Arrival’

Philip Brown — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:00:13 +0000

Denis Villeneuve continues his transition from Canadian indies to sprawling Hollywood fables that retain his masterful style and personal touch. After last year’s searing drug war thriller ‘Sicario’, the director has gone all sci-fi with a movie that starts like ‘Independence Day’ and ends like ‘2001’. In between, Villeneuve manages to weave a credible human...

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