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Weekend Roundtable: Lamest Movie Monsters

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:00:01 +0000

We’ve done Roundtables in the past about Favorite Monster Movies and Favorite Giant Monsters. Unfortunately, not every monster flick that Hollywood cranks out is a winner. This week, we give dishonorable mentions to some movie monsters that are just flat-out lame. Shannon Nutt It would be so easy to go back to the lame sci-fi...

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Quentin Tarantino Needs to See More Movies

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:21 +0000

There’s obviously no denying that Quentin Tarantino is a die-hard movie nerd. His encyclopedic knowledge of obscure films can put most experts and historians to shame, and he’s made a career out of fashioning his own movies from bits and pieces of others. Nonetheless, every man has his limits. Judging by his recently-posted Official Top...

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New to VUDU: Week of October 23rd, 2011

Josh Zyber — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Whether you’re in the mood for escapist fantasy or gritty, depressing realism, VUDU has you covered this week. The streaming service offers up new movies about alien-fighting badassery and Nazi-busting superhero action, as well as another about one of the most horrific events in Chinese history. I assume that you won’t be watching that last...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 10/25/11 – An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making

Josh Zyber — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:26 +0000

Another one of those long-awaited “holy grail” titles comes to Blu-ray this week. Of course, I’m referring to master Italian filmmaker Joe D’Amato’s 1977 sexploitation classic ‘Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals’. Wait, did you think I was talking about something else? Oh, right, some other movies of note might be released this week as well:...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Smurfs’ Shocker

Luke Hickman — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:00:16 +0000

How is that the worst-looking movie of the year – a family flick that mixes CG blue cartoon characters with live action – and an over-hyped genre-blender could finish the weekend in a dismal tie? Until the final numbers come in this afternoon, we won’t know who the true winner is. Weekend estimates reported by...

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Weekend Movies: A Blockbuster, a Romance, a Family Flick and a Slew of Indies

Luke Hickman — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:00:25 +0000

Although August is usually peppered with a few hits, the end of July marks the descent of popcorn pictures and the dregs of the not-too-spectacular summer flicks. True, there are still big movies like ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘Fright Night’ and ‘Colombiana’ coming, but none of those quite fit the bill as...

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SXSW Journal: ‘Attack the Block’

Drew Taylor — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:00:44 +0000

Greetings from South by Southwest! The festival this year has made one thing abundantly clear: I’m really, really old. Never is this more clear than when I start falling asleep during afternoon screenings. Or worse, when I wake up the morning after a midnight screening and think, “God, I’m gonna need a nap at some...

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