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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 25th, 2013 – There Is No Confusion Like the Confusion of a Simple Mind

Josh Zyber — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:00:17 +0000

The dog days of August are almost over. Hopefully, we’ll see some more interesting Blu-ray releases come down the pike next month. In the meantime, Michael Bay makes a trashy movie about scummy lowlifes, while Baz Luhrmann adapts one of the greatest masterworks in English literature. Which one do you think will be more obnoxiously...

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Weekend Movies: Let’s Party Like It’s the Roaring ’20s

Luke Hickman — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:00:22 +0000

If anything, this will be an interesting weekend at the box office. Baz Luhrmann’s flashy adaptation of an American literary classic and a Tyler Perry-produced comedy may not worry about competing against one another, but both have to compete against last weekend’s $174 million blockbuster. Darryl from ‘The Office’ and the Man in the Iron...

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Now Playing: ‘Gatsby’, Actually Pretty Great

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:00:05 +0000

Director Baz Luhrmann has created a grand opus filled with shiny costumes, modern music, magical camera tricks and classical early Hollywood filmmaking to once again bring to life F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved and iconic novel ‘The Great Gatsby’. The film is over-the-top, lavish and a bit flawed, but so is the title character, after all....

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 28th, 2013 – You Have Poor Social Skills

Josh Zyber — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:23 +0000

As we close out the month of April, eight of this year’s nine Best Picture Academy Award nominees are now available on Blu-ray. (The only film still missing is Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’.) This week also brings us several movies that were less than Oscar worthy. Will you buy any of them? New Releases I think...

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Weekend Roundtable: How Did This Movie Get Made?

Josh Zyber — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:00:29 +0000

Have you ever watched a movie trailer that was so jaw-droppingly awful that you couldn’t believe the film got made in the first place? Of course you have. With the releases of ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ and ‘Movie 43’, this week brings us two such apparent dogs. For today’s Roundtable, I thought it would...

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The Trailer Park: End of the Year Excitement

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:00:56 +0000

Now that we’re entering the summer movie season, we’re being allowed some sneak peeks of what to anticipate during the year-end holidays. Two big titles expected to dominate the box office look quite promising thus far. ‘The Great Gatsby’ It probably won’t come as much of a surprise that I’m a big fan of F....

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Weekend Roundtable: Movie Dream Teams

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:00:47 +0000

This week’s Roundtable topic was inspired by a comment posted by one of our blog’s readers, Adam. This one is admittedly a bit esoteric, but we had fun with it. Here’s the challenge: If you could assemble a dream team production of talent (director, writer, stars) to make a movie, who would you include and...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 10/19/10: The ‘Apocalypse’ Is Here

Josh Zyber — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:00:26 +0000

Before I get to this week’s new Blu-ray releases, allow me to rectify one oversight. It seems that in last week’s Highlights reel, I neglected to mention that Dreamworks Animation’s ‘How to Train Your Dragon‘ would be released on Friday the 15th. Although it’s weird for video releases to street on a Friday, that’s a...

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Weekend Roundtable: Directors You’d Like to See Make Science Fiction Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:05 +0000

Credit where it’s due, this week’s Roundtable topic was inspired by science fiction author John Scalzi (‘Old Man’s War’). Scalzi has recently blogged about directors who’ve had unexpected success in the sci-fi genre (such as Jean-Luc Godard with ‘Alphaville’ or Woody Allen with ‘Sleeper’) and great directors who’ve flopped in sci-fi. (You know Tim Burton’s...

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