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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Celebrity Animation Voice Acting

Josh Zyber — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:00:03 +0000

When I watch the ads for DreamWorks’ new movie ‘Home’, all I can hear is the voice of Sheldon from ‘The Big Bang Theory’ coming out of the little alien. That immediately breaks my suspension of disbelief. In today’s Roundtable, we’ll look at some other really annoying cases of celebrity stunt-casting in animated movies. In...

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2014 Emmy Winners

Josh Zyber — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:00:53 +0000

We live in an era with a seemingly endless diversity of choices for quality television programming. Yet judging by the results of last night’s Emmy Awards, it would appear that most voting members of the Television Academy only watched one show over the past year. Sweep mentality was in full effect at the Emmys this...

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Now Playing: Pleasantly Passable Pixar Prequel

Aaron Peck — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:00:06 +0000

I have to admit that I’m concerned about Pixar’s readiness to jump into the deep end of the sequel pool. However, ‘Monsters University’ helps alleviate those concerns somewhat. With the ‘Cars’ spin-off ‘Planes’ on the horizon and the newly announced ‘Finding Dory’ a couple short years away, Pixar has made it clear that sequels, prequels...

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Weekend Roundtable: I’m Too Old for This Sh–

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:00:09 +0000

Each pushing 70 years of age, both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have new action movies in theaters this year. In this week’s Roundtable, we discuss other ridiculous examples of over-the-hill actors and actresses trying to relive past glory when they probably should just call it a day. Any genre is fair game for this...

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New Year’s Weekend Movies: Oh Frack…

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:00:29 +0000

This week, three new movies opened on Christmas Day: ‘Django Unchained’, ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Parental Guidance’. The first two performed very well on Christmas, so don’t expect any of today’s small releases to put up much competition. The big films will certainly hog all the box office revenue. The widest new debut this weekend is...

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Weekend Roundtable: Who Should Host the Oscars Next Year?

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:00:49 +0000

After the complete disaster that was this past Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast, it’s clear that the Academy needs to take major steps to revamp the ceremony. It can no longer fall back on dragging Billy Crystal out of retirement when other plans fall through. His hosting this year was simply dreadful. With that in mind,...

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Statuesque: The Good, the Bad and the Horrid of Oscars 2012

Aaron Peck — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:00:55 +0000

It’s a wonder why we subject ourselves to the Oscars year after year. I guess that somewhere, deep down inside, I hope that the show will get better. But then I hear those ominous words, “Billy Crystal is hosting for the eighteenth time,” and I cringe. Still, this year’s ceremony had some rather memorable moments...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscars Postmortem

Josh Zyber — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:00:11 +0000

I want to once again thank all of our great readers who joined us at last night’s Oscar Live-Blog for making the evening such a good time. If it weren’t for you, quite frankly, that trainwreck of an awards show wouldn’t have been watchable at all. I’m not talking about the winners when I say...

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Oscars 2012 Live-Blog (with Contests)!

Josh Zyber — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:00:36 +0000

Here we go! The big Oscar show airs this Sunday, February 26th at 8:30 PM EST on ABC. Join us here starting with the official pre-show red carpet special at 7:00 PM. We’ll be live-blogging the entire event, and offering you the chance to win some free Blu-ray goodies. With each one of these live-blogs...

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Get Ready for the 2012 Oscars Live-Blog!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:00:45 +0000

Yes, we’re doing it again. Join us this Sunday, February 26th for The Bonus View‘s second annual Oscars Live-Blog! With last-minute replacement Billy Crystal hosting for the 74th time, not to mention a huge assortment of behind-the-scenes fiascoes with the production, the ceremony itself promises to be yet another overlong, self-important and generally boring slog,...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 7/5/11 – What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:00:17 +0000

Welcome back! Did you all have a good long weekend? While we’re back to work today, things are looking pretty slow in Blu-ray land. Here’s the list of what’s being released today: ‘13 Assassins‘ (Magnolia) ‘Arakawa Under the Bridge: Complete Premium Edition‘ (NIS America) ‘Be Cool‘ (MGM/UA) ‘Beyond the Darkness‘ (Shriek Show) ‘Crack in the...

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