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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 9th, 2016 – Attention, Interest, Decision, Action

Josh Zyber — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:00:56 +0000

You know what it takes to release one of the most testosterone-fueled movies ever made on Blu-ray the same week a rival releases the controversial all-female ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot? It takes BRASS BALLS to do that. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Ghostbusters: Answer the Call‘ – From the moment Sony announced that the ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot would have an...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:14:14 +0000

Forget the other six nominees. For weeks now, it has been obvious that the race for this year’s Best Picture Academy Award was really a two-film battle between ‘Birdman’ and ‘Boyhood’. At the end of the long evening, Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’ took flight with the prize. I find this a little surprising, honestly. A couple...

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Statuesque: Shannon’s 2015 Oscar Predictions

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:00:43 +0000

About a month ago, this year’s Academy Awards seemed like a perfunctory affair, with most of the major categories leaning heavily toward one movie particular movie or actor. Since then, however, it’s become a real horse race between two films: the early frontrunner ‘Boyhood’ and the late bloomer ‘Birdman’. How things will actually pan out...

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Poll: How Many of the 2015 Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:00:34 +0000

With the exception of Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’, which just had a huge first weekend in wide release, none of the other nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar have made a lot of money at the box office. In fact, this may be one of the lowest-grossing batches of movies ever assembled in the...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:00:52 +0000

The race is officially on! In a presentation broadcast this morning, actor Chris Pine, directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 2015 Oscar nominations. This year brings us eight Best Picture nominees. Most of them were easy to predict beforehand, though I...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:00:43 +0000

‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ came up as the big winners at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night. Not that anyone has ever taken the Globes seriously as a measure of artistic worth, but the awards are sometimes considered a possible indicator of future Oscar success. Sometimes, not always. In fact, I’m not...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Predictions – Movies

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:00:22 +0000

On Sunday night, January 11th, the 72nd Golden Globes will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Unlike many previous ceremonies, this year there are no clear-cut frontrunners in most of the major categories. Below, I’ll take my best crack at guessing who I think will walk away with the major movie...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 4th, 2015 – I Feel Nice, Like Sugar and Spice

Josh Zyber — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:00:29 +0000

Here we are in 2015. The year starts off with a bunch of new Blu-ray releases, a few of them kind of interesting. I feel good. I knew that I would now. New Releases ‘Boyhood‘ – One of the most praised movies of 2014 and very likely to be recognized come Oscar time, Richard Linklater’s...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:00:50 +0000

Is it awards season already? Early this morning, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Peter Krause and Paula Patton announced the 2015 Golden Globe Award nominations. As happened last year, I’m once again disappointed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has largely focused on safe picks, with few of the truly mystifying oddball nominations that used to...

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‘Boyhood’ Review: Growing Up Is Hard to Do

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:00:34 +0000

‘Boyhood’ has received a lot of free marketing and curiosity regarding its central stunt of filming a single actor over the course of twelve years. However, Richard Linklater’s latest film is far from a parlor trick. It feels like a culmination, a career-capping masterpiece from a filmmaker whose primary interest has always been hanging around...

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Weekend Box Office: Audiences Go Bananas for ‘Apes’

Luke Hickman — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:00:59 +0000

With no other new wide releases for competition, plus very strong reviews and word-of-mouth, the top movie in America this weekend was a no-brainer. Meanwhile, another film has officially claimed the title of highest-grossing movie of 2014. ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ debuted in the #1 spot 33% stronger than its predecessor, ‘Rise...

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Damn Dirty Weekend Movies

Luke Hickman — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:00:39 +0000

Only one new wide release will try to get its paws on you this weekend, but a pair of smaller indies offer very enticing outside-the-box options. Three years ago, little-known director Rupert Wyatt rebooted the ‘Planet of the Apes’ franchise with ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘, which took the advanced primates back to...

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