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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Review: Wishing Every Show Was the Last Show

Jason Gorber — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Let’s take it as fact that ABBA is one of the greatest, most infectious musical groups ever assembled, a brilliant ray of Scandinavian sunshine pop that thumps its disco beats into one’s heart. Let’s also admit that “jukebox musicals” take even more suspension of disbelief than straight-ahead musicals, slamming song after song from disparate contexts...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 3/1/11: What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:00:10 +0000

No doubt hoping that the Academy Awards ceremony this past weekend will still be fresh in everyone’s mind, 20th Century Fox is releasing new movies on Blu-ray today starring Oscar hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Meanwhile, Sony is releasing a major stink-bomb starring former Oscar winner Cher at the same time. Isn’t synergy a...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 2/15/11: What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:00:32 +0000

This week’s Blu-ray list is pretty weak on brand new day-and-date releases, but much stronger on catalog titles, especially those with ties to the Oscars. Let’s see what’s cookin’, shall we? Here’s the release slate: ‘All The President’s Men‘ (Warner Brothers) ‘Chaplin‘ (Lionsgate) ‘Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol‘ (BBC) ‘Dungeons & Dragons 2-Movie Collection‘ (Warner...

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Weekend Box Office: Harry Potter Takes on All Comers

Drew Taylor — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:00:20 +0000

This week’s Thanksgiving offerings gave ample opportunity for any borderline or overtly stressed family member to duck out from the dinner table and go to the multiplex. In the next few days, I promise to try and catch up with these holiday offerings, but for now let’s just look at the cold, hard numbers. As...

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Weekend Movies: Just Go See ‘Harry Potter’ Again

Josh Zyber — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:00:21 +0000

Drew’s taking the day off to sleep through his tryptophan coma, so it looks like I’ll be filling in on the Weekend Movies summary. Long story short: I doubt that Hogwarts’ favorite young wizard has much to worry about from this week’s competitors. Maybe I’ll eat my words on this come Monday, but I don’t...

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Did Cher and Christina Aguilera Seriously Just Remake ‘Showgirls’?

Josh Zyber — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:00:56 +0000

Tell me I’m not crazy here. After the break, you’ll find the trailer for the new… ahem… “musical drama” called ‘Burlesque’, starring pop idol Christina Aguilera and Cher. As far as I can tell, this is a straight-up remake of Paul Verhoeven’s gloriously trashy cult movie (and notorious mega-bomb) ‘Showgirls’. Except that it appears to...

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