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Weekend Roundtable: Silence, Please

Josh Zyber — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:00:33 +0000

Most modern movies, especially Hollywood movies, are all about bang and boom and bombast. The new horror thriller ‘A Quiet Place’ bucks that trend, and has been rewarded with both critical acclaim and box office success for it. This week’s Roundtable highlights some other effective uses of silence in movies, TV, and other media. Shannon...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 27th, 2016 – All Fired Up

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:00:46 +0000

Is everyone feeling rested up and refreshed from the long holiday weekend? Were you able to avoid arguing politics with your relatives at Thanksgiving dinner? That may have been tough this year. Anyway, we’re back to work today, and the new week brings us some Blu-rays of family films that didn’t do too well at...

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Weekend Box Office: The Wind Beneath My Wings

Luke Hickman — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:00:28 +0000

Four new movies hit theaters this weekend, yet none of them were able to stop Clint Eastwood from claiming box office victory for a second week. All four failed to make waves, but a notable documentary found success in the wake of the aviation drama’s success. Eastwood’s true story drama ‘Sully‘ stayed at the top...

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Weekend Box Office: Fly Away Home

Luke Hickman — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:00:45 +0000

September 2016 is already looking quite strong compared to years past. Thanks to a very appealing new release, this was a pretty big weekend, even despite two giant misses. Prior to seeing ‘Sully‘, I was repeatedly asked, “How can the short Miracle on the Hudson story be turned into a feature film?” Although it seems...

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Weekend Box Office: Lost at Sea

Luke Hickman — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:00:25 +0000

This Labor Day weekend certainly didn’t have many theater chain employees laboring much. The older movies held over quite well, but the two new wide releases struggled. Horror movies – especially those of the R-rated variety – typically fall between 50-60% in their sophomore weeks, but ‘Don’t Breathe‘ turned a blind eye to the norm....

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Weekend Box Office: A Breath of Fresh Air

Luke Hickman — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:00:16 +0000

If this summer proved anything, it’s that kids’ movies and horror flicks have a better chance at success than the giant, expensive, VFX-heavy studio tentpoles. This weekend’s big winner was of the horror variety. While three of the new movies saw mild results, the scary movie made more than enough to dethrone the reign of...

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Weekend Movies: Don’t Hold Your Breath

Luke Hickman — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:00:22 +0000

Even though this weekend features four new wide releases – a Jason Statham action flick, a boxing drama, a horror entry, and an Obama bio-pic – and two notable limited releases, don’t get your hopes up. There’s not as much potential as you’d hope for from a weekend of this size. Of the big releases,...

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‘Don’t Breathe’ Review: Horror in the Silence

Philip Brown — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:00:51 +0000

Flipping the tables on the old ‘Wait Until Dark’ formula, ‘Don’t Breathe’ pits a group of plucky young home invaders against a psychotic blind man. It’s a pretty ridiculous premise that regularly slips outside the realm of realism into absurdity. The good news is that it’s also a white knuckle ride of shock and suspense...

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