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The Best of the Best in Film in 2016, Part 2

Philip Brown — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:00:40 +0000

Welcome back, folks. It’s still the end of 2016, and I’m still coping with the end of yet another year of my life by handing out a collection of Best Of film awards to directors and celebrities who will never notice or care. But I care, dammit. Way too much. Enough so that I couldn’t...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of July 10th, 2016 – Green Daze

Josh Zyber — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:00:34 +0000

This week’s Blu-ray releases are tinged with sadness. The most promising new title available reminds us of the recent loss of its talented young star. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Green Room‘ – Anton Yelchin was poised for great things. His breakout role in the ‘Star Trek’ franchise brought him a lot of exposure, and this indie...

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Weekend Box Office: Batman’s Not Dead

Luke Hickman — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:00:21 +0000

We knew that the second weekend for the DC Cinematic Universe’s big mash-up would tell how well (or poorly) the film will fare in the long run, and weekend estimates were all over the place. Luckily for Warner Bros., the final gross remained within predictions. ‘Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice‘ scored $52.3 million over...

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Weekend Movies: Don’t Be Fooled

Luke Hickman — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:00:47 +0000

A few smaller, barely-marketed movies are opening this week in the wake of ‘Batman v. Superman’, but none of them are particularly notable. The distribution company Pure Flix invests in low-budget “sure thing” movies with built-in Christian audiences so that no money has to be invested in marketing. Having made boatloads with the faith-based drama...

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‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Review: Still Dazed, Less Confused

Philip Brown — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:00:32 +0000

Twenty-four years ago, Richard Linklater made the jump from the world of DIY indies to Hollywood with the anthropological high school comedy ‘Dazed and Confused‘. Now he’s back with a companion piece of sorts in which his camera wanders around the social scene of a college campus in the early 1980s. Like the previous film,...

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