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Weekend Roundtable: Now We’re Cooking

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:00:30 +0000

Melissa McCarthy spent seven years playing a professional chef on Gilmore Girls, so you can imagine my disappointment that her new movie The Kitchen is not a spinoff for that character. This week, we’re doing a Roundtable on favorite movies about cooking or food preparation anyway. To be honest, I thought of this topic a...

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Weekend Roundtable: Based on a True Story

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:00:43 +0000

When screenwriters run out of fiction ideas to make movies about, turning toward real events is often a good idea. Setting aside bio-pics of famous people (which we’ve already done a Roundtable about) or documentaries (did that too), what are some of your favorite movies based on true stories? M. Enois Duarte In a career...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 4th, 2016 – Secrets and Spies

Josh Zyber — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:00:44 +0000

November may have fizzled out there at the end, but the beginning of December sweeps in with a huge flood of new Blu-ray releases vying for your holiday shopping dollars. Do any of them look like must-buys to you? New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘The Secret Life of Pets‘ – The new animated comedy from the director...

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Weekend Rountable: Trapped in a Bunker

Josh Zyber — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:00:29 +0000

It’s the apocalypse outside! Bummer. Much like the characters in this week’s ’10 Cloverfield Lane’, you’re stuck in a survivalist bunker, presumably for years or perhaps even forever. Fortunately, you have solar power electricity, a big TV, and were able to grab three Blu-rays (or DVDs, if you’re desperate enough) off your shelf before you...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 3rd, 2015 – Mr. Grey Will See You Now

Josh Zyber — Mon, 04 May 2015 12:00:28 +0000

Aww, how thoughtful. Just in time for Mother’s Day comes that embarrassing S&M sex movie your mom’s been wanting to watch with you. What a great gift. Savor the awkwardness! New Releases ‘Fifty Shades of Grey‘ – I just don’t understand the world sometimes. How did a ridiculous piece of half-literate ‘Twilight’ fan-fiction ever become...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Movie Bio-Pics

Josh Zyber — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:00:27 +0000

The bio-pic genre is a reliable Hollywood staple. After all, when you run out of original stories to tell, why not just base a movie on a real person’s life and let history write the script for you? The success of a bio-pic usually comes down to casting. At their best, an actor will deliver...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 19th, 2013 – Consult Your Physician Immediately

Josh Zyber — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:00:26 +0000

This week’s Blu-ray releases feature a curious convergence of coming and going. A former action icon returns from retirement while an A-List filmmaker calls his career quits. New Releases As we posted about earlier this year, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh has grown so dissatisfied with the state of filmmaking today that he’s decided to...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Gangster Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:00:16 +0000

In honor of the FBI’s extremely belated capture of notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who’d been a fugitive for 16 years (12 of them on the Ten Most Wanted list), this week’s Roundtable topic seemed like a gimme. We’re of course going to list off our favorite mob or gangster movies. What are yours?...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Oscar Snubs

Josh Zyber — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:00:14 +0000

As we look forward to this year’s Academy Awards on February 27th, let’s first take a look back at some of the grave injustices that have plagued the awards show throughout its checkered history. For the purposes of this discussion, we’re defining a “snub” as either a movie (or person) that wasn’t nominated at all...

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Russell Crowe’s Rocky Horror

Dick Ward — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:00:15 +0000

Some things are just too good for words. Don’t you absolutely love going back into an actor’s past to find some of the crazy roles he or she has taken? I love seeing Jean-Claude Van Damme in the background of ‘Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo’. It blew my mind when I noticed Tobin Bell of ‘Saw‘...

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Bring on the Digibooks!

David Krauss — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:00:45 +0000

Packaging special edition Blu-rays isn’t easy for movie studios, especially in these challenging economic times. They’re expensive to produce, sport a hefty price tag (even when discounted by outfits like Amazon.com), and often have a limited appeal. In addition, they pose some dilemmas for consumers. First is the question of weighing a title’s bang-for-the-buck quotient....

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