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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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Weekend Roundtable: 2015 Oscar Snubs

Josh Zyber — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:00:27 +0000

This time ever year, voters in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences make their nominations for what they believe were the best movies of the prior year. And this time every year, viewers like us gripe about all the movies or acting performances the Academy failed to acknowledge. Well, let’s get griping. What...

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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 June 15th, 2014 – Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land

Josh Zyber — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:00:32 +0000

This week may only bring a small volume of new Blu-ray releases, but packed within the short list of titles are some real standouts. Maybe not everything is awesome, but at least a few things could be. New Releases ‘The Lego Movie‘ – What might have been little more than a crass merchandising tie-in blossomed...

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Weekend Box Office: America the Bountiful

Luke Hickman — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:00:36 +0000

This weekend, Marvel’s performance enhancer-using superhero set a new April record. ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘ not only grossed a huge $96.2 million, dethroning the $86.2 million record set by ‘Fast Five‘ for the all-time highest April opening, but also boosted the character’s standalone franchise by debuting more than $30 million above ‘Captain America: The...

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Weekend Movies: And on the Eighth Day, God Created Cinema

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:00:41 +0000

There’s a lot of epicness to behold this weekend: Biblical epicness, bloody epicness and badass epicness. After much buzz, speculation, nay-saying and media attention, Darren Aronofsky’s Bible epic ‘Noah‘ finally opens today. Although the picture is being shown in 3D overseas, two is the only dimension in which it’s being presented domestically (IMAX included). Russell...

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Weekend Box Office: Audiences Don’t Feel the Need

Luke Hickman — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:00:31 +0000

Lots of money was made at the box office this weekend, but not so much from Friday’s new releases. The top two spots flip-flopped from last weekend. DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman‘ climbed into first place by slipping only 34% and earning another $21.2 million. After ten days, the 3D family flick has brought...

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Weekend Box Office: Gluttons for Punishment

Luke Hickman — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:00:06 +0000

Masochists flooded theaters this weekend to publicly flagellate themselves by paying to see the should-be direct-to-video ‘300’ sequel, while DreamWorks Animation’s lasted irrelevant family flick underperformed. Moviegoers across North America aren’t the only suckers who fell for ‘300: Rise of an Empire‘. The movie pulled in $45 million domestically (more than half of the record-setting...

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Weekend Movies: The Way, WABAC

Luke Hickman — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:00:31 +0000

Is anyone else burned out by franchises? I am. Nearly every weekend between now and the end of summer contains a sequel or a franchise flick. With two more opening this weekend, I would pay good money for someone to make this trend stop. The widest release of the weekend has me laughing because it’s...

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