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2017 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:55:02 +0000

The Oscars ceremony last night was marked by high drama, controversy and a stunning upset. Honestly, I’m having trouble believing it myself, but indeed the shocking fact remains that Lin-Manuel Miranda did not EGOT… … yet. I’m sure he’ll get another chance in the future. In the meantime, despite the enormous pressure from seemingly the...

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Poll: Which 2017 Oscar Nominated Movies Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:00:33 +0000

As Hollywood continues to gloat all through awards season about the quality of the movies it makes, the fact remains that many of the Oscar nominees have simply not been widely seen by audiences outside industry voting circles. With just short of a month to cram the rest in, how many of this year’s selection...

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2017 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:00:46 +0000

This year’s Academy Award nominations were announced today and, as fully expected, the Oscar voters are gaga for ‘La La Land’. The musical scored 14 nominations in all, tying the record with ‘All About Eve’ and ‘Titanic’. More surprising: ‘Suicide Squad’ landed more nominations than Pixar’s latest blockbuster. The ‘Suicide Squad’ nomination was for Makeup...

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2017 Golden Globe Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:00:49 +0000

In most years, the final award given out at the Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama) is the most important prize of the evening and the strongest Oscar predictor. This year, however, was all about the Comedy/Musical category, which wrapped up about 20 minutes earlier. The movie of the night was clearly Damien Chazelle’s...

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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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2017 Golden Globe Nominations

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:00:42 +0000

As it inevitably must every year at this time, awards season has begun. This morning, actors Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick announced the 2017 Golden Globe nominations for movies and TV. I don’t know if it’s just typical Golden Globes quirkiness, but this seems like a particularly unexciting year in almost every category,...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 20th, 2016 – Hell to Pay

Josh Zyber — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:00:36 +0000

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include some real dogs, but come hell or high water we’ll dig through them until we find something interesting to watch. (It won’t be that hard. Honest.) New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Hell or High Water‘ – Chris Pine and Ben Foster play brothers from rural Texas who go on a bank...

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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: Financial Suicide

Luke Hickman — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:00:07 +0000

This weekend resulted in no change for the top two movies at the box office. Three new releases had to duke it out for the slots that followed. Two of them saw so-so returns, while the third just might end up being the biggest flop of 2016. Yes, an even bigger loss than the ‘Ghostbusters’...

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Weekend Movies: Cry Havoc!

Luke Hickman — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:00:21 +0000

This weekend brings a trio of war-filled films. The widest release is of the animated family-friendly variety with a war against evil. The next one is similar to ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, only with stocks replaced by wartime weapons. Finally is a remake of a classic epic that nobody asked for. How would you...

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‘Hell or High Water’ Review: Texas Noir

Philip Brown — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:00:03 +0000

A simplicity in ‘Hell or High Water’ serves as the film’s greatest strength. That’s not to say the movie is without ambition. In fact, its greatest flaw is subtext overt enough to be text. The reason the film works comes down to the simple pleasures of good actors exchanging strong dialogue. Yeah, there are guns...

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Weekend Box Office: Only Half Dead

Luke Hickman — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:30 +0000

Although last week’s big winner managed to retain the top spot at the box office this weekend, it took a massive hit, just as its franchise partner did earlier this year. Sony’s new R-rated animated comedy nearly doubled expectations, while the latest movies from both Disney and Meryl Streep underwhelmed. If the reports are true...

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