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Weekend Roundtable: Children’s Books to Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:00:39 +0000

As Dr. Seuss’ dastardly Grinch gets adapted for the third time (once in television and twice in feature films), our Roundtable this week will look at other beloved children’s books that have successfully transitioned from page to screen. Deirdre Crimmins One of my favorite recent adaptations of a children’s book is 2009’s Coraline. The Neil...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movies You Regret Buying

Josh Zyber — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:00:23 +0000

We’ve all done it. If you collect movies on DVD or Blu-ray, you’ve undoubtedly purchased a disc at some point that you later regretted. Perhaps it was a blind-buy that you expected to like, only to discover that you hated it. Perhaps you even bought the movie knowing that you didn’t like it, but needed...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 2/28/12 – Slow Going This Week

Josh Zyber — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:00:51 +0000

Wow, this is a very slow week for new Blu-ray releases. Like, ridiculously slow, even for this time of year. Only one major title will hit store shelves today. While some of the catalog titles look interesting to me, I doubt that any of them will be big sellers. I suppose our wallets needed a...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscars Postmortem

Josh Zyber — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:00:11 +0000

I want to once again thank all of our great readers who joined us at last night’s Oscar Live-Blog for making the evening such a good time. If it weren’t for you, quite frankly, that trainwreck of an awards show wouldn’t have been watchable at all. I’m not talking about the winners when I say...

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Oscars 2012 Live-Blog (with Contests)!

Josh Zyber — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:00:36 +0000

Here we go! The big Oscar show airs this Sunday, February 26th at 8:30 PM EST on ABC. Join us here starting with the official pre-show red carpet special at 7:00 PM. We’ll be live-blogging the entire event, and offering you the chance to win some free Blu-ray goodies. With each one of these live-blogs...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Best Picture Categories

Aaron Peck — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:00:38 +0000

We’ve finally made it to the Best Picture nominees. As we work our way to the prediction for the grand prize of the evening, let’s also take a look at the Best Animated Picture and Best Foreign Language Film races. Best Animated Feature ‘A Cat in Paris’ ‘Chico & Rita’ ‘Rango’ ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Writing and Directing

Aaron Peck — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:00:50 +0000

This Oscar prediction post will be a mash-up of sorts. I was going to take the time to guess who will win in the short film categories, but really, how many of us are going to see those films anyway? If we’re being completely honest, I’d just be pulling my guesses out of thin air...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Sound Categories

Aaron Peck — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0000

The Oscars are only days away and I’ve found myself running through the nominees, wondering who will take home the statuettes. I have no real reason for caring as much as I do about these awards, but something deep inside me wants to, at some point, predict every category right. In this post, we’ll discuss...

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Visual Categories

Aaron Peck — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:00:22 +0000

It’s Oscar week, and that means that it’s time to make some guesses about who will take home awards on Sunday night. I’ll start with the visual categories. So many pretty films, so little time… Let’s get to it, shall we? We’ll take these alphabetically since quite a few categories are considered in the visual...

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Mid-Week Oscars Poll: Best Picture 2012

Josh Zyber — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:00:24 +0000

This year’s Oscar ceremony is rapidly approaching. It’s time for our final, most important poll on the subject. Which movie do you think will win the Best Picture prize? Which movie do you think should win? As with the last couple of these, we’re dividing this into two polls. In the first, make your prediction...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Grey’ Makes Green

Luke Hickman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:17 +0000

This, the last weekend of January, turned out to be quite surprising. If you had told me in advance that an R-rated movie about a man punching-out a pack of wolves would be #1 at the box office, and that Katherine Heigl would outgross a Sam Worthington heist thriller, I wouldn’t have believed you. Liam...

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Mid-Week Poll: How Many of the 2012 Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:22 +0000

The Oscar nominations are in. How many (if any) of the new Best Picture nominated films have you seen? Let us know in our poll. Of the nine nominated films, I’ve only seen ‘The Artist’ and ‘Midnight in Paris’. I loved both. I probably ought to catch up with some of the other nominees before...

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