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R.I.P. Jonathan Demme

Josh Zyber — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:00:50 +0000

The world makes a little less sense this week. Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme has died at the age of 73. Like a number of his contemporaries including Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron, Demme got his start in show business working for the Roger Corman B-movie factory. His earliest directorial efforts had titles like...

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‘Ricki and the Flash’ Review: So Many Streeps

Philip Brown — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:00:45 +0000

Some of the best movies by director Jonathan Demme (‘Melvin and Howard’, ‘Rachel Getting Married’) serve up oddballs and outcasts with such love and humor that you feel like you know the characters as friends. The best movies written by Diablo Cody (‘Young Adult’) take a more unforgiving and cynical approach to self-imposed outcasts deserving...

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The Trailer Park: Full of Laughter and Tears

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:00:37 +0000

A trio of legendary performers demonstrate they still have what it takes to make moviegoers laugh and cry. Now in their golden years, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro promise to make this a heartfelt summer to remember. ‘Manglehorn’ Even in his worst films, Al Pacino has always been a powerhouse actor, a...

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‘The Killing’ 3.09 Recap: “Hey Babe, Where Ya Been?”

Aaron Peck — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:00:56 +0000

Did anyone else notice the credits at the beginning of this week’s episode of ‘The Killing’? I was surprised to see Jonathan Demme’s name pop up as director. Perhaps that played a part in this being the best episode of the season by far. After realizing that Demme had directed, I scrambled to his IMDb...

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Blu-ray Highlights for October 16th, 2012 – What Kind of Bird Are You?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:00:04 +0000

In an odd quirk of fate, this week’s Blu-ray release slate brings us one of the best films of the year, as well as one (or more) of the worst. Choose wisely. New Releases After a couple of box office disappointments, Wes Anderson returned to the top of the art film scene with ‘Moonrise Kingdom‘,...

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Weekend Movies: Strippers, Cross-Dressers and Dirty Teddy Bears

Luke Hickman — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:00:49 +0000

This weekend feels more like something out of September than mid-summer. There’s the R-rated comedy, the adult drama, the light-weight drama and a Tyler Perry movie. Which of these four shouts summer to you? This week, let’s run down the list from widest release to smallest. The biggest movie is surprising to me. Opening on...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 5/10/11. What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:01 +0000

While this week isn’t quite the dead zone that last week was, today’s Blu-ray release schedule is once again filled with a lot of reissued or repackaged titles previously available on the format. However, if we dig in, we might find a few things of interest. Here’s the full release slate: ‘Alien‘ (20th Century Fox)...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best and Worst Remakes

Josh Zyber — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:00:04 +0000

With this week’s Blu-ray release of the big-budget, really terrible ‘Clash of the Titans‘, we’ve got remakes on the mind here at The Bonus View. Along with sequels, this seems to be about all that Hollywood is interested in making these days. Unfortunately, most of them are pretty awful. However, every once in a while,...

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