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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 1st, 2017 – Dead in the Water

Josh Zyber — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:58 +0000

Avast, ye mateys! Shiver me timbers, walk the plank and all that other nonsense. The pirates arrrr coming and it be time t’ sail the ocean Blu… I’ll stop now, I promise. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales‘ – Johnny Depp has debts to pay, which means that it’s...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movie Mixtape

Josh Zyber — Fri, 05 May 2017 19:00:35 +0000

Nearly as much as their epic space battles and wise-cracking humor, the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ movies are notable for their infectious soundtracks of 1970s pop hits. In this week’s Roundtable, we look at other famous examples of filmmakers putting licensed songs to good use. To be clear, when we say “licensed songs,” we mean...

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Weekend Roundtable: Ass-Kicking Action Heroines

Josh Zyber — Fri, 15 May 2015 19:00:29 +0000

As audiences line up to see ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ this weekend, they may be surprised to find a bald, robo-armed Charlize Theron on equal footing with the title hero of the film. For this week’s Roundtable, we wanted to celebrate some of cinema’s other badass action heroines who prove that girls can kick just...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 15th, 2013 – Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:00:28 +0000

This week marks the last big push for new Blu-ray releases before the Christmas holiday. If our readers have been good boys and girls, we might just have a last-minute gift to offer you. Read this post carefully for our special one-day giveaway. New Releases I doubt it was planned this way deliberately, but the...

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Full Metal Jackets: Hammer Hits Steel

Josh Zyber — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:00:00 +0000

By this point, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that every Marvel superhero blockbuster will receive the SteelBook treatment on Blu-ray. In fact, the latest franchise entry barely just premiered in theaters, and its SteelBook has already been announced. This week’s metal case update brings us the god of thunder and several other recent theatrical...

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Weekend Box Office: You Got Served… by ‘The Butler’!

Luke Hickman — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:00:02 +0000

Of this weekend’s four wide releases, only one walked away a success. One of the other three did all right, but the others flopped hard. ‘Precious‘ filmmaker Lee Daniels is back on top after last year’s dud ‘The Paperboy‘. ‘The Butler‘ opened to an awesome $25 million from 2,900 screens. Some early MPAA controversy is...

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Weekend Movies: Summer of Sequels Continues

Luke Hickman — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:00:40 +0000

There have been nearly twenty sequels, spin-offs or reboots since April – some good, some not so good. This weekend gives us yet another, as well as three original movies, each opening on more than 2,000 screens. Although 2010’s ‘Kick-Ass‘ wasn’t a huge blockbuster, it was a success nonetheless. Made on an independent budget of...

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Now Playing: Still Kickin’ Ass and Takin’ Names

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:00:28 +0000

Mark Millar’s ultra-violent superhero story is back in ‘Kick-Ass 2’. If you can believe it, this highly entertaining sequel amps everything up to eleven. From the characters to the story and especially the violence, everything gets revved up, bloodied, and kicked into high gear. While first film centered around Dave, a.k.a. Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), as...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie & TV Dads

Josh Zyber — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:00:46 +0000

This Sunday is Father’s Day, the holiday where you show the paternal figure in your life how much you appreciate all he’s done for you with the gift of an ugly tie. While we contemplate the injustice of that, let’s take a look at some of our favorite movie and TV dads in today’s Roundtable....

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Full Metal Jackets: Comic Book Confidential

Josh Zyber — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:00:23 +0000

Here’s a conundrum for you: If the whole point of SteelBook packaging is to offer fans an aesthetically pleasing collectible to display on their movie shelves, then why, pray tell, would a studio like Universal release a whole wave of Blu-ray SteelBooks with butt-ugly artwork on them? Somebody please explain this to me. Universal’s line-up...

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The Trailer Park: A Summer of Sequels

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:00:23 +0000

Surprise, surprise. The summer blockbuster season this year will come with several sequels. At least one of the movies featured in today’s trailers clearly should have never been made or even conceived in the first place. The Hangover Part 3 Someone should burn the existence of these movies from the face of the Earth and...

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Book Review: ‘The Great Showdowns’ by Scott C.

Tom Landy — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:00:28 +0000

If you love movies, and if you enjoyed the recently reviewed ‘Silhouettes‘ book by Olly Moss, you’ll definitely want to check out this other fun little collection of pop culture art by Scott Campbell. This particular book features Scott’s take on some of the most memorable confrontations in cinematic history. Since studying illustration at San...

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