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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 14th, 2019 – Walking on Broken Glass

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:00:34 +0000

In contrast to last week, a genuine box office hit comes to both Blu-ray and Ultra HD this week. Plenty of people saw the movie in theaters. How many of them were actually satisfied with it is perhaps a different matter. New Releases (Blu-ray) Glass – M. Night Shyamalan merges his characters from Unbreakable and...

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Glass Review: Shattered Hopes

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:00:35 +0000

M. Night Shyamalan is his own worst enemy. When he creates small films with deeply personal stories, he shines as a director. However, his grand gestures usually fall flat and earn unintended laughs from the audience. Glass is his most ambitious project to date, an attempt to create an original Shyamalan Cinematic Universe, and it’s...

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Weekend Roundtable: Superhero Spinoffs

Josh Zyber — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:00:12 +0000

If Spider-Man’s nemesis Venom can score his own movie (despite his only prior screen appearance being in the reviled Spider-Man 3), it seems like the doors are wide open for all manner of other superhero spinoffs. Who will be the next supporting character or villain from a superhero franchise to get his or her own...

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Weekend Roundtable: Lamest Movie Monsters

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:00:01 +0000

We’ve done Roundtables in the past about Favorite Monster Movies and Favorite Giant Monsters. Unfortunately, not every monster flick that Hollywood cranks out is a winner. This week, we give dishonorable mentions to some movie monsters that are just flat-out lame. Shannon Nutt It would be so easy to go back to the lame sci-fi...

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‘Split’ Review: Psycho Silliness

Philip Brown — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:00:31 +0000

Two years ago, M. Night Shyamalan made a comeback of sorts with ‘The Visit’, a Found Footage horror lark for Blumhouse that was surprisingly effective and even more surprisingly successful. Although the movie wasn’t as masterful as the 2.5 great films Shyamalan made at the turn of the millennium (‘The Sixth Sense’, ‘Unbreakable’ and the...

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Weekend Roundtable: Directors Who Sold Out

Josh Zyber — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:00:56 +0000

With his $160 million ‘Warcraft’ opening this weekend, ‘Moon’ director Duncan Jones is (seemingly) the latest example of an indie filmmaker previously known for smart, interesting little movies selling out to make big, dopey Hollywood blockbusters from then on. Here are some more examples of promising filmmakers whose careers got a lot less interesting when...

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‘The Visit’ Review: I See Old People

Luke Hickman — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:00:31 +0000

From the start of his career as a writer/director, M. Night Shyamalan has been known to throw unforeseeable twists into his movies. After his first three or four films, the quality of his work went down the drain. The twists were also flushed with them – that is, until now. However, the twist of ‘The...

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‘Wayward Pines’ Pilot Recap: “You Could Have an Amazing Life Here”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 19 May 2015 16:00:38 +0000

Having burned up almost all of the good will his career in the movies may have once had, can M. Night Shyamalan redeem himself on the television medium? The one-time auteur gives it a shot with the new ten-episode “Limited Event” series ‘Wayward Pines’ on Fox. The pilot episode isn’t terrible, which I might take...

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Weekend Roundtable: Good Movie, Bad Ending

Josh Zyber — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:00:12 +0000

Does a bad ending ruin an otherwise good movie? Can you forgive a film that stumbles in its last act if you enjoyed the rest of it? This week’s Roundtable is all about movies that come so close to greatness, but fail to stick the landing. Needless to say given the topic, this article will...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 6th, 2013 – Hey Nonny, Nonny

Josh Zyber — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:00:13 +0000

It’s a battle of the bombs on Blu-ray this week, as two of the most critically and audience reviled films of the year come to home video. If we take a closer look, however, we might also find a few titles actually worth buying. New Releases M. Night Shyamalan is the king of second chances....

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movie Endings

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:00:46 +0000

SPOILER ALERT! This week’s Roundtable is all about movies ruined by their lousy endings. It stands to reason, therefore, that we’re about to give away those endings. Scan the list of bolded titles and consider yourself warned. Frankly, we wish that we’d been warned in advance before wasting our time watching some of these. This...

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Weekend Box Office: No Twist for Shyamalan

Luke Hickman — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:00:53 +0000

This weekend, M. Night Shyamalan and the Smith family fell far short of expectations while an ensemble heist thriller pulled off a magic coup. Despite dropping 64% in attendance, ‘Fast & Furious 6‘ dominated the box office for the second weekend in a row. On 3,686 screens, the crowd-pleasing motorhead flick pulled in another $34.5...

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