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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 2nd, 2019 – Never Rub Another Man’s Rhubarb

Josh Zyber — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:00:35 +0000

In contrast to last week, which didn’t have a single new Ultra HD disc to offer, this is a very big week for 4k upgrades of beloved movie franchises. Once again, however, catalog titles are far more interesting than the day-and-date releases. New Releases (Blu-ray) A Madea Family Funeral – So long as his fans...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 28th, 2018 – No, Sir, They’re Saying Boo-urns

Josh Zyber — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:00:16 +0000

I’m not sure which is the more depressing prospect – that the top Blu-ray release for the last week of January is a leftover Halloween movie, or that it’s also a ‘Madea’ movie. Either way, it doesn’t speak well for the new discs on offer. New Releases ‘Boo 2! A Madea Halloween‘ – Tyler Perry’s...

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Weekend Box Office: Norse Code

Luke Hickman — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:00:21 +0000

Between summer’s ‘Guardians’ sequel and this weekend’s new ‘Thor’ movie, the MCU harvest has been great for Disney this year. The ‘Bad Moms’ sequel also had a decent opening, but isn’t tracking like its highly profitable predecessor. Aside from those, however, the weekend’s box office was just as poor as the past several weeks. Marvel...

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Weekend Box Office: I Saw What You Did There

Luke Hickman — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:00:49 +0000

Box office returns have been absolutely wretched since the release of ‘It’ in early September. A mix of lazy movies and competition from streaming original content (like the new season of ‘Stranger Things’) are probably to blame. This weekend was no exception. It’s been seven years since the ‘Saw’ franchise was last on the big...

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Weekend Box Office: Scared Stupid

Luke Hickman — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:00:14 +0000

With five wide release movies fighting for your cost of admission, it’s no surprise that none of them were big hits. One had an okay opening while the other four bombed. To be fair, none of them were marketed very well, which is another big factor in their failures. The best of the underperformers landed...

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Weekend Movies: Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

Luke Hickman — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:00:37 +0000

Why studios slate multiple wide release movies on jam-packed weekends is beyond me. Sardined into theaters this week are five – you read that correctly – five movies opening on 1,300 screens or more. These include a brain-dead disaster epic, a true story tragedy, a Tyler Perry sequel, a grizzly serial killer thriller, and a...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 29th, 2017 – When Your Reach Exceeds Your Grasp

Josh Zyber — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:00:05 +0000

January this year crawls to a close with only a smattering of new Blu-ray releases, none of them too exciting (in my book). The most notable is also the most ironically titled movie of last year. New Releases ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back‘ – The first ‘Jack Reacher’ wasn’t exactly one of Tom Cruise’s biggest...

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Weekend Box Office: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Luke Hickman — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:00:29 +0000

Each of the weekend’s three wide movies releases performed very well at the box office. Marvel’s newest superhero made a grade introduction, DreamWorks Animation’s second 2016 release earned $10 million above expectations, and Mel Gibson’s low-budget war drama won over audiences. After several weeks of mostly bad news, it’s nice to report on some big...

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Weekend Box Office: Fire Extinguished

Luke Hickman — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:00:36 +0000

After two bad Dan Brown movie adaptations, the people have spoken loudly via a terrible turnout for the third. When a week-old ‘Madea’ sequel can trump a new pricy Tom Hanks/Ron Howard film, that says a lot. For the second week in a row, Tyler Perry’s ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween‘ easily locked in the top...

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Weekend Box Office: Eek!

Luke Hickman — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000

This weekend brought some surprising twists. Chief among them, Tyler Perry’s latest comedy beat out Tom Cruise’s new action flick, which was expected to win the box office. Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea’ franchise has had a very successful track record, but the last one, ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas’, hit a franchise low with its debut....

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Weekend Movies: Reacher Madness

Luke Hickman — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:00:02 +0000

When the majority of this weekend’s new movies look pretty good, it’s going to be difficult deciding what to see. Even though there appears to be clear winners and duds in this mix, you’ll definitely want to do some homework on critical response and word-of-mouth before making a decision. The widest release of the weekend...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 23rd, 2014 – It’s Turkey Week, All Right

Josh Zyber — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:00:35 +0000

It seems to me that, with Black Friday coming up in a few days, this ought to be a really good time to release some major new Blu-ray titles. Instead, as so often happens, the studios have decided to dump a bunch of turkeys on us this week. Thankfully, the selection of catalog titles is...

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