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The 2017 Spirit & Razzie Awards

Josh Zyber — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:00:00 +0000

For the fourth year in a row, the Independent Spirit Awards gave the top trophy to the same movie that would win a Best Picture Oscar on the following night. For the first time in possibly ever, the Razzie Awards did something kind of interesting. Spirit Awards I’ve grumbled before and will no doubt do...

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2017 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:55:02 +0000

The Oscars ceremony last night was marked by high drama, controversy and a stunning upset. Honestly, I’m having trouble believing it myself, but indeed the shocking fact remains that Lin-Manuel Miranda did not EGOT… … yet. I’m sure he’ll get another chance in the future. In the meantime, despite the enormous pressure from seemingly the...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 19th, 2017 – A Ridge Too Far

Josh Zyber — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:00:17 +0000

The Oscars are less than a week away. If you feel that you haven’t seen enough of this year’s nominated movies, a few more of them hit Blu-ray this week to give you time to catch up. Better get on that – assuming you care at all about the Oscars, of course. New Releases (Blu-ray)...

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Poll: Which 2017 Oscar Nominated Movies Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:00:33 +0000

As Hollywood continues to gloat all through awards season about the quality of the movies it makes, the fact remains that many of the Oscar nominees have simply not been widely seen by audiences outside industry voting circles. With just short of a month to cram the rest in, how many of this year’s selection...

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2017 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:00:46 +0000

This year’s Academy Award nominations were announced today and, as fully expected, the Oscar voters are gaga for ‘La La Land’. The musical scored 14 nominations in all, tying the record with ‘All About Eve’ and ‘Titanic’. More surprising: ‘Suicide Squad’ landed more nominations than Pixar’s latest blockbuster. The ‘Suicide Squad’ nomination was for Makeup...

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2017 Golden Globe Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:00:49 +0000

In most years, the final award given out at the Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama) is the most important prize of the evening and the strongest Oscar predictor. This year, however, was all about the Comedy/Musical category, which wrapped up about 20 minutes earlier. The movie of the night was clearly Damien Chazelle’s...

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The Best of the Best in Film in 2016, Part 2

Philip Brown — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:00:40 +0000

Welcome back, folks. It’s still the end of 2016, and I’m still coping with the end of yet another year of my life by handing out a collection of Best Of film awards to directors and celebrities who will never notice or care. But I care, dammit. Way too much. Enough so that I couldn’t...

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Weekend Box Office: One with the Force

Luke Hickman — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:00:23 +0000

The Force has awoken. Again. If Disney can keep it up, it will continue to do so each year until the well has entirely dried up – but that’s not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. As ‘Star Wars’ was cleaning up at the box office this weekend, Will Smith’s latest Oscar bait flopped....

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2017 Golden Globe Nominations

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:00:42 +0000

As it inevitably must every year at this time, awards season has begun. This morning, actors Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick announced the 2017 Golden Globe nominations for movies and TV. I don’t know if it’s just typical Golden Globes quirkiness, but this seems like a particularly unexciting year in almost every category,...

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Weekend Box Office: Still Sailing

Luke Hickman — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:00:06 +0000

With ‘Moana’ topping the charts for a third consecutive week and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ opening this weekend, it’s likely that Disney’s record year will include reigning the box office for the last six weeks of 2016. One of this weekend’s new movies came close to dethroning the island princess, but the other...

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‘Manchester by the Sea’ Review: 2.5 Hours of Grief, but Good Grief

Philip Brown — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:00:22 +0000

‘Manchester by the Sea’ is unquestionably a good movie, at times even a great one. However, it’s also incredibly difficult to watch. Not that there are any horrible images to send viewers fleeing from their screens or anything like that. This is a character piece in which the emotions can be so raw and the...

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Weekend Box Office: Oh Oh, It’s Magic!

Luke Hickman — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:00:53 +0000

The fans turned out this weekend for the latest offering in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, but that was the only movie to perform as expected. Not only did the other wide releases miss the mark, but the expanding limited releases under-performed and all other holdovers dropped harder than usual. Of the expected moviegoers, only the...

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