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Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Fairy Tale Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:00:53 +0000

Hollywood seems to love mining old fairy tales for movie scripts. This week’s theatrical release of ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ (adapted from ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’) is just the latest example. In today’s Roundtable, we take a look at some of the best and worst examples of this trend. Shannon Nutt Best: It’s a story...

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Weekend Roundtable: How Did This Movie Get Made?

Josh Zyber — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:00:29 +0000

Have you ever watched a movie trailer that was so jaw-droppingly awful that you couldn’t believe the film got made in the first place? Of course you have. With the releases of ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ and ‘Movie 43’, this week brings us two such apparent dogs. For today’s Roundtable, I thought it would...

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Blu-ray Highlights for June 26th, 2012 – Hush Your Mouth!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:00:09 +0000

This week’s top new Blu-ray release is so good that it (almost) leaves me speechless. I’ll see if I can muster a few words about it (and the rest of the new Blu-ray slate) anyway. New Releases It’s such a rarity that I ever find myself agreeing with the Academy Awards pick for Best Picture...

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Weekend Box Office: Audiences ‘Hunger’ for More

Luke Hickman — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:00:28 +0000

Was there any doubt that ‘The Hunger Games’ would follow up its $155 million opening weekend in any spot other than first again? Of course not, but the drop-off was not as friendly as the studio hoped it would be. Lionsgate predicted a 53% drop that would have given the film a $71.7 million second...

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Now Playing: The Most Miserable Kids’ Movie of Them All

Luke Hickman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:00:27 +0000

Look, I know that kids’ movies can’t always be expected to entertain the adults as well as the children, but with quality family entertainment almost consistently being pumped out by Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks, the need to entertain both audiences has never been greater. If all kids’ movies resembled ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks‘, then parents...

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Weekend Movies: Rehashes of Old Stories

Luke Hickman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00:23 +0000

This weekend is pathetic. It would almost have to be. No studio in its right mind would open an actually good movie against the unstoppable ‘Hunger Games’. One opener this weekend appeals to a young audience (well, an audience younger than should be attending ‘The Hunger Games’), but the other is a sequel hoping to...

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The Trailer Park: Snow White Showdown

M. Enois Duarte — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:00:58 +0000

This week’s pair of coming attractions is like some kind of test made up entirely of trick questions. Which of the new ‘Snow White’ adaptations looks worse? Guess what, no matter which you choose, you’re going to pick the wrong answer. ‘Mirror Mirror’ The first of next year’s new interpretations of the classic Grimm fairy...

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