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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 18th, 2014 – Pomp and Circumstance

Josh Zyber — Mon, 19 May 2014 13:00:38 +0000

At high schools and colleges around the country, late May is graduation season for students. At the movies, however, it’s a season of mass destruction this year. As Godzilla smashes the theatrical box office, our new Blu-ray releases this week are fronted by another overblown disaster epic from earlier in the year. If that doesn’t...

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Weekend Box Office: Heathens Worship Neeson Over Jesus

Luke Hickman — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:00:19 +0000

This weekend’s two wide movie releases both made major splashes at the domestic box office – but according to Christians, most people made the wrong decision. Despite rumors that religious organizations were buying out entire showings of ‘Son of God’ for their congregations and that pre-sale tickets were through the roof, Liam Neeson’s latest action...

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Weekend Box Office: If You Close Your Eyes, Does It Feel Like We’ve Been Here Before?

Luke Hickman — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:00:41 +0000

Each of this weekend’s big new releases bombed and all three of last week’s romance flicks plummeted in attendance this week, leaving ‘The Lego Movie’ to continue stacking up success. In its third weekend, the family film only fell 36% and raked in another $31.4 million. After 17 days, it has earned an impressive $183.1...

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Weekend Box Office: Everything Is Still Awesome

Luke Hickman — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:00:21 +0000

Last week’s win for ‘The Lego Movie’ carried through to President’s Day weekend as well. The film’s light 27% drop in attendance was an amazing holdover, and the $50 million second weekend pushed its ten-day total up to $130.3 million. If counting the Monday holiday as part of the weekend, the extra $63.5 million from...

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Weekend Box Office: A Real Blockbuster

Luke Hickman — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:00:46 +0000

This weekend, the Lego brand had a huge win, George Clooney had his best-ever directorial debut, and another horrible-looking Young Adult adaptation flopped. Everything is awesome!” Warner Bros. struck animated gold with ‘The Lego Movie‘. The film’s $69.1 million debut is the second-highest February opening behind ‘The Passion of Christ’ ($83.8 million). With ‘Lego’ stacking...

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Weekend Movies: Cinemas to Suck Your Wallet Dry

Luke Hickman — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:00:17 +0000

This weekend brings another famous toy to the big screen, a drama that got kicked out of an awards season slot, and yet another adaptation of Young Adult book series. Can you guess which two might be worth checking out? The biggest release of the weekend is ‘The Lego Movie‘. When I was a kid,...

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Now Playing: A Monumental Waste of Time

Philip Brown — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:00:07 +0000

It’s always a bad sign when a movie gets bumped from a prestigious awards-gobbling fall release into the January/February dumping ground. It’s an even worse sign when that movie is a Hollywood superstar packed affair and those stars aren’t seen flogging the project on every possible media venue. ‘The Monuments Men’ is a film starring,...

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The Trailer Park: ‘Robo’ Copy

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:00:17 +0000

Given Hollywood’s current passion for rehashing old favorites instead of coming up with new or original ideas, it’s not shocking that someone has tried to modernize another ’80s action classic. Still, I’m at a loss for words with this one. ‘RoboCop’ (2014) A remake of Paul Verhoeven’s action movie satire? Did we really need this?...

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