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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 10th, 2017 – Circle of Confusion

Josh Zyber — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:00:20 +0000

They say you can’t go home again, but Hollywood refuses to listen and keeps churning out sequels and knockoffs to once-successful movies. Some of those hit Blu-ray this week, along with far too many packaging variations for the new season of a hit HBO show. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle‘ – The 2014...

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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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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 26th, 2017 – Strange Bedfellows

Josh Zyber — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:00:23 +0000

February ends with a touch of magic as Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme materializes on Blu-ray this week. Also available: last night’s Best Picture winner and a beloved art film trilogy. Which Blu-rays Interest You This Week (2/28/17)? ‘5 Centimeters per Second‘ (Discotek Media) ‘21 Jump Street / 22 Jump Street‘ (Sony) ‘96 Souls‘ (Gravitas Ventures) ‘A*P*E...

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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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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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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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‘Moonlight’ Review: Ambitious Yet Intimate

Philip Brown — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:00:41 +0000

Every now and then, the right movie comes along at the right time. With the Twitterverse bringing identity politics out of academia and into the mainstream, there has been a sudden demand for films that explore issues of racial and sexual identity with sensitivity, acceptance, and a challenge to conventional norms. Enter Barry Jenkins’ ‘Moonlight’,...

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