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‘The Choice’ Review: Nicholas Sparks Must Be Stopped

Philip Brown — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:00:07 +0000

In case you lack a calendar or foresight, it’s worth noting that Valentine’s Day is coming up. How do I know this? Because a new Nicholas Sparks movie is upon us. That’s right, the man who touched millions with ‘The Notebook’ and then got a free pass to crank out a decade’s worth of painfully...

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‘The Longest Ride’ Review: Too Long By Far

Philip Brown — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:00:10 +0000

I’ll say this about ‘The Longest Ride’: Not only does the latest bucket of Nicholas Sparks swill feature two intertwining love stories, but with a butt-numbing running time of 139 minutes, the experience feels like watching two movies back-to-back. That means it’s like getting a two-for-one Sparks movie deal. It’s good value for money and...

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‘The Best of Me’ Review: The Worst of Nicholas Sparks

Philip Brown — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:00:09 +0000

Yet another Nicholas Sparks adaptation is here to present yet another ludicrously idealized version of romance that exists only in soft rock ballads and cheesy paperbacks. ‘The Best of Me’ is kind of like a comic book movie in terms of its brazen disregard for reality, only without any of the fun or entertainment value...

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Weekend Box Office: From Chimpan-A to Steve Harvey

Luke Hickman — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:20 +0000

Although ‘The Hunger Games’ finally got muscled out of the #1 spot on, this, its fifth weekend of release, the film managed to only drop another 31%. Coming in at third, ‘The Hunger Games’ has now made $356 million domestically. The movie that captured the #1 spot not only surprised me, but it surpassed its...

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Weekend Roundtable: “Paycheck” Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:00:01 +0000

Back in 1996, director Scott Hicks burst onto the international cinema scene with his art house hit ‘Shine’, which went on to be nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Today (literally today), Hicks’ latest movie ‘The Lucky One’ is a generic weepy romance starring Zac Efron that was adapted from a...

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Weekend Movies: The Calm Before the Summer Storm

Luke Hickman — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:00:18 +0000

What a wasted opportunity. Today is 4/20 and not a single studio thought to release a stoner comedy. I’m more shocked about that than I am about the weak movies that actually open today. The widest opener this weekend is ‘The Lucky One‘. Considering that it’s based on a Nicholas Sparks book and stars Zac...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movie Dream Teams

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:00:47 +0000

This week’s Roundtable topic was inspired by a comment posted by one of our blog’s readers, Adam. This one is admittedly a bit esoteric, but we had fun with it. Here’s the challenge: If you could assemble a dream team production of talent (director, writer, stars) to make a movie, who would you include and...

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