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Now Playing: ‘Friends with Benefits’ – Yet Another R-Rated Winner

Luke Hickman — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:00:48 +0000

If you found this year’s earlier sex-buddy romantic comedy ‘No Strings Attached’ a pleasant surprise, expect to be won over by ‘Friends with Benefits’ too. While both movies revolve around the same premise – two friends decide to give non-committal casual sex a shot – ‘Friends with Benefits’ scores extra points for being as funny...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 5/10/11. What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:01 +0000

While this week isn’t quite the dead zone that last week was, today’s Blu-ray release schedule is once again filled with a lot of reissued or repackaged titles previously available on the format. However, if we dig in, we might find a few things of interest. Here’s the full release slate: ‘Alien‘ (20th Century Fox)...

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Weekend Box Office: Sandler Beats Bieber

Drew Taylor — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:00:06 +0000

When the weekend started off, I thought that there was no way that anyone could cripple teen heartthrob Justin Bieber and his by-all-accounts-better-than-expected 3D concert movie ‘Never Say Never’. Well, I guess I shouldn’t have said never, because one of America’s favorite comedians came up and bested the feathery-aired sensation, taking the Number One crown....

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Weekend Box Office: Apparently, Teenagers Have Never Seen ‘Single White Female’

Drew Taylor — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:00:53 +0000

This was an unexceptional weekend for movies and, true to form, it was an unexceptional box office too. A pair of new releases were supposedly blah (I haven’t seen either), both of which topped the domestic box office… Also, ‘No Strings Attached’ keeps making money, much to my continued befuddlement. The weekend’s top earner turned...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Rite’ = Might

Drew Taylor — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:00:39 +0000

This weekend only offered up a pair of junky new genre movies to entice multiplex audiences to leave their snow-besieged homes. However, with the Oscar nominations announced on Tuesday morning, the nominated films did get a noticeable bump. Besides that, those mid-winter doldrums are in full effect. The weekend’s #1 movie was the Warner Bros....

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‘At the Movies’ 2011 Premiere Recap: “Welcome Back to the Balcony”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:00:34 +0000

The newly-revived ‘Ebert Presents At the Movies’ made its premiere on PBS stations over the weekend. Are new hosts Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky the next Siskel & Ebert? To use a phrase that was repeated many times in the first episode: “I completely disagree.” I’ll try to be even-handed here and dole out compliments...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘No Strings’, Yes Box Office

Drew Taylor — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:00:49 +0000

Romantic comedies haven’t been the surefire hits they once were. (Hello, ‘Sleepless in Seattle’.) Some recent high-profile titles have out-and-out bombed, such as James L. Brooks’ massively expensive flop ‘How Do You Know’ – a movie so forgettable I had to Google it to make sure that was the correct title, and it just opened...

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Weekend Movies: Just Because There Are ‘No Strings Attached’ Doesn’t Mean You Have to Go

Drew Taylor — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:00:28 +0000

This weekend follows the usual January release pattern. There’s one big studio movie that was probably too lousy to compete in another time of year when things are actually, you know, competitive. We also get a sprinkling of indie releases and a couple of smaller movies that had limited runs in December (for Oscar consideration,...

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