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Weekend Roundtable: Kids’ First Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:00:50 +0000

In years past (this may be less the case in today’s age of instant access digital streaming at home), the first movie a child went to see at a movie theater was a milestone, often formative experience of youth. If you’re a parent, what were the first movie(s) you took your kids to see, how...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Stop-Motion Animation

Josh Zyber — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:00:46 +0000

In this age where computer-generated animation has largely supplanted older traditional methods, the labor intensive stop-motion process is a dying breed. This week, studio Laika keeps the format breathing with ‘The BoxTrolls’. Whether this movie will be held up as a classic over time remains to be seen, but we’d like to celebrate the effort...

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Blu-ray Highlights for November 27th, 2012 – Going ‘Black’ to the Well

Josh Zyber — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:00:56 +0000

With Thanksgiving and Black Friday now over, the home video studios have decided to take things easy for another week. While we get a few discs that might be considered notable releases, the holiday season’s biggest titles won’t start rolling out until the beginning of December. New Releases You’d think that Sony might have wanted...

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Weekend Box Office: Zombies Limp to First Place

Luke Hickman — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:00:03 +0000

Each of this weekend’s wide releases underperformed studio predictions, but there’s one bit of news worth noting. In limited release, P.T. Anderson’s latest drama, ‘The Master‘, crushed an indie record recently set by Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’. (Is it just a coincidence that both directors carry the last name Anderson?) In May, the latter scored...

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Weekend Box Office: Another Mild Labor Day

Luke Hickman — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:00:58 +0000

I don’t understand what it is about Labor Day that draws so few people to their local cinemas. The similar holiday Memorial Day, located at the beginning of summer, brings hundreds of million of dollars worth of revenue. So why is it that so few visit theaters on Labor Day? It’s estimated the Top 12...

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Weekend Box Office: Don’t Worry, No Big ‘Rush’

Luke Hickman — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:00:17 +0000

Even though box office grosses slipped between 39 to 52%, this weekend’s Top 4 line-up is exactly the same as last weekend’s. The three major new releases pathetically debuted in the #7, #10 and #12 spots. In first place, ‘The Expendables 2‘ has now made $52.3 million over two weekends. Three weeks deep, ‘The Bourne...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Expendable’ Income

Luke Hickman — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:00:06 +0000

Talk about a light weekend at the box office. Almost none of the movies, new or old, hit their projections. The most noteworthy statistic of the week is that ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ crossed the domestic $400 million mark and is closing in on the worldwide $1 billion mark. ‘The Expendables 2‘ debuted in the...

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Weekend Movies: I See Dead People

Luke Hickman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:00:39 +0000

With summer drawing to a close, the studios offer up a huge spread of variety this weekend. We get a family flick about a kid who grows from a garden, a stop-motion movie about a kid who sees dead people, a musical drama that will make you see dead people (too soon?), and an R-rated...

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The Trailer Park: Spooky Stop-Motion

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:00:58 +0000

As a longtime animation fan, I’m sure to like the movies promoted by these next two trailers. I especially love it when filmmakers push the edge of family-friendly to the point of “More for the grown-ups.” Even better if they use horror standards and conventions to do that. Yeah, I’m pretty sure that I’m going...

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Posterizing: A Melancholy Moonrise

Aaron Peck — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:00:21 +0000

I wish I had a bigger house, or more wall space. I just don’t have enough room to hang all the posters that I really love. Check out this week’s new posters for theatrical releases, and also a few special event posters that I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on. ‘ParaNorman’ I have to say,...

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