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Game of Thrones Series Finale Recap: “Will You Break the Wheel with Me?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 21 May 2019 12:00:24 +0000

Game of Thrones is over, and I’m sure no one’s happy about it. Those fans who still like the show are sad that it’s over, and the series finale was never likely to change the minds of those who’ve complained all season about how much they hated this last batch of episodes. Let’s be frank,...

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Game of Thrones 8.01 Recap: “What Does a Dragon Eat, Anyway?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:00:58 +0000

I cannot recall any television series in my lifetime that has entered its final season with as much hype and as much punishing pressure to satisfy millions of fans as HBO’s Game of Thrones. That’s a daunting task, but if any show can pull it off, it feels like everyone is rooting for this one...

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‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ Review: Masterful Morality Play (Plus Comedy!)

Philip Brown — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:00:58 +0000

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ is a righteous and angry film. It deals with an unsolved and dismissed crime that rocked a small town, along with the people left harmed in its wake. However, if Martin McDonagh’s brilliant movie were merely about some sort of rise to justice, it wouldn’t be nearly as effective. Frances...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

Philip Brown — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:00:37 +0000

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ will likely take multiple viewings to process its achievements. What’s clear from the first round is that writer/director/playwright Martin McDonagh (‘In Bruges’, ‘Seven Psychopaths’) has created something fascinating, darkly hilarious, unexpectedly humane, and maybe even a little profound. The film deliberately avoids easy classifications and turns down roads you’d never...

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‘The Boss’ Review: Half Funny

Philip Brown — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:00:50 +0000

Melissa McCarthy is one of the most successful comedic performers in Hollywood today, and good for her. Given some of the laugh factories that she’s headlined, she deserves it. However, based on the unfortunate ‘Tammy’ and her latest feature, ‘The Boss’, it’s starting to look as though McCarthy probably shouldn’t be writing her own screenplays....

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‘Pixels’ Review: Lazy as @!#?@!

Philip Brown — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:00:50 +0000

Oh, Adam Sandler. How a generation used to love ye. There was a time when the Sand-man walked a tightrope between mainstream crowd-pleasing and anarchistic surrealism better than anyone. That time was the mid-1990s. Now he just might be the laziest billionaire in Hollywood. At this point, the only thing guaranteed to be worse than...

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‘Game of Thrones’ 5.01 Recap: “We All Must Choose”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:00:27 +0000

In these days when so much television programming is dominated by mindless and repetitive crime procedurals, it’s kind of amazing that a show as labyrinthine, ambitious and often difficult as ‘Game of Thrones’ has stayed on the air for so long, much less that it continues to be hugely popular. HBO brought the series back...

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The Trailer Park: Beat the Summer Heat

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:00:42 +0000

Trailers for this summer’s big movies are coming out quicker than I can keep up, but so far the hottest season of the year promises to be a real scorcher with several highly-anticipated features. This collection is just a smidge of the blockbusters I’m excited to see. ‘Maggie’ Since retiring from being California’s governator, ’80s...

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‘Game of Thrones’ 3.08 Recap: “I Am the God of Tits and Wine”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:00:52 +0000

You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of Lord Tyrion Lannister and Lady Sansa Stark. The ceremony will be followed by a reception to feature much feasting and imbibing of spirits, but sadly very little merriment. As we approach the end of this season of ‘Game of Thrones’ (the show only has two more...

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‘Game of Thrones’ 3.01 Recap: “Everyone You’ve Ever Known Will Be Dead”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:00:17 +0000

The funny thing about HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’, which returned for its third season on Sunday, is that this is one of the few shows on television where an episode can go by in which basically nothing at all happens, and yet fans will still regard it as “epic” and “awe inspiring.” Make no mistake,...

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The Trailer Park: More Animated Mischief

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:00:30 +0000

Two more animated films, one from DreamWorks and one from Fox, are expected to light up cinema screens this year. A franchise favorite is sure to draw in audiences, while an adaptation to a still fairly new series of children’s books takes a chance during the holidays. ‘Rise of the Guardians’ Visually, this CG-animated adaptation...

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‘Game of Thrones’ 2.01 Recap: “The Night Is Dark and Full of Terrors”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:00:06 +0000

In what may be the television event of the year, HBO’s epic, amazing ‘Game of Thrones’ returned for its second season on Sunday. Does the show still hold up to the same high standard as the terrific first season, or has it fallen into a sophomore slump? While we only have one episode to judge...

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