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Weekend Roundtable: From Indie to Payday

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:00:03 +0000

After her Oscar win for Room, Brie Larson jumped right into the gargantuan Kong: Skull Island and is now headlining a mega-budget Marvel superhero flick. Our Roundtable this week looks at other actors who’ve made the leap from indie acclaim to blockbuster stardom. David Krauss Though opportunities for black actresses are growing (it’s about frickin’...

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Poll: Most Disappointing Blockbuster of 2017

Josh Zyber — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:00:01 +0000

Just because a movie makes a lot of money doesn’t mean that people actually liked it. In fact, we’re living in a time when movies can make hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars despite seemingly everybody hating them. Of last year’s big blockbusters, which ones let you down the most? We’re using the...

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Year-End Poll: Favorite Blockbuster Movie of 2017

Josh Zyber — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:00:48 +0000

As we close the books on 2017, I’ve given the site staff a reprieve from doing a new Roundtable this week. Instead, I’ll leave our readers with a question: What was your favorite blockbuster movie of 2017? For the purposes of this poll, I have a rather simplistic definition of “blockbuster.” I’ve compiled a list...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 1st, 2017 – Dead in the Water

Josh Zyber — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:58 +0000

Avast, ye mateys! Shiver me timbers, walk the plank and all that other nonsense. The pirates arrrr coming and it be time t’ sail the ocean Blu… I’ll stop now, I promise. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales‘ – Johnny Depp has debts to pay, which means that it’s...

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SteelBook Alert: All I Wanna Do Is Zoom-a-Zoom-Zoom-Zoom

Josh Zyber — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:00:41 +0000

I haven’t spent a lot of time talking about SteelBooks in the blog recently, probably because many of the ones released lately have been inflicted with ugly Pop Art designs. In the interest of keeping our readers abreast of products they may wish to preorder, let’s look at some titles that will race toward retailers...

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Weekend Box Office: Not Quite Dead on Arrival, But Close

Luke Hickman — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:00:18 +0000

The international box office has once again saved a huge studio movie from its less-than-blockbuster domestic performance. Tom Cruise’s latest star vehicle didn’t even make a dent in the strong holdover from last weekend’s top movie. While most superhero movies open huge and suffer massive second-week drop-offs, that wasn’t the case with ‘Wonder Woman‘. Slipping...

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Weekend Box Office: Wonderful!

Luke Hickman — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:00:47 +0000

All eyes were on this weekend for several reasons tied to one movie in particular. The big questions were: Could the latest standalone entry to DC comics’ cinematic series actually be good? Could it rev up moviegoers ahead of this fall’s release of ‘Justice League’? Could it become a financial success? Could the female-directed, female-led...

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Weekend Box Office: Dead Man Walking

Luke Hickman — Tue, 30 May 2017 16:00:16 +0000

Although this holiday weekend wasn’t a bust for either of the new wide release movies, both fell very short of expectations. The fifth installment to Disney’s tentpole pirate franchise won the box office, but delivered the series’ lowest opening since the original film. At the same time, even though The Rock has proven to be...

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Weekend Movies: Walk the Plank

Luke Hickman — Fri, 26 May 2017 12:00:39 +0000

This weekend brings two big movies: a pricy Disney franchise that has been on hiatus for six years, and an R-rated adaptation of a once-popular television series. Knowing that Disney’s blockbuster is going to dominate the box office, the latter opened on Thursday in order to get one full day without the competition. Considering that...

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‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Review: More of the Same, Less of the Charm

Philip Brown — Thu, 25 May 2017 19:00:35 +0000

It’s almost impossible to remember a time when a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie qualified as a pleasant surprise hinged on an eccentric Johnny Depp performance that audiences couldn’t get enough of. That happened exactly once, and yet here we are four sequels later squeezing the last few remaining drops of good will out of...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movie Character Retirement

Josh Zyber — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:00:46 +0000

After 17 years and 9 movies, Hugh Jackman says that ‘Logan’ will be his last appearance as Wolverine in the ‘X-Men’ franchise. It’s a shame that some other long-running movie characters don’t likewise have the good sense to hang up their hats. In this week’s Roundtable, we call out a few we think should consider...

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Weekend Roundtable: 2017 Movies You’re Most Skeptical About

Josh Zyber — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:00:58 +0000

Last week, we started the year with an optimistic look at the movies we most anticipate for 2017. This week, we turn grumpy again. Which of the year’s upcoming movies do you worry may turn out to be dogs? Once again, if you need a reminder, this Wikipedia page has a quick overview of the...

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