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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 3rd, 2017 – Ruff and Ready

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:00:22 +0000

As the long Labor Day weekend comes to an end, we begin the laborious process of digging through the huge volume of new Blu-rays scheduled for release this month. You may have a rough time finding something worthwhile, but keep your eyez peeled and, umm, leavey no stone unturned. Yes, please groan. I’m sorry about...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 24th, 2013 – Pass the Stuffing

Josh Zyber — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:00:15 +0000

It’s Thanksgiving this week, which can only mean that it’s time to bring out the turkeys. Oh, I suppose that’s not entirely fair. Still, holiday weeks are always a slow time for new Blu-ray releases. Fortunately, this one has a couple of impressive box sets worth taking a good look at. New Releases The first...

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Weekend Box Office: Horror Flick Conjures Some Business

Luke Hickman — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:00:46 +0000

The weekend was a major bust for most of last week’s new movies. Aside from a solid win for the horror film, the other three titles are on track to join this summer’s streak of failures. Of the new releases, James Wan’s ‘The Conjuring‘ walked away the sole winner. On 2,900 screens, the $20 million...

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Weekend Movies: Battle of the Bad

Luke Hickman — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:00:44 +0000

During this odd, very busy weekend, Ryan Reynolds and Mary-Louise Parker each have two movies opening wide against one another. For all the die-hard Reynolds and Parker fans out there, a major conundrum is presented: Which movie do you see? If the two actually have die-hard fans, they might not anymore after seeing this weekend’s...

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Now Playing: ‘RED’ It and Weep

Brian Hoss — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:00:14 +0000

The two ‘RED’ films are meant to be fun and funny. They feature several well-known and highly-accomplished actors doing fantastic secret-agent stuff. The first movie was very engaging as it introduced lead characters Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker), but it quickly devolved into a tap dance of over-the-top sequences. In that...

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The Trailer Park: Covert Agents and General MacArthur

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:00:26 +0000

In this week’s batch of trailers, devoted-dad Dwayne Johnson becomes a snitch, Matthew Fox builds a case against the emperor of Japan, and Bruce Willis comes out of retirement… again. ‘Snitch’ I think the best part of this trailer is the narrator’s voice saying, “How far would you go?” It’s an old-fashioned trailer that’s quick...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 1/25/11: What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:00:59 +0000

A fair number of interesting titles are being released on Blu-ray today, including one of the best films of the past decade. That’s not a bad way to wrap up the month of January. Let’s take a look at the release list: ‘A Beautiful Mind‘ (Universal) ‘Broadcast News‘ (Criterion) ‘Client 9: The Rise and Fall...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Saw 3D’ Scares Up Business

Drew Taylor — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:00:41 +0000

Another Halloween, another entry in the deadening ‘Saw’ franchise – the witless, humorless muck that’s become as big a Halloween tradition as carving pumpkins or turning out the lights in your house early so that trick-or-treaters think that you’ve gone to bed when you’re really in your living room eating candy in the dark. (What?...

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Weekend Box Office: Scary Big

Drew Taylor — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:00:58 +0000

Well, it’s official: ‘Paranormal Activity 2‘ is a bona fide smash. With a total gross of $43.5 million, it not only toppled the box office this weekend, but also broke a couple of records. It’s the biggest opening weekend for a horror movie EVER, and its $6.3 million from midnight shows eclipsed the $4.6 million...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Jackass 3D’ Punches the Box Office in the Crotch

Drew Taylor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:00:56 +0000

Huh. Maybe this is America’s anti-intellectual tendency rearing its head. After two weekends of David Fincher’s rapid-fire, whip-smart ‘Social Network’ reigning over the box office, the jackasses have now made their mark. ‘Jackass 3D,’ the third entry in the venerable franchise in which Johnny Knoxville and a bunch of other human crash test dummies degrade...

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Weekend Movies: Three Dimensions of Dumb-Assery

Drew Taylor — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:00:46 +0000

The weekend’s big ticket movie choices basically boil down to two options: the three-dimensional silliness of Johnny Knoxville and company’s ‘Jackass 3D’ or the geriatric spy thriller ‘RED.’ That, or you could hunker down someplace that’s playing Oliver Assayas’ 5 ½ hour-long terrorist biography ‘Carlos.’ (It should be noted that you can see ‘Carlos’ in...

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Now Playing: ‘RED’ Is Worth Coming Out of Retirement For

Drew Taylor — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:00:52 +0000

‘RED,’ based on a comic book by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, is about a bunch of killer retirees. That’s not exactly the sexiest sell to modern audiences, but there’s an intriguing twist. These ex-CIA agents, peacefully living out their lives of quiet dignity, are forced back into operation by the same agency that trained...

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