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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 3rd, 2015 – Mr. Grey Will See You Now

Josh Zyber — Mon, 04 May 2015 12:00:28 +0000

Aww, how thoughtful. Just in time for Mother’s Day comes that embarrassing S&M sex movie your mom’s been wanting to watch with you. What a great gift. Savor the awkwardness! New Releases ‘Fifty Shades of Grey‘ – I just don’t understand the world sometimes. How did a ridiculous piece of half-literate ‘Twilight’ fan-fiction ever become...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:14:14 +0000

Forget the other six nominees. For weeks now, it has been obvious that the race for this year’s Best Picture Academy Award was really a two-film battle between ‘Birdman’ and ‘Boyhood’. At the end of the long evening, Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’ took flight with the prize. I find this a little surprising, honestly. A couple...

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Poll: How Many of the 2015 Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:00:34 +0000

With the exception of Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’, which just had a huge first weekend in wide release, none of the other nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar have made a lot of money at the box office. In fact, this may be one of the lowest-grossing batches of movies ever assembled in the...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Sniper’ Picks Off the Competition

Luke Hickman — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:00:56 +0000

It was never in question that the wide expansion of Clint Eastwood’s new Oscar nominee would push the film up to the top of the box office charts this weekend, but no one could have predicted the record-busting business that it would bring in. Last year, ‘Ride Along‘ set a record for the highest-grossing January...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:00:52 +0000

The race is officially on! In a presentation broadcast this morning, actor Chris Pine, directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 2015 Oscar nominations. This year brings us eight Best Picture nominees. Most of them were easy to predict beforehand, though I...

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Weekend Box Office: Audiences Get ‘Taken’ Again

Luke Hickman — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:00:28 +0000

The second weekend of January brought big business to the box office. The sole worldwide release saw global success, and the awards hopefuls continue to buzz. With the Oscar nominations announcements this week, get ready to see some of the arty titles climb the charts. Dethroning the mighty ‘Hobbit’ finale was the final installment of...

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Weekend Movies: “I Didn’t Kill My Wife!”, or I Won’t Be ‘Taken’ Again

Luke Hickman — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:00:44 +0000

With Oscar nomination announcements around the corner and accolades being given daily, we’re smack in the middle of an odd season. January is the month where studios dump their unwanted titles and hope for buzz to fuel their Oscar contenders. It’s also the month that a few brave studios will offer mindless counter-programming options in...

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‘Selma’ Review: History Ripped from Today’s Headlines

Philip Brown — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:00:20 +0000

‘Selma’ would have been a respected movie no matter what. It’s simply too accomplished and moving to ignore. Yet thanks to unfortunate circumstance, the film feels just as much like a portrait of current U.S. race relations as it is a window into the past. No one involved in the production could have anticipated the...

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Weekend Box Office: Breaking Big

Luke Hickman — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:00:20 +0000

Peter Jackson and his Hobbits went head-on against four big new movies over the post-Christmas weekend and still walked away victorious. Two of the four newbies performed very well, but the other two sorely disappointed. ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies‘ continued its winning streak with a $41.4 million second weekend. The mild...

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Christmas Weekend Movies: Into the Weeds

Luke Hickman — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:00:15 +0000

Even though ‘The Interview’ may not be hitting theater screens as originally planned, this Christmas week still has lots of notable new releases to congest cinemas. The biggest of the Christmas Day releases is ‘Unbroken‘, the Angelina Jolie-directed bio-pic of Olympic athlete and World War II bombardier Louis Zamperini. The screenplay, which was re-written by...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:00:50 +0000

Is it awards season already? Early this morning, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Peter Krause and Paula Patton announced the 2015 Golden Globe Award nominations. As happened last year, I’m once again disappointed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has largely focused on safe picks, with few of the truly mystifying oddball nominations that used to...

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