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‘Adrift’ Review: All’s Not Lost Yet

Jason Gorber — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:00:51 +0000

A couple of fundamental things work in favor of Baltasar Kormákur’s latest film, ‘Adrift’. First is our core connection to survival yarns, which are surely as old as human communication. Secondly is our connection to the ocean, a natural body whose power both frightens and entices, reaching past our simian impulses to speak directly to...

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‘Big Little Lies’ Pilot Recap: “What’d We Say About Shooting Mom Before Noon?”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:00:29 +0000

HBO’s new drama series ‘Big Little Lies’ is a prestige production stacked with multiple Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy winners and nominees both in front of and behind the camera. Ultimately, that seems like kind of a waste of talent for what turns out to be an overly-arty and pretentious knockoff of ‘Desperate Housewives’. Promoted...

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‘Snowden’ Review: It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Really Out to Get You

Philip Brown — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:00:30 +0000

Even though Edward Snowden already got his best possible movie in Laura Poitras’ tense documentary ‘Citizenfour‘, that doesn’t count in Hollywood terms. Unless it’s a bio-pic with a celebrity impersonation, the studio system hasn’t done its job. So now we have the appropriately titled ‘Snowden’, in which none other than Oliver Stone strives to make...

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‘Divergent’ UHD Contest Results

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:00:36 +0000

We may have already started a new contest, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten everyone who entered last week’s. Somebody’s taking home a trio of ‘Divergent’ movies on Ultra HD Blu-ray. Let’s find the winner! As explained in the original post, we challenged you to provide funny or clever captions for the following image: Honorable...

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Contest: Win ‘The Divergent Series’ Parts 1-3 on UltraHD Blu-ray

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:00:58 +0000

Have you recently upgraded to UHD and need to build your collection of movies in 4k? Let us help you out. This week, we’re giving away a prize pack of the first three ‘Divergent’ movies on Ultra HD Blu-ray. Enter now for your chance to win a bundle that includes: ‘Divergent – Ultra HD Blu-ray‘...

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Weekend Roundtable: Child Stars All Grown Up

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:00:39 +0000

Growing up in Hollywood is tough on a child actor. Many young lives have been ruined by fame at too early an age. Newly anointed Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio and ‘Divergent’ star Shailene Woodley are among the select group of former child stars who have transitioned to successful acting careers as adults. In this week’s...

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‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ Review: Mediocrity Minus an Ending

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:00:36 +0000

The second ‘Divergent’ movie made slightly more money than the first in the global market, so now we have a third chapter. The main knock against the series thus far is that it feels rather redundant to ‘The Hunger Games’, and whoo-boy that sure hasn’t changed! If fact, now that the whole “faction” concept has...

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Weekend Roundtable: Humble Beginnings

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:00:23 +0000

Everyone has to start somewhere. Before she lit up the box office headlining the ‘Divergent’ series, Shailene Woodley began her career as a child actor who made occasional appearances in TV shows like ‘The O.C.’ and ‘Crossing Jordan’. In this week’s Roundtable, we take a look at the humble beginnings for other actors who would...

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‘The Divergent Series: Insurgent’ Review: The Unspectacular Now

Philip Brown — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:00:34 +0000

On a certain level, it makes sense that the explosion of Young Adult movie adaptations would follow a similar redundant track that YA novels always have. Anytime a YA novel hits, the Scholastic book order forms for a generation of school children are filled with knockoffs of that hit until the next unexpected phenomenon. So,...

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Weekend Movies: Don’t Toy with Me

Luke Hickman — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:00:01 +0000

After a few congested weekends, this one takes a step back with just two new wide releases of mild interest. One’s a product-placing teenage horror flick and the other’s an R-rated shoot-’em-up. The biggest release is the supposedly scary, PG-13 ‘Ouija‘. Just in time for Halloween, this completely clean and generic Michael Bay and Jason...

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‘Divergent’ Review: Doesn’t Diverge Enough

Philip Brown — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:00:23 +0000

Despite its title, ‘Divergent’ is a perfect example of Hollywood’s desperate need for conformity: find an idea as similar as possible to the last success and get it in theaters before anyone notices the difference. The central concepts of the Young Adult novel the movie is based on are intriguing. The trouble is that they’re...

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Now Playing: Pretty ‘Spectacular’

Bryan Kluger — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:00:23 +0000

From the director of ‘Smashed‘ and the writers of ‘(500) Days of Summer‘ comes a charming little gem called ‘The Spectacular Now’. In a way, this is a high-school movie, but one that’s wholly original and incredibly acted by its young adult cast. The film tackles a few big subjects like alcoholism, abandonment and depression,...

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