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Blu-ray Highlights for 4/17/12 – This Message Will Self Destruct in Five Seconds

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to buy one of the best action movies of 2011 on Blu-ray. Some other stuff might be worth looking at as well. The following new discs hit the market today: ‘7 Below‘ (Arc) ‘¡Alambrista!‘ (Criterion) ‘The Asphyx‘ (Kino) ‘Baseball’s Greatest Games: 2011 World Series Game 6‘...

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Sundance Journal: ‘Young and Wild’

Aaron Peck — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:00:15 +0000

I don’t normally feel uncomfortable while watching movies, but I did during ‘Young and Wild’. This Chilean movie is the teenage girl edition of ‘Shame’, only with, if you can believe it, more explicit sex. Why did I feel uncomfortable? There are a couple reasons. First, the movie is about a seventeen-year-old girl who has...

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Posterizing: 15 Best Movie Posters of 2011

Aaron Peck — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:00:53 +0000

Here we go. It’s the beginning of the year, and you know what that means: Lists. Lots of them. You see them everywhere you go. That’s okay, because we love looking at them and then disagreeing with them. So come on in and check out my thoughts on the best movie posters of 2011. We...

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Mid-Week Poll: Most Anticipated December 2011 Movies

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:26 +0000

December is traditionally a big movie season, as the Hollywood studios unleash a slew of prestige pictures looking for Oscar attention and potential blockbusters hoping to draw the holiday crowds. Which of this month’s movies are you looking forward to? I’m dying to see ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’. It has a great cast, great source...

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Weekend Box Office: No Surprise, ‘Twilight’ Still on Top

Luke Hickman — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:57 +0000

Without a single nationwide opener, this weekend’s box office Top 10 isn’t all that far off from last week’s. Some films moved up, some slid down, and some stayed right where they were. When you look at the per-screen averages, a few of the new indie titles proved to be the real winners. Despite dropping...

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Weekend Movies: Dirty Indie Flicks

Luke Hickman — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:00:48 +0000

I cannot think of another time in the past few years that there hasn’t been a single nationwide release over a weekend. The widest opener of the week lands on a whopping 54 screens. Most of us won’t have these titles playing nearby, which makes it a perfect time to play catch-up on some the...

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Posterizing: A Lorax, Two Fugitives and Three Superheroes

Aaron Peck — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:00:01 +0000

A lot of new movie posters have popped up recently. Thankfully, we start to get more unusual posters around this time of year, not just floating heads with a bunch of names plastered above them. ‘Chronicle’ After watching the first trailer for ‘Chronicle’, I have some reservations, since it looks like a superhero movie done...

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