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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 15th, 2015 – You Wanna Get Nuts? Come On! Let’s Get Nuts!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:00:21 +0000

We took yesterday off for the President’s Day holiday. Which President did you celebrate? At my house, we favor David Palmer. He may be fictional, but I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. Anyway, this may be a short week, but it’s packed with new Blu-ray releases, including some big Oscar nominees to catch up...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Hero’ Triumphs

Luke Hickman — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:00:48 +0000

Both of this weekend’s new wide releases were produced for the same budget ($165 million) and were expected to close at around the same mark, but audiences made their decisions and one surprisingly edged a bit ahead of the other. The top movie in America is Disney’s Marvel-inspired animated superhero flick ‘Big Hero 6‘. With...

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Weekend Box Office: Spirits Point to Success

Luke Hickman — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:00:50 +0000

In preparation for Halloween, teenagers went out in droves to see the only teen-friendly scary movie in cinemas. The top movie at the box office was the Hasbro-produced ‘Ouija‘. Although the low-budget PG-13 horror flick saw a decent $20 million debut fueled by youngsters and crushed by critics, ‘Ouija’ is expected to die off and...

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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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‘St. Vincent’ Review: Mo’ Murray, Mo’ Problems

Philip Brown — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:00:09 +0000

‘St. Vincent’ is a movie that exists for one reason and one reason alone: to share the gift of Bill Murray with the world. Take Murray out of the equation and the flick is a maudlin mess. Include him and he at least makes the movie watchable. Murray stars as the titular Vincent, a former...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Gone’ Definitely Not Forgotten

Luke Hickman — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:00:09 +0000

Even with four new nationwide releases offering (somewhat) stiff competition, great reviews and stellar word of mouth kept David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ at the top of the box office again. With a very mild 29% drop-off, ‘Gone Girl‘ locked in the #1 spot with a $26.8 million second weekend. After ten days, the sick and...

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Weekend Movies: You Be the Judge

Luke Hickman — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:00:37 +0000

In both nationwide and limited release, there are way too many movies opening this weekend. Disney is making a film critic’s job too easy with the release of the PG-rated family flick ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day‘. The title contains four adjectives that describe the movie itself. Alexander is an...

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TIFF Journal: ‘St. Vincent’

Philip Brown — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:00:18 +0000

There is one reason and one reason alone to see ‘St. Vincent’, and that’s Bill Murray working his cantankerous charms. As usual, that’s just enough to make the whole wonky ride worthwhile. This is far from the finest late career effort out of the star, but Murray at half steam is still better than most...

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