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Weekend Roundtable: Screen Legends Who Never Won Oscars

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:00:51 +0000

Earlier this week, Glenn Close was denied the Academy Award that everybody thought she’d win. The actress can take comfort that this puts her in good company with plenty of other veteran actors and filmmakers who also somehow went without ever winning an Oscar in competition. Maybe Close will get an honorary or lifetime achievement...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Train Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:00:53 +0000

Last month, we did a Roundtable about Favorite Airplane Movies. With this week’s theatrical release of ‘The Girl on the Train’ in mind, let’s switch our mode of transportation. What are your favorite movies either set on or containing important scenes involving trains? Shannon Nutt “Is this a hold-up?” “It’s a science experiment!” It’s hard...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Airplane Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:00:45 +0000

With the true-story drama ‘Sully’ opening in theaters this week, it might perhaps be in poor taste to do a Roundtable about favorite plane crash scenes in movies. Let’s broaden the topic out a bit to cover any movie either set on an airplane or containing important scenes/storylines involving planes. M. Enois Duarte I don’t...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movies that Should Never Be Remade

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:00:06 +0000

These days, it seems that no movie, no matter how beloved or esteemed or sacrosanct, is safe from being run through the Hollywood remake factory. What movies do you consider so sacred that you’d be appalled to see them remade or rebooted? Yes, this week’s topic was inspired by the new ‘Ben-Hur’ remake hitting theater...

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Weekend Roundtable: VHS Memories

Josh Zyber — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:00:18 +0000

As we speak, the last remaining manufacturer of VCRs (Funai Electric) is finally ceasing all production of the obsolete videocassette players. I bet you assumed this happened years ago. For those of us who grew up during the home video boom of the 1980s, the death of VHS may be bittersweet news. Let’s reminisce about...

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Weekend Rountable: Trapped in a Bunker

Josh Zyber — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:00:29 +0000

It’s the apocalypse outside! Bummer. Much like the characters in this week’s ’10 Cloverfield Lane’, you’re stuck in a survivalist bunker, presumably for years or perhaps even forever. Fortunately, you have solar power electricity, a big TV, and were able to grab three Blu-rays (or DVDs, if you’re desperate enough) off your shelf before you...

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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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Weekend Roundtable: Cinema Badasses

Josh Zyber — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 19:00:20 +0000

This week, Vin Diesel brings his bullet-headed antihero Riddick back to movie theater screens, presumably to kick butt and growl a lot, not necessarily in that order. This puts us in mind of other famous cinema badasses, some of which we’ll highlight in today’s Roundtable. Daniel Hirshleifer There is one cinema badass to beat them...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 1st, 2013 – Is That Tornado Full of Sharks?!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:00:50 +0000

We welcome you back from the long weekend with good news. The dog days of August are finally over. For better or worse, we have now officially entered… the shark days of September! New Releases I don’t generally go for the deliberately crappy “mockbusters” that production house The Asylum makes for the Syfy Channel, but...

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Weekend Roundtable: Blu-rays That Need Double-Dips

Josh Zyber — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:00:25 +0000

Blu-ray collectors often bemoan the dreaded “double-dip,” in which a studio will re-release a movie already available on the format with a new five-minute featurette, an extra photo gallery or lenticular cover art in the hopes of bilking fans into a second purchase of essentially the same product. Fair enough, those are obnoxious. However, truth...

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Weekend Roundtable: Prequel Mania

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:00:57 +0000

As Ridley Scott returns to the ‘Alien’ franchise today with his sort-of-prequel ‘Prometheus’, this got us thinking about other movies that have yet to be given the prequel treatment. A few of the ideas we’ll pitch in this week’s Roundtable might not be half bad. Others, we fully admit, are entirely awful, but still probably...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best and Worst Movies Based on TV Shows

Josh Zyber — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:00:21 +0000

This week’s theatrical release of ’21 Jump Street’ is just the latest example of Hollywood dragging an old TV show to the big screen, hoping to convince nostalgic fans to pay cinema ticket prices for something they used to watch for free every week. This strategy works better in some cases than others. For today’s...

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