Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Winners
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 t...
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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 15th, 2015 – You Wanna
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, ...
Statuesque: Redmayne Now a Best Actor Frontrunner
While there were no huge surprises in the movie categories at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards this past Sunday night, one thing became clear as the evening came to a close: Eddie Redmayne is now the clear frontrunner fo...
Poll: How Many of the 2015 Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen?
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 b...
Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Nominations
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 Osca...
Weekend Box Office: Hungry for Seconds
As expected, ‘The Hunger Games’ repeated its box office victory for a second weekend over the Thanksgiving holiday. However, the film is still not living up to the success of its predecessor.
Thanksgiving Weekend Movies: Mischievous People & Pets
This Thanksgiving, a foursome of penguins attempt to save the world while a trio of buffoons attempt to save their jobs.
Weekend Box Office: ‘Hero’ Triumphs
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 o...
Weekend Movies: Finally, Some Stellar Options
Call a babysitter. Clear the calendar. This weekend’s two wide releases are not to be missed and not to be spoiled.
‘The Theory of Everything’ Review: The Inevitable Ste
Someone had to eventually make a Stephen Hawking bio-pic. The renowned scientist is just too famous with a story that checks too many of the right boxes. Now that movie is here and it’s pretty much what you’d expect. T...
The Trailer Park: Horrible Hero Hunger
Among other things, November will bring us a bunch of sequels, plus one movie that sounds like it must be a sequel but actually isn’t.
TIFF Journal: ‘The Theory of Everything’
Given his cultural importance in the 20th Century and the tragic illness that he overcame to achieve that success, it was inevitable that one day someone would give Stephen Hawking a weepy bio-pic. Thankfully, the one that finally...