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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 21st, 2018 – My My, How Can I Resist You?

Josh Zyber — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:00:16 +0000

Here we go again, another round of new Blu-ray releases. One will surely rake in money, money, money. As they say, the winner takes it all. That’s just the name of the game. When all is said and done, will you take a chance on something this week? (For the record, I hate myself for...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movie Love Stories (Drama)

Josh Zyber — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:00:08 +0000

Valentine’s Day is coming up and there’s a ‘Fifty Shades’ movie in theaters this weekend. That these two things are related is disheartening. Sadly, Christian and Anastasia’s relationship actually isn’t the worst love story featured in a dramatic film. Let’s look at some other couples who have no business being together. We did one of...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 11th, 2015 – You Go, ‘Girl’!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:00:26 +0000

January may be a dumping ground for castoff bad movies in theaters, but it actually hits a sweet spot where some of last fall’s biggest films hit home video. This week’s Blu-rays include a smash hit and potential Oscar candidate. And some crap too, no doubt. There’s always plenty of crap to go around. New...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst or Weirdest Movie Dates

Josh Zyber — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:00:17 +0000

Going to the movies is a mainstay of the dating ritual in modern society. Yet not every movie that happens to be playing in theaters when you make a date is necessarily appropriate date movie material. In this week’s Roundtable, we reminisce about some of our movie dates gone wrong. Luke Hickman I made a...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movie Endings

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:00:46 +0000

SPOILER ALERT! This week’s Roundtable is all about movies ruined by their lousy endings. It stands to reason, therefore, that we’re about to give away those endings. Scan the list of bolded titles and consider yourself warned. Frankly, we wish that we’d been warned in advance before wasting our time watching some of these. This...

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Weekend Roundtable: One Sequel Too Many

Josh Zyber — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:53 +0000

This week, a third ‘Hangover’ movie and a sixth ‘Fast & Furious’ grace cinema screens. Why? Seriously, why must every remotely popular movie be turned into a never-ending franchise of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots, each new entry inferior to the last? Is there no originality left in Hollywood? (That’s a rhetorical question. Of course...

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Now Playing: ‘The Host’ with the Least

Aaron Peck — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:00:47 +0000

Never have the aliens in ‘Independence Day‘ looked so smart. If you thought Stephenie Meyer ruined the vampire genre with ‘Twilight’, wait ’til you see what she does to science fiction with ‘The Host’. What a dopey race of aliens inhabit the world of ‘The Host’. These have got to be the dumbest beings that...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 3rd, 2013 – Bella + Edward 4eva

Josh Zyber — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:00:49 +0000

As the year’s movie award season draws to a close, the hugely acclaimed and respected finale to the most beloved film franchise in the entire history of cinema finally comes to Blu-ray. Oh yeah, some black & white thing about people who’ve been dead for seventy years is also available, but that one doesn’t have...

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Statuesque: The 2013 Also-Ran Awards – Spirits & Razzies

Josh Zyber — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:20 +0000

While the world turned its eyes to the Oscars this past weekend, a couple of the film industry’s alternative awards ceremonies – the Spirits and Razzies – also pressed on, even though no one pays any attention to them anymore. Honestly, I forgot all about them until just now. As originally conceived, the Independent Spirit...

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Weekend Box Office: Bond Back on Top

Luke Hickman — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:00:36 +0000

Even though this weekend featured one major new release, nobody expected the cookie-cutter romantic comedy to take first place – and it surely didn’t. Instead, ‘Skyfall’ hopped into this measly weekend’s top spot with $11 million, which brings its nationwide five-weekend total to $261.6 million. It will be nice to see what a good weekend...

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Weekend Box Office: Pitt Killed, Not So ‘Softly’

Luke Hickman — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:00:46 +0000

How wild is it that the Top 6 movies from last weekend all held onto the same box office spots despite falling between 43% to 60% on average? As usual, this post-Thanksgiving weekend was a total flop. The Top 12 brought in a mere $107 million. The only numbers of note belong to a few...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Breaking’ More Records

Luke Hickman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:28 +0000

In the last couple of weeks, new movies have appealed to both male and female audiences, and both have responded in exceptionally high numbers. Only ten days after its domestic release, ‘Skyfall’ is just under $7 million away from having the highest domestic gross of any James Bond movie. Even though it fell to the...

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