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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 23rd, 2015 – So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu

Josh Zyber — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:00:02 +0000

As August winds down, we prepare to say goodbye to the summer and, hopefully, to the Blu-ray dry spell we’ve experienced lately. This week actually has a bunch of titles of some moderate interest, but (from my perspective) few exciting must-buys. New Releases ‘Aloha‘ – A notoriously troubled production that suffered endless reworking and didn’t...

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‘Two Days, One Night’ Review: A Beautiful Souffle of Sadness

Philip Brown — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:00:57 +0000

The Belgian Dardenne brothers have at this point refined their style of filmmaking down to something instantly distinct and recognizable. Always playing small and always shooting with handheld cameras, their films almost surpass what we think of as cinematic realism and feel like they could be documentaries. It says a great deal about their considerable...

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Weekend Box Office: Breaking Big

Luke Hickman — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:00:20 +0000

Peter Jackson and his Hobbits went head-on against four big new movies over the post-Christmas weekend and still walked away victorious. Two of the four newbies performed very well, but the other two sorely disappointed. ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies‘ continued its winning streak with a $41.4 million second weekend. The mild...

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Christmas Weekend Movies: Into the Weeds

Luke Hickman — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:00:15 +0000

Even though ‘The Interview’ may not be hitting theater screens as originally planned, this Christmas week still has lots of notable new releases to congest cinemas. The biggest of the Christmas Day releases is ‘Unbroken‘, the Angelina Jolie-directed bio-pic of Olympic athlete and World War II bombardier Louis Zamperini. The screenplay, which was re-written by...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Two Days, One Night’

Philip Brown — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:00:05 +0000

The dependably depressing Dardenne Brothers have returned with another gut-wrenching, yet deeply moving slice of social realism carried off with such elegant simplicity that it’s easy to take them for granted. The concept of ‘Two Days, One Night’ is very straightforward, while the execution feels almost effortless. Marion Cotillard plays a blue collar worker who...

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