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Blu-ray Highlights for June 19th, 2012 – Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina

Josh Zyber — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:00:18 +0000

In this week’s Blu-ray releases, Drew Barrymore saves the whales, Jason Segel gets stoned, and Madonna tries to rule the world. In other words, it’s just another average Tuesday. New Releases The biggest miracle about ‘Big Miracle‘ is that the film somehow scored a theatrical release despite so obviously being a TV movie-of-the-week. Aside from...

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Weekend Box Office: Navy SEALs Take Down Tyler Perry

Luke Hickman — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:37 +0000

The televised broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony usually takes a small bite out of box office earnings, but that wasn’t the case with this weekend’s top flick. Endorsed by both the government and special ops aficionado Tom Clancy, after a firestorm of advertisements and promos, Relativity’s ‘Act of Valor‘ grossed more than $4 million...

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Now Playing: Another Paul Rudd Hippie Comedy

Luke Hickman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:00:51 +0000

From the director of ‘Role Models‘ comes another hilarious and unique collaboration with Paul Rudd. ‘Wanderlust’ isn’t going to be a huge comedy on the scale of ‘Bridesmaids‘ or ‘The Hangover‘, but it will definitely find a home amongst the great smaller lightweight comedies. Paul Rudd plays a young businessman in New York City who’s...

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Weekend Movies: Nothing Worth Missing the Oscars For

Luke Hickman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:00:26 +0000

Out of this weekend’s four nationwide openers, two were screened for press in my region and two were not. One of the titles I saw is so bad that it definitely should not have been, and it’s surprisingly the one receiving the widest release. Opening at 3,000 locations is ‘Act of Valor‘, an action movie...

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The Trailer Park: Unofficial Remakes, the Sequel

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000

Like I said in a recent Trailer Park post, too many movies today feel like Frankensteined vehicles of dullness. Either Hollywood is getting lazier with each passing year, or creative originality has completely vanished. However we look at it, a good chunk of new releases are either remakes and reimaginings or clearly rehashed ideas from...

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