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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 11th, 2018 – They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:00:28 +0000

It’s Valentine’s week and, curiously, almost no romantic movies are available on Blu-ray to capitalize on that. In fact, catalog releases are heavily weighted with gory horror flicks. I wonder what kind of message that’s supposed to send? New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Wonder‘ – Do you remember the 1985 movie ‘Mask’, in which Eric Stoltz wore...

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Poll: Most Disappointing Blockbuster of 2017

Josh Zyber — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:00:01 +0000

Just because a movie makes a lot of money doesn’t mean that people actually liked it. In fact, we’re living in a time when movies can make hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars despite seemingly everybody hating them. Of last year’s big blockbusters, which ones let you down the most? We’re using the...

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Year-End Poll: Favorite Blockbuster Movie of 2017

Josh Zyber — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:00:48 +0000

As we close the books on 2017, I’ve given the site staff a reprieve from doing a new Roundtable this week. Instead, I’ll leave our readers with a question: What was your favorite blockbuster movie of 2017? For the purposes of this poll, I have a rather simplistic definition of “blockbuster.” I’ve compiled a list...

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Weekend Box Office: The Biggest for Last

Luke Hickman — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:00:33 +0000

The 2017 box office may still be lower than 2016 overall, but December is up 30% from last year – and there are still two weekends to go! Of course, ‘Star Wars’ is to thank for this uptick. As expected, Blue Sky’s bull movie had its horns clipped and barely contributed to this massive weekend....

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Weekend Box Office: Don’t Get Me Started

Luke Hickman — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:00:55 +0000

This weekend wasn’t particularly kind to the sole new movie in wide release. However, it was quite lucrative for all the other movies out there, both the limited releases and the holdovers. But these smaller movies better enjoy the success while they have it because ‘Star Wars’ will arrive this week and it’s bound to...

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Weekend Box Office: Beautiful Disaster

Luke Hickman — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:00:29 +0000

Without any big new movies in wide release, the weekend’s box office Top 5 remains unchanged. Most titles held over well, but the real news came from the new limited releases. The numbers for two of the three are so good that their expansions will happen sooner than later. Pixar’s latest is still the #1...

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Weekend Box Office: Hot Coco

Luke Hickman — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:00:08 +0000

Hollywood has a lot to be grateful for this weekend. For one, there weren’t any new big sexual assault claims made over Thanksgiving. What a relief. The cherry on top of that great news is that the box office thrived. Pixar’s latest had a good opening, ‘Justice League’ fell a bit more than it should...

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Weekend Box Office: And Justice for All

Luke Hickman — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:00:45 +0000

Warner Bros. and DC may have finally hit their stride with ‘Wonder Woman’, but as this weekend showed, moviegoers are still slightly leery of the direction the DC Cinematic Universe is headed. This showed in the domestic returns of their latest team feature, which fell short of expectations and debuted under the $100 million mark....

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Weekend Movies: Blind Justice

Luke Hickman — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:00:59 +0000

After being the subject of rumors galore, the follow-up to last year’s ‘Batman v. Superman’ is finally here. Whether it will have any clout in the U.S. is up in the air. However, that doesn’t really matter to the suits at Warner Bros. because the international box office has made all the difference this year....

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‘Wonder’ Review: Why Isn’t Eric Stoltz Playing the Dad in This?

Philip Brown — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:00:07 +0000

‘Wonder’ is designed for the express purpose of making you cry, and co-writer/director Peter Chbosky (‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’) is prepared to suck those tears out of your face by any means possible. The movie is an assault on your heartstrings to the extent that viewing the big maudlin exercise in manipulation can...

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