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2024 Emmy Picks: Drama
DRAMA SERIES3 Body Problem (Netflix)The Crown (Netflix)The Curse (Showtime)Fallout (Prime Video)The Gilded Age (HBO)The Morning Show (AppleTV+)Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Prime Video)Shōgun (FX) Potential surprises:Ahsoka (Disney+) – new showFor All Mankind (AppleTV+) – never nominatedLoki (Disney+) – never nominatedSlow Horses … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Previews, Television
Tagged 3 body problem, amazon, apple, crown, curse, fallout, gilded age, hbo, morning show, mr and mrs smith, netflix, prime, shogun, showtime, slow horses, star trek
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Final Oscar Picks 2017
Just like 2016 was a year of unease, I am not very uneasy about these picks. Several of these picks haven’t picked up the precursor nods that would typically foretell a sure-fire Oscar nomination. This is likely to be a … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century women, arrival, cameraperson, captain america, captain fantastic, civil war, deepwater horizon, doctor strange, dressmaker, elle, fences, finding dory, fire at sea, florence foster jenkins, hacksaw ridge, hell or high water, hidden figures, i am not your negro, jackie, jungle book, kubo and the two strings, la la land, land of mine, lion, lobster, man called ove, manchester by the sea, moana, moonlight, my life as a zucchini, nocturnal animals, oj simpson, paradise, rogue one, salesman, silence, sing street, star trek, star trek beyond, star wars, toni erdmann, weiner, zootopia
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2016 in Review: Box Office Report
SURE-FIRE HITS – The Kings of the Box Office (All Disney Edition) Finding Dory ($486.2 million) *Rogue One ($408.2 million) Captain America: Civil War ($408 million) The Jungle Book ($364 million) SURPRISE SUCCESSES – They got there through word-of-mouth or … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Film
Tagged alice through the looking glass, allegiant, apocalypse, bad moms, bfg, captain america, central intelligence, civil war, collision course, deadpool, divergent, don't breathe, finding dory, huntsman, ice age, jason bourne, jungle book, kung fu panda, lights out, mermaid, neighbors, popstar, rogue one, sausage party, secret life of pets, star trek, star trek beyond, star wars, sully, warcraft, winter's war, x-men
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Too Early for This: Oscar Picks — 15 August 2016
BEST PICTURE Allied Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk The Birth of a Nation Fences La La Land LBJ Loving Manchester by the Sea Patriots Day Silence The skinny: A total shot in the dark, since exactly zero of these movies … Continue reading
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Tagged allied, billy lynn's long halftime walk, birth of a nation, bleed for this, christine, collateral beauty, fences, finding dory, girl on the train, indignation, jason bourne, jungle book, kubo and the two strings, la la land, lbj, light between oceans, little prince, lobster, loving, manchester by the sea, moana, patriots day, rogue one, rules don't apply, silence, star trek, star trek beyond, star wars, zootopia
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The Optimist’s Summer Movie Preview 2016
Once again, I’m checking my cynicism at the door. But that also means excluding some of the summer’s biggest movies from this article. So let’s go through the 10 films I’m most excited to see from May to August. Captain … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews
Tagged apocalypse, captain america, civil war, finding dory, founder, free state of jones, jason bourne, nice guys, popstar, star trek, star trek beyond, suicide squad, x-men
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Review Round-up: First Half of 2013
I never got around to writing my monthly recaps of new films I’d seen, so consider this a make-up for that. Here’s every new movie I saw this year that hasn’t been covered on this site (outside of preview columns) … Continue reading
The Weekender: After ‘Darkness,’ Light
IN THEATERS: Star Trek into Darkness (PG-13) Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch Screenplay by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof Directed by J.J. Abrams I think Star Trek holds up better than any recent blockbuster. Everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged black rock, chris pine, iceman, lake bell, michael shannon, star trek
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The Cynic’s Summer Movie Preview 2013: The Exciting
Check out the awful movies here and the somewhat tolerable movies here. (Note: As always, the images in this post are meant solely for the promotion of the films they represent. All images are copyright the respective studios. No copyright … Continue reading