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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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