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Ride Along too generic
The thing about dump months is there’s always a winner. No matter how little studios care about the movies that come out in these periods, there’s still a no. 1 every single week. In 2014, that was Ride Along for three weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #benjamin bratt, #community, #ice cube, #ken jeong, #kevin hart, #olivia munn, #ride along, #ride along 2, #straight outta compton
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The most important movies of 2015
Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers
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The Möbius strip: Krampus surprises, awards start rolling in
As with last week, part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay took the crown with an unimpressive total — $18.9 million — but the real story is the surprising runner up, Krampus. The weekend’s only wide release was expected to settle for the no. 4 … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #african american film critics association, #alamo drafthouse, #angelina jolie, #blacklivesmatter, #boston society of film critics, #british independent film awards, #burnt, #by the sea, #carl weathers, #carol, #charlie sheen, #cnn, #concussion, #creed, #edward scissorhands, #ex machina, #gotham independent film awards, #jennifer lawrence, #joy, #krampus, #leonardo dicaprio, #los angeles film critic association, #mad max: fury road, #mockingjay, #msnbc, #national board of review, #Netflix, #new york film critic's circle, #nightcrawler, #our brand is crisis, #pixar, #quinten tarantino, #sandra bullock, #spotlight, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #the force awakens, #the good dinosaur, #the hateful eight, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the revenant, #tim burton, #washington dc area film critics association, #will smith, bradley cooper
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Jurassic World rampages through flop-filled summer
We’ve written before about how much better Jurassic World did than anything else, and as the summer went on that article became more and more accurate. As of this writing, only two movies — Inside Out with $348.2 million and Minions with $328.6 million … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #adam sandler, #agent 47, #Alicia Vikander, #american dad, #american ultra, #amy poehler, #amy schumer, #ant-man, #antoine fuqua, #armie hammer, #arnold schwarzenegger, #bill hader, #blumhouse, #bridesmaids, #channing tatum, #chris pratt, #despicable me, #disney pixar, #dope, #dwayne johnson, #elixabeth debickig, #end of days, #entourage, #family guy, #fant4stic, #Fantastic Four, #forest whitaker, #furious 7, #george clooney, #guy ritchie, #HBO, #henry cavill, #hitman, #hugh grant, #inside out, #insidious 3, #jake gyllenhaal, #james wan, #jason bateman, #jesse Eisengerg, #joel edgerton, #john green, #judd apatow, #jude law, #jurassic world, #kevin james, #kristen stewart, #lebron james, #leigh whannell, #lewis black, #Magic Mike, #Magic Mike XXL, #mark wahlberg, #mindy kaling, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mission: impossible -- rogue nation, #no escape, #NWA, #open road films, #owen Wilson, #paper towns, #paul rudd, #peter dinklage, #phyllis smith, #pierce brosnan, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixels, #poltergesit, #rachel mcadams, #rebecca hall, #san andreas, #seth macfarlane, #sinister 2, #southpaw, #spy, #straight outta compton, #sundance, #Ted 2, #Terminator, #terminator genisys, #the fault in our stars, #the gallows, #the gift, #the heat, #the man from uncle, #tom cruise, #tomorrowland, #trainwreck, #transporter, #war room, #we are your friends, #zac efron, Insidious, Jason Statham, Marvel, Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne
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Dope re-releases for snore-inducing Labor Day lineup
Straight Outta Compton has held for no. 1 three straight weeks now, and it has definitely been for lack of trying. The highest profile release since it came out was the critically eviscerated Sinister 2. Compton barely beat evangelist film War Room last weekend. When a movie’s tagline … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #dope, #open road films, #straight outta compton, #sundance, #transporter, #transporter: refueled, #war room
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