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The Möbius strip: ‘Blade Runner’ flops, Harvey Weinstein exposed as a sexual predator
Blade Runner 2049 won the weekend box office, but its $32.8 million intake was a fraction of the $50 million domestic the studios were expecting. That said, it should hardly surprise that a film saddled with the combined incompetence of … Continue reading
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Tagged #black panther, #deadpool, #dustin hoffman, #hillary clinton, #quentin tarantino, #sony, #star wars, #the graduate, #the weinstein company, #warner bros., Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Harvey Weinstein, Jason Blum, kevin smith, Las Vegas, Mean Girls, Mean Girls Day, Miramax, Split, The Last Jedi, The New York Times, Thor: Ragnarok
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Election week arthouse binge part 3: American Honey
American Honey is a vibrant mashup of a coming-of-age road movie and a smut film, blending shock value with a unique emotional experience. The film follows Star (Sasha Lane), a late teenager in a bad situation. She happens across a traveling magazine … Continue reading
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Tagged #A24, #alfred hitchcock, #it follows, #lord of the rings, #quentin tarantino, #stanley kubrick, #the graduate, #the social network, American Graffiti, American Honey, Andrea Arnold, Cannes Film Festival, Confederate flags, Detroit, Only Lovers Left Alive, Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, The Midwest, The Wolf of Wall Street, trash, TV dinner, When I'm dead just throw me in the trash, White trash
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The Möbius strip: Mockingjay disappoints, new releases disappoint further
Part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay won the weekend with maybe the first disappointing $100 million opening ever. The film was predicted for north of $120 million. Other new releases, The Night Before and Secret in Their Eyes, also underperformed with just $10.1 million and $6.6 million, respectively- … Continue reading
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Tagged #charlie chaplin, #charlie sheen, #criterion collection, #david cronenberg, #dustin hoffman, #eastern promises, #eddie redmayne, #HIV, #jennifer lawrence, #lionsgate, #memento, #mockingjay, #paul walker, #peter jackson, #secret in their eyes, #sexism, #the danish girl, #the graduate, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the kid, #the night before, #tiger blood
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The Möbius strip: The Martian takes another crown as another weekend flops
The Martian won the weekend again as all three new releases laid eggs. The weekend’s total, $70.1 million, is the year’s lowest, though this is predictable for a Halloween weekend- Box Office Mojo Bradley Cooper and Sandra Bullock vehicles Burnt and Our Brand is … Continue reading
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Tagged #20th Century Fox, #aloha, #ant-man, #aziz ansari, #Batfleck, #batman vs superman, #Ben Affleck, #black lives matter, #burnt, #china, #daniel craig, #dirty grandpa, #django unchained, #don bluth, #dragon's lair, #george clooney, #harrison ford, #hillary clinton, #hurricane sandy, #imax, #indiana jones, #jamie foxx, #jar jar binks is an abomination, #jem and the holograms, #jurrassic world, #lisa kudrow, #martin scorsese, #noriyoshi ohrai, #our brand is crisis, #paramount, #parks and recreation, #quinten tarantino, #robert de niro, #roman polanski, #sandra bullock, #sicario, #spectre, #star wars, #steve jobs, #suffragette, #suicide squad, #the empire strikes back, #the exorcist, #the force awakens, #the graduate, #the hateful 8, #the martian, #until dawn, #william friedkin, #zac efron, bradley cooper, Jason Blum, Transformers
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