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‘Aquaman’ gets big picture wrong, gets details wrong too
2/10 Last year, The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s fairy tale love story about banging a frog person, won best picture, and I warned at the time to be ready for an influx of movies about sexy frog people. … Continue reading
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Tagged "Master director" James Wan, #guillermo del toro, #james wan, #justice league, #the hobbit, 300, amber heard, aquaman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Flashpoint, Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman, patrick wilson, sexy frog people, The New York Times, The Shape of Water, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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The Möbius Strip: ‘Madea’ wins myopic weekend
Despite scoring just 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween led the weekend box office with $21.2 million. Geostorm was no. 2 with a dismal $13.7 million. No other film, including the three other new releases, topped … Continue reading
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Tagged #josh brolin, #Netflix, #quentin tarantino, #rotten tomatoes, #the weinstein company, Blade Runner 2049, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, Deadpool 2, Geostorm, Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Jigsaw, kevin smith, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Miramax, Only the Brave, Saw, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Snowman, Thomas Alfredson, Tyler Perry sucks
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On open secrets, cover-ups and systemic denial
Late in 2015 Best Picture winner “Spotlight,” which details The Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer-prize winning report on systemic pedophilia in the Catholic Church, editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) remarks that everyone in Boston already seems to know the story, … Continue reading
The Möbius Strip: ‘Happy Death Day’ unseats ‘Blade Runner’ too soon, Weinstein fallout continues
Cheap horror film Happy Death Day took the weekend crown with just over $26 million. Blade Runner 2049 was relegated to second place with just $15.5 million- Box Office Mojo In a move normally reserved for major blockbusters, when Happy … Continue reading
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Tagged #Ben Affleck, #denis villeneuve, #Netflix, #Sony Pictures, #the academy, #the weinstein company, Alyssa Milano, American Made, Blade Runner 2049, Blumhouse Pictures, Bob Weinstein, Happy Death Day, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Damon, Miramax, NBC News, Producer's Guild of America, The Emoji Movie, The New York Times, Turkey's Film Critics Association
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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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