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The Möbius strip: All new releases bomb, Batman vs. Superman getting expensive, Star Wars apparently just for boys
Four new wide releases bombed this weekend, putting The Martian back on top for the third time in four weeks. Two of them, Rock the Kasbah and Jem and the Holograms, rank among the worst opening weekends of all time- Box Office Mojo Presumed no. … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #al queda, #amy schumer, #aurora theater, #Batfleck, #Batman, #batman vs superman, #bill cosby, #braveheart, #DC comics, #fandango, #french blood, #green lantern, #indiana jones, #james bond, #jar jar binks is an abomination, #jem and the holograms, #justice league, #paranormal activity: the ghost dimension, #rock the kasbah, #spectre, #star wars, #star wars: the force awakens, #steve jobs, #suffragette, #superman, #the last witch hunter, #the martian, #the revenant, #the witch, #trainwreck, Paranormal activity
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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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Paper Towns tears down long-disavowed trope
Like last week’s Trainwreck, Paper Towns isn’t any kind of genre trailblazer, but it’s charming enough to make up for all the things you’ve seen before. It even throws in some things you may not have. The movie is narrated by Q … Continue reading
Pixels is tolerable, not great, everybody calm down
Critics are going absolutely apeshit about Pixels, and it’s a gigantic overreaction. The movie follows Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler, who also produces), a competitive arcade gamer in 1982, into the present day as an abject failure — divorced, installing other peoples’ entertainment … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #adam sandler, #ant-man, #centipede, #game of thrones, #Home, #josh gad, #kevin james, #minions, #pacman, #paper towns, #peter dinklage, #pixels, #pixels short, #qbert, #relativism, #rotten tomatoes, #sexism, #southpaw, #trainwreck, Transformers
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Trainwreck a reminder why rom coms were popular in the first place
Trainwreck isn’t the shot in the arm that will reignite our flame with the formulaic American rom-com, but it will remind us why we fell in love with it in the first place. Written by and starring Comedy Central upstart Amy … Continue reading
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