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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “This Is The End”

  THIS IS THE END:  Worth A Ticket – Apocalypse Right Now Imagine an dystopian mumblecore extravaganza populated mostly by the Judd Apatow stock company, and you’ll have an idea of what to expect from THIS IS ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “A Million Ways To Die In the West”

  A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST:  Not Even For Free – They Don’t Include “Die Laughing” Seth MacFarlane, out from behind his high-concept animated and fantasy premises, has a surprisingly retr...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Heat”

  THE HEAT:  Watch It At Home – A Functional Vehicle for Two Strong Stars Let’s face it:  it doesn’t really matter what THE HEAT is about.  A streetwise Boston cop, a straight-laced FBI agent, some cri...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Way, Way Back”

  THE WAY, WAY BACK:  Watch It At Home – Modestly Engaging Coming-Of-Age Tale THE WAY, WAY BACK is one of the last real indie hopes for a original breakout hit this summer (it was a big buy out of Sundance, a $10M p...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Maleficent”

  MALEFICENT:  Watch It At Home – Only Jolie Casts a Spell The conflicting agendas driving the new MALEFICENT don’t leave much room for the movie itself.  Like Wicked and Once Upon A Time, it’s a revisi...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Fault In Our Stars”

  THE FAULT IN OUR STARS:  Worth A Ticket – John Green’s Beloved Book Is Well Treated By the Screen It’s almost impossible to describe the plot of John Green’s YA novel THE FAULT IN OUR STARS witho...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’S 2D ANNUAL FANTASY SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT

The arrival of THE AVENGERS means that, whatever the calendar may say, as far as Hollywood is concerned, summer has begun.  Which in turn means that for the next several months, would-be blockbusters will be launched into mult...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Now You See Me”

  NOW YOU SEE ME:  Watch It At Home – Don’t Look Too Closely A summer action movie, like a magic act, is only as good as its final trick, and the one in the relatively low-budget NOW YOU SEE ME (which this sea...
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Sony Blinks: “After Earth” Flies Away from Superman

  With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the opening dates for blockbuster movies are carefully calculated months–sometimes years–in advance.  So a last minute change doesn’t come from nowhere...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Awaits the Witching Hour – 5/3/12

> It seems like only yesterday that we were reviewing the records for midnight openings (actually, it was March 23, when The Hunger Games opened with a 7th-highest $19.7M Thursday midnight–the highest ever for a non-seque...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUMMER MOVIE SCHEDULE MUSICAL CHAIRS

  Today Paramount announced that its upcoming sequel GI JOE:  RETALIATION won’t be opening on June 29 after all, but will instead be pushed to March 2013.  The studio would like you to know that this in no way, abs...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Here Come “The Avengers”

> Now that we’ve all taken a breath after the extraordinary success of The Hunger Games (and Lionsgate has had a chance to count its money), Hollywood’s real blockbuster season is about to begin, and indications are...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Lone Ranger”

  THE LONE RANGER:  Not Even For Free – The Silver Bullet Is Self-Inflicted Disney’s reluctance to produce THE LONE RANGER is well-documented; the studio even shut down the production shortly before shooting w...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Internship”

  THE INTERNSHIP:  Watch It At Home – No Search Engine Necessary To Predict the Plot Vince Vaughn has been playing his motormouth-with-a-heart-of-gold character pretty much non-stop since Swingers in 1996.  That...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Monsters University”

  MONSTERS UNIVERSITY:  Watch It At Home – No Dean’s List For Pixar’s Latest There’s a wonderfully charming, imaginative Pixar movie opening on Friday, one that will restore your faith in the studi...
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