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Weekend Box Office – It’s A HOme Run!

              Jackie Robinson scores again, as the film based on his life story, ‘42‘, scored at the box office with a huge #1 opening of $27.2 million according to studio estimates, the largest opening for any baseball themed film.  Relative unknown Chadwick Boseman took the plate (I’ve got a million of ’em) to take on the almost immortal …

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The Place Beyond the Pines Film Review

          Ryan Gosling, a.k.a. Captain Smolder, stars as Luke, a mysterious motorcycle circus rider who seems to gaze through life as though he has no purpose.  When an old fling, Romina (Eva Mendes), shows up to inform Luke that the last time he came through Schenectady, NY he left a gift in the form of a …

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New Releases – Spring Fever

            Out this weekend are 4 new films, as we discussed in Episode 87 to more detail, here they are: 42 – Jackie Robinson was the baseball player who changed how races played sports…as well as America.  Truly a remarkable story and the film is getting generally positive reviews. And it has Harrison Ford being …

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Episode 88 – Evil HO’s

          We’re reviewing Evil Dead, Erased and Jurassic Park 3D; discussing upcoming releases Oblivion and Lords of Salem; trailers for Elysium and Carrie; Our From the Outside In topic this week: Horror Films – What’s Really Scary, and What Is Going Too Far? As always, we also talk about the latest in movie and TV news

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Episode 88 Trailers

We’re prepping this week’s show, and once again we’ll talk about 2 of the newest trailers to hit this week. This show, we’re talking about Carrie – the remake of the Stephen King classic starring Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore.  This version apparently adheres to the doomsday ending of the book.  2nd we have Elysium, District 9 director Neil Blomkamp’s …

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Weekend Box Office – Evil Wins

          Director Fede Alvarez accomplished something original director Sam Raimi never did, his Evil Dead opened at #1 for the weekend 4/5-7.  Granted, Raimi and original series star Bruce Campbell waved their magic wands to get it done, but still – Fede will always have that.  Another feat?  The $25.7 million weekend was more than all …

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Episode 87 – G.I. HO!

Upcoming releases 42, Scary Movie 5, Disconnect and To the Wonder; review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation; trailers for 2 Guns and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters; Our From the Outside In topic this week: Comic Book film cliches; and at the end of our show this week, we will be discussing the recent Walking Dead season finale as well as …

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Episode 87 Trailers

Episode 87 is right around the corner, and here are the trailers we’re talking about, 2 Guns & Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, for our all new Episode of the HO!  To hear this past week’s show, you can listen HERE! 2 Guns Percy Jackson & the Sea of Monsters

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