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ScreenTime No. 180 :: Skips The Croods, Ponder Olympus, Love the Breakers

by Greg W. Locke March 28, 2013

Tops at the Box: Something called The Croods took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office this past weekend, selling a whopping $44.7 million over its first three days. Add to that another $62 million from foreign markets and Dreamworks has a kinda-hit movie in this star-studded animated feature about prehistoric man. I’ve [...]

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ScreenTime No. 179 :: Harmony Korine’s Big Babe-Filled Break

by Greg W. Locke March 21, 2013

Tops at the Box: Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and Powerful took the No. 1 spot at the box office for its second straight week, selling another $42 million, upping the film’s 10-day total in the U.S. to over $145 million. Add to that haul another $136 million abroad and Raimi’s flick now has over [...]

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ScreenTime No. 178 :: Oz Sells Big; Magic Comedy and the Babe Berry

by Greg W. Locke March 14, 2013

Tops at the Box: Sam Raimi’s latest film, Oz: The Great and Powerful, starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz, took the No. 1 spot at the box office during its opening weekend, selling $80 million in the U.S. and $70 million abroad. Not bad but also not quite what the studio [...]

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ScreenTime No. 177 :: Raimi’s Oz, Singer’s Jack and Greg’s … Nap

by Greg W. Locke March 6, 2013

Tops at the Box: Bryan Singer’s gigantic new live action fantasy flick, Jack the Giant Slayer, took the No. 1 spot at the box office last weekend, selling $28 million in the U.S. over its first three days. Sounds great, right? That $28 million would be a little more impressive had Singer not spent $200 [...]

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ScreenTime No. 176 :: Mostly Obvious Oscar Reactions

by Greg W. Locke March 1, 2013

Alright, ya little babies, let’s talk about the Oscars. The golden statues of nude, bald eunuchs that trump all other golden statues of odd things (but, really, how can you top a golden eunuch?). The expensive paperweights that turn big, powerful, beautiful, creative, intelligent people into sappy, nervous – and often phony – givers of [...]

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The Making of Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder

by Greg W. Locke February 26, 2013

So, all of the sudden, a whole lot of info quietly spilled out about Terrence Malick’s follow-up to 2011′s tremendous The Tree of Life. Titled To the Wonder, the movie start Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and one of the most intelligent/beautiful actresses out there, Olga Kurylenko. A lot has been said about this [...]

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ScreenTime No. 175 :: Greggo Runs the Statues Down

by Greg W. Locke February 20, 2013

This year the cast of FOX cartoon “Family Guy” will host the Oscars. Along for the ride will be Ted the teddy bear and Seth the heavily groomed show choir quarterback. I’m pretty sure Katy Perry and Honey Boo-Boo will be in the audience, eating pasghetti. So let’s call this year’s show what it is: [...]

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ScreenTime No. 174 :: We (Still) Love Criterion

by Greg W. Locke February 14, 2013

Tops at the Box: Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon’s new comedy, Identity Thief took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office last weekend, selling $36.5 million over its first three days of release. The film stars the always funny Jason Bateman (“Arrested Development”) as an everyman who crosses the country in order to [...]

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ScreenTime No. 173 :: Predicting the Top 25 Films of 2013

by Greg W. Locke February 6, 2013

Tops at the Box: The man behind indie winners The Wackness and 50/50, director Jonathan Levine, returned to cinemas this past weekend with his new zombies-in-love film, Warm Bodies, starring Nicholas Hoult (aka the kid from About a Boy and A Single Man). Warm Bodies took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office, [...]

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ScreenTime No. 172 :: Bad Movies Galore!

by Greg W. Locke January 30, 2013

Tops at the Box: Something wicked called Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters took the No. 1 spot at the lousy box office last weekend, selling $19 million over its first three days of release. Written and directed by Tommy Wirkola (whose first film, Dead Snow, should have been a career ender, not a career starter), [...]

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