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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Frozen”

  FROZEN:  Buy A Ticket – Your Grin Won’t Melt Until It’s Time to Leave A curious shift has been occurring at Disney over the past few years.  Glamor child Pixar has been churning out second-hand blockb...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE:  Worth A Ticket –  Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served t...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Sitter”

  THE SITTER:  Not At Any Price – Adventures In Bad Moviemaking   Jonah Hill is awfully lucky to have made Moneyball this year.  In that film, fueled by a brilliant Aaron Sorkin/Steven Zaillain script, he gave...
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THURSDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hobbit” Armies Take Casualties On Day 2

  The answer to yesterday’s box office question–would THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (New Line/MGM/Warners) look more like The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King or Twilight: Eclipse along the co...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”





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HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Thursday Numbers – 12/22/11

> Deadline has preliminary figures for Thursday’s boxoffice, and they appear to be fairly steady with Wednesday, consistent with last year’s pattern but below 2010’s totals.  MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – G...
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Box Office Results WEDNESDAY December 28

>Box office volume drifted down a preliminary 9% Wednesday from Tuesday, with the top 10 films grossing a collective $41.5 million (almost exactly matching last year’s December 28 total, when the date fell on a Tuesday, a...
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HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Friday Studio Scorecard – 12/23/11

> Anyone who thinks the boxoffice isn’t in a slump needs a new prescription for bifocals. Note:  since December 24 is a traditionally deadly day at the boxoffice (closed theatres, family plans)  that would make ...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “A Dangerous Method”

  A DANGEROUS METHOD:  Watch It At Home – A Visit to Dr. Cronenberg’s Clinic   Throughout his career, David Cronenberg has been fascinated by twin compulsions:  the aberrant and the repressive.  The for...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack Reacher”

  JACK REACHER:  Watch It At Home – Next on TNT:  Tom Cruise If Tom Cruise’s career ever takes him to do a TV pilot, it would be a lot like JACK REACHER.  And not a classy, sophisticated pilot for AMC or H...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “War Horse”

  WAR HORSE:  Watch It At Home –  Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak   Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”

  ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES:  Watch It At Home – Fun But Overextended Silliness ANCHORMAN 2:  THE LEGEND CONTINUES runs 119 minutes, which is rather too much of a not-bad thing (the original Anchorman, in 2...
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HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Friday Numbers – 12/30/11

> Deadline has initial boxoffice figures for Friday, and if the numbers hold, the results seem to be a healthy amount higher than last year’s Friday before New Year’s, allowing the holiday period–and the year&...
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THE BIJOU’S FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 12/16/11

> The last 2 weeks of the year will almost certainly bring better news for Hollywood, for reasons of tonnage alone:  there are 6 wide openings to come next week, compared to only 3 in the final weeks of 2010.  But for...
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