The 10 Best Things About the 2016 Oscars - CinemaNerdz - Part 119
10 Best Things About the 2016 Oscars
How exactly would host Chris Rock handle #OscarsSoWhite, after staying mostly silent on the issues in recent weeks? What if Leo didn’t win? Would this be a “political Oscars” and who else is Hollywood excluding? We still do not have all the answers, and there is a lot of work to do. This was the year of the #agendaoscars, a year where effort itself was the show’s hope and spotlight. It was not a h...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Gods of Egypt No Match for Deadpool
Big, noisy, and hollow. While that might easily describe the critical reaction to Gods of Egypt, only the last can truly describe its box office take. While the solid earner and acclaimed Deadpool took the weekend yet again with an estimated $31.5 million, the $140 million-costing blockbuster Gods of Egypt failed on all fronts, bringing in a domestic estimated total of $14 million and not much els...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: There’s Something in the Woods in the Pete’s Dragon Teaser Trailer
It’s the last week of February, dear readers, and the Academy Awards are this Sunday. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen Deadpool yet, but I plan to do so as soon as possible. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ column takes a look at the teaser for Disney’s upcoming remake of Pete’s Dragon. Premise: For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with...[Read More]
Who Will Win (And Who Should Win) at the 2016 Oscars
The Academy Awards are not for everyone, but, for whatever reason, they are for me. Something about Oscar season puts a smile on my face, which I know is not a popular thing to say in the film community. It’s popular to say the awards mean nothing and that the voters are mostly old white men voting on “artsy” films that are aimed only at them and no one else. With all of the controversy surroundin...[Read More]
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Has Release Date and New Teaser Trailer
Fans of the early 1990s British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous have reason to be excited these days. Fox Searchlight recently set loose a new teaser trailer on the world. The producers of the film also confirmed a 2016 release date of July 22. Location filming in the U.K. and France is complete for the film that finds, appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joan...[Read More]
Win Passes to An Advance Screening of London Has Fallen
Enter here for your chance to win passes to an advance screening of the new film London Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, and Melissa Leo. For your chance to receive two (2) complimentary passes to see the new film London Has Fallen at the MJR Troy Digital Cinema in Troy, Michigan on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7:00PM, just look for the “Enter the Conte...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Deadpool Rides High for Second Week
Considering its big opening last week and critical praise, there was not much room for doubt that Deadpool would score big once again. Pulling in an estimated $55 million, it finished head and shoulders over the competition, keeping Kung Fu Panda 3 in second place with an estimated $12.5 million. While still not the success of the previous films, Kung Fu Panda 3 has still pulled in $117.1 million ...[Read More]
Win a Digital Download of Disney Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur
CinemaNerdz is proud to offer our readers a chance to win a digital copy of The Good Dinosaur when it comes to Blu-ray and DVD on February 23rd. The film was directed by Peter Sohn and stars Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Steve Zahn, A.J. Buckley, and Anna Paquin. For your chance to win one of ten digital downloads, just look for the “giveaway” box further down on th...[Read More]
Spotlight Blu-ray Giveaway
CinemaNerdz is proud to offer our readers a chance to win a copy of the Spotlight Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD Combo disc, directed by Tom McCarthy and starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Live Shreiber, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci. For your chance to win one of our discs, just look for the “giveaway” box further down on this page. There you’ll be directed to a v...[Read More]
Greater Farmington Film Festival Releases 2016 Schedule
Farmington-Hills based nonprofit organization kickstART farmington announced the film lineup and schedule for the 2016 Greater Farmington Film Festival earlier this month and it looks like they will be offering a great selection of films this year. The Greater Farmington Film Festival takes place March 3-6, 2016 with a selection of recently released feature films and documentaries that engage the ...[Read More]
Steve Jobs Blu-ray Giveaway
CinemaNerdz is proud to offer our readers a chance to win a copy of the Steve Jobs Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD Combo disc, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels. For your chance to win one of our discs, just look for the “giveaway” box further down on this page. There you’ll be directed to a variety of methods by which you ...[Read More]
The 20 Best Detective Movies of All Time
From a pop culture perspective, private detectives stand for all that’s memorable about film noir. The indifference, the wittiness, and the moral ambiguity that define each urban knight has since become the stuff of parodied legend. We’re talking about the mediators between the crooks and the cops, the embodiment of back alley grayness that’s so tough to pin down. P.I.’s could cooperate with the l...[Read More]