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Streaming Reviews: I LOVE DICK, Season 1; MASTER OF NONE, Season 2
Over the weekend, two notable series made their full-season debuts on competing streaming services. Each confounds, to a degree, assumptions I'd made about the relative strengths (and weaknesses) of those services. Both are definitely worth sampling. A prickly, confrontational affair...
China Box Office: GRAVITY Continues To Pull In The Crowds
Alfonso Cuaron's science fiction blockbuster Gravity holds firm at the top of the charts for a second straight week, although Benny Chan's The White Storm opens strong. Rank Title Origin 25/11 - 01/12 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1...
Review: EPIC Follows The Blue Sky Blueprint For Family Entertainment
The latest production from Blue Sky Studios draws inspiration from The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Bug's Life, Antz, Avatar and others to tell a family-friendly tale of environmental harmony. I need to expand my critical vocabulary, though, because "clever and...
Hollywood Grind: ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT, Animation Demographics, and Family Fun
Ice Age: Continental Drift delivers clever and amusing, cheerful and playful family fun, just like the first three films in the series. Blue Sky Studios, a subsidiary of Fox, made Ice Age as its first feature-length animated film. Released in...
30 MINUTES OR LESS Review
The best comedy of the summer, 30 Minutes or Less is cool and refreshing because all it wants to do is make you laugh. Rather than come to a screeching stop to impart pretentious and trite life lessons, the...
