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Anticipation (Before Trailer): 55/100

Anticipation (After Trailer): 65/100

The Boss looks funny in a “this isn’t very good and I’m a little embarrassed I’m laughing at it kind of way. Then again, that’s kind of the Melissa McCarthy genre of comedies, actually. Basically, McCarthy is a female Donald Trump type. It looks like there’s some running joke that Kristen Bell isn’t attractive or sexual through the trailer which is puzzling. Not sure about this one but by April 8, 2016, I’m sure the funny moments of the preview repeated ad nauseam will get me geared up to only be disappointed.

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Anticipation (Before Trailer): 55/100

Anticipation (After Trailer): 70/100

If That Awkward Moment was made with women. The February 12, 2016 release date declares that How to Be Single is this year’s “Hey, I’m single and I want to go to the movies on Valentine’s Day” movie. Is that a thing? I think it’s a thing. Maybe it’s not but it should be a thing. Right?

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Anticipation (Before Trailer): 50/100

Anticipation (After Trailer): 50/100

Maybe I’m too jaded. Nothing about this trailer shocks me. It’s crude and raunchy yet predictable and everything you’d expect if you were casting Robert DeNiro and Zac Efron in this type of film. It looks a little bit funny but feels like if it were really that funny it would be on the release schedule in the Spring rather than January. It’s a no brainer for Dirty Grandpa to hit theaters near Spring Break yet it lands in the dump (month) for movies.

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Anticipation (Before Trailer): 70/100

Anticipation (After Trailer): 85/100

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart in a buddy comedy feels like the perfect fit. It’s unsurprising Central Intelligence is getting a summer release considering the pairing. It’s hard to imagine a miss here.

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Hot Take: If you loved This Is The End, you’ll enjoy but probably not love The Night Before.

If I ever get back to ranking 2013 movies, I’m pretty sure This Is The End will come in at the top of my list. It was one of the funniest movies of the last decade. Fortunately (and unfortunately), The Night Before has a similar feel. While it was a very funny holiday movie, the comparisons and the way too revealing trailers for the film stole away some of the better moments and made it feel like a regifted tale.Read More →

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Anticipation (Before Trailer): 40/100

Anticipation (After Trailer): 50/100

Moonwalkers has the three most damaging words attached to it: “Coming in January.” Outside of that, it looks like it could be a lot of fun. Rupert Grint hasn’t done much since Harry Potter which adds to the intrigue. Ron Perlman is also some interesting casting. We’ll see if Moonwalkers can dodge the January kiss of death.

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Hot Take: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The 33 is a good rescue spoiled. You feel all 69 days of the 33 miners trapped in a well in Chile. Every single one of them!

There’s a story worth telling about the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine in 2010 for over two months. The 33 doesn’t bother to tell it, unfortunately. But there’s definitely a story there. You’ll see it buried under the two hour feel-good, crowd-pleaser that often feels more like root canal than a rescue.Read More →

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Hot Take: It’s hard to pull off movies with multiple, intertwining storylines as so many things can go wrong. Sometimes, Love the Coopers gets things wrong but gets plenty right to deliver an entertaining, adequate kick-off to the holiday movie season.

As I settled in to watch Love the Coopers, I was armed and ready to blast the movie through some snarky live tweets during the viewing. However, as Steve Martin began the narration, I was completely disarmed by such great casting, I was shaken in to accepting Love the Coopers as something watchable. By the time the disposable storyline involving Ed Helms’ character was introduced, I was already willing to forgive a miss or two.Read More →

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Anticipation (Before Trailer): 40/100

Anticipation (After Trailer): 35/100

It appears as if Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are treating the cinema as an ATM in January. Ride Along 2 is a cash grab doubling down on the huge success of the original which pulled in $154 million at the domestic box office.