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The first home video releases are available today and 2017’s home options start off with a fizzle instead of a bang. Denial (currently #29 on MHT’s Top Movies of 2016) is joined by Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (currently #111) and Blair Witch (currently #119) and 4 other films that did not find the MHT radar in 2016. Here’s what to buy, rent, stream and skip for the week of January 3rd:Read More →

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It’s been three weeks since BuRStS has been published and during that time, 32 (THIRTY TWO!) movies have been released to the home market. (Blame Christmas!) So, the options were to do an 8 part BuRStS or do a quick recap of the movies released by category and start fresh with the new year next week. Considering how long it would take to write 8 parts and how decreasingly funny each part would get, here’s a quick recap of the last 3 weeks of releases with recommendations of the 8 movies to Buy, 8 movies to Rent, 8 movies to Stream and 8 movies to Skip:Read More →

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Hot Take: Jessica Chastain should be nominated for Best Actress.

Sometimes an actor or actress is so good in a movie, it elevates the movie to a higher status. Miss Sloane is one of those movies thanks to Jessica Chastain who plays the titular character. Her performance is so strong, the flaws of Miss Sloane are ones you’ll more likely gloss over just to enjoy her screen time.Read More →

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Hot Take: It’s 60 minutes too long… and it’s only 90 minutes.

At the 51 minute mark of Man Down, I looked down at my watch and thought, “Nothing has happened.” It’s a bit of an overstatement but, outside of a solid performance from Shia LaBeouf as Gabriel Drummer (a name I had to look up because I sincerely don’t remember hearing his name mentioned in the film), Man Down is a colossal waste of time.Read More →

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For the 2nd half of BuRStS, the biggest film of the week — The Secret Life of Pets — isn’t the one MHT is recommending to buy. I’m sure if you have kids, there’s probably no shot you can’t buy it and I’ll be the first to say, “Sorry!” to you about that. However, check out this week’s 2nd batch of recommendations of what to buy, rent, stream and skip for the week of December 6:Read More →

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It’s Christmas season! Here’s the best Christmas movies of all time followed by a list of movies for people who prefer for Christmas to be in the background of the film:

6. Elf

“SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA’S COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM!”

5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

“I believe… I believe… It’s silly, but I believe.” 

4. Scrooged

“It’s Christmas Eve! It’s… it’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we… we… we smile a little easier, we… w-w-we… we… we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be!”

3. Home Alone

“I made my family disappear.”

2. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

“Shitter was full.”

1. A Christmas Story

“You’ll shoot your eye out!”

And for those of you who would rather not have Christmas be the central theme but still want to get in the holiday spirit:

6. Eyes Wide Shut

“Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn’t.”

5. Love Actually

“There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?”

4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

“Anyway, by now you may wonder how I wound up here. Or, maybe not. Maybe you wonder how silly putty picks shit up from comic books. The point is, I don’t see another Goddamn narrator, so pipe down.”

3. Lethal Weapon

“I’m too old for this shit!”

2. Trading Places

“I lost… One dollar.”

1. Die Hard

“Yippee-ki-yay, mother…” (You know the rest.)

 

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Hot Take: The most important film of 2016. The respect Moonlight shows its characters and its subject matter is something to admire and strive for. 

Last year, I thought Room should have won Best Picture. Spotlight won instead. It was hard to argue considering the importance of Spotlight and the gravity of the subject matter. This year, we have Moonlight. Currently, it isn’t at the top of my list for 2016 but it’s high up there. If Moonlight walks away with every award this Oscar season, I won’t complain for a second. As far as the timeliness and subject, this movie matters more than any other film released in 2016 so far and I doubt any other film will reach the importance or handle such important topics with the delicacy and respect that Moonlight does.

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If you have kids, this week’s BuRStS contains 2 films MHT recommends and 1 that might at least serve as a 90 minute babysitter. There’s also a quality horror flick and a TV-to-big screen conversion that’s easy to dismiss. Here are the recommendation from Movie Hot Take on what to buy, rent, stream and skip for the week of November 29th:Read More →