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The 10 Best and Worst Movie Posters of 2011

Dec 8, 2011 | | Movie Features

Though nobody expects a great movie poster to directly translate to ticket sales or one of poor quality to drive away every last patron, the care taken in a film’s promotional campaign speaks volumes to the potential of the movie itself. Though this list shows that these streams do not always run parallel, there is a definite trend. The year is almost through and all posters unveiled to us (and though some great ones like those for Drive, Midnight in Paris and Albert Nobbs didn’t quite make the cut) let’s rack ‘em up and see who takes the top and bottom prizes for 2011 movie posters.

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Trailer Tracker: The Cabin in the Woods, Lockout and more

Dec 8, 2011 | | Movie Features

Just like braving the mall crowds at Christmastime, Joss Whedon unleashes some psychological horror with his genre-bending thriller The Cabin in the Woods. An extraterrestrial prison is the setting of our next clip Lockout, which stars Guy Pearce as a man sent to rescue the president’s daughter after a jailbreak. Last off on another slow week is the second trailer for Oscar hopeful Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which pretty much dares you not to cry. Nothing like openly weeping around the holidays – it’s Trailer Tracker.

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December Oscar Predictions

Dec 3, 2011 | | Movie Features

As the calendar turns to December, critics circles and awards groups will begin handing out hardware to the year’s best films and performances. In other words, it’s finally Oscar time, and Player Affinity has got predictions for all the major categories. Each week, we’ll dig a little deeper into one of these categories, in order to help with your predictions and to let you know what you ought to catch up with.

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Trailer Tracker: John Carter, Being Flynn and more

Dec 3, 2011 | | Movie Features

It seems as if the impending holiday season had put a kibosh on new clips this week (and new releases for this coming weekend as well), but we’ll work with what we have and hope the dawning of December will be fruitful in more ways than one. First off, we have the first full-ish length trailer for the mega-budgeted Disney sci-fi epic John Carter, which aims for an audience I haven’t quite pegged as of yet. Secondly is Being Flynn, the redemptive tale of an author and his son, played by Robert De Niro and Paul Dano respectively. Finally, we bring to you a con-man thriller with Samuel “Mother f$+%&#!” Jacksonentitled The Samaritan. We’re always the good kind here – it’s Trailer Tracker (lite).

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Trends We’re Thankful For: Declining 3D Ticket Sales

Nov 26, 2011 | | Movie Features

Normally, the gratitude we feel on Thanksgiving does not come with a sarcastic twist, but who among us that follows the annual hoopla of the wide-release movie circuit isn’t thrilled that 3D officially became no longer just a despised format (see 2010) but a financially meaningless one (2011).

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Trends We’re Thankful For: Still-Solid Superhero Flicks

Nov 26, 2011 | | Movie Features

This year alone we had one great, two very good and one ok comic-book adaptation (that would be X-Men; First Class, Thor, Captain America and Green Lantern respectively) and all did decent business despite the competition.

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Actors We’re Thankful For: George Clooney

Nov 25, 2011 | | Movie Features

Few actors command your attention each and every time they step in front of the camera. You could probably count those actors and actresses on one hand: Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. The final name I’d add to that list is George Clooney, but he commands your attention in a very different way.

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Directors We’re Thankful For: Christopher Nolan

Nov 25, 2011 | | Movie Features

how could I be thankful for a director when he has released
nothing in 2011? A reasonable opinion seeing that he hasn’t released a
movie since last year’s Inception. What could I possibly have to be thankful about when it comes to Christopher Nolan? Oh, yes. The…Dark…Knight…Rises.

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Trailer Tracker: Brave, Gone and more

Nov 25, 2011 | | Movie Features

Check out this week’s featured clip if you dare – you’ll have to be Brave (and love Pixar). Yes, Pixar’s latest is here, about a warrior-at-heart who just happens to be a woman, but is nevertheless shoved into the role of dutiful daughter in this period spectacle. Amanda Seyfried then may or may not be crazy in Gone, the thriller which finds a woman searching for her kidnapped younger sister who (again) may or may not have been taken by the same man who attacked her years earlier. Next, The Rock goes to a rock in the semi-sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Last off, Woody Harelson is a cop embodying the worst of the worst in the crime thriller Rampart. We watch things gallantly streaming – it’s trailer Tracker.

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Franchises We’re Thankful For: The Return of the Muppets

Nov 24, 2011 | | Movie Features

With the first Muppet movie in 12 years just released, word of original operator and key performer Frank Oz’s dissatisfaction with The Muppets would seem to cast a shadow over the big comeback even before the opening number. But to heck with all that; I’m thankful that the Muppets are back

The 10 Best and Worst Movie Posters of 2011

Trailer Tracker: The Cabin in the Woods, Lockout and more

December Oscar Predictions

Trailer Tracker: John Carter, Being Flynn and more

Trends We’re Thankful For: Declining 3D Ticket Sales

Trends We’re Thankful For: Still-Solid Superhero Flicks

Actors We’re Thankful For: George Clooney

Directors We’re Thankful For: Christopher Nolan

Trailer Tracker: Brave, Gone and more

Franchises We’re Thankful For: The Return of the Muppets

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