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Monday, May 21, 2018 at 9:28PM by Chris Feil
Alex Garland’s sci-fi psychosis film Annihilation is exhausting on several levels and in the best way, as if it was destined to be more beloved once reassessed. Its imposing, deliberate unhinging of time and reality is not exactly built for a complacent viewers. It’s also a brilliantly assembled metaphor for depression in dark times..
Monday, May 21, 2018 at 1:25PM Hello and happy Monday, everybody - Jason from MNPP here with another round of our "Beauty vs Beast" series! This week we're turning our eyes to the 20th anniversary of Don Roos' The Opposite of Sex, which is tomorrow. The film came out on May 22nd 1998, and all good gays (and gay-adjacents) have been quoting Christina Ricci's surly sexpot DeDee and Lisa Kudrow's snide spinster Lucia ever since. But what if I told you you had to choose??? That's not a hypothetical - I am actually asking you to choose. Right now!
PREVIOUSLY She might not have taken an Oscar earlier this year but Saoirse Ronan can comfort herself that she's now won one of these polls, I guess - her Hanna trounced Cate Blanchett with 70% of your vote. Said Lady Edith:
"Joe Wright gave Saoirse her start and then handed her Hanna which solidified her amazing talents. We get to see the whole range of emotions from her. No disrespect to Cate but I want Saoirse to win this and trounce her evil Mom."
Monday, May 21, 2018 at 4:19AM We haven't done a Q&A round in forever and I know I haven't been the most reliable of late for answering Qs but let's try for a redemption round. Ask a question. I'll choose two handfuls to answer TOMORROW.
Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 1:00PM | Weekend Box Office (May 18th-20th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Deadpool 2 |
 Disobedience |
| 1.🔺Deadpool 2 $125 *NEW* |
1.🔺 RBG $1.2 on 375 screens (cum. $3.8) REVIEW |
| 2. Avengers Infinity War $28.6 (cum. $595) REVIEW | 2.🔺 Disobedience $498k on 247 screens (cum. $1.8) REVIEW |
| 3.🔺Book Club $12.5 *NEW* REVIEW |
3.🔺 Pope Francis - A Man of His Word $480k on 346 screens *NEW* |
| 4. Life of the Party $7.7 (cum. $31) |
4.🔺 2001: A Space Odyssey $200k on 4 screens RE-RELEASE |
| 5. Breaking In $6.4 (cum. $28.7) REVIEW |
5.The Rider $169 on 90 screens (cum. $1.1) REVIEW |
Book Club, Deadpool, box office Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 10:40AM by Nathaniel R
A very very quick runthrough this week as we were busy with Cannes mania and Drag Race basically tread water with no one drowning this week. The episode peaked early with a mini-challenge involving a supersized Pit Crew and lots of ass. RuPaul was right when she suggested it should be its own spin-off. In this matching underwear game, Aquaria proved the most adept at remembering butts. Hmmmm...
