Netflix Family Summer Sizzle Reel and Slate

The sizzle reel and slate for the 2022 Netflix Family Summer have both been unveiled as June gives way to the month of July. Dates Previously Announced: May 19: The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib Following the events of The Boss Baby: Family Business, Theodore Templeton is framed for embezzlement and forced to revert back to his old Boss Baby self and crash with his brother Tim and his two nieces, brainy big kid…

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Paramount+: Coming in July 2022

Paramount+ announced the movies, TV series, and sporting events that will be coming to the streaming platform in July 2022. ORIGINALS, EXCLUSIVES, NEWS & EVENTS 7/10: SkyMed 7/12: The Only 7/13: South Park The Streaming Wars Part 2 7/17: Blood & Treasure 7/19: The Day The Music Died: American Pie 7/26: Never Seen Again Season 2 7/29: Honor Society LIBRARY SHOWS 7/6: Big Brother (Season 24) 7/6: The Challenge: USA (Season 1) 7/13: Freakish (Season…

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Minions: The Rise of Gru Hits The 70s

Minions: The Rise of Gru continues to take audiences on the path towards the first Despicable Me with a lot of fun slapstick moments. However, I would be remis to point out a problem with the film’s soundtrack. There’s a point in the film where we hear the five-tone motif from John Williams’s score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The problem with this is that this film is set 1976 and Close Encounters…

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Ratatouille: Oscar Winner Marks 15th Anniversary

It’s been fifteen years to the date since Brad Bird showed us that humans and rats can co-exist in the kitchen in Ratatouille. This Oscar-winning Paris-set movie relies on what could be one of the most absurd premises in the history of cinema. A rat, Remy (Patton Oswalt), has the unlikely dream of becoming a chef someday. After getting separated from his family in the sewer, he sets about towards this dream by joining up…

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Ted: Raunchy Comedy Marks 10th Anniversary

Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and Seth MacFarlane, marks the 10th anniversary since its theatrical release in 2012. I’m going to be downright honest. I do mot know what 2012 me ever saw in Ted. It was, apparently, enough to purchase the film on Blu-ray in late November 2013. I wasn’t even writing for then-Flicksided at the time so I can’t even look at a previous review to see what I wrote. I’ll be…

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Out of Sight Arrives on 4K UHD

Out of Sight, the first collaboration between filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and actor George Clooney, arrives on 4K Ultra HD. The film makes its arrival on 4K UHD two days after turning 24 years old. If Kino Lorber had held off for another year, they could have released a 25th anniversary 4K! I’m not complaining as it also gives me an opportunity to rewatch a Steven Soderbergh classic. Plus, it’s got Kentucky native George Clooney. Together,…

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Boomerang Gets 30th Anniversary Blu-ray

Reginald Hudlin’s Boomerang, featuring a star-studded cast, celebrates its 30th anniversary by arriving on Blu-ray for the first time. Paramount has been releasing a number of Eddie Murphy films over the past few years onto Blu-ray or 4K UHD. A few came by way through Paramount Presents line but this isn’t one of them. Some of the more popular films ended up getting 4K releases after the recent Blu-rays so we’ll just have to see…

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Killer’s Kiss: Stanley Kubrick Film Arrives On 4K UHD

Stanley Kubrick’s sophomore feature film, Killer’s Kiss, makes its arrival on 4K UHD by way of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith) is a middleweight boxer nearing the end of his career. Early on in the film, Davey meets a nightclub dancer, Gloria Price (Irene Kane). Davey and Gloria start a relationship, much to the dismay of her boss, Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera). This is really the gist of it. Vincent sends his…

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Michael Semanick talks The Afterparty, Rescue Rangers, and More

Two-time Oscar-winning sound mixer Michael Semanick spoke about his work on The Afterparty, Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and more. My almost half-hour conversation with Semanick took place on Friday morning. In addition to the series and movie that are up for Emmy consideration, we also discussed the 15th anniversary of Ratatouille taking place on June 29. There are other films that came up during the conversation. It’s bound to happen when one as deep…

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Face/Off: Action Film Marks 25th Anniversary

Face/Off, the John Woo action film starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, marks its 25th anniversary since its June 1997 release. I was too young to appreciate Nicolas Cage for his mannerisms when I first saw this film in 1997. In hindsight, I was probably a few years too young to see the movie, what with the R rating and all. But then again, I had already watched dinosaurs tear apart two different islands by…

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