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Favorite Movies: Aliens, Jaws, Inglourious Basterds, the Mad Max movies except the kid read more parts of Thunderdome, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starship Troopers, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, They Live, Pandorum, The Warriors, Darkman, The Thing, The Untouchables, a good percentage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, B-movies, Westerns

Likes: Mass Effect, ginger, the 1960s Batman TV show, diversity, Fallout, non-iron read more shirts, Angela Bassett, comics, funk, making and/or consuming satisfying meals, xenomorphs, the Elric saga, weird art, volume, She-Hulk, freeze-frame credits, my goofy cats, green things, transdimensional travel, vindication

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Weekend Box-Office: April 27-29, 2012

Another win for Think Like a Man! It was not a very big weekend at the box office (30% lower than this time last year), and it certainly wasn’t a good week for new releases. Either the new offerings just...
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Weekend Box-Office: April 20-22, 2012

The guys finally defeat Katniss! After annihilating all competitors for a month straight, post-apocalyptic heroine Katniss Everdeen finally got knocked from the top of the heap as both THINK LIKE A MAN and THE LUCKY ONE scored higher at the...
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Weekend Box-Office: April 13-15, 2012

Hunger Games starve the Stooges! The odds may not ever be in favor of THE HUNGER GAMES, but after four weeks those odds are still looking pretty good. Three new wide releases arrived in theaters this weekend, but Katniss slayed...
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Weekend Box-Office: April 6-8, 2012

Still got the Hunger for cash! As many Americans celebrate Easter by consuming chocolate objects, marshmallow critters and cooked animal parts, Katniss Everdeen spent the weekend slaughtering her way to the top of the box office for the third week...
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The Quarterly JoBlo.com Box-Office report! (Q1 2012)

Hey, how’s business? Well, since we’re talking about the box office, the answer is: so far, so good! A quarter of the way through the year, the movie biz is not just ahead of the game compared to Q1 2011,...
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Weekend Box-Office: March 30-April 1, 2012

Everyone’s watching the Games! For the second week, Panem’s telegenic post-apocalyptic survivor Katniss Everdeen is the deathmatch winner as THE HUNGER GAMES tops the chart with another $61.1 million! That might be an almost 60% drop from its gargantuan $152M...
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Weekend Box-Office: March 23-25, 2012

The Hunger Games has a feast! And the winner of the games and current box office champ — from District 12, the Girl on Fire, Katniss Everdeen! There was certainly an expectation that THE HUNGER GAMES could be the next...
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