Director John Lee Hancock speaks out about Michael Keaton’s Oscar snub

Posted 9 years ago

A list of great performers are up for the Oscar for Best Actor, but Michael Keaton, for his performance in THE FOUNDER, isn’t one of them. The film, telling the story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers’...

Review: The Founder

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The story of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a middle-aged travelling salesman who turns a small-time hamburger joint named McDonalds into a worldwide behemoth. REVIEW: Full disclosure: my first job ever was at McDonald’s. As a pimple-faced seventeen year old,...

Attraction Reactions: The Magnificent Seven (video)

Posted 10 years ago

Saddle up and join host Taylor Johnson as he heads out on the trail to his local theater to see what the townsfolk thought of director Antoine Fuqua's remake of the classic western THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN starring Denzel Washington, Chris...

Weekend Box Office Report: September 23-25, 2016

Posted 10 years ago

The Magnificent Seven ride high! Audiences wanted to see Denzel Washington saddle up and gun down some villains this weekend, putting THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN at number one with an estimated opening of $35 million! The Western remake marks the biggest...

Review: The Magnificent Seven

Posted 10 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage PLOT: A gunslinger (Denzel Washington) is recruited by a young widow (Haley Bennett) to save her town from a sadistic tycoon (Peter Sarsgaard). In order to take on his...

JoBlo Movie Trivia Quiz: Westerns

Posted 10 years ago

Kevin Welcome to JoBlo's Rootin' Tootin' Movie Trivia Quizzes! Back when I was a young lad and completely ignorant of the glory of Western movies, my dad introduced me to a little film by the name of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN,...

We interview The Magnificent Seven’s Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt & more!

Posted 10 years ago

This Friday, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Antoine Fuqua’s big-budget remake of the 1960 Yul Brynner/Steve McQueen classic (which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s THE SEVEN SAMURAI) hits theaters. I was lucky enough to see it at TIFF (read my...

How Antoine Fuqua got Denzel Washington to saddle up for Magnificent Seven

Posted 10 years ago

I love a good western flick and one my my favourites, if not the favourite, is John Sturges' THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. It's a simple story of good guys vs bad guys but the stellar cast of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen,...

TIFF unveils 1st slate of galas and presentations; Magnificent Seven to open

Posted 10 years ago

It’s about that time for arguably the world’s most exciting film festival; TIFF! The 41st Toronto International Film Festival kicks off on September 8th and you can bet that our own Chris Bumbray will be in attendance, seeing more movies...

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