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Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in It

Summer 2017 roundup

This summer has been absolutely terrible for the movie industry in general -- the worst since 2006. Cinema chain stocks even suffered a huge decline because moviegoing attendance was so low. I'm sure they'll bounce back eventually, because people won't stop watching movies in cinemas, and huge movie hits like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Thor: Ragnarok will bring in the crowds again; but for now, it looks like cinema stockholders won't be getting their dividends this year.

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Read more about the article Local cinema attendance was down for the 1st quarter of this year. Here’s why. (And no, it’s not the fault of too many “sequels and franchises”.)
Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) having a date at the movies in La La Land.

Local cinema attendance was down for the 1st quarter of this year. Here’s why. (And no, it’s not the fault of too many “sequels and franchises”.)

I read an article in The Straits Times a few days ago, which talked about how local cinema attendance in the first three months of this year dropped 10.4 percent from the same period last year. A few reasons were attributed to it, including slowing economic growth affecting all industries, lack of good movies, and competing sources of entertainment such as Netflix.

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Read more about the article ‘Jurassic World’ review: Still entertaining, though not comparable to the first
Chris Pratt owns the (Jurassic) world

‘Jurassic World’ review: Still entertaining, though not comparable to the first

Many people went to watch Jurassic World last weekend; and by many, I mean the whole world. It had the biggest global opening weekend ever at US$511.8 million -- though I'm pretty sure the Avengers would have come out tops if Disney hadn't staggered the global rollout of The Avengers and Age of Ultron, whereas Universal Pictures released Jurassic World in all territories at once except Japan.

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Read more about the article ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ review: The biggest surprise of the year
The motley Guardians in Guardians of the Galaxy

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ review: The biggest surprise of the year

Marvel's space opera about a ragtag group of aliens plus one human is the massive surprise hit of the summer, and even gone on to be the highest-grossing movie of the year in the U.S., beating stalwart franchises like Transformers, X-Men and Spider-Man.

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Read more about the article ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ review (with bonus ‘Chef’ and ‘Maleficent’ reviews): LOVE ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Liked ‘Chef’. ‘Maleficent’ is ok.
Emily Blunt (Rita Vrataski) and Tom Cruise (Major William Cage) in Edge of Tomorrow

‘Edge of Tomorrow’ review (with bonus ‘Chef’ and ‘Maleficent’ reviews): LOVE ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Liked ‘Chef’. ‘Maleficent’ is ok.

Here's another massively overdue review bonanza. Unfortunately, I'm always watching things much faster than I write about them, so sometimes it's stale news by the time I post them.

Continue Reading‘Edge of Tomorrow’ review (with bonus ‘Chef’ and ‘Maleficent’ reviews): LOVE ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Liked ‘Chef’. ‘Maleficent’ is ok.