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12 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Fear 2017’s Summer Movie Season

By Chris Klimek
May 17, 2017

Pour one out for the summer movie season, which was once Memorial Day till Labor Day but now has spread like a self-replicating, geometrically evolving A.I. determined to cleanse the Earth of human vermin. Around the turn of the century, the summer movies started showing up the first weekend in...
Independence Day: Resurgence Is a Week Early — and 15 Years Late

By Chris Klimek
Jun 29, 2016

Very few advance screenings preceded Independence Day: Resurgence's arrival in theaters on the evening of June 23. That’s eight days ahead of the July 4th weekend that in simpler times — like 1996, when Independence Day was the year’s biggest hit — was traditionally reserved for the biggest, ka-blammiest movie of the...
Here Are the Movies Worth Hoping for in the Season That Won't Stop

By Chris Klimek
May 25, 2016

There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two...
Summer Film Guide 2015

Arthouse? Multiplex? Kabooms? We have you covered in a summer that never ends.

By Chris Klimek
May 19, 2015

In the decadent 21st Century, the summer movie season now sprawls from March through December. (Star Wars: Episode VII is due to awaken the Force December 18; every prior Star Wars picture has come out Memorial Day weekend.) But I'll stick to tradition and call Memorial Day the start of...
No Good Deed: Oh, to Be Rich and Hunted by Idris Elba!

By Chris Klimek
Sep 15, 2014

Married Women Over 30, here’s a pitch for a movie: My Dinner With Idris. You never thought it would happen to you, but one rainy night when your handsome and successful but distracted husband who doesn’t appreciate you is out of town, Idris Elba (The Wire, Mandela: Long Walk to...

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