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Jan 25-30: 'Birdman' Takes the PGA and SAG

This week in Movie News: my review of Inherent Vice; the PGA winners; box office report for the weekend of the 23rd; the SAG winners; the teaser for Fantastic Four; my review of Citizenfour; the new trailer for The Rewrite; trailer for She's Funny That Way; trailer for Ted 2; and my reviews for Dear White People and Love is Strange.

This week in TV Home: the PGA-TV winners; the SAG-TV winners; SNL recap with host Blake Shelton; and the trailer for Game of Thrones Season 5.

January 31, 2015 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Jan 18-23: Happy MLK Day

This week in Movie News: the London Critics Circle winners; the box office report for the weekend of the 16th; our Movie of the Day series returns with movies celebrating real life political events (in honor of MLK Day and the State of the Union) with looks at Selma, Good Night and Good Luck, Milk, Charlie Wilson's War and Fair Game; my review of American Sniper; blu-ray pick of the week is The Palm Beach Story (1942); Dorian award winners; new Oscars promo; my reviews of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and The Boxtrolls; and my predictions for this weekend's SAG Awards.

This week in TV Home: recap of SNL with host Kevin Hart; my review of The Fall Season 2; first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in the Sherlock Christmas special; the first trailer for Hannibal Season 3; and my SAG-TV predictions for this weekend.

January 23, 2015 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Jan 11-16: Oscar Noms Are Here

This week in Movie News: my review of Selma; the Golden Globe winners; box office report for the weekend of Jan 9th; Denver, Houston and Alliance of Women Film Journalists winners; third trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron; the DGA nominees; trailer for Melissa McCarthy's Spy; VFX and CAS nominees; blu-ray pick of the week is My Left Foot (1989); my reviews of Two Days, One Night and Force Majeure; the Razzie nominations; MPSE nominations; the 2015 Academy Award nominations; my thoughts on this year's Oscar noms; and the Critics Choice award winners.

This week in TV Home: the Golden Globe TV winners; my review of Season 1 of The Missing; and the trailer for House of Cards Season 3.

January 17, 2015 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Jan 4-9: 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Rises as the Industry Speaks

This week in Movie News: my final Oscar roundup of Picture/Director contenders; the NSFC winners; the box office report for the first weekend in January; my review of Whiplash; the ADG nominees; PGA nominees; North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Texas critics winners; blu-ray pick of the week Working Girl; my review of Foxcatcher; Vancouver and Iowa critics winners; the teaser for Ant-Man; the WGA nominees; the ASC and CDG nominees; the People's Choice award winners; the makeup & hairstyling guild nominees; USC Scripter nominees; the BAFTA nominations; Ohio & Georgia critics winners; and my predictions for the Golden Globes this weekend.

This week in TV Home: the People's Choice award winners and my predictions for the Golden Globe TV winners.

January 10, 2015 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Dec 28-Jan 2: Happy New Year

This week in Movie News: my reviews of The Imitation Game, Mr. Turner and The Theory of Everything; the last box office report of 2014; our Movie of the Day series looks at New Years movies Trading Places (1983), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012); the 2014 ACE Eddie nominations; and my first Oscar Roundups for the supporting and lead acting categories this year.

This week in TV Home: this week I posted my Top 10 TV Shows of 2014; and John Oliver told us why New Year's Eve is the worst in a bonus web video for Last Week Tonight.

Also this week, the January movies arrived on New Year's Day, complete with full trailers. The theme of the month is movie musicals, so check out the Movies For Every Month page for the description, and the full list in the January movie page.

January 2, 2015 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Dec 21-26: Merry Christmas 2014

This week in Movie News: Nevada, Southeastern and Black Film Critics Circle winners; the box office report for the weekend of the 19th; new trailer for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; our Christmas themed Movie of the Day series looks at One Magic Christmas, The Lemon Drop Kid, The Santa Clause and Joyeux Noel; second trailer for Focus; trailers for In the Heart of the Sea, the Entourage movie, and A Little Chaos; and the first Oscars promo with host Neil Patrick Harris.

This week in TV Home: my reviews of season 3 of The Newsroom, season 1 of The Affair, and season 4 of Homeland; and the recap of the Christmas episode of SNL with host Amy Adams.

December 27, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Dec 14-19: Stephen Colbert Says Farewell

This week in Movie News: many more critics awards are given out- including Kansas City & San Francisco, Indiana, Dallas & OFCS, San Diego, Detroit & St. Louis, Chicago, Toronto & Phoenix, Austin, Dublin & Women Film Critics Circle, Utah & Phoenix Critics Circle, Las Vegas, and Florida; the box office report for the weekend of the 12th; the 2014 Critics Choice Award nominations; trailer for Knight of Cups; Academy shortlists for Makeup & Hairstyling and Foreign Language Film categories; the blu-ray pick of the week is The Skeleton Twins; my review of Nightcrawler; the Black Reel Awards nominations; the UK trailer for Cinderella; trailer for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter; trailer for '71; and my review of The Babadook.

This week in TV Home: recap of SNL with host Martin Freeman; my review of Season 1 of Amazon's Transparent; first teaser for Orphan Black Season 3; a promo for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore; and Stephen Colbert ends his nine year reign on Comedy Central to take over CBS's The Late Show sometime next fall.

December 20, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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