Looking at Film from Every Angle

Month: January 2014

  • Film Preview: Like Father, Like Son (2014)

    Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth, he must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.” Trailer: D…

  • Film Preview: Devil’s Due (2014)

    Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off…

  • Film Preview: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

    Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.” Trailer: C / B / B- / D+ / D+ (4) / B Review: (#1 & #2)…

  • Film Preview: The Nut Job (2014)

    Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Surly, a curmudgeon, independent squirrel is banished from his park and forced to survive in the city. Lucky for him, he stumbles on the one thing that may be able to save his life, and the rest of park community, as they gear up…

  • Film Preview: Ride Along (2014)

    Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his cop brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James’ sister.” Trailer: D+ Review: This poster may better sum up the pointlessness of the film than anything could. That’s…

  • Film Preview: Big Bad Wolves (2014)

    Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 12 (2014)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 11 (2014)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

  • Film Preview: Back in the Day (2014)

    Poster Trailer Link Release Date: January 17, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 2014)

    Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…

  • 86th Oscars: Chris Hemsworth To Co-Announce Oscar Nominations

    Tradition has always been that a hot young starlet, typically one with Oscar aspirations (or a recent nominee) announces the nominees for the Academy Awards. This was done because the fellow annoucing partner has always been the President of the Academy who has, up until this year, typically been a man. With new president Cheryl…

  • The NEW Friday Face-Off #23

    We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…

  • Precursor: 53rd American Cinema Editors Nominations (2013)

    The American Cinema Editors may predict the Oscar category of Best Editing, but a glimpse into the mind of editors can also bring some clarity to the Best Picture race. Of the ten nominees between Drama and Comedy, all of them are Oscar contenders and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see all ten…

  • 2013 Precursor Predictions: Golden Globe Awards

    Here we are on the precipice. The critics have weighed in and now it’s time for the media-focused awards to take a spotlight ahead of the Oscar nominations on January 16. The Golden Globes are the oldest awards celebration other than the Oscars that has been televised. The Broadcast Critics and Screen Actors Guild programs…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2014)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Ceremonies

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