• New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    With the closure of the Friday Face-Off, we decided to start up a new polling series that asks you to rate every Oscar nominee in most of the major categories. Every day of the week at noon (Central), a new poll group will post with anywhere between 30 and 35 nominees across two to four…

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  • Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2015

    Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2015 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our second pass, we take a look at the new…

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  • Film Preview: Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)

    Film Preview: Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)

    Page Revisions: (May 21, 2023) Original (July 2, 2023) New Trailer (#2) (September 3, 2023) New Trailer (#3) (October 22, 2023) New Posters (#6-#11) Release Date: October 27, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift…

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  • 5 Favorites #178: Best of the 1970s

    Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. The closer we get to the decade in which I started watching movies as…

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  • Oscar Profile #649: Katy Jurado

    Born January 16, 1924 in Mexico City, Mexico, María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was the daughter of a lawyer and a singer. Actor Pedro Armendariz was her godfather. Jurado’s family was wealthy, its fortune controlled by her aristocratic grandmother. When offered a film role at the age of 15,…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: May 25 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Charles Barton (79 at death)   {1 Nom, 1 Win}      Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing      Oscar Win: Assistant Directing 1913: Sidney Carroll (75 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Adapted Screenplay 1921: Hal David (91 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Original Song      Oscar…

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  • Poll: What Are You Watching? (May 26-28, 2023)

    Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (May 26-28, 2023)

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  • Film Preview: Poor Things (2023)

    Film Preview: Poor Things (2023)

    Page Revisions: (May 21, 2023) Original (June 18, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#1-#2) (October 29, 2023) New Trailer (#3) — New Poster (#3) Release Date: September 8, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox…

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  • Looking at the Weekend: May 26-28, 2023

    Most of the competition has cleared the way for the massive drop of Disney’s latest animated-to-live-action adaptation, which should easily top the weekend box office over the second week of Fast X. OTHER RELEASES We are only looking at films that have had trailers released on Rotten Tomatoes’ trailer YouTube Channels. Below are some other…

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  • Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Rating Director Rian Johnson Screenplay Rian Johnson Length 2h 19m Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Noah Segan, Jackie Hoffman, Dallas Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here

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  • 2023 Oscar Nominations Predictions: May

    As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. Tripp was unable to participate in…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: May 24 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1901: Lucien Moraweck (72 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Original Score 1913: Peter Ellenshaw (93 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Visual Effects      Oscar Win: Visual Effects 1919: Harold Leventhal (86 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination:…

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  • Trailer Watch: Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One (2023) Updated

    New Trailer (#2) Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.

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  • Home Viewing with Peter #829

    With the mostly glowing reviews for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, screened out of competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, putting a spotlight on the Hollywood legend, now is the perfect time as any for revisiting the films that have made him one of the most respected directors of the last fifty…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: May 23 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1882: John Hughes (72 at death)   {3 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White), Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1883: Douglas Fairbanks (56 at death)   {0 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1885: James Gleason (73 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor…

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  • Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Fast X”

    Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Fast X…?

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