Film Preview: The American (2024)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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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: Best of May 2022, Limited
Return Links Polls What’s the Best of May 2022, Limited?
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Weekend Preview: May 19-21, 2023
Below are six previews for films opening next weekend. Fast X (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Master Gardener (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Moon Garden (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Robots (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Sanctuary (Limited) Cinema Sight…
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Film Preview: Sanctuary (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 14, 2023) Original Release Date: May 19, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows a dominatrix and Hal, her wealthy client, and the disaster that ensues when Hal tries to end their relationship.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This poster struggles to convey the seriousness of the content and while it…
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Film Preview: Robots (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 14, 2023) Original Release Date: May 19, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Charles is a womanizer while Elaine is a gold digger. The duo learn humanity when forced to team up and pursue robot doubles of themselves.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The effort to connect to the Robots title…
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Film Preview: Moon Garden (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 14, 2023) Original Release Date: May 19, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness.” Poster Rating: B- / B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Strangely, the title font is fitting to the content of the trailer, a dark,…
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Film Preview: The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 14, 2023) Original Release Date: May 19, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Cecilia travels to her father’s farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her long-deceased mother whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.” Poster Rating:…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 14 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Charles L. Lootens (93 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Sound/Sound Mixing Oscar Win: Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Certificate) 1908: James B. Clark (92 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1936: Bobby Darin (37 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins}…
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Film Preview: Boy from Nowhere (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 7, 2023) Original Release Date: February 17, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Shot guerrilla style in dangerous parts of the southern Philippines, Boy From Nowhere is S.J. Finlay’s feature film debut. It features a cast of non-actors whose lives closely mimic the tale of a boy caught up in chain of events beyond…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 13 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: Box Office Preview: Introductions (5.13.2010 – 12.14.2022) (12) 2010: Box Office Preview: Previews (5.13.2010 – 3.22.2023) (12) Born 1906: Edward Stevenson (62 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Costume Design (Black-and-White), Costume Design (Color) Oscar Win: Costume Design (Black-and-White) 1909: Ken Darby…
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Film Preview: Devil’s Peak (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 7, 2023) Original Release Date: February 17, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Set in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Too much vacant space, too much…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 19, 2023)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #48
The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.
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This Day in Oscar History: May 12 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1881: Achmed Abdullah (64 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1890: Robert N. Lee (74 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adaptation 1899: Ira S. Webb (72 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) Oscar Win: Art…
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2013
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2013 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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Trailer Watch: Love Again (2023) Updated
New Trailer (#2) — New Release Date (changed from 5.12.23) Love Again, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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