Film Preview: The American (2024)
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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, Wide
Return Links Polls What’s the Best of May 2022 Wide?
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Film Preview: Johnny & Clyde (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: May 5, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Johnny and Clyde are two serial killers who are madly in love and on an endless crime spree. They have their sights set on robbing a prosperous casino – owned by crime boss Alana and guarded by a demonic slayer that…
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Film Preview: Firenado (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: January 3, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An accountant for the mob, has to escape a whirlwind of fire while is chased by armed robbers.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the…
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Film Preview: Dune: Part Two (2024)
Page Revisions: (May 7, 2023) Original (July 9, 2023) New Trailer (#3) (December 17, 2023) New Trailer (#4) — New Posters (#2-#12) — New Release Date (changed from 11.3.2023) — Revised Description (February 25, 2024) New Posters (#13-#18) Release Date: March 1, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while…
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Weekend Preview: May 12-14, 2023
Below are nine previews for films opening next weekend. Book Club: The Next Chapter (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Fool’s Paradise (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Hypnotic (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Knights of the Zodiac (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Road Rally Racers (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview BlackBerry (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview …
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Film Preview: Monica (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 7, 2023) Original Release Date: May 12, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.” Poster Rating: C- (2) SEE ALL…
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Film Preview: BlackBerry (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 7, 2023) Original Release Date: May 12, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.” Poster Rating: B- / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) It’s a relatively unique design that cuts the images up into smaller sections, which lightly reflects…
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Film Preview: Road Rally Racers (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 7, 2023) Original Release Date: May 12, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Racers compete in a high-stakes rally along the famous Silk Road trade route.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Simplistic both visually and emotionally. The viewer gets that the film is about racing and that it has animals, so…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 7 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Benjamin Glazer (68 at death) {2 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Adaptation, Original Story Oscar Wins: Writing, Original Story 1897: Otto Siegel (65 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1901: Gary Cooper (60 at death) {5 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar…
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Film Preview: The Locksmith (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: February 3, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an…
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Film Preview: Condor’s Nest (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: January 27, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A decade after the fall of Nazi Germany, an American aviator travels across South America in search of war criminals and encounters more than he bargained for.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s a nice array of images…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 6 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1902: Max Ophuls (54 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) 1907: Walter Bullock (46 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song 1908:…
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Film Preview: A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original (July 23, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) (September 10, 2023) New Posters (#3-#16) Release Date: September 15, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is…
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Film Preview: Beautiful Beings (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: January 13, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother takes a bullied kid into his gang of violent outsiders.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s a lovely sky, but there’s no feeling of substance to the lower image, other…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 18, 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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