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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The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #47
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 5 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1916: John Dunning (74 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Editing Oscar Win: Editing 1933: Bert Schneider (78 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Documentary Feature Oscar Win: Documentary Feature 1935: Robert Rehme (88) {0 Noms, 0 Wins} 1953: Phillip Borsos (41 at…
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2012
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2012 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: Unidentified Objects (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: June 2, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An uptight dwarf and his free-spirited, alien-obsessed neighbor hit the road on a border-defying search for their place in the universe.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s a theme to this poster that is barely hinted at in…
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Film Preview: She Is Love (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original Release Date: February 3, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Coming face-to-face after being estranged for over a decade, divorced couple, Idris and Patricia, opt to revisit the past and traverse that treacherous path together, emerging open to new beginnings.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The size of…
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5 Favorites #176: Best of the 1950s
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. We move forward just a little bit further to the 1950s, a decade that…
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Oscar Profile #646: Aline MacMahon
Born May 3, 1899 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Aline MacMahon was of Scottish-Irish and Russian-Jewish descent. Her father Marcus MacMahon was a telegraph operator who became editor-in-chief of Munsey Magazine, her mother Jennie Simon MacMahon, who lived to 107, was an actress. Growing up in McKeesport, a suburb of Pittsburg, and later Brooklyn, New York, MacMahon…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 4 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Valles (83 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Costume Design (Color) Oscar Win: Costume Design (Color) 1890: Percy Ikerd (64 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing 1896: Robert Odell (87 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production…
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (May 5-7, 2023)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (May 5-7, 2023)
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Film Preview: Next Goal Wins (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original (October 1, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: November 17, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0.” Poster Rating: C / B- / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW…
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Film Preview: The Flash (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 30, 2023) Original (May 28, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#8-#15) (June 11, 2023) New Posters (#16-#17) Release Date: June 16, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him…
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Looking at the Weekend: May 5-7, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie will finally fall from the top spot of the box office with the release of the third Guardians of the Galaxy movie. It should do well enough to come close or exceed a $100 million opening weekend, possibly even doubling that. The only other confirmed wide release, Love Again, isn’t…
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Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Rating Director Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado Screenplay Paul Fisher, Tommy Swerdlow, Tom Wheeler Length 1h 42m Starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillen, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Da’Vine Joy Randolph MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here
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This Day in Oscar History: May 3 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Beulah Bondi (92 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actress 1899: Aline MacMahon (92 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1901: Hugo Friedhofer (80 at death) {9 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Drama/Comedy Score, Scoring Oscar Win: Drama/Comedy Score…
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Trailer Watch: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) Updated
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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