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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Film Preview: Reality (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 23, 2023) Original Release Date: May 29, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review:…
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Film Preview: The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 23, 2023) Original (August 6, 2023) New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: August 11, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula, the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty-four unmarked wooden…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 29 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 23, 2023) Original (June 11, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) Release Date: July 7, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The Lamberts 10 years after the last installment, as Dalton begins college.” Poster Rating: C+ / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) There’s too much empty space and while it…
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Film Preview: Cadejo Blanco (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 23, 2023) Original Release Date: April 21, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A working-class girl from Guatemala City travels to a small coastal town to infiltrate a gang in order to find her missing sister.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 17, 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 #46
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: April 28 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2011
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2011 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: Talk to Me (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 23, 2023) Original (June 11, 2023) New Trailer (#2) (July 23, 2023) New Poster (#2) Release Date: July 28, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and…
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Film Preview: The Starling Girl (2023)
Page Revisions: (April 23, 2023) Original Release Date: May 12, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The starkness of the design is certainly striking…
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5 Favorites #175: Best of the 1940s
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 toughest selection yet with films like The Magnificent Ambersons, Mrs. Miniver, Gaslight, The…
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Oscar Profile #645
Born June 17, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, Ralph Bellamy’s father was from New England, his mother was from Canada. He ran away from home at 15 to become an actor. He traveled with numerous road shows, and by 1927 had his own theatre company. He made his film debut in 1931’s The Secret Six starring…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 27 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Apr. 28-30, 2023)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Apr. 28-30, 2023)
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