Film Preview: Last Summer (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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Film Preview: The Donor Party (2023)
Page Revisions: (February 12, 2023) Original Release Date: March 3, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Jaclyn wants a baby. But after a messy divorce and fruitless years of online dating, she realizes she doesn’t need a husband to become a mother. She and her best friends hatch a plan to get her pregnant at a very…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 7, 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 #37
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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The Rundown 2022: Documentary Short Subject
For our third Rundown article, we review one of the short film categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Short Subject as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with the most international category. Best Documentary Short Subject Winner Predictions The…
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2022 Precursor Predictions: British Academy Awards
The organization with the closest membership composition to the Academy is the British Academy. They, of course, have their predilections, but sometimes they can foreshadow trends we wouldn’t have otherwise considered. BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM & TELEVISION ARTS AWARDS Best Film All Quiet on the Western Front The Banshees of Inisherin (Tripp, Thomas, RU:Wesley, RU:Peter)…
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2022 Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild of America
For years, the overlap between the DGA winner and the Oscar winner was near exact. That’s not so much true anymore, but if something odd wins, it’s usually signs of impending changes. This will tell us if the status quo is maintained or altered. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS Best Director Todd Field – Tár…
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2022 Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild
The Art Directors Guild links up best to the Production Design category, but they also have three chances to get it right usually, though this year, two of the biggest contenders are in the period category together, so it might tell us how things are going. ART DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS Best Period Art Direction All…
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Review: Cast Away (2000)
This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. Cast Away Rating Director Robert Zemeckis Screenplay William Broyles Jr. Length 2h 23m Starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Lari White, Vince Martin, Michael Forest, Jay Acovone, Garret Davis, Viveka Davis, Jenifer Lewis,…
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95th Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Song
For the next 23 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2022 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 17 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2001
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 2001 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: Huesera: The Bone Woman (2023)
Page Revisions: (February 12, 2023) Original Release Date: February 10, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off.” Poster Rating: C / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) While this is somewhat creepy, if you know what…
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5 Favorites #168: Michelle Pfeiffer
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. This week, Ant-Man and the Wasp brings with it two acting legends as Paul…
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Oscar Profile #636: Cate Blanchett Revisited
Born May 14, 1969 in Ivanhoe, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, Catherine Elise (Cate) Blanchett was the middle child of a property director/teacher Australian mother and an advertising executive Texas-born father. Her father died when she was ten, leaving her mother to raise the family with the help of her grandmother. Blanchett graduated from Australia’s…
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Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once Rating Director Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Screenplay Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Length 2h 19m Starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here
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