Film Preview: Glue Trap (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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This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 1998
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Score, 1998 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: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)
Page Revisions: (January 22, 2023) Original (April 23, 2023) New Posters (#1-#3) Release Date: April 28, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.” Poster Rating: C+ / C / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The…
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5 Favorites #165: William H. Macy
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, William H. Macy, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, and Diane Keaton star in…
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Oscar Profile #633: Glynis Johns Revisited
Born October 5, 1923 in Pretoria, South Africa while her Welsh parents were on tour, Glynis Johns was the daughter of actor Mervyn Johns (1899-1992) and pianist Alice Maude Steele (1901-1970). A trained dancer, pianist, and singer as well as actress, Johns made her first stage appearance as a child ballerina in London’s Garrick Theatre…
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Review: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick Rating Director Joseph Kosinski Screenplay Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie Length 2h 10m Starring Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Bashir Salahuddin, Jon Hamm, Charles Parnell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Glen Powell, Jack Schumacher, Manny Jacinto, Kara Wang, Greg Tarzan…
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Review: Being John Malkovich (1999)
This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. Being John Malkovich Rating Director Spike Jonze Screenplay Charlie Kaufman Length 1h 53m Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Ned Bellamy, Mary Kay Place, Orson Bean, Catherine Keener, K.K. Dodds, Reggie Hayes, Byrne Piven, John Malkovich MPAA…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 26 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jan. 27-29, 2023)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jan. 27-29, 2023)
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Film Preview: Your Place or Mine (2023)
Page Revisions: (January 22, 2023) Original Release Date: February 10, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two long-distance best friends change each other’s lives when she decides to pursue a lifelong dream and he volunteers to keep an eye on her teenage son.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Two images split across the frame…
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2023 Spring Season Box Office Preview: February
Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. February 3, 2023 80 for Brady Premise: From IMDb: “A group of friends made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady.” Box Office Prospects: $65 M Expectations: Uncertain. This sports comedy with a quartet of fiesty older women…
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Precursor: 75th Writers Guild Nominations (2022)
While these are interesting in hindsight, coming after the Oscar nominations, their impact is severely lessened…especially since we know that the Oscar nominees that aren’t here were excluded due to eligibility issues. The Nominations Best Original Screenplay Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans The Menu Nope Tár Best Adapted Screenplay Black Panther: Wakanda Forever…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jan. 27-29, 2023
There aren’t a lot of options this weekend, but Fear feels like the more broadly accessible of the two listed wide releases. Our Highest Rated Films: One Fine Morning Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Cairo Conspiracy (Limited) Close (Limited) Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh (Limited) Geographies of Solitude (Limited) Haiti Betrayed (Limited)Kompromat (Limited)…
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The Morning After: Jan. 25, 2023
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Guillermo…
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2022 Oscar Winner Predictions: Post-Nominations
With the Oscar nominations announced, Oscar season shifts into phase 2, a period that will be filled with several guild awards and a lot of jockeying for position. Here are our initial predictions. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three Lists Appears on Two Lists Wesley Lovell Peter Patrick Tripp Burton Thomas LaTourrette [New]…
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