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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Precursor: 7th Hawaii Critics Nominations (2022)
A massive lead from the smallest film critics group in the nation. That size makes itself obvious in the placement of Babylon so highly. Nominations Tallies (16) Everything Everywhere All at Once (11) Babylon (9) Top Gun: Maverick (8) Avatar: The Way of Water (7) The Banshees of Inisherin, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (6) Elvis,…
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Precursor: 12th Georgia Critics Nominations (2022)
Georgia seemed equally impressed with a number of films in spite of Everything Everywhere All at Once leading by one over The Fabelmans, which did better than its done almost all season. Nominations Tallies (9) Everything Everywhere All at Once (8) The Fabelmans (7) The Banshees of Inisherin (6) Nope (5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,…
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Film Preview: Of an Age (2023)
Page Revisions: (January 1, 2023) Original (February 12, 2023) New Poster (#1) — New Release Date (changed from 2.10.23) Release Date: February 17, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The colors are nicely…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 1, 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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Precursor: 64th British Academy Longlists (2022)
Here are some notable misses: No Avatar, She Said, Till, The Woman King, or Women Talking in Best Picture. No Wendell & Wild in Animated Feature. Most of the missing films for Best Film are in the Best Director race, except James Cameron and BAFTA’s least favorite director, Steven Spielberg. Hugh Jackman, Olivia Colman, Paul…
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The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #31
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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Review: SpiceWorld (1998)
This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. SpiceWorld Rating Director Bob Spiers Screenplay Spice Girls, Kim Fuller, Jamie Curtis Length 1h 33m Starring Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geraldine Halliwell, Victoria Adams, Kevin Allen, Devon Anderson, Michael Barrymore, Richard Briers, Simon Chandler,…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 6 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 16th Women Journalists Awards (2022)
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists liked many films equally, but gave their top award to The Banshees of Inisherin. Award Tallies (4) The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Women Talking (3) The Woman King The Awards
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Precursor: 21st Columbus Critics Awards (2022)
Columbus critics put The Banshees of Inisherin on top, but Everything Everywhere All at Once did pretty well anyway. Award Tallies (4) The Banshees of Inisherin (3) Everything Everywhere All at Once The Awards
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2015
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2015 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 first pass, we take a look at the new nominees…
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Film Preview: A Good Person (2023)
Page Revisions: (January 1, 2023) Original Release Date: March 24, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows Allison, whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A generic design with a lot of empty space, poor color selection and a faux folded aesthetic that is utterly…
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5 Favorites #162: 2022 So Far
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. While I’m still quite backlogged in screeners to watch for movies of 2022, here…
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Oscar Profile #631: Guillermo del Toro
Born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Mexico, the son of an automotive entrepreneur and his wife, Guillermo del Toro is a world renown filmmaker who throughout his career has alternated between Spanish and English language films. Del Toro first began to experiment with his father’s Super 8 camera when he was about 8. He worked…
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Review: Tár (2022)
Tár Rating Director Todd Field Screenplay Todd Field Length 2h 38m Starring Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong, Sylvia Flote, Adam Gopnik, Mila Bogojevic, Zethphan Smith-Gneist MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here
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