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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Film Preview: High Heat (2022)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original Release Date: December 16, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant, Ana, a chef with a meticulous past, defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in and out of the kitchen.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review:…
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Resurfaced Short Reviews, Part XV
These are Resurfaced short or quickie reviews written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 31 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Food and Romance (2022)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original Release Date: December 2, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A sudden change forces Karin to re-evaluate her life. With the help of friends, food and passion she refuses to accept that life has an expiration date and takes the second chance she is given.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Film Preview: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original Release Date: February 15, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “It follows Pooh and Piglet as they go on a rampage after Christopher Robin abandons them.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This is such a tough kind of film to sell, especially when anything that looks even remotely…
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Film Preview: Private Desert (2022)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original Release Date: August 26, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “It is based on a police who is suspended after an internal investigation, wandering the country in search of a real encounter with his internet love.” Poster Rating: C (2) SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1 & #2) These two designs…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Weeks 52 & 53, 2022)
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 #30
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: The Big Hit (1998)
This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. The Big Hit Rating Director Che-Kirk Wong Screenplay Ben Ramsey Length 1h 31m Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabato Jr., China Chow, Lainie Kazan, Elliott Gould MPAA Rating…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 30 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Friday Face-Off (11) 2015: Eyeing the Truth by Tripp Burton (0)
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2014
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2014 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: The Seven Faces of Jane (2023)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original (January 8, 2023) New Poster (#1) Release Date: January 13, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Its protagonist is Jane (Jacobs), who finds herself tumbling through a gauntlet of surreal, beautiful and heartbreaking adventures. After dropping off her daughter at a summer camp for the first time, and encouraging her reticent…
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Film Preview: A Wounded Fawn (2022)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original Release Date: December 1, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A serial killer brings an unsuspecting new victim on a weekend getaway to add another body to his ever-growing count. She’s buying into his faux charms, and he’s eagerly lusting for blood. What could possibly go wrong?” Poster Rating: – SEE…
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Film Preview: Mindcage (2022)
Page Revisions: (December 25, 2022) Original Release Date: December 16, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a copycat strikes, two detectives ask a top serial killer for help.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: As simplistic as this design is, it does capture some of the essence of the film’s premise even if hamfistedly.…
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5 Favorites #161: Tom Hanks
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. A man who has been in films since the 1980s should have come up…
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