Film Preview: Words of War (2025)
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Producers Guild Mimics Academy
In a move that Producers Guild of America said was “in support of” the Academy’s decision to increase the number of Best Picture nominees to 10, the PGA has done the same. It isn’t hard to see what is really happening. The PGA wants to continue its streak of strong predictive capabilities and jump on…
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The DVD Report #122
A cultural phenomenon in the 1980s, Fame, the Alan Parker directed film from 1980, and Fame, the subsequent TV series that ran from 1982 to 1987, have been given new DVD releases to coincide with the release of the new film version of Fame. The original film was nominated for six Oscars and won two.…
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1975 at the Oscars
Early on it seemed as though Nashville would be invincible in the 1975 Oscar race. Right off the bat it tied with Barry Lyndon as co-winner of the National Board of Review award, then went on to win the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics awards all by its lonesome. The…
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Review: Halloween (2007)
Halloween Rating Director Rob Zombie Screenplay Rob Zombie Length 109 min. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe, Skyler Gisondo, Danny Trejo, Bard Dourif, Dee Wallace, Pat Skipper MPAA Rating R for strong brutal bloody violence and terror throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity and…
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Review: Halloween II (2009)
Halloween II Rating Director Rob Zombie Screenplay Rob Zombie Length 105 min. Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Chase Vanek, Scout Taylor-Compton, Bard Dourif, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Danielle Harris, Margot Kidder, Brea Grant MPAA Rating R for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language, and some crude sexual content and nudity Buy/Rent Movie…
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Review: Saw (2004)
Saw Rating Director James Wan Screenplay James Wan, Leigh Wannell Length 103 min. Starring Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Mike Butters, Paul Gutrecht, Michael Emerson, Benito Martinez, Shawnee Smith, Makenzie Vega, Monica Potter, Ned Bellamy, Alexandra Chun, Avner Garbi, Tobin Bell MPAA Rating R (For strong grisly violence and language)…
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TB #4: The Good, The Bad and the Honorary Oscar
The academy this summer, along with everything else it announced, stated that the Honorary Awards will no longer be a part of the Oscar ceremony come February. Then, this week, they announced the FOUR Honorary Award winners. They will receive their awards at an untelevised ceremony in November. This is of course a double-edged sword.…
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The DVD Report #121
Noble, self-sacrificing schoolteachers have been a movie staple in films for decades. In the 1930s we had Goodbye, Mr. Chips; in the 1940s, Cheers for Miss Bishop; in the 1950s, Blackboard Jungle and Good Morning, Miss Dove! and in the 1960s, To Sir, With Love. While two major films of the late 1960s, Rachel, Rachel…
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1974 at the Oscars
1974 was a big year for Paramount. It had the early Oscar favorite, Roman Polanksi’s Chinatown which opened in June, and the year’s most anticipated film, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II, which opened at year end. It also had some of the year’s other top films including Sidney Lumet’s all star cast version…
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R.I.P. Patrick Swayze
After a lengthy battle with terminal cancer, the actor who came to fame starring in Dirty Dancing has died at age 57. Until I can get a Tribute page up for him, see the following link for a full obituary. Variety Obituary.
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1973 at the Oscars
The Exorcist or not The Exorcist was pretty much the way the 1973 Oscars went. The blockbuster horror film was the year’s most anticipated event and the end product did not disappoint, but could a horror film win the Best Picture Oscar? It had never happened before. The National Board of Review snubbed it altogether,…
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Oscar News: Honorary Oscar Recipients Named
Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis and John Calley receive honorarium awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The announcement left most of us Oscar fans a bit saddened that we wouldn’t get to see these winners give their speeches live. At the same time, we’re ecstatic that they’ve increased the number…
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1972 at the Oscars
1972 was always going to be the year of Cabaret, which opened in February, and The Godfather, which opened in March. It’s unusual to have one film, let alone two, that open early in the year which dominate Oscar speculation but this was one such year. The National Board of Review started awards season off…
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The DVD Report #120
Criterion has made a lot of classic film lovers happy with the release of That Hamilton Woman, Alexander Korda’s sumptuous 1941 film about the scandalous adulterous love affair of Britain’s Napoleonic War hero, Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton. A favorite of many, Winston Churchill claimed to have seen the film more than eighty…
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1971 at the Oscars
1971 continued the Oscar trend of nominating two bold, innovative films (A Clockwork Orange; The Last Picture Show), two decidedly old-fashioned entertainments (Fiddler on the Roof; Nicholas and Alexandra) and one somewhere in-between (The French Connection). The New York Film Critics led off awards season with a Best Picture nod to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork…
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