Rating the Nominees, Group 6, #10
Looking at Film from Every Angle
-
Film Preview: The Rocket (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Actions shots for a sports film? What are the odds? While it’s stylistically indistinguishable from many others, the colors are crisp and the layout is visually appealing. Trailer Rating: B- Review: Sports films…
by
-
Film Preview: The Hottest State (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Warm colors for a story of love. How novel? Despite the lack of originality, the poster isn’t as obnoxious or distracting as many others that have used similar tones this year. Trailer Rating:…
by
-
Film Preview: Stephen King’s The Mist (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The first poster for the film seems to graphically stimulating to be associated with the film. It belies the human drama that’s featured in the preview and looks more like Poltergeist than a…
by
-
Film Preview: Saw IV (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B-; B; B Review: The first is every bit as pseudo-macabre as the others in the franchise and, if it weren’t for the title, we might even be able to guess the source film without…
by
-
Film Preview: Great World of Sound (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: With its stars trapped hopelessly in seventies garb, it’s no wonder that the poster feels so dated. The big bold yellow letters hardly help mask the lackluster nature of the entire artwork. Trailer…
by
-
Film Preview: Grace Is Gone (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: I don’t get the color choice here. It’s a bit distracting and while it barely makes the balloon sailing through the air and John Cusack stand out, even the clever use of the…
by
-
Film Preview: The Dark Knight (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B; B; B-; C-; C- Review: The new poster is a lot more interesting and when paired with a knowledge of the film’s villain, it’s not hard to find some amusement in looking at this.…
by
-
The DVD Report #17
Oscar has never been kind to films made in languages other than English. Even in the waning days of silent films when all films shown in the U.S. were released with English subtitles, masterpieces such as Carl Theodore Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc and G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (both of which are available…
by
-
Film Preview: Eye of the Dolphin (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: The best that can be said is that it’s a pleasing, nautical shade of green. Otherwise, it’s just a girl holding onto a dolphin, which could be an image from any overly-common television…
by
-
Film Preview: Closing Escrow (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: There is no style or quality to this poster. It feels like every bit of it was an after thought, for if it were planned, I don’t know how the creators could have…
by
-
Film Preview: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: There aren’t many cheeses that are that shade of orange, but the poster uses it anyway to dominate the man’s head at the bottom holding a boquet a bit too high for any…
by
-
Film Preview: Reservation Road (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: My only Reservation about the poster is how Jennifer Connelly got face time and Mira Sorvino got none. Neither seems to play a central role in the film dominated by Joaquin Phoenix and…
by
-
Film Preview: Feel the Noise (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: Really? This is the best they could come up with? I know the trailer suggests the film’s just going to be another quickly-forgotten rap-love-story pic, but did they have to make the poster…
by
-
Film Preview: I’m Not There (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Using Cate Blanchett’s Dylan head to showcase the stars is unusual since she apparently has such a short part in the film. However, the silhouette is at least such that it can be…
by
-
The DVD Report #16
I began going to the movies in earnest fifty years ago, the summer I was 13. Many of the films I saw in theatres in 1957, as well as many of that year’s films I’ve since caught up with, are currently available on DVD. The year’s big awards winner, and still deserving of all its…
by
Search Our Site
Oscar Hopefuls
Affiliated Sites
Posts by Topic
Categories
Infrequent Updates
Site Updates
Our Team
Login
Register
Contact Us
Archives
