• New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    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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  • Trailer Watch: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Updated

    New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#3-#8) The Super Mario Bros. Movie, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.

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  • 5 Favorites #158: Toby Jones

    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, Sam Mendes’ newest film, Empire of Light, opens and while Mendes and…

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  • Oscar Profile #628: Nancy Olson Revisited

    Born July 14, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Henry Olson, a physician, and his wife, Evelyn, Nancy Olson was discovered on stage at UCLA which she transferred to in 1948. Nicknamed Wholesome Olson, the peaches-and-cream blonde was given a walk-on in 1948’s Portrait of Jennie and then given a contract by Paramount. Olson made her…

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  • Review: Life Is Beautiful (1998)

    This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. Life Is Beautiful Rating Director Roberto Benigni Screenplay Vincenzo Cerami, Robert Benigni Length 1h 56m Starring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Marisa Paredes, Horst Bucholz, Lydia Alfonsi MPAA Rating PG-13

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  • This Day in Oscar History: December 8 (2022)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

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  • Precursor: 60th Publicists Guild Nominations (2022)

    These are the individual nominations for the Publicists Guild nominations. There isn’t anything to say about them since they don’t reflect individual films. Those nominations come later. The Nominations

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  • Poll: What Are You Watching? (Dec. 9-11, 2022)

    Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Dec. 9-11, 2022)

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  • Film Preview: Return to Seoul (2022)

    Page Revisions: (December 4, 2022) Original Release Date: December 2, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.” Poster…

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  • 2022 Blockbuster Season Box Office Wrap-Up: July

    Below is a wrap-up of the predictions I made several months ago, an exploration of what succeeded and what failed, and how I observe things to have gone. July 1, 2022 Minions: The Rise of Gru Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Poor. The Academy hasn’t shown much interest in this franchise, so I doubt we’ll…

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  • Looking at the Weekend: Dec. 9-11, 2022

    Could Black Panther: Wakanda Forever make it five weeks in a row at the top of the box office? It’s possible, even probable. The only films going wide this week are new release The Whale, which should have done a platform release instead, and Spoiler Alert, which is expanding wide. Neither of these films are…

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  • Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Rating Director Ryan Coogler Screenplay Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole Length 2h 41m Starring Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Tenoch Huerto Mejía, Martin Freeman, Dominique Thorne, Florence Kasumba, Michaela Coel, Alex Livinalli, Mabel Cadena MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here

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  • Review: From Hell (2001)

    This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. From Hell Rating Director The Hughes Brothers Screenplay Terry Hayes, Rafael Yglesias (Graphic Novel: Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell) Length 2h 02m Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson, Jason Flemyng, Katrin Cartlidge,…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: December 7 (2022)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

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  • Precursor: 19th Women Critics Nominations (2022)

    The Women Film Critics Circle gave The Woman King The most nominations, but they also seemed to like six other films, all with female leads. None of the films took in more than a single nomination. Nominations Tallies (5) The Woman King (3) Everything Everywhere All at Once, Women Talking (2) Corsage, Good Luck to…

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  • 95th Oscars: Eligibility Lists

    Time for some eligible film lists courtesy of the Academy. A lot of hand-wringing that was going on in the blogosphere turned out to be a lot of hot air. ANIMATED, DOCUMENTARY AND INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS ELIGIBLE FOR 95TH OSCARS® ANNOUNCED LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced…

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