Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #2
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: Next Exit (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 30, 2022) Original Release Date: November 4, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a research scientist makes national news proving she can track people into the afterlife, Rose sees a way out and Teddy sees his chance to finally make it. These two strangers, both harboring dark secrets, race to join the doctor’s…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 30 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Bar Fight! (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 23, 2022) Original (November 6, 2022) New Poster (#1) Release Date: November 11, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Nina and Allen split everything in their lives after their break-up and must compete in a ridiculous custody battle for their prized watering hole in which lines will be drawn, sides will be chosen, and…
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Film Preview: The Inspection (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 23, 2022) Original Release Date: November 18, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.” Poster Rating: C / C- SEE…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 29 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 23, 2022) Original (November 6, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: November 17, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows Ralphie, now adult, who returns to the house on Cleveland street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends,…
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Film Preview: There There (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 23, 2022) Original Release Date: November 18, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A lover’s doubt in the cold light of morning leads a chain of uneasy intimacies–counselors, disruptors, peacemakers and fire-starters–every one looking to have a little faith rewarded.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It has a nice visual balance…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 43, 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 #21
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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This Day in Oscar History: October 28 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2005
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2005 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 People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 23, 2022) Original Release Date: November 18, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Family tensions ramp up among siblings in the week leading up to their half-sister’s wedding in the country.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Allison Janney doesn’t quite look like herself and while the film’s comedy comes through, it…
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Film Preview: Cocoon (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 23, 2022) Original Release Date: June 17, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Berlin-Kreuzberg is Nora’s microcosm. Nora, the silent observer, is always tagging along: At parties, at school, at the pool, on rooftops, and in apartments. Nora drifts around the monotonous housing blocks with her big sister and her friends, witnessing events that…
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5 Favorites #152: Horror Films That Aren’t For Everyone
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. The title of this week’s chapter is a bit strange when you think about…
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Oscar Profile #622: Irwin Shaw
Born February 27, 1913 in the Borough of the Bronx in New York, New York, Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff and his younger brother, David, were the sons of Russian-Jewish immigrants who changed their last name to Shaw when they entered college. He wrote several scripts for radio dramas in the 1930s, writing his first screenplay in…
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