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: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 16, 2022) Original (November 13, 2022) New Trailer (#3) Release Date: December 9, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A darker version of the classic children’s fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.” Poster Rating: C+ / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) It certainly looks like…
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Film Preview: Slumberland (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 16, 2022) Original (November 20, 2022) New Trailer (#3) — New Posters (#3-#6) Release Date: November 18, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 42, 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 #20
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 21 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Oscar in Box Office History (11)
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2004
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2004 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: I’m Totally Fine (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 16, 2022) Original Release Date: November 4, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman in mourning who takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend. However, Vanessa’s self-care vacation plans change when she’s met with a situation out of this world.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Film Preview: Spirited (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 16, 2022) Original (November 6, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#5) Release Date: November 11, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey.” Poster Rating: C (4) / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1-#4) This…
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5 Favorites #151: George Clooney & Julia Roberts
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. Although the top box office film this weekend will be Black Adam, it’s George…
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Oscar Profile #621: Franz Planer
Born March 29, 1894, Franz Planer was born into a wealthy family in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic. The Planer family was very influential, owning large tracts of farmland, businesses, libraries, and shops, including several properties in and around Vienna, some of which were stolen by several low-ranking officers for their own…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 20 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 21-23, 2022)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Oct. 21-23, 2022)
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Film Preview: Women Talking (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 16, 2022) Original (December 18, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) Release Date: December 2, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews.” Poster Rating: C+ / C SEE ALL…
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Film Preview: Devotion (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 16, 2022) Original (October 25, 2022) Corrected Synopsis (November 13, 2022) New Trailer (#3) — New Poster (#2) Release Date: November 23, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.” Poster Rating: C…
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Looking at the Weekend: Oct. 21-23, 2022
From the soft debut of Halloween Ends to the likely stellar debut of Black Adam what a difference a week can make. Black Adam faces only minor competition from Julia Roberts and George Clooney whose romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise faces unknown circumstances. Our Highest Rated Films: The Banshees of Inisherin, Wendell & Wild Our…
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