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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This Day in Oscar History: September 11 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: The Swearing Jar (2022)
Page Revisions: (September 4, 2022) Original Release Date: September 23, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “”It is a rare and miraculous thing to find your one true soul mate.” Carey soon learns that finding two of them can pose an even greater problem.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately…
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Film Preview: The Son (2022)
Page Revisions: (September 4, 2022) Original (October 30, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: November 11, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Peter as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.” Poster Rating: B- SEE…
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2022 Spring Season Box Office Wrap-Up: April
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. April 1, 2022 The Contractor Oscar Prospects: What I said: “None.” Oscar Results: Still none. Box Office Prospects: $35 M Box Office Expectations: What I Said: “Weak.…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 10 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Nanny (2022)
Page Revisions: (September 4, 2022) Original Release Date: November 23, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Immigrant nanny Aisha, piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.” Poster Rating: C+…
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Film Preview: Superior (2022)
Page Revisions: (September 4, 2022) Original Release Date: March 25, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “On the run, Marian returns to her hometown to hide out with her identical twin sister, Vivian, altering the trajectory of both their lives.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review.…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 36, 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 #14
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: September 9 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 1998
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actor, 1998 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: White Noise (2022)
Page Revisions: (September 4, 2022) Original (November 20, 2022) New Posters (#2-#4) — New Release Date (changed from 12.30.22) (November 27, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#5) Release Date: November 25, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while…
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Film Preview: To Olivia (2022)
Page Revisions: (September 4, 2022) Original Release Date: April 15, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The design cannot seem to find the balance or intrigue it needs to entice the viewer. It’s a…
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5 Favorites #145: Foster, Galligan, Long, Malick, Mann
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. Another week with a lackluster array of potential featured actors. Not that Ben Foster…
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Oscar Profile #425: Paul Newman Revisited
Born January 26, 1925 in Shaker Heights, Ohio to Theresa (née Fetsko) and Arthur Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store, Paul Newman would become a world-famous actor, director, professional racing car driver and humanitarian. He would receive numerous awards throughout his career including nine Oscar nominations and one win for acting, a nomination…
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