Film Preview: I’m Still Here (2024)
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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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 26, 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 #4
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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95th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – July
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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This Day in Oscar History: July 1 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Feed the Queue (12)
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Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2008
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2008 In our fifteenth and final pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Directing. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Directing slate. There will be…
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Film Preview: Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2022) Original (September 11, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) (October 2, 2022) New Poster (#2) Release Date: October 7, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Feature film based on the children’s book about a crocodile that lives in New York City.” Poster Rating: B- / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW…
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Film Preview: Smile (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2022) Original (September 25, 2022) New Posters (#2-#8) (December 25, 2022) New Trailer (#2) Release Date: September 30, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. Rose must confront her troubling past in order to…
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5 Favorites #135: Ralph Fiennes
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 weekend, Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain star in an indie film about a…
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Oscar Profile #605: Robert Wise
Born September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, Robert Wise was the youngest of three sons of a meatpacker and his wife. An avid moviegoer, he came into the film business through an odd job at RKO Radio Pictures when he was 19. Initially a protégé to a sound effects editor, he worked in that capacity…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 30 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jul. 1-3, 2022)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jul. 1-3, 2022)
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Film Preview: The Sea Beast (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2022) Original Release Date: July 8, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters – and make history to boot.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: One of the biggest…
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Film Preview: Blonde (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2022) Original (August 7, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: September 23, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The design does an adequate job approximating Monroe’s look, but it’s just too…
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Review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits Rating Director Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt Screenplay Gideon Defoe (Book: Gideon Defoe) Length 1h 28m Starring Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry, Brian Blessed, Russell Tovey, Anton Yelchin, Brendan Gleeson, Ashley Jensen, Al Roker, Ben Whitehead, Mike Cooper, David Schneider MPAA Rating…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jul. 1-3, 2022
While there are two features releasing this weekend, only one of them has box office potential and that’s the sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru. The Despicable Me franchise has proven very popular, especially thanks to its pint-sized yellow hench-creatures. None of the top four entries this weekend hitting $31 million, Minions is very likely…
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