• 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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  • Film Preview: Don’t Make Me Go (2022)

    Page Revisions: (June 12, 2022) Original Release Date: July 15, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might…

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  • Film Preview: Wild Men (2022)

    Page Revisions: (June 12, 2022) Original Release Date: August 5, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, MARTIN has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.” Poster Rating: B / C SEE ALL POSTERS…

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  • 5 Favorites #133: Vanessa Redgrave

    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. There’s a very minor film releasing this week called The Lost Girls. Joely Richardson…

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  • Oscar Profile #603: Oscar’s Ninth Decade (2008-2017)

    Best Director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture of 2008 as Oscar ended its 65-year tradition of five nominees in the category. It won over David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, Gus Van Sant’s Milk, and Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. Not nominated were such films as John Patrick Shanley’s…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: June 16 (2022)

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

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  • Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jun. 17-19, 2022)

    Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jun. 17-19, 2022)

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  • Film Preview: Vesper (2022)

    Page Revisions: (June 12, 2022) Original (August 14, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Release Date (changed from 9/30/22) (September 25, 2022) New Release Date (changed from 8/19/22) Release Date: September 30, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a…

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  • Film Preview: Clara Sola (2022)

    Page Revisions: (June 12, 2022) Original (June 26, 2022) New Posters (#1-#4) Release Date: July 1, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have…

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  • Looking at the Weekend: Jun. 17-19, 2022

    There will be no stopping Lightyear being the weekend’s top release even Jurassic World: Dominion in its second week will struggle to keep up. Our Highest Rated Films: Lightyear, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Our Best Awards Ratings: Lightyear (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Bitterbrush (Limited) Blowback (Limited) The Book Keepers (Limited) Civil: Ben Crump…

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  • Review: The Crying Game (1992)

    The Crying Game Rating Director Neil Jordan Screenplay Neil Jordan Length 1h 52m Starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Adrian Dunbar, Joe Savino, Jim Broadbent, Andree Bernard MPAA Rating R

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  • This Day in Oscar History: June 15 (2022)

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

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  • Film Preview: Strange World (2022)

    Page Revisions: (June 12, 2022) Original (September 25, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) (October 23, 2022) New Trailer (#3) — New Poster (#1) (November 20, 2022) New Posters (#4-#6) Release Date: November 23, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threatened to topple their latest…

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  • Film Preview: The Princess (2022)

    Page Revisions: (June 12, 2022) Original Release Date: July 1, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must save the kingdom.” Poster Rating:…

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  • The DVD Report #781

    New This Week Sony has released a 70th Anniversary Edition of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and a 65th Anniversary Edition of the director’s The Bridge on the River Kwai in Ultra 4K UHD Steelbook editions of the films. These are, however, not restorations. They are reissues of previous 4K releases of the film, but…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: June 14 (2022)

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

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