Film Preview: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
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: June 11 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Resurrection (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 5, 2022) Original (July 3, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) (July 24, 2022) New Release Date (changed from 8/5/22) Release Date: July 29, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 23, 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 #1
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. Although we previously had discussions on limitations per week (the winning tallies were 10 per category…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 10 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2005
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2005 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: Pinocchio (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 5, 2022) Original (August 28, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) Release Date: September 8, 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)…
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5 Favorites #132: Dern, Goldblum, Howard, Neill, Treverrow
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. Just like it’s predecessor, Jurassic World appears to be going out with three films…
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Oscar Profile #602: Oscar’s Eighth Decade (1998-2007)
John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love surprisingly won Best Picture of 1998 over Best Director Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. Also nominated were Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful and Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth. Not nominated were Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters, Walter Salles’ Central Station, and Kirk Jones’ Waking Ned Devine.…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 9 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jun. 10-12, 2022)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jun. 10-12, 2022)
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Film Preview: Topside (2022)
Page Revisions: (June 5, 2022) Original Release Date: March 25, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The emotions are palpable…
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2022 Spring Season Box Office Wrap-Up: January
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. January 7, 2022 The 355 Oscar Prospects: What I said: “None.” Oscar Results: Still None. Box Office Prospects: $35 M Box Office Expectations: What I Said: “Poor.…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jun. 10-12, 2022
The third week of Top Gun: Maverick takes on the first week of Jurassic World: Dominion. It isn’t really a contest as Universal’s still-popular dinosaur franchise should have little trouble topping $100 million in its opening frame. Both of its predecessors did, though the second was a drastic drop from the $200 million-plus the first…
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Review: The Dead (1987)
The Dead Rating Director John Huston Screenplay Tony Huston (Short Story: James Joyce) Length 1h 23m Starring Anjelica Huston, Dan O’Herlihy, Colm Meaney, Ingrid Craigie, Donal McCann, Sean McClory, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly MPAA Rating PG
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