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 4 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: The Forgiven (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 29, 2022) Original Release Date: July 1, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the local Muslims, and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.”…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 22, 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 Lists: Foundation
Two weeks ago, I posted (link here: https://www.cinemasight.com/the-friday-face-off-interim-preview/) my intentions for this feature going forward and asked for everyone’s input on which categories we would follow. There was at least support for all of the categories except the documentary and short film categories. That’s likely because those winners aren’t always easy to find. Every other…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 3 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2004
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2004 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: Rubikon (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 29, 2022) Original Release Date: July 1, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station, must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station’s “algae symbiosis…
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5 Favorites #131: John Malkovich
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 in the long line of Bruce Willis’ final performances releases this weekend. One…
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Oscar Profile #601: Oscar’s Seventh Decade (1988-1997)
Best Director Barry Levinson’s Best Picture, Rain Man prevailed over Lawrence Kasdan’s The Accidental Tourist, Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons, Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning and Mike Nichols’ Working Girl at the 1988 Oscars. Overlooked were Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, and Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty. Non-nominated Bruce Beresford’s Driving…
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This Day in Oscar History: June 2 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jun. 3-5, 2022)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jun. 3-5, 2022)
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Film Preview: Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One (2023)
Page Revisions: (May 29, 2022) Original (May 21, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#1-#2) (July 9, 2023) New Posters (#3-#24) (July 16, 2023) New Trailer (#3) Release Date: July 14, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Seventh entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible series.” Poster Rating: C / B- / D+ (13) / C /…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jun. 3-5, 2022
There’s nothing to keep Top Gun: Maverick from maintaining the top spot. While this week’s new release is going to top itself since it has no other competition, I could also imagine it placing outside the top ten. Our Highest Rated Films: Benedcition, Eiffel Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Dashcam (Limited) Deep…
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95th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – June
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: June 1 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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