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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Film Preview: Lost Illusions (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original (June 5, 2022) New Poster (#1) Release Date: June 10, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: An anointment of a…
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Trailer Watch: Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) Updated
Downton Abbey: A New Era, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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This Day in Oscar History: May 28 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original (June 12, 2022) New Poster (#1) Release Date: June 17, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s a suitable enough design…
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Film Preview: Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 17, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Based on true story about couple Jerry and Marge Selbee, who won lottery and uses the money to revive their small town.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 21, 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, Winners
After weeks of voting, we have a result: Picture: Casablanca Animated Feature: Spirited Away Directing: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve Actor: Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Actress: Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci – Good Fellas Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon – Rosemary’s Baby Original…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 27 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2003
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2003 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: Neptune Frost (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 3, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A strange blend of colors doesn’t off-set the paucity of the design, which is odd…
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Film Preview: Prey (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original (June 12, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: August 5, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The origin story of the Predator in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago. Naru, a skilled female warrior, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first…
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5 Favorites #130: Tom Cruise
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. A box office draw for three decades now, Tom Cruise has gotten a lot…
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Oscar Profile #600: Oscar’s Sixth Decade (1978-1987)
The Vietnam War was the backdrop for both Best Director Michael Cimino’s Oscar winning Best Picture, The Deer Hunter, and Hal Ashby’s also nominated Coming Home. Other nominees were Alan Parker’s Midnight Express, Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman and Warren Beatty and Buck Henry’s Heaven Can Wait. Overlooked were Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Ingmar…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 26 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Small Town Wisconsin (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 10, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A father tries hard to be a good dad but alcoholism is the huge deterrant.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section…
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