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: Fire in the Mountains (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 15, 2022) Original Release Date: May 20, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy but her husband who believes that a shamanic ritual ‘Jaagar’ is the remedy, steals her savings.” Poster Rating: C- SEE…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 15 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Trailer Watch: Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) Updated
New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#5-#7) — Updated Plot Summary Jurassic World: Dominion, 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 14 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: A Chiara (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 8, 2022) Original Release Date: May 27, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: They might be trying to go for something thematic, but it feels too generic to…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 19, 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 Bracket, Round 7 #1
Rather than leave another week without some polls, I thought I’d also save us some time. Last week’s polls were essentially the last in every category except the music categories. So this week, we’ll play a little bet hedging. Without knowing which of last week’s two face-offs will be the final two, I’m going to…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 13 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Box Office Predictions Game (4)
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Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2001
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2001 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: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Page Revisions: (May 8, 2022) Original (July 10, 2022) New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: July 15, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.” Poster Rating: C+ / C+ / B SEE ALL…
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5 Favorites #128: The Cast and Crew of Firestarter
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 aren’t a lot of great new releases and I previously covered Stephen King…
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Oscar Profile #597: Oscar’s Fourth Decade (1958-1967)
It was during Oscar’s fourth decade that studio control over the movie business faltered, film distribution changed from single theatre premieres to wider openings, and the Hollywood Production Code saw chinks in it that ended it completely by the end of the decade. Oscar’s 1958 Best Picture was Best Director Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi, a musical…
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This Day in Oscar History: May 12 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (May 13-15, 2022)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (May 13-15, 2022)
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Trailer Watch: DC League of Super-Pets (2022) Updated
New Trailer (#3) DC League of Super-Pets, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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