Film Preview: Quarter (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: Speed Kills (2018)
Page Revisions: (November 11, 2018) Original Release Date: November 16, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire, Ben Aronoff, leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.” Poster Rating: C / C+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Impossibly fresh faces, a dull white…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 18 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Film Preview: Second Act (2018)
Page Revisions: (November 11, 2018) Original (December 16, 2018) New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: November 21, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do.” Poster Rating: C- / D / D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) I guess…
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Film Preview: Monster Party (2018)
Page Revisions: (November 11, 2018) Original Release Date: November 2, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Three teenage thieves infiltrate a mansion dinner party secretly hosted by a serial killer cult for the social elite.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: When Robin Tunney is the most famous name on the list, it makes you…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 17 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 34th Spirit Awards Nominations (2018)
You can always see from the nominations what films were eligible and are head-scratchingly omitted. Take for example that BlacKkKlansman was nominated for Best Supporting Male (Adam Driver), but nowhere else. That could spell trouble for Oscar. The same is true of the mediocre support for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which picked up a…
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Trailer Watch: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) / New Title (changed from “Mowgli”) / New Release Date (changed from 10/19/18) Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 46, 2018)
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. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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Film Preview: Mirai (2018)
Page Revisions: (November 11, 2018) Original Release Date: November 30, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for…
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The NEW Friday Face-Off #277
We are back to the winners bracket while the losers are percolating. We’re moving into round fou. Here is this week’s ten (or fewer) face-offs.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 16 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Visual Effects, 1998
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Visual Effects, 1998 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Visual Effects. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Visual Effects slate. There will…
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Film Preview: The Long Dumb Road (2018)
Page Revisions: (November 11, 2018) Original Release Date: November 16, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s nothing much to this…
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Film Preview: Becoming Astrid (2018)
Page Revisions: (November 11, 2018) Original Release Date: November 23, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children’s books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Traveling by train can be magical, but this poster design is not. Not only does it…
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Oscar Profile #418: Charles Brackett
Born November 26, 1892 in Sarasota Springs, New York to New York State Senator Edgar Truman Brackett and his wife Mary, nee Corliss, Charles Brackett’s American family heritage could be traced back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. A 1915 graduate of Williams College, he earned his degree from Harvard University. A member of…
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