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…
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Original Song, 2009 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Actress. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Original Song slate. There will be…
Page Revisions: (September 9, 2018) Original Release Date: November 16, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A look at Vincent van Gogh’s time in Arles.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It appears to simply be a scene from the film, which isn’t terribly exciting. The appearance of an earless Willem Dafoe might appeal to…
Born September 29, 1909 in Bisbee, Arizona, Mitchell John (Mike) Frankovich was one of four children of immigrant Yugoslavians Yova and Melica Frankovich. When the children were small, the Frankovich family left the copper-mining town of Bisbee en route to California but stopped in Tonopah, Nevada, for several years after the elder Frankovich won its…
With so little to really call blockbuster material, the reboot of the alien sci-fi action feature Predator makes its way to the big screen and should do well despite the prior films barely making little at the box office. There isn’t a lot of competition as the second weekend of The Nun is surely to…
New This Week Woman Walks Ahead is a well-intentioned though historically inaccurate film of the events leading up to the assassination of Sitting Bull at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Grand River in the Dakota Territory on December 15, 1890. Portrait painter Susanna Carolina Faesch Schlatter, called Catherine Weldon in the film, was the…