Of the week’s new limited releases, The Shape of Water has the most potential to be a box office hit after its limited run. There are no new wide releases, so it will be Coco at the top of the charts. Our Highest Rated Films: The Shape of Water; Wonder Wheel Our Best Awards Ratings:…
Page Revisions: (November 26, 2017) Original Release Date: January 5, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet – in her own family home.” Poster Rating: C+ / C- / C- / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Too simplistic in a lot of ways, but…
Steven Spielberg’s drama The Post was the big winner from the National Board of Review. The film, which only recently had its embargo dropped, is shaping up to be the prominent political drama of the year and could be the eventual Best Picture winner, though the National Board of Review doesn’t have the best track…
New This Week The Hitman’s Bodyguard contains a plethora of two things I loathe in modern movies, low comedy and CGI (computer generated imagery), yet it somehow works. Ryan Reynolds, who is once again employing the self-deprecating humor that has sustained his career from at least 2002’s Buying the Cow through last year’s Deadpool, is…
Although the Grammys are the only awards that are given out to music for movies, they are a wholly un-predictive set of nominations. Every. Year. In Best Music Film, which is would only really tie into the Documentary Feature category at the Oscars, has only one film (Long Strange Trip) that was submitted for Oscar…
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Coco Every animation studio with the exception of one (Studio Ghibli) longs despeartely to replicate the success and passion audiences have for Disney and Pixar. Disney was the only respected game in town for decades until Pixar emerged as Disney faced…
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: Get Out With the rise…
We begin our first weekly recap today. Each week, we’ll look back at all the precursors from Monday through the following Sunday. Will the precursors affect the Oscars? That’s what we’re here to determine. We’ll look at the winners and losers along with what’s coming up from Tuesday through Monday. But, before we get into…