Return Links Polls Remaking Best Picture, 2016 In 1997, I began offering up Oscar Hopefuls, a list of contenders for each category at the Oscars. Today, we start a new series of polls that attempts to rebuild various categories based on what films were nominated, which were hopeful for nominations, and which were honored by…
Page Revisions: (August 27, 2017) Original Release Date: September 1, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Gary who has just married Samantha the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Yes, it’s a comedy, but the poster doesn’t hit on many comedic elements…
Born February 17, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York, Milton Krasner entered the film industry as an assistant cameraman in 1917 at the age of 13. While working at the Vitagraph and Biograph studios in New York City, he was promoted to camera operator. He became a cinematographer in 1933. Krasner’s first film of note as…
Page Revisions: (August 27, 2017) Original (October 29, 2017) New Poster (#1) Release Date: November 3, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, ex-Marine Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine…
There’s little competition over the Memorial Day weekend. There will probably be a three-peat for The Hitman’s Bodyguard on a dreary box office weekend. The lone new “wide” release is Tulip Fever, which is being dumped on Labor Day weekend where few films ever succeed. Our Highest Rated Films: Viceroy’s House; The Teacher Our Best…
New This Week Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, newly released on Blu-ray and standard DVD, is at its best when it sticks to the interplay between the main characters in the original as played by Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel (voice), Bradley Cooper (voice), Michael Rooker and Karen Gillan. They are…
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: The Dark Tower Stephen King’s…