Oscar History: August 2 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: Under the Shadow (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Someone got a little overzealous with…
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Film Preview: Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The final installment of the long-running Phantasm series.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: If you’re familiar with the long-running franchise, many of the images here are well known and even compelling. The vast amount of black space doesn’t…
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Film Preview: The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets…
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Film Preview: Blue Jay (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The curio-method of blurring out all but the love between these two individuals…
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Film Preview: Blinky Bill the Movie (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An adventurous young koala embarks on a journey across the wild and dangerous Australian outback in the hope of finding his missing father, but he soon discovers that there is more to being a hero than meets the eye.” Poster Rating:…
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Film Preview: Being 17 (2016)
Page Revisions: (October 2, 2016) Original Release Date: October 7, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 2 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: The Whole Truth (2016)
Page Revisions: (September 25, 2016) Original Release Date: October 21, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.” Poster Rating: C / D+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) There’s not much to this design, which works somewhat well, but not well…
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Eyeing the Truth: Oct. 2016
Holy Hell (Netflix) At first glance, Buddhafield, the cult at the center of the new documentary Holy Hell, can seem a tad more innocuous than the cults we normally see in documentary films. There are no drugs, no compounds, no stockpiles of ammunition, no uniforms, no talk of Armageddon, and no one seems forcibly trapped…
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The Top Tens: Our Favorite Directors
Every month, our contributors submit lists of ten films fitting certain topics. Each month, we feature an alphabetical list of films along with commentary explaining our selections. There will also be an itemized list at the end of each of our individual selections. For the third month in a row, we focus on individuals within…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 1 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Ordinary World (2016)
Page Revisions: (September 25, 2016) Original Release Date: October 14, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An aging punk rocker copes with life after rock.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There is little about this poster that works. Apart from those familiar with Billie Joe Armstrong noticing, the stiff white background, the chintzy red…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 40, 2016)
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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The NEW Friday Face-Off #166
We are now in the third round of voting for the Friday Face Off, pitting winners from the second round against each other. Just choose one selection in each of the categories below. Because we want to keep the polls open a bit longer before starting the next phase, after we finish this third pass,…
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This Day in Oscar History: September 30 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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