Oscar History: November 7 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Precursor: 16th Phoenix Critics Nominations (2016)
Once one of the most accurate film critics groups, the Phoenix critics have given La La Land 13 nominations. Moonlight came in second with nine followed by Hacksaw Ridge and Manchester by the Sea (their capitalization below, not mine) with eight each. Apart from the love for Florence Foster Jenkins and A Monster Calls, which…
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Precursor: 24th Dallas Area Critics Awards (2016)
The Dallas-Forth Worth Area Film Critics are the only group that release their choices ranked. This year, the group didn’t actively rank them on their website, but considering they weren’t posted in alphabetical order, I took them as needing to be in the below order. The three films that have dominated Precursor Season won multiple…
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Precursor: 11th St. Louis Critics Nominations (2016)
Saint Louis Film Critics have announced their nominees for 2016 and the leader by a wide margin is La La Land with a staggering 14 nominations. The nearest two films, Arrival and Moonlight, have 6 fewer nominations. The list looks fairly standard hitting on all the major players in the race so far this year.…
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Trailer Watch: Fist Fight (2017) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) Fist Fight, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Film Preview: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Page Revisions: (December 11, 2016) Original (April 2, 2017) New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#1-#3) (May 28, 2017) New Trailer (#4) / New Posters (#4-#5) (July 2, 2017) New Posters (#6-#12) Release Date: July 7, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging superhero.” Poster…
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89th Oscars: Original Song Eligibility List
Today, the Academy has announced 91 original songs that are eligible for consideration for this year’s Academy Awards. Since they limit nominations to two per film, Disney has only submitted two from Moana, though three are on the list for La La Land, the two films most noted for a raft of original songs. I…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 9-11, 2016
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. La La Land Twenty years ago, the musical was reborn at the Oscars with five nominations presented to Evita. It was an inauspicious start, but within the next two decades, many would try to win accolades and few would succeed. In…
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The DVD Report #494
New This Week Presented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival last May, Cohen Media Group has released a sparkling new 25th Anniversary 4K Restoration of James Ivory’s film of E.M. Forster’s Howards End on both Blu-ray and standard DVD. The is the first of most films in the Merchant-Ivory library that will be restored by…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 13 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Office Christmas Party”
Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Office Christmas Party…?
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Precursor: 21st San Diego Critics Awards (2016)
Dominating the San Diego film critics, Hell or High Water shows some muscle with a staggering six citation. Sonia Braga’s surprise win in Best Actress is the only real shock among this list of expected or not entirely unexpected selections. Award Tallies (6) Hell or High Water (2) Manchester by the Sea The Awards
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Trailer Watch: Assassin’s Creed (2016) Updated
New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#4-#5)” alt=”” width=”200″ height=”297″ class=”alignright” />New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#4-#5) Assassin’s Creed, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Trailer Watch: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). What an interesting week it’s been. Films that were once dominant have faded while others that weren’t much…
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The Morning After: Dec. 12, 2016
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: Nocturnal Animals Tom Ford’s haunting…
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