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…
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,…
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. Last month, we took a look at music in the movies. We…
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2016) Original Release Date: July 29, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It isn’t structurally insufficient,…
Born August 12, 1910 in Mahwah, New Jersey to one of America’s most distinguished families, Jane Wyatt, who was raised in Manhattan from the age of three months, could trace her American lineage on mother’s side back to 1638. One of her ancestors on her mother’s side was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.…
A trio of new films opens this weekend and, of the two, only one can be said to have a built-in audience already. The Purge: Election Year is the third film in the popular horror franchise, a strangely fitting entry into this year’s film race. It won’t likely top the charts, but it will have…
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2016) Original Release Date: July 15, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.” Poster Rating: D / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Dark and shapeless, there’s nothing…
Page Revisions: (June 26, 2016) Original Release Date: July 8, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A weak, uninteresting design that…
New This Week Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special is the best supernatural thriller to come down the pike in a long time. It is also one of the few good films to have been released so far this year, which is not surprising as it comes from the director of Take Shelter and Mud, two very…