Oscar History: July 31 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: Pete’s Dragon (2016)
Page Revisions: (February 29, 2016) Original (July 3, 2016) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#4) (August 7, 2016) New Poster (#5) Release Date: August 12, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The adventure of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon.” Poster Rating: C /…
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Film Preview: Rise of the Legend (2016)
Page Revisions: (March 6, 2016) Original Release Date: March 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An orphan, whose father has been killed by dark power, attempts to bring justice back to the town.” Poster Rating: C / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The overbearing storm cloud motif doesn’t do the rather simplistic cast layout…
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Film Preview: Remember (2016)
Page Revisions: (March 6, 2016) Original Release Date: March 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.” Poster Rating: C- / D / C+ / F / C+…
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Film Preview: Marguerite (2016)
Page Revisions: (March 6, 2016) Original Release Date: March 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Paris, 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman, lover of the music and the opera. She loves to sing for her friends, although she’s not a good singer. Both her friends and her husband have kept her fantasy. The problem begins…
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Film Preview: Lolo (2016)
Page Revisions: (March 6, 2016) Original Release Date: March 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.” Poster Rating: C / D (4) SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1-#5) The…
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Film Preview: Creative Control (2016)
Page Revisions: (March 6, 2016) Original Release Date: March 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new Augmented Reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend’s girlfriend…sort of.” Poster Rating: A- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A thrilling, enigmatic design that, while reliant on knowing something…
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Film Preview: Barney Thomson (2016)
Page Revisions: (March 6, 2016) Original Release Date: March 11, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.” Poster…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 6 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Our Site Milestones 2011: Weekend Preview (5)
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Film Preview: Precious Cargo (2016)
Page Revisions: (February 29, 2016) Original Release Date: April 22, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A crime boss tries to make off with loot that belongs to another thief.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A visually stylistic, but intellectually hollow poster design. It has the action elements that fans might need to give…
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Eyeing the Truth: Mar. 2016
Jim: The James Foley Story (HBOGo) Brian Oakes’ Jim: The James Foley Story begins with a title card telling us that while we will be witnessing disturbing images of war, we will not be shown the video of Foley’s execution. The film then cuts right to one of Foley’s brothers, describing how he found out…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 5 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Maggie’s Plan (2016)
Page Revisions: (February 29, 2016) Original (May 15, 2016) New Posters (#1-#2) Release Date: May 20, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Maggie’s plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette.” Poster Rating: C / F SEE…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 10, 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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