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 second round of voting for the Friday Face Off, pitting winners from first round against each other. Just choose one selection in each of the categories below. One this round completes, we’ll pit those winners against each other until we have a final winner. There might be a losers bracket…
I’m not sure when these were announced as the Houston Film Critics website is one of the most poorly controlled sites any critics organization uses. I found these by happenstance while looking at their list on IMDb. As to the nominees themselves, there are few insights here other than the horrid tendency to classify co-lead…
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#3-#8) Carol, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Francis Albert (Frank) Sinatra would become the most popular singer of his time, if not all time. His voice has been heard on movie soundtracks from 1941 to the present day, fifteen years after his death, and is likely to continue to be heard as long as…
Chalk up another win for the post-apocalyptic critics’ fave Mad Max: Fury Road. This list looks an awful lot like a lot of other lists lately, just structured slightly differently. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about that, just more of the same. Award Tallies (4) Mad Max: Fury Road (2) Love & Mercy, Spotlight…
Page Revisions: (December 20, 2015) Original (May 1, 2016) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#1-#8) (May 29, 2016) New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#9-#12) (June 19, 2016) New Poster (#13) Release Date: June 24, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar…
Counter-programming is the name of the weekend. With Christmas falling on a Friday, the box office for the second weekend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be record-breaking. Each of this week’s new releases will find that an unfortunate thing since they’ll each be trying to conquer holiday audiences with Joy, Concussion and Daddy’s…
The Vancouver Critics have named their list of the best films of 2015. They will reveal their awards for the best in Canadian films at their awards in January. The status quo was restored with Spotlight winning Best Picture and Mad Max: Fury Road taking Best Director. The most unusual thing about this list is…