We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Batkid Begins The documentary branch like political statements. They always have. Occasionally, films about difficult subjects that create a morsel of hope can win through with the Academy. Batkid Begins, which follows the Make A Wish Foundation and its attempts to…
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: A Tale of Two Cities…
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: July 3, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s.” Poster: B- Review: A simple scene for a simple film. It might bring audiences into the theater, but it evokes the essence of the film. Trailer: B Review:…
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: July 17, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.” Poster: D+ Review: Perhaps it’s an appropriate image to sell this film, but…
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals in the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that 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 started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories (or fewer depending on the week) below. Our first few weeks were to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed…
Page Revisions: (June 21, 2015) Original (October 18, 2015) New Posters (#1-#25) Release Date: October 23, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.” Poster Rating: C- (2) / B (4) /…