Poster Trailer Link Release Date: May 1, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.” Poster: F Review: A cheap, inexpressive waste of paper. Trailer: C- Review: Helen Hunt hasn’t done much of value since she…
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: July 17, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.” Poster: B- / B Review: (#1) A simple, yet elegant design that evokes a Victorian era, a character’s personality and a wide array of…
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…
Born (Margaret) Rumer Godden in Sussex, England on December 10, 1907, the future novelist grew up with her three sisters in a section of colonial India that is now part of Bangladesh where her father was a shipping company executive. Sent to England for schooling, she and her sisters were brought back to India at…
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) Terminator: Genisys, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
Furious 7 is likely to finally fall from the top position against the time-twisting romance Age of Adaline. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: Age of Adaline has promise, but the inexperienced director behind it doesn’t give one hope. Peter J. Patrick: This week’s new releases seem to offer something new. We shall see. Tripp Burton: Oh…
The end of the year brings the most combative environment for films trying to become Oscar winners. The next four months will be an interesting proving round.