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.
New Trailer (#2) Ant-Man, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
New This Week Another week, and another 2014 Oscar hopeful that ended up empty-handed has made it home to Blu-ray and DVD. Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, a biographical drama about artist Margaret Keane (born 1927) and her husband, Walter, was expected to be one of the major year-end releases and a serious Oscar contender for…
Here are some highlights of the recent releases to the Warner Archive Collection. DVD’s and Blu-rays are manufactured on demand. They also have a streaming service. Before you visit Warner Archive to check out their selection, check out the selections below an a few of my thoughts.