Film Preview: Way of the Warrior Kid (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Looking at the Weekend: Dec. 5-7, 2014
There are no new major wide releases this weekend, so Katniss Everdeen will continue to have the odds in her favor. Individual Commentaries Wesley Lovell: The post-Thanksgiving Weekend weekend tends to be a dumping ground for non-serious awards contenders, so it’s a bit surprising that Reese Witherspoon’s potential Best Actress nomination for Wild is releasing…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 3 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Page Revisions: (November 30, 2014) Original (April 19, 2015) New Trailer (#2) (October 25, 2015) New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#1-#4) / Page Redesigned (December 13, 2015) New Posters (#5-#22) Release Date: December 18, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas set thirty years after Return of the…
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Precursor: 86th National Board of Review Awards (2014)
The National Board of Review take a bizarre turn into new territory with their selection of The Most Violent Year as Best Film of 2014. The indie hadn’t been making much of an impact in early prognostication, but suddenly bursts into the competition with the most awards this year from NBR. Selma is left out…
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Revisionist Oscar: 1996, Part 20
You can read more about this project in the article at this link. Below is our twentieth poll, covering Best Sound (Effects) Editing. As a refresher, here is where we obtain the titles/performances will be included in the polls that will be conducted: Four-Source Categories: The actual Oscar nominees in the selected category. The Top…
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87th Oscars: Documentary Feature Shortlist
The Academy has announced the 15 films that will compete for the Best Documentary Feature award. Of the five films nominated yesterday for the Producers Guild of American award for Best Documentary, only Life Itself and Virunga made this shortlist. Many of these titles seem well suited to the Academy’s tastes and any number of…
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The DVD Report #389
New This Week Among Kino Lorber’s new Blu-ray releases are three from Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us and the never on DVD Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. 1973’s The Long Goodbye starred Elliott Gould as an early 1970s incarnation of Raymond Chandler’s private detective, Philip Marlowe,…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 2 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Film Preview: The Captive (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: December 12, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she’s still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.” Poster: C+ / C+ /…
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Precursor: 26th PGA Documentary Nominations (2014)
Notably absent from this list are documentaries with heavy political commentary. That won’t help many of these translate to Oscar nominations. Of these, Life Itself, Particle Fever and Virunga are the most likely to jump onto the Oscar ballot. The Nominations Best Documentary The Green Prince Life Itself Merchants of Doubt Particle Fever Virunga Producers…
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Penguins of Madagascar”
Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Penguins of Madagascar…? Cinema Sight Asks: Now that you’ve seen “Penguins of Madagascar,” which film with penguins is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 28-30, 2014
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Penguins of Madagascar Spun off from the highly popular, but Oscar averse franchise Madagascar, Penguins of Madagascar follows the adventures of the four antarctic denizens and their zany capers as super spies. With prominent placement in the founding franchise, their humorous…
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Precursor: 23rd Annie Awards Nominations (2014)
There are two notable results here. One in that The Boxtrolls topped the nomination count over what would have been the standard DreamWorks topper How to Train Your Dragon 2 (though, if you look at history, Laika does really well with the Annie Awards). Two, The Lego Movie only secured 6 nominations, fifth-most for the…
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The Morning After: Dec. 1, 2014
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: Birdman Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu strikes…
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Precursor: 80th New York Critics Awards (2014)
Birdman, a quintessentially New York film was completely ignored as the New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners for the best of the year. Boyhood picked up three prizes, taking Best Picture, Director and Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette). The Immigrant was the only other film to secure more than one award, winning for Best…
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